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The worst of the winds and rain from Tropical Storm Andrea are expected between midnight and daybreak Friday, the National Weather Service, Charleston, reported this evening.
Boat tips
A few reminders about securing boats against high winds:
- Tighten loose lines, mooring lines and cleats.
For hurricane strength winds:
- Remove sails, including head sails from the headstays. They can unfurl, stress then drop the rig.
- Consider hauling the boat out of the water and do haul it out if strong hurricane winds can occur.
Always and for absentee owners:
- Check in with marina staff, who customarily walk the docks to check on boats.
source: Batton Kennon, Charleston City Boatyard.
But the storm might pass by most morning commuters.
"Hopefully it will be out of here by the time most people hit the road," said meteorologist Jonathan Lamb, with the weather service.
Andrea is still expected to hug the coast, with the eye — if there is still an eye — passing over or near Charleston about 6 a.m. The worst of the storm will be to the north and east of the eye, with the strongest winds staying offshore.
Andrea made landfall in Florida at 5:45 p.m. with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is moving northeast at 17 mph.
A cumulative 3-5 inches of rain is forecast overnight. Winds are expected 20-30 mph with gust to 40 mph along the coast. Inland, they're forecast 15-25 mph with gusts to 30 mph. There's a threat of isolated tornadoes throughout the region and a few possible tornadoes formed in Georgia Thursday afternoon with the storm still well to the south.
At sustained 30 mph winds, Charleston County would put out cautions for bigger vehicles crossing higher elevation bridges. At 40 mph sustained winds, all vehicles would be cautioned that the bridges are not safe for travel.
But by the evening forecast, neither was expected to happen.
Overall, the storm was forecast to be less of a threat than it was earlier.
"Just enough to be a headache," Lamb said.
More than four inches of rain already had fallen in some spots by noon, so flooding will be a concern in the usual low spots and streets.
Little storm surge is expected, so tidal flooding isn't a big concern.
"My hunch is we're going to see some significant issues in coastal areas, but it's going to be from rain, not tides," Lamb said.
Commuters along exposed routes should consider their alternatives.
The Lowcountry is under a tropical storm warning as Andrea, the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, barrels up the eastern coast, the National Weather Service said.
Andrea made landfall in the Big Bend of Florida this evening, still maintaining 60 mph winds and travelling 15 mph.
A flash flood watch is in effect through Friday morning, the Weather Service reports.
Charleston police Cpl. Fred Bowie said the department has personnel out surveying area thoroughfares for flooding this morning.
High water was on Fisburne Street near Ashley Avenue during Thursday morning. The Septima P. Clark Expressway, also known as the Crosstown, was down to one lane in each direction.
"Certainly conditions can change rapidly with changes in tides and rainfall. Motorists are advised to exercise caution and to expect delays," Bowie said in an email.
The Weather Service reports a near 100 percent chance of thunderstorms and showers.
"We had some heavy rain showers earlier which have either diminished or moved off the coast. In a message posted on its website this morning, The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control urged dam operators across the state to monitor their reservoirs for possible problems caused by heavy rainfall.
"Owners who have the ability to lower their reservoir's water level should safely do so to provide additional storage for the anticipated rainfall," said John Poole of DHEC's dam safety program.
Dam operators should notify other operators downstream before lowering water levels, Poole said. Any accumulated trash and debris should be cleared from spillways, he said.
"Dam owners should monitor the conditions at their dams during events that can produce large floods," Poole said. "If problems prompt potential failure of the dam, or if failure is imminent, the owner or operator of the dam should contact the downstream property owners and local public safety officials."
Tropical Storm Andrea got a little stronger early Thursday as it headed toward Florida's western coast and a new tropical storm warning was issued for a swath of the U.S. East Coast.
The storm's maximum sustained winds increased to near 60 mph (95 kph) and the storm was expected to reach Florida's Big Bend area later in the day before moving across southeastern Georgia and the Carolinas.
Forecasters say Andrea could bring three to 6 inches of rain to the Florida Panhandle and southeastern Georgia, with isolated areas seeing as much as 8 inches.
