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My husband and I are not trust-fund babies, nor self-made millionaires, but like many GoNomad readers we dreamed of living outside the U. S. In August of 2001, after much discussion, research, and planning, we boarded the airplane from Houston, Texas with only the allowable two bags each. We arrived in Rome, Italy, the following day to begin what we refer to as "The 21-Month Plan."
When I first met my husband-to-be, I overheard him musing about quitting his job and living in a box on a beach in Mexico. I was immediately skeptical, but secretly intrigued. Over time, we discovered we had a common interest in living abroad and learning another language. Fast-forward two years and we are enjoying our honeymoon in Mexico. Don't be alarmed, he did spring for a hotel suite.
Before we got married we discussed the "box on the beach" idea endlessly. The "box" was upgraded to a more stable dwelling and European countries were included in our pool of choices. We had enough money saved to bum around for awhile, but then what?
John is 43 and I am 39; too old to throw caution to the wind, too young to retire. We wanted to
After our honeymoon, we got down to work. John began researching English-speaking, degree-granting universities on the internet. We stepped up our savings program and started preparing our family and friends. We expected to be told we were crazy, but received only enthusiastic responses, even from my financial advisor! John narrowed the field to four schools and began the application paperwork.
We were actually giddy about selling our automobiles and looked forward to public transportation. We don't miss insurance payments and upkeep expenses. Most errands are completed a piede, by foot. Shopping with a 2-wheeled cart is fun and one can feel good about saving grocery bags and exhaust fumes.
One of our understanding neighbors, Signora Molinari, keeps telling me "Piano, piano," slowly it will come. Shortly after we had arrived in Rome, the horror of September 11 happened. The following day I was shopping at the outdoor mercato and was asked if I was American. When I responded yes, the vendor lowered his voice and his words were so sympathetic.
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Neighborhoods have sure changed since I grew up in the Lakeview Community.
I don't know if it's the fact that then I was "out in the country" and now I am for all practical purposes "in town."
But I remember when a crowd of us youngsters would gather – usually at the Oakley homeplace – and play until smack dark.
What did we play?
Well there was always Hide and Seek, although we called it hide-and-go-seek, which I think is the better way to say it, don't you?
We used to go hide way away from the home free base, and whoever was "it" had to do some real searching to find everybody.
Often times that led to just one person having to be "it" several times in a row.
I remember the "it" person having to stand at the big rock in our back yard, which was home base, and count to 50 and then repeat this little rhyme:
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If you managed to get back to the big rock without being tagged, then you were "home-free."
By the way, we counted potatoes to see who had to be "it" first.
What? You don't know how to count potatoes? You poor thing.
I remember one particular evening, very nearly dark it was, when I found the perfect place to hide.
I climbed up in the hay loft of the feed barn, almost out of earshot of the rest of the gang..
After a while, I realized that I had been in the hay loft a pretty good little while.
In fact, when I listened, I could just barely hear some of my playmates calling out "home-free" as they touched home without being tagged.
Hmm, thinks I. I'll just stay here a little longer.
I waited.
Suddenly I realized that not a sound was coming from my playmates.
Nobody had even come close to the barn where I was hiding.
I thought I was something, fooling everybody.
But after a while, I decided that I had been hiding long enough and I started back up the path to our house to see what was going on.
Bless Pat, all the neighborhood kids had gone home and my siblings had gone inside.
Oh mercy!
My Daddy was just coming out the back door carrying a lantern.
I knew he was coming to find me.
When he saw me, he turned back and blew out the lantern and said something like "Don't you do that agin, you hear me?"
"No, sir, daddy, I won't, sir.
And I didn't.
That "sir" brings me around to the sir and ma'am that I grew up with, right along with such games as Hide and Seek, Red Rover, Simon Says,
You were expected to use these terms of respect with your parents, or truth to tell, any grown-ups in the community and certainly your teachers.
I have observed that ma'am and sir have sort of gone out of style with a lot of the younger folks today, and that's a shame.
It was, and is, a mark of respect, not just for the person you're addressing, but respect for yourself and the good and proper manners that your parents taught you.
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With a 15-point lead, Southwest was in prime position to maintain its grasp on first place in the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference with a week left in the regular season.
And then something happened Friday night that caused the Stallions to stumble in the final 12 minutes against East Carteret and eventually fall 66-53 at home to the Mariners.
"We stopped doing the things that got us that lead," Southwest coach Tommy Barnes said. "We stopped playing defense, stopped rebounding, missed shots and we were taking shots we hadn't been taking before. And East Carteret got hot."
Boy did the Mariners get hot.
East Carteret got back in the game with a 10-0 run toward the end of the third quarter and then closed the game out on a 16-0 spurt to pull away and put itself in position to win the
The Mariners (17-5, 7-1) can clinch the league title next week with wins over Dixon and Jones Senior. East Carteret shared the
Earlier, East Carteret defeated Southwest 39-38 in the girls' game.
"We haven't won anything yet," East Carteret coach Billy Anderson said. "What we need to do is finish up these last two games and take them one game at a time. We got Dixon at home (on Tuesday) and they are rolling, and then we got Jones Senior on Friday."
Meanwhile, Southwest (14-4, 6-2) can only hope East Carteret slips up if the Stallions want a share of the league crown. The Stallions put themselves in a good position for the title on Jan. 11 when they beat the Mariners 74-73 in Beaufort, but have now lost two of three.
"All we can do is move forward and control what we can control," Barnes said. "We can only control playing Lejeune and then Pamlico. Hopefully, we can beat them, stay fundamentally sound and stay after it."
Corey Wohlever led the Stallions with 13 points and 9 rebounds while Jay Pouncey and Jeffrey Williams each added 12 points.
Ty Simmons scored 15 points, Jacque Brown added 13 and Trevor Willis had 10 for the Mariners.
A big third quarter by Brown helped East Carteret rally. He scored 11 points in the third quarter, including three 3-pointers. Teammate Shamise Brown completed a three-point play with seven seconds left in the quarter to tie the game at 47-47.
However, the Stallions scored 6 of the next 9 points to start the fourth quarter to take a 53-50 lead. That's when the Mariners began to pull away.
Brown scored from the inside and Demetric Davis followed with a layup to give ECHS a 54-53 lead with 4:35 left. Sam Johnson followed with a 3-pointer for the Mariners, who then never looked back.
"We played defense for three quarters and then at the six-minute mark of the fourth quarter we couldn't stop them," Barnes said. "All of the sudden we stopped playing defense."
East Carteret shot 50 percent (13 of 26) from the field in the second half.
"We challenged our team at halftime. They don't quit," Anderson said. "We didn't shoot well in the first half. Once we started making a couple of shots, our defensive intensity picked up."
Southwest led 41-28 with 5:02 left in the third quarter when 6-foot-6 Malique Judd picked up his fourth foul and headed for the bench. That's when the Mariners got new life, although Barnes didn't want to blame foul trouble for the loss.
"You have to have people step up," he said. "We made some crucial turnovers when the game was on the line."
East Carteret 39, Southwest 38: East Carteret's Lashaunda Rogers scored on a layup with 18 seconds left to lift the Mariners past Southwest.