Tropical storm warnings were in effect for a large section of Florida's west coast from Boca Grande to Indian Pass and for the East Coast from Flagler Beach, Fla., all the way to Cape Charles Light in Virginia.
As of about 5 a.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 220 miles (355 kilometers) west-southwest of Tampa and was moving north-northeast near 13 mph (20 kph).
In Florida, Gulf Islands National Seashore closed its campgrounds and the road that runs through the popular beach-front park Wednesday. The national seashore abuts Pensacola Beach and the park road frequently floods during heavy rains. On Pensacola Beach, condominium associations asked people to remove furniture on high balconies because of the expected high winds and beach lifeguards warned tourists of possible high surf.
A forecast map predicts the storm will continue along the East Coast through the weekend before heading out to sea again, though a storm's track is often hard to predict days in advance.
Locally, highs today will be about 80 with lows about 70. Southeast winds will be from 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 40 mph after midnight.
Tropical storm conditions will remain possible on Friday with a near 100 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be in the mid 80s with lows in the mid 70s. Southwest winds will be from 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
Mostly cloudy skies are expected on Saturday with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs will be in the mid 80s with lows about 70.


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Summerville Wrestling Camp
The Summerville Wrestling Camp is scheduled for June 25, 26 and 27 from 4-7 p.m. at Summerville High School. The clinician this year is Tucker Lane from the University of Nebraska, who is a current assistant coach at The Citadel. He has 105 collegiate wins, placed seventh at the Big Ten Tournament and is a four-time NCAA qualifier. Lane is also a three-time high school State Champion. Cost of the camp is $75 per camper and includes a camp T-shirt. If a family has two kids attend, the cost is $50 for the second camper. For further information, contact SHS Head Wrestling Coach Darryl Tucker at email@example.com or call 327-3713.
Sports physicals
MEDcare Urgent Care has launched its 2013 Sports Physical Challenge, which will run through Aug. 31. Both MEDcare locations (8720 Dorchester Road, North Charleston and 1850 Sam Rittenberg Boulevard, Charleston) will offer students a sports physical for only $20 and $5 will be donated back to each school per sports physical to participating schools as designated by the student or parent. The school with the most sports physicals performed at MEDcare during this promotional period will receive an additional $500 donation. Both clinics are open every day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Cane Bay baseball camp
The Cane Bay High School baseball camp will run from June 10-13. Cost is $75 and will be held daily from 9 a.m. to noon. The camp is for ages 6-13. There will a discount for additional family members attending the camp. For more information, contact CBHS baseball coach Shane Todd at 843-509-3826.
Cobra wrestling clinic
The Cane Bay High School wrestling clinic will be held daily June 11-13 in the school's gymnasium from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Registration is $25 and open to all wrestlers from elementary school to high school. Camp instructors will be Cane Bay wrestling coach Tim Wash, a former state coach of the year and 14-time region coach of the year, and Cane Bay assistant coach Andrew Young, a three-time state champion for Summerville High School and All-American for Newberry College. For more information, call Wash at 261-4185.
Wave hoops camp
The All American Basketball Skills Camp for boys and girls in grades 3 through 9is scheduled for June 10-13. Camp will be held from 9 a.m. until noon each day. Registration cost is $70 per camper with a half-price discount available for families with more than one child. Contact Greg Elliott at firstname.lastname@example.com or 816-4348 for more information.
AR Volleyball Camp
Ashley Ridge High School is hosting a volleyball camp for athletes in grades 4 through 12. Registration for the camp, to be held from 9 a.m. until noon July 22-25, is $65 per camper and includes a camp T-shirt. Players will learn a variety of skills such as serving, passing, bumping, spiking and setting and play actual games. Each day campers will be divided into two groups, a beginners group and an advanced group. For more information, call coach Chi-Chi Hurley at 810-5304 or 695-4900, extension 52173.