Southwest's Naya Burney gave her team a 38-37 lead with 33 seconds left when she scored on a layup following a steal by teammate Taylor Marley. However, Rogers proved to be the hero as she broke the Stallions' press and drove to the basket strong for the deciding basket.
Southwest turned the ball over with 8 seconds left. After three fouls on Southwest, Rogers missed two free throws with 3 seconds left, but teammate Shaina Taylor grabbed the rebound and time expired.
The loss for Southwest (7-13, 4-4) overshadowed a comeback by the Stallions, who trailed by 11 early in the second half.
"We should have never been in a situation (to rally) to begin with," SWO coach Bev Marley said. "It's frustrated to know as a coach that if we simply do those things (the Stallions work on), we wouldn't be losing games we should not be losing."
Burney ended with 22 points. Rogers finished with 17 points.
East Carteret8 16 23 19 — 66
Southwest 20 14 13 6 — 53
J. Brown 13, Davis 9, Johnson 2, Fallin 4, S. Brown 7, Johnson 6, Willis 10, Simmons 15. Totals— 22-60 16-20 66.
Walker 3, Jo. Williams 6, Pouncey 12, Jef. Williams 12, Jordan 2, Hodge 2, Wohlever 13, Judd 3. Totals— 25-55 2-9 53.
3-Point Goals— E 6 (J. Brown 3, Johnson, Willis, Simmons), S 1 (Walker). Rebounds— E 32 (J. Brown 7), S 35 (Wohlever 9, Pouncey 7). RECORDS— E: 17-5, 7-1, hosts Dixon on Tuesday. S: 14-4, 6-2, hosts Lejeune on Tuesday.
East Carteret15 7 3 14 — 39
Southwest 6 7 12 13 — 38
I. Taylor 2, Lewis 2, S. Taylor 8, Rogers 17, Yeomans 4, Williams 2, Davis 2, Sykes 2. Totals— 16-50 5-14 39.
Marley 8, Brooks 2, Dugan 5, Burney 22, Botzenhart 1. Totals— 13-74 9-16 38.
3-Point Goals— E 2 (Rogers 2), S 3 (Burney 2, Marley). Rebounds— E 56 (Rogers 12, Yeomans 9, Sykes 9), S 46 (Dugan 12, Burney 9). RECORDS— E: 8-11, 3-5, hosts Dixon on Tuesday. S: 7-13, 4-4, hosts Lejeune on Tuesday.


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Before Devin could respond to her inquiry, the waiter approached them and interrupted their conversation. Sorry to break into your conversation, but hurry up and order. The longer you guys stay, the worse my shift becomes, you got that? he barked at them as he slammed a pair of menus onto the table. Nanna was shocked by the treatment they were receiving, but as she was raised to be polite she didnt want to say anything about it.
Devin, however, made his opinion known. You're a sh*tty waitor. Why are you even here? Fetch me a Swirlix-Shake and go away. His response was extremely unexpected, as he seemed pretty nice, if a bit weird, this far. It seemed more interaction with people was changing him for the worse. Probably the influence of Thea and Sigur. He seems like he hadnt had much contact with other people. To meet two who behave like that right away must have made him believe this was normal. And your apron looks ridiculous. Devin added to annoy the waiter even further, before focusing on Nanna once again and started answering her question.
Mossdeep, huh? Well, I never saw much of the city, as mother didn't let me out of the house until recently on my way to Littleroot. But the glimpse I caught on the way to the dock was very pretty. It's a soothing place with a lot of beaches. He said completely seriously. Wow, hes lived there for years, but knows nothing about it. No wonder hes so socially awkward, he spent his whole life pretty much alone. I must teach him how to behave in public. But his story didnt end there. Mother teached me how to dig my own grave in case I would die alone. He added in a voice that made it impossible to figure out whether this was supposed to be a joke. Even if it was, Nanna didnt like that sort of humour, so she decided it was best not to ask at all.
At that moment, Alex also entered the cafe and noticed his friends sitting at one of the tables. Hey whats up Nanna, Devin. Sorry I ran off, I had a few errands to do. He said to them. Alex exchanged looks with the waiter as he took out a notebook. A Medium Swirlex Shake it is. The waiter said, luckily not reacting to Devins comments.
Ill take one too. Alex said. The waiter took note of that and began turning away. So you guys having fun? Anything happen? Alex said, striking up a conversation.
Before Nanna could answer the question, she tapped the waiters shoulder to get his attention. Id like a vegie burger and some iced tea, please. After that, she turned to Alex. I guess, you could say were enjoying ourselves. Nanna briefly looked at Devin to check, if he agreed. We didnt do much, though. We just talked a bit and came here to get something to eat.


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November 30th, 2006 #1
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberNovember 30th, 2006 #2
voted for dream sear. Mr. Visions was a really close second, but dream's atmosphere and palette seems more fitting for the subject imho.
Awesome entries everyone.
November 30th, 2006 #3
Voted for Mr. Visions 'cuz I do so love me a fallen puppetmaster. I thought his spin was really original. *thumbs up!* (And voting for yourself is cheeeeezy....)
PS. Thanks, fedezz! (*slips 'im a payoff*)
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How could you know if anyone voted for themselves if it's a closed poll?
Mr. Visions... pwns me...
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I don't know. I just think it's cheesy to do so. So I'm 'fessing up right now. I didn't. Is that so wrong? *weeps*
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To tell the truth I wish it was an open poll. I want to see who was blind enough to vote for me instead of Mr. Visions!
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That'd be me, Justin.
It was a more appealing pose IMO, and I liked the design, so I went with it. Also...I'm a sucker for a good pencil drawing.
November 30th, 2006 #8
It is a good pose. I particularly like his shadow, for some reason!
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I appreciate that Wil! Very much
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November 30th, 2006 #11
visions, you pwn
December 1st, 2006 #12
Voted for Mr. Visions.
It was the best design, and the most steampunk. I feel it's let down a bit by the graphic design, which makes it look a bit flat - sort of cardboard cut out - but that wasn't enough to deter me.
dream sear & Justin Oaksford were runners up.
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December 2nd, 2006 #13
Aw, come on, Flip.....you gotta love a chick with a big gun!
December 2nd, 2006 #14
I voted for Mr. Vision, really good stuff man Isn't it spelled "Gepetto" though?
December 2nd, 2006 #15
Heh...I just googled it, and traditionally it's 'Geppetto.' THAT'S IT! DISQUALIFIED!
December 3rd, 2006 #16
Hahaha, there's like three spelling for it, Gepeto, Gepetto, Geppetto... and I have an Italian girlfriend (for shame). Good stuff all around guys, and I'm glad so many dug the design. Take care -
- Visions
December 6th, 2006 #17
I think we can call this an official 'steamroll'! Great job, Visions! You set the bar high.....
December 8th, 2006 #18
2 others voted for me? Hmm?
December 8th, 2006 #19
December 9th, 2006 #20
Thanks alot guys, this was a fun subject to play with. There was alotta cool ideas brewing in here, you guys keep it up and will have to do this again.
- Visions


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OXFORD, Ohio - After each had career-best weekends, the Miami Athletes of the Week connected by Frontier Communications for the week of Oct. 8-14 are sophomore forward Blake Coleman on the men's side while sophomore midfielder Kelsey Dinges and sophomore setter/outside hitter Meg Riley share the women's honor.