Chargers Football
The Carolina Chargers semi-pro football organization will have tryouts from 9 a.m. until noon and from 3-6 p.m. June 8 and June 15 at the Gahagan Park football field in Summerville. The organization is affiliated with the GDFL and will begin having games in May of 2014.
Swishing at The Swamp
Ashley Ridge High School will host the Swishing at The Swamp Basketball Camp June 17-20. Camp will run from 9 a.m. until noon daily. The purpose of the camp for boys age 6-16 is to provide the foundation for young players to develop and improve. The camp is designed for players of all ability levels and will be held in the ARHS gym. Cost is $70 per camper and includes a camp T-shirt. Head Swamp Fox Basketball Coach Brian Welch will head a staff of coaches who will supervise activities. For more information, contact Welch at 695-4900 Ext: 52188; 770-367-0457; firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://mens-basketball.ashleyridge.schoolfusion.us for a copy of a brochure.
AR Soccer Camp
Ashley Ridge High School will host its annual soccer camp for athletes age 3-12 June 17-21 and July 8-12. Camp tuition is $60 per session. Each camper will receive a camp t-shirt. The purpose of the camp is to provide a place for all players to learn the basics of soccer. Players of all ability levels are welcome. ARHS Head Girl's Soccer Coach Mark Weaver and SHS Head Boy's Soccer Coach Jason Rasner will head a staff that is committed to helping each camper improve their skills and performance levels. For more information, call 695-4900 extension 52150 or email mweaver@dorchester2..k12.sc.us.
Elite Soccer Camp
For the second summer, Ashley Ridge High School is holding an Elite Soccer Camp. This addition to ARHS soccer camp is for those players who are ready to be challenged with a more difficult regiment of activities that will enhance their dribbling, passing and shooting skills. Participants must have at least three years of playing experience and be at least 10-years-old. For more information, call 695-4900 extension 52150 or email mweaver@dorchester2..k12.sc.us.
Junior golf camp
The Golf Club at Wescott Plantation is having registration for its summer junior golf camps for ages 8-14. Led by Perry Green, PGA Director of Instruction and 2010 Carolinas PGA Junior Golf Leader, these camps will provide youth the opportunity to play and receive tips on Tee shots, Approach shots, Sand shots, Putting, rules and etiquette. Morning session will be offered June 17-20 and July 15-18. Registration fee is $195 per week with a discount available for a second session and families registering more than one camper. For more information or to register contact Perry Green at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 817-5989.
Girls of Golf program
The Golf Club at Wescott Plantation is having registration for its LPGA/USGA Girls Golf of Charleston program. Led by Perry Green, PGA Director of Instruction and 2010 Carolinas PGA Junior Golf Leader, the program offers girls age 7-17 golf instruction, lunch, team golf events and prizes. Each participant receives an LPGA embroidered hat and polo shirt. Sessions are scheduled for June 3-7 and July 8-12. Times vary depending on age group. Cost is $100 for one week or $145 for two weeks. For more information or to register contact Perry Green at email@example.com or call 817-5989.
Pinewood tennis camps
Pinewood Tennis Director Bryant McKee and his staff will host four summer tennis camps for ages 6-13 that will run from 8:30-11:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday each week in June. Camp activities will include games and drills that will work on specific skills. Match play, team tournaments and video analysis will also be offered. Only 15 players will be accepted in each camp session to keep the player to coach ratio low. Players will be grouped according to age and skill level. Quick start format and balls will be used for younger players. Cost is $125 per camp session and will include refreshments, prizes and a camp shirt. A $10 discount is available for campers enrolling in more than one session and for families with multiple campers. Tennis racquets will be made available if needed. For more information, contact McKee at email@example.com or 291-3898.
13U ShockWave tryouts
The Summerville based S.C. ShockWave has roster openings in the 13U age group. For complete details go to www.shockwavebaseball.net and/or email@example.com. To schedule an evaluation, email email@example.com.
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Your Take: Does Unemployment Insurance Reward Laziness?
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The Huffington Post shared the thoughts of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on unemployment this week:
Unemployment insurance "doesn't create new jobs. In fact, if anything, continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work,"
The title of the article is a little misleading. In quotes, Kyl said that benefits dissuade people from job hunting, not that they "make people not want to get a job," as the title states. While I didn't hear or read about the debate, it seems like a stretch to take the quotes and twist them to match the title.
However, unemployment benefits do act as a disincentive. You get unemployment benefits when you are unemployed, you don't get them when you are employed. If you remain unemployed, you get paid for not working… so in that respect Kyl is right. Given that base unemployment benefits lasts 26 weeks (not including the extensions from the stimulus package), I'm inclined to think that it's not unfair for Bunning, or others, to ask how we are going to pay for these things especially if we're extending benefits again.
While the initial 26 weeks are funded by my employer and myself, through past payments, the extensions, in theory, aren't. They're funded by current workers and are taken from their future benefits, should they ever need them. I'm not well versed in how it all works but that's just my layman's understanding of it.
If I lost my job and was on unemployment, my initial sense of urgency at finding another job would be much lower than if I didn't have unemployment benefits (once I got over the sting of being fired). If I just need to meet the job hunting requirements to receive unemployment benefits, I'll do that while I search for the "right" job and not the "right now" job. I would rethink my career, a la Lemonade, and not rush to find income. Without unemployment benefits, I would be less likely to do it… so in a sense the benefits act as a disincentive.
What are your thoughts on unemployment benefits and whether they reward laziness? Did you think Bunning blocking the bill because he wanted the Senate to follow its own PAYGO rules were justified?
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In This Issue
All KHCPL locations will be closed and the bookmobiles will not run on …
Nov. 11 ~ Staff Training Day and Nov. 28 for Thanksgiving.
Recently, I presented a slide show to a service club. One of the bonuses was that I had the chance to look at some of the best photos of things that have been happening in our facilities and at our special events.
There were some great photos of people making memories with us, including people enjoying a horse-drawn wagon ride, two little girls whose eyes were right up against our three-dimensional gnome seek-and-find, and intent kids, teens and adults engaged in creating special items.
Don't be like the person who said to me, "Why do I always read about the really great things happening at the library AFTER they happened?" Take time to scan this newsletter for our upcoming events so you don't miss the opportunity to make memories of your own.
Faith Brautigam
Library Director
P.S. - Here are some of the photos from our THERE WILL BE PIRATES HERE! ARRRR! program.
Effective Nov. 27, 2013, the Russiaville branch of the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library will be closed on Wednesdays.
We invite you to utilize one of our other facilities:
• KHCPL South, 1755 E. Center Rd.
• KHCPL Main, 220 N. Union St.
KHCPL's Adventure Bookmobile also makes several stops in the area.
And you can always place holds on and renew checkouts 24/7 from our digital branch at www.KHCPL.org.
Thank you for your understanding.
The word's not out yet about First Fridays, so we're here to help everyone learn more about it.
First Fridays was created by the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance to show the community all that downtown has to offer. As a downtown partner, KHCPL Main is a First Fridays partner. So come to KHCPL Main from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. on the first Friday of each month for our special FREE events and then explore shops and restaurants downtown!
In September, KHCPL Main provided a free wagon ride downtown on First Fridays, with some help from Breezy Lane Carriage Co.
From 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, we'll have FREE carnival games with prizes; FREE apples and cider to sample; FREE pumpkin bowling, thanks to pumpkins donated by GUFFEY ACRES; a FREE Mardis Gras mask craft; the American Red Cross on hand to teach you about first aid and pet safety for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas; information about and $15 tickets for sale for the Oct. 11 All That Jazz FUNdraiser with the Monty Sanders Jazz Quintet; and the FREE tickets for the Ruta Sepetys's Author Visit on Nov. 7 at IU Kokomo.
PHOTO CREDIT: Guffey Acres Pumpkin Patch
KHCPL is giving back in November. At First Fridays on Nov. 1, get a professional holiday family photo taken FREE. Limit one photo per family/group/person. We'll take the digital photo and email the JPEG photo to you. You can then use it to create holiday cards or gifts, or attach them to your annual holiday letters -- you're only limited by your imagination.