Coleman (Plano, Texas) had a huge opening weekend to lead the hockey team to a season-opening sweep of Colgate last Friday and Saturday. He scored three goals while adding an assist in the two games for a four-point weekend. Friday, he scored a pair of goals for his third career multi-goal game, including the first goal of the game and the season, which was the game-winner in the 3-0 shutout. His second goal of the night he scored unassisted. Coleman was the No. 1 star in Friday's game.
In Saturday's 5-1 win over the Raiders, Coleman again notched multiple points with a power play goal and an assist on Miami's third goal. It was his first time recording back-to-back multi-point games as he did not record back-to-back multi-point games all of last season. Coleman now has seven multi-point games for his career. He posted a +2 rating Friday and a +1 rating Saturday for a +3 rating on the weekend while also firing nine shots on goal.
The Miami Men's Athlete of the Week accolade is the first of Coleman's career while he was also named CCHA Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career on Monday.
Dinges (Smithton, Ill.) had a monster weekend for the RedHawks, tallying two goals and handing out two assists to keep the soccer team undefeated in the MAC and on top of the MAC standings. She had a hand in all four goals Miami scored on the weekend while helping extend the RedHawks' winning streak to a program-record nine games.
On Friday at Northern Illinois, she notched two goals and an assist in Miami's 3-2 win, for a career-high five points in the match. She scored the game-winning goal at NIU with just 4.8 seconds remaining in regulation to break a 2-2 tie and send the RedHawks to victory with her last-second header. The two goals against the Huskies tied a career high, her third career multi-goal game (all this year). In Sunday's 1-0 win at Toledo, Dinges set up the game-winning goal, the only goal of the match, with her second assist of the weekend as Miami topped the Rockets in Toledo for the first time since 2002. Dinges now has a team-best 10 goals on the year and is tied for the team lead with 23 points, both of which are second in the MAC.
The honor is Dinges' first of her career while she also garnered MAC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday for the first time in her career.
Riley (St. Louis, Mo.) also had a career performance this past weekend as she recorded 38 kills in seven total sets, an incredible average of 5.43 kills per set. She made only three errors on 72 attempts the entire weekend for an attack percentage of .486 coming from the outside. On Thursday at Central Michigan, Riley led the volleyball team with 16 kills on a .424 hitting percentage. Serving also part of the time as the setter, she had 10 assists. Riley just missed a triple-double for the match, finishing with eight digs.
On Saturday against Eastern Michigan, Riley did get her eighth triple-double of the season, accomplishing it in only three sets, as she helped Miami to its first MAC win of the year. She recorded a career-high 22 kills and also had 20 assists and 10 digs. She also assisted on five blocks. Riley hit .538 against the Eagles. She finished with 30 assists, 18 digs and seven blocks on the weekend, averaging 5.93 points per set.
Riley has now been named Miami Female Athlete of the Week twice this season. She was also tabbed MAC East Division Offensive Player of the Week on Monday.
Coleman and the No. 4 hockey team are back on the ice this weekend, hosting Providence Friday and Saturday at Steve Cady Arena. Dinges and the soccer team look to clinch the MAC regular-season title as they head to Central Michigan Friday before hosting Bowling Green Sunday at Miami Soccer Field. Riley and the volleyball team welcome Toledo on Friday and Ball State on Saturday to Millett Hall.
The next Miami Athletes of the Week will be announced Tuesday, Oct. 23. For a list of previous winners, click here.
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It's been a difficult week for many across the tri-county area with the unexpected passing of a vibrant, young friend and colleague Lorie (Falls) Neal who served as the Executive Director of Gallia County Chamber of Commerce for the past 12 years. In the news business, we don't have time to feel our emotions for very long. We have deadlines to meet. Stories to write. The news doesn't slow down because we are angry, sad or frustrated with its nature. It just is, and we, as reporters and journalists, are tasked with bringing this news to our communities at large in a fair and unbiased manner … no matter how we feel about it personally.
This isn't always easy.
As I was driving home from work in the early hours of Friday morning, I found myself thinking of Lorie through a different lens. I considered our many parallels — both growing up in Meigs County (she in Reedsville, me in Racine), both attending the University of Rio Grande, both spending time working in the public sector in a service capacity, both having preteen sons and both working in Gallipolis. I pulled into the parking lot of Eastern High School, where she graduated in 1991, just a few miles away from Southern High School, where I graduated in 1994. As I sat there in my car in the quiet fog, I wondered to myself what it was exactly that made Lorie so well respected, and moreover, well loved in the way she approached her work, and it came to me … community pride and personal perseverance.
She talked the talk and walked the walk when it came to promoting Gallia County and southeast Ohio … and in that regard among others, I strive to be just like her.
When Lorie was working, it was simply an extension of how she really felt about the area. She was 'on' all the time, attending after hours business events, eating at local establishments, planning technical workshops to help fledgling businesses, buying local goods. She worked to create networking opportunities for business owners and community leaders. She used the resources she had to boast local accomplishments, and she had a hand in nearly every event held within the Gallipolis city limits in the past decade.
Lorie earned respect in her career by tirelessly working to support a vision for a better place to live and work … a vision shared by many.
The wonderful truth is we have many visionaries in southeast Ohio. The entire landscape of the tri-county area has changed since Lorie and I were children in rural Meigs County. Our shared home county now features new highways that open access to economic development opportunities in the region, a task that requires decades of planning and implementation. Pomeroy now hosts some of the greatest blues performers in the world because of the efforts of people with a shared vision, and a new Imagine Pomeroy effort is gaining steam to further improve our region.
Neighboring Mason County, West Virginia, only last weekend hosted the 12th Annual Mothman Festival [see page C1 of The Sunday Times-Sentinel] which brought nearly 4,000 tourists to the area, filling every hotel in the tri-county region to capacity, and as I write this, the first Dragonboat races at Krodel Park are about to get started.
In Gallia County, we now have a growing River Recreation Festival, Chilifest, Rockets Over Rio and Envy Ink Salon. We support the arts with an elaborate and oh-so-fun Mardis Gras fundraiser, and music fills the downtown area during Second Fridays and the various Ohio River Live events throughout the year. New initiatives are also under way to light up the Gallipolis City Park this Christmas, and local families are rolling up their sleeves to help make it happen.
When I think of Lorie Neal's legacy in southeast Ohio, I think of her genuine love for the region coupled with a passion and ambition to see the work required through to completion. Lorie was a force in Gallia County; she created momentum. If we want to honor her memory, I can think of no better way than to continue to support her vision and stick-to-it-ivensess by finding ways to give back to our communities and maintain the momentum of the years of work already done.
It's not that difficult. Attend community events, and if you went once ten years ago and didn't enjoy it, give it a second chance. Instill a sense of community pride in your children. Show them the good things we have to offer in our part of the world. Embrace the uniqueness and beauty of southeast Ohio and western West Virginia — and give back. Volunteer to help with something you believe in, and show your children what that looks and feels like.
Yes, there have been visionaries who have come before, but it is now up to us to build upon the momentum needed to make our communities stronger, safer, more vibrant and fully alive. Let's roll up our sleeves and get started.


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Group seeking support for homeless veterans
Defending America's Defenders – D.A.D. – is seeking new members to help support homeless veterans in the area. The group will meet Sept. 19 at Red Rooster on West Point Road at 6 p.m. For more information, contact Wayne at 706-333-8736.
Registration open for 13th annual Leggin' it for Literacy
Troup CLCP hosts the 13th annual Leggin' It for Literacy 5K at 9 p.m. on Oct. 19 and registration is open now on Active.com or registration forms may also be found at and turned into Country's Barbecue at 124 Vernon St. Cost to register is $20 per person for a limited time, and until Sept. 30 on Active.com. The race entry includes a Country's Barbecue sandwich, sweet tea, glow bracelet and performance shirt. For sponsorship information or to donate door prizes, contact Debbie Burdette at 706-756-4645 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Center seeking donations for clothes, money
The Yolanda Jabaley Clothing Center is in need of children's clothes and clothes for teenagers. Money donated to the center is used to buy new underwear and shoes. Hours of the center are 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, March through May. To donate items when the center isn't open, call director Rose Meister at 706-302-0179 or Bergeron at 706-885-9388. Monetary donations may be made to treasurer Joy Burnham, 2572 Dallis Mill Road, LaGrange GA 30241.
Donations sought for church yard sale
Saint Peter's Catholic Church hosts its annual yard sale Sept. 14 from 8 a.m. to noon at 200 Lafayette Parkway. Furniture, housewares, collectibles, baby boutique, sporting equipment, linens and more will be on sale. Donations of the items listed above will be accepted at 200 LaFayette Parkway.
Care baskets for breast cancer patients
The Troup County breast cancer support group, Breast Friends for Life, is in need of new or gently used baskets. BFFL makes gift baskets for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Baskets need to have a handle. No Christmas or Easter baskets. Baskets may be dropped off with Wanda Lowe at Enoch Callaway Cancer Center, 111 Medical Drive next to West Georgia Health. For more information, contact Lowe at 706-845-3866.
LifeSouth blood drives
LifeSouth will hold the following blood drives in the area:
• Walmart of LaGrange from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today
• West Point and Lanett Masonic Lodges from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
• Community LIFE Church of Roanoke, Ala., from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
Volunteers sought for WP Lake cleanup
The West Point Army Corps of Engineers is recruiting for the annual lake cleanup, set for Sept. 28 from 8:30 a.m. to noon. About 1,000 volunteers are needed to cleanup West Point Lake shoreline. Volunteers with pontoon boats also are needed to ferry volunteers to cleanup sites. The cleanup will be and lunch will be provided afterwards at Pyne Road Park for volunteers courtesy Wendy's on Lafayette Parkway. For additional information, to become a corporate sponsor, or to volunteer a business, service club, or organization, contact Millenbine at 706-645-6113 or email@example.com. Due to the need to provide accurate numbers for food and drinks the deadline to volunteer will be Sept. 13. Volunteer meeting locations for the morning of the event will be sent out on Sept. 20.
Grace for Children seeking foster parents
Grace for Children Foster Care is recruiting for new foster parents. Homes are needed for children ages birth to 18 years old, and especially for sibling groups and teenagers. An informational meeting will be held every Monday for the month of August. Contact Ashlie Hale for details at 770-460-6652 or email@example.com. Grace for Children Foster Care is a division of Fayette Youth Protection Homes and is administered by Georgia Baptist Children's Home and Family Ministries.
Local raising money for diabetes research
Polly Griesbach, who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 2, is raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund by running in the Walt Disney World Marathon on Jan. 12, 2014. Her goal is to raise $2,750 for the 26.2-mile run. Donations for the fund can be made on her behalf at www2.jdrf.org/goto/runwithmickey
Merry Market seeking sponsors
United Way of West Georgia is seeking sponsors for its third annual Merry Market scheduled for Oct. 24-26 at at Callaway Conference Center. The "shopping extravaganza" brings unique and specialty merchants from different states to LaGrange for an early holiday shopping event to shop with a purpose – to fund expansion of early learning programs in Troup County. Interested sponsors may review packages at www.merrymarketlagrange.com/sponsorship or call 706-884-8292.
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(Arusha, Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti)
If you've lost your sense of awe and wonder, you'll find them again in Tanzania.
Trek through some of the most beautiful and diverse landscapes Africa has to offer in your own private 4x4 vehicle. Your personal guide will take you through Tanzania's greatest parks where you can search for big cats, elephants, and giraffe. At night, take in the setting sun behind breathtaking vistas and relax in comfort in well-appointed accommodations. With so much to see and do, internal flights cut down on drive time and get you to your next rendezvous quickly.
Explore Tarangire National Park and scan the famous baobob trees in search of lions and leopards napping in the branches. Discover the diversity of the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest inactive volcanic caldera, where you'll have the opportunity to spot the rare black rhino amongst the large packs of hyenas and jackals. Cross over into the plains of the Serengeti, which boasts the largest population of lions and giraffe in all of Africa, and thrill at the sight of the annual wildebeest migration, one of the greatest highlights of any African safari.
Kensington Tours offers local support in each region you visit, another reason we deliver unbeatable value. Enjoy a personalized vacation that best suits your needs, developed by one of our experienced destination experts. Relax during your trip with our 24/7 support and expert local guidance.
Airport transfer between your Arusha hotel and Kilimanjaro International airport with private vehicle and english speaking driver.
While you are in the care of Kensington Tours, your safety and security are our number one priority. As such, in the unlikely event of serious illness or injury, all Kensington Tours clients are covered by "Flying Doctors" Insurance policy. This emergency evacuation insurance covers the cost of the evacuation flight back to Nairobi for treatment. This insurance policy however DOES NOT cover the cost of any medical treatment received. We highly recommend travel insurance for full coverage.
From Arusha, your guide will drive you to the Tarangire National Park. This commute takes approximately 3 hours to complete.
On this afternoon drive you will notice the unusually shaped baobab trees, also known as the "upside-down tree". Look up and you might find the tree climbing African pythons. This is one of the world's largest species of snakes, but do not worry, it is also a non-venomous species. Tarangire's pythons climb trees, as do its lions and leopards, lounging in the branches.
In the early morning hours, your skilled guide will pick you up and take you for a game viewing drive through Tarangire National Park. The main highlight here is elephants, which mass in enormous numbers during the dry season June to December. General game is also good, although predators tend to be quite difficult to find. From January to May the park is beautiful and offers a more private experience with very low visitor numbers. Year round this is a unique safari experience.
On this game drive you might notice the swamps, tinged green year round, which are the focus for 550 bird varieties. This park boasts of having the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world. On drier ground you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest flying bird; the stocking-thighed ostrich, the world's largest bird; and small parties of ground hornbills blustering like turkeys. More ardent bird-lovers might keep an eye open for screeching flocks of the dazzlingly colourful yellow-collared lovebird and the somewhat drabber rufous-tailed weaver and ashy starling – all endemic to the dry savannah of north-central Tanzania.
Your guide will pick you up from the Tarangire National Park and drive you to the massive Ngorongoro crater. This drive will take approximately 3 1/2 hours.
Just inside the Ngorongoro conservation area, a majestic waterfall beckons travelers to enjoy a light hike through the forest highlands. Along the way, experience the 'elephant caves': cave-like structures created by elephants digging up the earth to ingest the vitamin-rich soil. This soil also attracts other large animals like Buffalo, Bushbuck, Waterbuck, and Baboons.