Cats and dogs are welcome for the photo. A dog must be on a leash. A cat must be in a crate.
If you want a photo taken with your best friend or best friends, that's fine with us.
If your friends and family live in another town, we invite you to get your photo taken by yourself.
But perhaps you want a family ZOMBIE photo taken. Or photos taken with your ZOMBIE friends. After all, there will be a lot of ZOMBIES around that night because there will be a ZOMBIE WALK downtown, in addition to three re-enactments of Michael Jackson's Thriller dance, thanks to Dance Elite. (ZOMBIES are encouraged to check out our obstacle course on our sidewalk facing Union Street, by the way.)
Magician Obtuse Mage will be on hand to entertain kids and kids at heart. Bid on wreaths made by KHCPL employees in the Art Gallery on the lower level and you'll have one in time to decorate your home for the holidays. Proceeds will go to the Mental Health Association's Gift Lift, which provides Christmas presents for the mentally ill and to those who are otherwise forgotten at the holidays, such as the elderly in nursing homes who have no families.
And we'll wrap up First Fridays for 2013 on Dec. 6 when we teach you some gift-wrapping techniques and help you create gift tags while the Kokomo Children's Choir and other carolers entertain you. Sample Christmas cookies and hot chocolate, and enjoy other fun activities, too.
The Kokomo-Howard County Public Library, Greentown Public Library, Indiana University Kokomo Library, and Symposium have several events planned to celebrate Howard County Reads centered on the 2013 HCR book, Out of the Easy, a Young Adult novel by Ruta Sepetys.
Friday, Oct. 11 • 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (Doors will open at 7:00 p.m.)
Join us at the Elite Banquet & Conference Center, 2820 S. Lafountain St., for a fun-filled evening as we listen to jazz music by the Monty Sanders Jazz Quintet, and enjoy New Orleans-style cuisine. Great for a girls' night out, date night, or group get-together! There will also be a silent auction. Tickets are $15 per person, and will be available at any KHCPL location beginning Sept. 1. Tickets are $20 at the door. For more information, call 453.4150 or 457.3242.
Sunday, Oct. 27 • 2:00 p.m.
Chicory coffee, café au lait, and good food are signature elements of the New Orleans culture. Join Howard County Reads at its own version of the New Orleans coffee house at its Big Easy Café at the Greentown Public Library. Registration is required. Call 628.3534 for information and to reserve your seat.
Join your friends in discussing this year's Howard County Read selection, Out of the Easy, a story by Ruta Sepetys that unfolds in New Orleans.
Friday, Oct. 25 • 6:30 p.m. • PEPPERWHISTLE BAKERY & CAFÉ
You're invited for a "Dinner with the Colonel." Enjoy a New Orleans-inspired meal prepared by Chef Michael as we discuss Out of the Easy at 106 N. Main St. in Kokomo. The cost is $10. To reserve your seat at the table, call 457.3242 by Oct. 18.
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Tuesday, Oct. 29 • 6:30 p.m. • CRAVE CREPES IN GREENTOWN
Experience the flavor of New Orleans; purchase freshly made sweet or savory crepes at Crave Crepes, 107 N. Meridian St. in Greentown. Each participant purchases his/her own food. Seating is limited; call 628.3534 to reserve your seat.
In the Howard County Reads 2013 book Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys, Josie Moraine dreams of attending an elite college. She wants more from life than the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1950s has to offer. Supporting the idea of continuing higher education, Howard County Reads is pleased to offer the Out of the Easy college scholarship essay contest for a chance to win $500 toward the college of your choice!
To enter, submit your three-page essay that answers the following question:
Out of the Easy references the following quote from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. How does this quote relate to the journey of the characters in Out of the Easy and to your personal journey as you prepare for college?
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my on life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." – Charles Dickens
Contestants must be residents of Howard County and current junior or seniors in high school, a college student, or planning to enroll in an accredited college during the next 12 months. Entries must be received no later than Oct. 18.