Explore one of the most recognized wildlife conservation areas in Tanzania today. Depart your camp or lodge in a privately driven vehicle, along with a local expert guide, for approximately a 20 to 30 minute drive towards the Ngorongoro Park Gate. It will then take you another 20 minutes to reach the crater rim itself. The Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera. This geological masterpiece was formed as a result of an extremely large volcanic explosion which caused the volcano to collapse in on itself, thus creating a crater. The crater is roughly 20 kilometers wide and some 2000 feet deep, making the trip from crater floor to rim around 45 minutes by 4x4. The extremely fertile crater floor is the reason why there is such a highly concentrated amount of wildlife here. Over 20000 mammals call the crater home, including some of the only remaining black rhinos in the world. The crater floor also boasts one of the highest carnivore densities in the world including large prides of lions, packs of hyenas and solitary predators like cheetahs and jackals. A keen eye and expertly recommended search patterns from your guide may help you spot some of the less common species like leopards, servals, and bat-eared foxes.
You are provided with a personalized, experienced tracker-guide and private transportation today whilst exploring around the Ngorongoro National Park grounds.
Enjoy a box lunch while you travel (included in tour price).
Your guide will pick you up from the Ngorongoro Conservation area and drive you to the famous plains of the Serengeti. On this drive you have the option of stopping at Olduvlai Gorge, the Serengeti welcome centre and lookout point, or stop for lunch at a picnic spot. After entering Serengeti Park you will have the chance to enjoy game viewing as you drive through the park to your next accommodation. This drive takes 5 to 6 hours depending on the number of stops you make and how much game viewing you enjoy along the way. Expect longer trip times during the rainy seasons.
The massive Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is often referred to as "The Cradle of Mankind." Beginning in the eastern Serengeti plains, the gorge is roughly some 48 kilometers long. Resulting from millions of years of natural erosion, this gorge boasts a steep-sided ravine that cuts and stretches its way through the Great Rift Valley along eastern Africa. The gorge is named after a commonly used plant by the Masai people with the scientific name of Sansevieria-Ehrenbergii, or Oldupai for short.
Get ready for an afternoon to remember as you set out accompanied by an experienced tracker-guide into the seamlessly never-ending expanses of the Serengeti. The park is world renowned for its healthy stock of resident wildlife species, in particular the African Big 5 which or course includes buffalos, elephants, rhinoceros, leopards and lions. Although with sightings considered a rarity, very few black rhinoceros still live within the confines of the park grounds. The Serengeti is also home to the largest population of lions and giraffes in all of Africa. Heavy concentrations of topi, gazelle, waterbuck and Coke's hartebeest provide an ample food source for local carnivores including cheetah, hyenas and African wild dog. The park is also home to some 500+ species of birds, ranging in size and weights some of these bird including ostrich, crowned crane, marabou stork and secretary bird are the most sought after photogenic birds on the planet.
This morning's African adventure begins with an exploratory game drive through Tanzania's oldest and most recognized National Park, the Serengeti. This location offers the most expansive game viewing in Tanzania. From predators to prey, great herds of grazing herbivores to tactically cunning packs of carnivores, life on the plains of the Serengeti can best be defined as a complete "circle of life." A photographic dream unfolds before your eyes as giraffes and elephants feast on tasty shrubbery, whilst impalas, gazelles and buffalos dance carefully through the plains as to not become the latest meal for on-looking lions, cheetahs and hyenas.
Spend the day taking in the spectacle of the famous wildebeest migration. This annual migration through the Serengeti and Masai Mara is one of the safari highlights of Africa. The wildebeest migration moves in a basic clockwise direction throughout the year in the Serengeti eco-system and moves north into the Masai Mara in Kenya from June/July through to Sep/October. Sightings cannot be guaranteed as the herds move according to the availability of food sources and migration movements can be erratic. The herds are accompanied by zebras and Thomson's gazelles and are stealthily hunted by local predators such as leopards, lions and hyenas.
If time allows, your expert guide will squeeze in one more game drive before dropping you off at the airstrip. It will be your last chance to see the park's diverse range of animals.
Take your flight from Serengeti to Arusha today. The flight will do more than one stop on the way. The flight duration is approximately 2 hours.
Luggage restriction applicable to this flight: 15kg (32 lb) per person, for both carry-on and checked luggage. Your checked luggage needs to be soft-sided - no wheels / no spine, a duffel bag is recommended. A small purse/backpack, is recommended as a carry-on, to keep your camera, passport, hat, sunblock or other items you need within easy reach.
Time permitting, visit a local handicrafts market to stock up on souvenirs.
Mount Meru Hotel is situated at the foothills of Mount Meru in the city of Arusha, Tanzania. The Mount Meru Hotel lies on 9 acres of lush landscape, surrounded by some of Africa's most breath-taking vistas, rich with a diverse array of wildlife, etched against the fertile slopes of this beautiful mountain. The Mount Meru Hotel, its management and staff members have made every endeavour to ensure that your stay is a rejuvenating and refreshing experience of African hospitality and look forward to meeting you in person. Tanzanian warmth and kindness is renowned all over the world and the opportunity to prove this fact much more than mere legend is an exhilarating opportunity to all at this pinnacle of splendor, the Mount Meru Hotel.
Maramboi Tented Camp, situated on the shores of Lake Manyara and located in the migratory corridor of Manyara and Tarangire, is only 14 km away from Tarangire National Park. The camp has 10 spacious tents on generous, ample wooden decks. They all have en suite facilities and private verandah with 24 hours electric lighting. A visit to the area is essential for anyone interested in evolution and the origins of Mankind and an explanation of the Rift Valley and Africa's big picture. It is an ideal location for on safari walks and game drives.
The Ngorongoro Farm House is a small and exclusive lodge facing the Oldeani Volcano, only 5 kilometers from the Ngorongoro Lolduare gate. This unique property was built to offer visitors an original experience reminiscent of the atmosphere of the old days. Inaugurated in 2003, this lodge offers various rooms, cottages, and suites, all rustically designed and decorated using local materials and furnishings, all for the purpose of providing each guest an imaginary journey to the life of the days gone. Meals are served in the main building or on occasion around the pool and feature ample selections of locally inspired dishes or popular western fares. Guests at this lodge can cool off in the pool or enjoy tension soothing massages after game drives.
Mbalageti Serengeti features luxury tented chalets on the slopes of the rising Mwamweni hill, as well as lodge style standard rooms. Each room type is equipped with all the utilities of home, such as an en-suite bathroom and a veranda with a stunning view. Dining takes place both in the bush, privately or with small groups, or in the dining tent, where local and continental cuisine forge new roots. English tea is served in the gardens with pastries daily. Activities range from spending some alone time in the loft reading books or a relaxing float in the tranquility pool, with the Serengeti plains as the backdrop.
TiaRazon ,
May 11, 2015
"We were a group of 5 to Morocco. We were impressed at how seamless our private guided tour went. Accommodations were five star, the choice of family run hotels, beautifully appointed with Moroccan furnishings and large breakfasts, contributed to our experience. Our guide, Ishmail and driver, Abdul, made us feel like family. Ishmail showed off his country with pride, listened to our needs and was flexible to our style and speed of travel. We couldn't be happier with our Kensington experience beginning with the pre-planning in the US with Lily Baffour. Thank you very much for a memorable experience! "
JamesSmith ,
May 12, 2015
"Our guide, Chakim, was fantastic, and our driver was excellent. We were very pleased with our accommodations. Only negative comments would be the villa in Essaouira (room, food, service not good although people very nice), and, while probably not an issue for other travelers, we were disappointed that we could not relax over a glass of wine at the end of our journey because Hotel Le Doge did not offer alcoholic beverages. We are currently scheduled with Kensington Tours for India in November and we are now planning on scheduling with Kensington for all our trips - right now that would be Thailand to Mynamar, and Egypt with Dubai extension. We are extremely happy with Kensington Tours and their travel agents. We would recommend Lily Balfour to anyone. "
EarleBarnwell ,
April 08, 2015
"Kensington and its partners did not miss a single deadline, appointment or function to our total satisfaction. The result, no stress and total enjoyment."
StephenReeves ,
April 08, 2015
"Christine was absolutely superb both in helping us frame and develop a custom tour as well as in constant follow up until we left. Inevitably things will change on the ground when trips are planned in advance and Christine was consistently on top of the changes and advised us accordingly. As first time travelers to Kenya and Tanzania Christine's advice and guidance was simply excellent. Rose, in Kensington's Nairobi office was likewise superb. Totally responsive to our needs, she helped make a few final adjustments while we were there. Once again, an exceptional experience made possible by Kensington."
Sachi Gowda ,
December 15, 2014
"We are extremely happy with your service from beginning to end and we had very a memorable trip."
Ronald Jones ,
December 12, 2014
"I cannot express how fabulous our trip was!! I know it was made that way thanks to ALL the kind, knowledgable, and helpful people that you all placed in our path. Many went above and beyond to make our experience even more positive. From drivers, to guides, to hotel staff---we met some wonderful people that we can now call friends. Thank you Christine and Kensington tours for this once in a lifetime African adventure!"
RonJones ,
December 15, 2014
"Christine, our family trip was ALL we wanted it to be. The hotel accommodations in the cities were GREAT. We needed to make some room assignment adjustments but that's to be expected with a large family with children and same names.
I don't know where/how ya'll got those guides but...KEEP'EM! In both Cape Town and Joberg the guys knew their cities and environs excellently. Their English was very good...so good in fact that several got the sarcasm and even joked some. I do apologize if we over-tipped. I relied on each family to tip their own driver but, I wasn't sure of their "sense of what was right" so I followed up with something for each.
Simbavati was "PERFECT". As much as Glenda and I really liked Ngala, I do not think they could have handled a family as well...UNLESS, they had accommodations we did not see.
Please rest assured when ever I plan to travel on a multi-dimensional trip in the future, for sure with a group, or maybe just Glenda and I, I'll be calling Kensington... Christine and Donna specifically. And most definitely, anytime I can recommend a travel professional, your company and you two will be mentioned by name!
Thank you again Christine...you presented us the exact trip we dreamed about for our family and your folks on the ground made it happen! I sincerely hope you, Donna and everyone else involved have a most Blessed Christmas and a wonderful, successful New Year!"
Bruce Lundstrom ,
December 15, 2014
"Morocco has a lot to offer. Food, historic sites, craftsmen (rugs, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, etc.), natural beauty, roads and infrastructure, and a reasonably safe environment. Both Guide (Abdel) and Driver were excellent. Service-oriented, timely and easy going. Abdel was not afraid to speak his mind, offer suggestions and give us feedback on ideas. We enjoyed their company."
AlbertLind ,
December 09, 2014
"A truly wonderful trip......first class accommodations and service in each venue....the guides were knowledgable and went out of their way to insure that we could see and understand Africa. Capetown is a fascinating city, Sabi Sands an extraordinary private game preserve, and Zimbabwe with Victoria Falls and the Victoria Falls Hotel a once in a lifetime experience. For those who want to visit Africa we enthusiastically recommend Kensington Tours. And Jolene Plant stayed with us in every step during the planning of our trip and itinerary. We saw as much of Africa as much as anyone can during our two weeks vacation."
Belinda Skelton ,
December 12, 2014
"This was one of the most amazing trips that I have ever had. The custom tours and activities exceeded my expectations. I was traveling alone but felt safe and in good hands. The process of booking the trip with Lily Baffour was so easy and personal, especially with the constant communications from her up to my departure. Thank you Kensington Tours for an awesome experience. I will definitely use you for my next adventure!"
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Burlington Athletic Stadium's drenched outfield that pretty much put a halt to the Burlington Royals' Appalachian League baseball season for the past week has created a damper on the front office's finances, too.
It has been a week since anything normal has taken place for the team on the field. Off the field, it has been traumatic from a business standpoint, team general manager Ben Abzug said.
The team's six-game homestand was nixed, though three games were played at alternate sites a few counties way.
The goal is to resume playing at the stadium, if conditions permit it.
"I have no reason to think we won't be able to play on it," Abzug said, hoping it will be ready in time for Saturday night's next scheduled home date.
An oversaturated outfield has created a soggy and muddy mess at the city-owned facility.
"It has been killing us," said Tony Laws, director of the Burlington Recreation and Parks Department, who's been with the department nearly 45 years. "We're just hoping the sunny weather and no rain will dry it out. We really, really hate that we haven't been able to play. I've never experienced that problem before. It's sort of unheard of you have to call a game off because of the outfield."
The team leases the stadium from the city, but the connection often appears to be a partnership.
Abzug said his staff has investigated anything that it can do to help the field.
Laws said a wet period in the spring and early summer contributed to the situation. More recently, he said the field hasn't dried out before the next rain.
"It just didn't have anywhere to go," he said. "Nobody can control the weather. It's really unfortunate because I know it will hurt the Royals' bottom line and that's never a good thing to happen. They do a lot to bring baseball here and we certainly don't want to hurt that."
Even before the latest field crisis, Laws said the city planned to do leveling of the outfield this fall as part of regular maintenance. The infield was resurfaced during the past offseason.
"We can't do that in the middle of the season," Laws said. "It will have to be an offseason process. But that's not helping the situation right now. We're keeping our fingers crossed that we won't have any more rain."
After last Wednesday night's deluge, there have been only two significant sustained rainfalls — one midday Thursday and another Sunday night.
By then, the saturation point for the outfield had been overwhelmed.
"It's something that made it so uncomfortable calling these games so early in the day," Abzug said. "Under normal circumstances, it can rain during the day and we can play. It has been tough on us to make these calls and explain to people we're not playing when the sun is out … though it hasn't been out much."
Abzug said it's the local team officials' responsibility to provide a safe place to play.
It wasn't too many years ago when Burlington's field often was recognized by the Appalachian League as having the best playing surface in the league.
"We take a lot of pride in it," Laws said. "So this is a really, really huge disappointment for us to know that the field isn't letting them play. I wish I could find a solution."
THERE'S NO QUICK fix. The team hired a helicopter for a couple of hours Friday in an effort to dry the outfield, but that didn't salvage the situation.
Fields without a sand base are more prone to have drainage issues, experts said.