Please go to www.HowardCountyReads.org for complete scholarship rules, how entries are judged, how to submit entries, and more information.
Thursday, Nov. 7 • 7:00 p.m.
PHOTO CREDITS: Ruta Sepetys photo by Magda Starowieyska; book covers from rutasepetys.com.
Out of the Easy author Ruta Sepetys will talk about her novel and answer your questions. She will sign books after the event. Tickets are free, but you must have one to attend. Pick up tickets beginning Sept. 1 at any KHCPL location, the Greentown Public Library, or the IU Kokomo Library. For more information, call 457.3242.
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Schools, sign up by Oct. 11 to get your students involved in the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library's Battle of the Books.
Battle of the Books is an annual competition where area sixth- through ninth-graders compete for their schools by answering trivia questions about 10 books. The winning team receives the Battle of the Books trophy, and a $20 gift certificate for each team member.
2013 Battle of the Books will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 16, at KHCPL South, 1755 E. Center Rd.
If you are interested in signing up a team for Battle of the Books, please contact Teen Librarian Melissa Wheelock at 765.453.4150 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Free technology classes have resumed in the computer lab at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library, 220 N. Union St.
The classes will be from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. every other Saturday. No registration required. Every other class will be Computer Basics, which is great for anyone with questions like these: What is a computer? How does it work? How do I use one or even turn it on?
Here is the current schedule:
9:00 to 11:00 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 28: Craigslist and eBay
9:00 to 11:00 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 12: Computer Basics
9:00 to 11:00 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 26: Creating a Resume
For more information, call 457.3242.
Fridays, Sept. 27; Oct. 4, 18, 25; Nov. 1, 15, 22; Dec. 6 and 20 • 4 to 5 p.m.
Wondering what to do after the bell has rung? Children of all ages can drop in and get creative with these fun crafts. Check out the pumpkin crown kids will be making THIS Friday!
The group is open to any sixth- through eighth-grader who would like to join us to discuss popular and classic teen titles.
Friday, Sept. 27 • 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Friday, Oct. 25 • 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice by Phillip Hoose
Friday, Nov. 22 • 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
La Linea by Ann Jaramillo
Thursdays, Oct. 3 and 17, and Nov. 7 and 21 • 6 to 7 p.m. • KHCPL Main
Mondays, Nov. 4 and 18 • 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. • KHCPL South
Calling all families, kids, and teens! Bring the whole family to enjoy a variety of traditional board games and Wii video games projected on the big screen. Please note: Children 9 and under must have a responsible caregiver age 14 or older on the premises.
Friday, Oct. 4 • 1 to 2 p.m. • KHCPL Russiaville
Saturday, Oct. 5 • 1 to 2 p.m. • KHCPL South
Attention Star Wars fans! The world-wide celebration of Star Wars and reading with events across the galaxy is coming to a library near you. You've seen the movies, but the books give you so much more! Begin your Jedi training by dressing the part — light sabers optional. Register at KHCPL Russiaville or call 883.5112 or sign up at KHCPL South or call 453.4150.
Fridays • 4 to 5 p.m.
Oct. 4, Nov. 1, and Dec. 6 • KHCPL South
Oct. 11, Nov. 8, and Dec. 13 • KHCPL Main
Oct. 18, Nov. 15, and Dec. 20 • KHCPL Russiaville
Children of all ages will build collaboratively with their peers and families. These unique creations may be displayed in the library. We recently worked on Pirate Lego projects!
Calling all book lovers! Rediscover a classic or discover a new favorite. Copies of each book are available one month
prior to discussion. Contact your favorite KHCPL location to register. There will be no December book discussion.
KHCPL Russiaville in the Meeting Room • 1st Friday of the month • 10:30 a.m.
Oct. 4 In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
KHCPL Main in Meeting Room A • 2nd Wednesday of the month • 10:00 a.m.