"With all the rain we're getting, you just need sunlight," said Scott Strickland, head groundskeeper at Durham Bulls Athletic Park and an International League award winner for his field work. "When it gets so wet, you just have to let it sit there and bake."
Ronnie Rost, the assistant athletic facility supervisor at USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, said sometimes when the rain adds up there is no simple solution.
"We're very fortunate we have drainage," Rost said.
From a playing standpoint, Royals manager Tommy Shields said the inability of the team to work out on the field daily in advance of games is particularly troublesome. With games wiped out, it has added to the burdens.
Shields said he realizes that putting the field back into playing condition won't come easy.
"It's a mess," Shields said. "It's a mess."
Yet baseball is being played nearby. During the six-day stretch of inactivity (other than four innings a week ago) in Burlington, the Durham Bulls played five games with only a 41-minute delay one night.
Some of the field problems surfaced earlier at the Burlington stadium. On July 4, wet grounds were the reason for a postponement, while minor league teams in Durham and Winston-Salem attracted record crowds and Greensboro's minor-league team drew one of its largest turnouts.
Also on that same night less than 2 miles away at the Tom Zachary field at Graham Middle School, an American Legion playoff game took place after about a 30-minute delay.
THE ROYALS PLAYa schedule that includes 34 regular-season home games. Aside from the six-game homestand that turned out nonexistent, two previous games were called off and rescheduled as part of doubleheaders.
"In such a short season, losing eight openings is not good for our business," Abzug said.
From the past week, most of the group events and sponsor-related activities that were supposed to be associated with games that were called off (or played in Winston-Salem or Cary) have been rescheduled, Abzug said. Two fireworks shows also have been placed on future dates.
Abzug, calling what was supposed to be the past homestand the bread and butter of the promotional schedule, said there were painful decisions to move a game Sunday to Wake Forest Baseball Park and a doubleheader Monday to USA Baseball National Training Complex, both about an hour's commute away.
The parent Kansas City Royals have assisted the local club in some of the expenses of moving those games. There were two unbudgeted bus trips along with facility user fees, which Abzug described as generally minimal compared to what he feared.
"The main benefit was to get in the games because that's why the guys are here," Abzug said.
The local team picked up an extra expense of feeding the Kingsport Mets after games, as that team was displaced from its routine as well.
"The local group depends on the revenue on what they get off the games," Laws said. "If you're not playing, you're not getting any of that revenue. You're not going to make it up. It's just gone.
"It's an outdoor sport, so you expect some rainouts through the season, but not like this."
The Royals were scheduled for 12 home games in a 15-game stretch. They play through Friday on the road against the Bluefield Blue Jays before returning for a six-game homestand slated to begin Saturday night.
If the Royals complete all the scheduled games for three days in Bluefield, W.Va., they'll have played nearly as many games at Bluefield's Bowen Field (8½) as at Burlington Athletic Stadium (9½) this season, which began about a month ago.
"We look forward to putting this whole week behind us," Abzug said.


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DEEP RUN — Whether a coach or a team will admit it, some games carry a little bit more weight than others — especially when building a successful program. Following South Lenoir's 76-44 victory over East Duplin, Blue Devils coach Jeremy Barnett admitted that Tuesday night's game was one of those occasions.
"It's not just another game," he said of East Duplin, which is just 20 minutes south of Deep Run.
Through southern Lenoir County, especially in Pink Hill, neighbors are sometimes divided in which of the two school districts they live.
"It carries a little more weight with everybody," Barnett added. "(Due to that focus), I really thought our approach to the game was what I have been looking for."
South Lenoir, led by sophomore Dominic Williams with 18 points, nine assists and five steals, left little doubt about who the better team was on the court. The Blue Devils (7-0) opened the game on a 23-6 run, which extended into the second quarter, and led 44-11 at halftime.
"I wish I could have had more," Williams said of his game-high nine assists. "This was probably the best game I ever had, sometimes you have good games and this was one of them."
Barnett agreed about Williams' performance and said, as a team, the first half was the best 16 minutes the Blue Devils have played all season. At halftime, he knew that keeping up the effort in the second half would be a test of his undefeated squad after such a flawless first half.
"I told them at halftime, when I look at this team, that's what I envision this basketball team can be," he said. "Now it's just a matter of seeing it consistently."
While South Lenoir didn't defensively dominate the second half, they did stretch the lead to as high as 43 early in the fourth quarter before Barnett pulled his starters.
When Williams sat with about six minutes left in the game, he asked to be put back in for his 10th assist.
"He can see things on the court that other people can't see," Barnett said of William's vision and awareness while leading the point.
South Lenoir finished the game 16-of-22 at the free throw line.
Jonte Midgette had 12 points for the Blue Devils, while Luke Whaley and Jadarius Mickens added 11. Jaquan Wooten was the only other Blue Devil in double digits scoring.
East Duplin's scoring was led by Nicholas Williams with 11 points.
The Devils played at Southwest Onslow Wednesday and will visit East Duplin Friday.
Girls' game:
South Lenoir trailed by three at the half, 24-21, but outscored the Panthers by 18 in the second half to earn the 58-43 victory against their former East Central 2A rival.
"We came in (at the half) and talked about the things we were doing right," Blue Devils coach Donald Mooring said. "We were trying to do too much, too fast. We slowed it down (in the second half) and honestly (Demeyia Adams) and Marquia (Suddeth) took over."
Suddeth and Adams combined for 44 points, one more than East Duplin's game total.
The loss was the first of the season for the Panthers.
"That was a big win for us," Mooring added. "We grew up tonight."
East Duplin was led by Jonish McCoy with 10 points.
SL scoring — Dominic Williams 18, Jonte Midgette 12, Luke Whaley 11, Jadarius Mickens 11, Jaquan Wooten 10, Jones 9, Stroud 3, Turner 2
ED scoring — Nicholas Williams 11, Simpson 9, Scarborough 6, Ingram 6, McCoy 5, Stroud 4, West 3
SL scoring — Marquia Suddeth 27, Demeyia Adams 17, West 8, Franklin 2, Gates 3, Meready 1
ED scoring — Jonisha McCoy 10, Hatcher 9, McKinzie 7, Lego 5, M. Smith 3, C. Thigpen 3, A. Smith 2, Blizzard 2, K. Thigpen 2


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By Frank Lewis
October 23, 2013
Frank Lewis
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Jeffrey Waller was sentenced to 20 years to life by Scioto County Common Pleas Judge William T. Marshall Tuesday evening after being found guilty of murder in the death of James Thurman, 33, at a residence Waller shared with Thurman's wife, Anna Thurman, in August of 2012.
"He was found guilty on murder; guilty on felonious assault; guilty on the first count of tampering with evidence; guilty on unlawful possession of a dangerous ordnance and not guilty on the second tampering with evidence charge," Scioto County Prosecutor Mark Kuhn said.
The trial lasted only two days which were mainly taken up by the prosecution. But on Tuesday, defense attorney Bill Dever put his client on the stand, as his only witness. While on the stand, Waller denied bringing the sawed-off shotgun into the room prior to the incident which resulted in Thurman's death. It had been the testimony of Anna Thurman, that Waller had gone into a closet and had gotten the gun earlier and took it into the bedroom where the shooting took place.
The shooting incident, which occurred on Aug. 27 of 2012, made headlines because of the circumstances surrounding the case.
"Anna Thurman made a 911 call and she advised that her husband had just been shot by her boyfriend, and his name is Jeff Waller, of that same address," Scioto County Sheriff Marty V. Donini said. "And according to the witness statement, which is the wife, she and Jeff Waller were in a back bedroom, sitting on a bed on the floor, and the victim, James Thurman, came into the bedroom and kicked the suspect (Waller), without any provocation, at which time, Anna (Thurman) jumped up between the two of them to stop James from further assaulting the suspect, at which time the suspect grabbed a loaded shotgun and shot the victim in the stomach. He (Waller) apparently left the scene and was walking down the road."
On the witness stand Anna Thurman used the term "shoved" when she described how Thurman's foot came in contact with Waller's head. Dever took her back to her original statement, which included the use of the word "kicked." This difference was used in an a attempt to show jurors other discrepancies in her testimony.
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When Nubbins the cat was found, he was emaciated, riddled with birdshot, and had tumors hanging from both of his ears. But the minute he was removed from his carrier by his rescuers, he started purring. He knew he was finally safe; relief was here at last.
Dr. Patricia Wagner, a veterinarian at the ASPCA Animal Hospital, performed surgery on the sweet feline and fell in love with his kind demeanor. Soon after, Nubbins joined Dr. Wagner's household. He is incredibly grateful for his second chance and gets along swimmingly with the family's resident parakeet.
In fact, kitty and bird are stars of the 2014 ASPCA calendar. Check out this adorable behind-the-scenes video of Nubbins sitting for his photo shoot.
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Nubbins is a beautiful kitty and deserves the love and attention he is getting. Thank you Dr.Wagner for taking care of him. Enjoy your precious animal family!
You can just tell that Nubbins is an extremely grateful cat due to his "laid back" demeanor. He has gone thru so much, that he accepts the parakeet, knowing that no harm will befall either of them, and that love is the best bond of all. Thanks to Dr. Wagner for giving him a home full of love. I would have taken him, if I had been there! How could anyone use a beautiful cat like him (or any) for target practice? It's beyond my comprehension. Thank God for the ASPCA ! ! !
This is a real heart-warming story! Nubbins has such wise and soulful eyes! He knows now that he finally has a peaceful and content life with the good doctor.
Thanks for your kindness and generosity Dr.Wagner. Long happy life to Nubbins and his parakeet friend.
Yeah Cute,but dangerous. Predator and prey animals should NEVER be put together.ASPCA should know this. I feel sorry for the bird.
Unlike humans who kill for sport most animals kill for food. I don't thing Nubbins is hungry. I don't think I would leave the bird out of the cage and the cat alone but Nubbins looks too laid back to hurt him and Nubbins is more domesticated than wild.
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I love rescue stories such as this. It gets to me where there are cases of abuse and neglect that just sickens me,....but when you follow it up with a happy ending and giving that animal a second chance,....all I can say that it is a truly wonderful feeling. Nubbins is a handsome cat, and I'm glad he was rescued and brought to a loving home.
What a wonderful story! Thank you Dr. Wagner for being such a devoted saver of sweet animals. I know God loves and thanks you also.
I want to say thanks for taking this nice cat in and helping him. We need more people like you in the world. My hat is off to you!! GREAT PIC TOO!!!


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Janes' Late Goal Propels Men's Soccer to Victory
September 14, 2013
MORROW, GA- Junior Luke Janes scored in the 88th minute to propel the Pfeiffer University mens soccer team (2-1-1) to a dramatic come-from-behind victory over North Georgia (1-4) on Saturday evening. Janes header past the Nighthawks keeper pushed the Falcons back above .500 and was the defensemens second career goal and first game-winner.
North Georgia struck in the 11th minute when Amin El-Shami took a pass from Alexandro Martinez and beat Pfeiffer goalkeeper Nicolas Dulac for his second goal of the season. In the 27th minute, the Falcons would respond when junior Kyle Tolers pass across the box found senior Aldo Ramirez who put his shot in the upper right corner for his first score of the year. The half ended with each team taking eight shots. North Georgia put four on goal, while the Falcons had three on net.
North Georgia had some opportunities early in the second half, taking the first eight shots of the stanza. Many of the shots were blocked by the Falcons defense and the ones that got through were stopped by Dulac. In the 60th minute, Paco Cortez was subbed in and immediately put a shot on goal but Kris Alonzo made the stop for the Nighthawks. The offensive attack continued for North Georgia, and by the 78th minute, they held a 14-2 advantage in second half shots as Pfeiffer was content to sit back on defense. Dulac made four stops and the game remained tied, setting the stage for Janes late heroics. Jamie Sanclemente sent a long pass off a direct kick that Janes converted, giving the Falcons the victory.
The result was encouraging to first-year head coach Bob Reasso, especially considering the Falcons fell 8-0 to Clayton St. last night.
We showed a lot of resiliency, said Reasso. We got knocked down last night but we battled back, which is a great testament to the team. We kept fighting and showed our courage. I am pleased with tonights result.
North Georgia held a 24-13 lead in shots, including a 16-5 discrepancy in the final 45 minutes of the match. Dulac made six saves to improve to 2-1-1, while Alonzo made five stops.
The Nighthawks also held a 5-2 advantage in corners.
The Falcons return to action in the third game of a five-game road stretch on Wednesday night when they travel to Catawba for a 7:30 p.m. match.


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Jimna displayed extraordinary teamwork, quick thinking, appropriate action and a real sense of safety awareness while he was cleaning on the unit - he was cleaning a room when he noticed a baby in the next room vomiting. Jimna immediately stopped what he was doing and got help without delay. Then he stepped back out of the way, but stood by in case he was asked to assist in any way. Everything turned out fine for this baby thanks to Jimna's quick action and the care provided by the nursing staff.
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New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - Montreal Canadiens head coach Michel Therrien announced Thursday that forward Dale Weise will not play in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals due to an injury he sustained in Tuesday's game against the New York Rangers.
Weise was the recipient of an illegal check to the head from Rangers defenseman John Moore during the third period of Montreal's 7-4 victory in Game 5. Moore received a 10-minute match penalty for the play and was later handed a two-game suspension by the NHL that will begin with Thursday's clash.
Therrien told reporters that Weise, who did briefly return to Tuesday's contest, is not dealing with a concussion but declined to offer specifics about the injury.
Weise's absence coincides with the return of Brandon Prust to Montreal's lineup for Game 6. The physical forward sat out the past two games of the series after being suspended for a hit on New York's Derek Stepan in Game 3.
Stepan sustained a broken jaw from Prust's shot and sat out Sunday's Game 4, but returned to action Tuesday and scored a pair of goals in the Rangers' loss.
Therrien also termed defenseman Alexei Emelin, who missed Tuesday's tilt with a lower-body injury, a game-time decision for Game 6.
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The Arc'teryx Men's Beta AR Jacket. This streamlined, hip-length Arc'teryx jacket provides the backcountry minimalist with reliable storm protection and packs away easily. The helmet compatible Drop Hood offers the flexability of a high collar for draft protection and a fast adjust hood. Gender specific patterning provides a superb fit and enhances mobility to help keep you movin'.
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