Oct. 9 Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
KHCPL South in the Tulip Tree Room • 3rd Thursday of the month • 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 17 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Saturdays, Oct. 5 and 19, and Nov. 2 and 16 • 10 to 11 a.m.
Choose a book and read to one of KHCPL's furry friends! These certified therapy dogs listen while children practice their reading, providing a positive and non-judgmental environment to grow children's literacy skills.
The Kokomo-Howard County Public Library is taking its book discussions on the road again this fall. With "Books on Tap," we'll meet you at Cook McDoogal's Irish Pub, 100 N. Main St., and discuss books over libations and food. Each patron is responsible for paying for his or her food and drinks. Must be 21 or older to participate.
We'll have the books available one month prior to the discussion. Join us from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the following dates to discuss these books:
Oct. 10 — A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Nov. 14 — Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt.
Saturdays, Oct. 12, and Nov. 9 • 10:30 to 11 a.m.
Come join us for traditional and digital stories, active songs, and fun games for children ages 3 to 5.
Mondays, Oct. 14, Nov. 18, and Dec. 9 • 10 to 11 a.m.
First- through fifth-graders, join other home school families and KHCPL staff as we discuss a different book each month.
Teens and adults, drop in at your convenience and use our supplies to create crafts based on our instruction or your creativity.
Saturday, Oct. 19 • 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
We will provide a bandana for you to use during the program; however, you may also want to bring a white or light-colored T-shirt that has been pre-washed so you can decorate it, too.
Here are teens and adults enjoying the Duct Tape Craft in Craft Corner.
Story times are offered at all Kokomo-Howard County Public Library (KHCPL) locations for children not yet attending elementary school. Each program features age-appropriate stories, songs, finger plays, and other enjoyable activities that are focused on helping every child be ready to read.
Daycare and preschool staff may contact the Children's Services Department at 626.0830 to schedule group Story Time visits.
Session 1: Now through Oct. 10
Session 2: Oct. 21 to Nov. 21
Please sign up at your favorite location or call:
KHCPL Main 626-0830 * KHCPL Russiaville 883.5112 • KHCPL South 453.4150
A lap-sit story time for children and their caregivers.
Tuesdays • 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. • KHCPL MAIN
Baby and toddler lap-sit with parents and caregivers using the "Listen, Like, Learn" approach.
Wednesdays • 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. • KHCPL SOUTH • No registration required
Children and caregivers are active participants in sharing stories, songs, and rhymes.
Wednesdays • 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. • KHCPL SOUTH
Wednesdays • 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. • KHCPL MAIN
Wednesdays • 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. • KHCPL MAIN
Books, rhymes, songs, and early literacy skills are highlighted in these Story Times for preschoolers and their caregivers.
Thursdays • 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. • KHCPL MAIN
Thursdays • 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. • KHCPL MAIN
A story time sharing books, rhymes, songs, and crafts for children age birth to kindergarten, and their caregivers.
Mondays • 10:30 to 11:00 a.m. • KHCPL RUSSIAVILLE
Wednesdays • 1:15 to 1:45 p.m. • KHCPL SOUTH
Thursdays • 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. • KHCPL SOUTH
Bring the entire family to an evening story time and have fun sharing stories, fingerplays, songs, flannel board stories, and more.
Mondays • 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. • KHCPL Main
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Florence A. (Pyc) Beres, died Feb. 17.
Beth A. (Gauchat) Besstak, died Feb. 18.
Marvelles Brooks Sr., A World War II Navy veteran who retired from the Tuskegee, Ala., Police Department, died Feb. 13.
Jessica M. Canazzi, died Feb. 16.
Barbara A. (Nizialek) Damba, of West Seneca, died Feb. 16.
Kathleen A. (Archbold) Devine, died Feb. 16.
Lillian J. (Kirk) Grabowski, of Town of Tonawanda, died Feb. 18.
Maryan L. Kwiatkowski, 83, of Black Creek, formerly of Buffalo, former manager of Rutecki Funeral Home who retired from Pinkerton Security, died Feb. 16.
Christian G. Koelbl Jr., of Alden, died Feb. 18.
Charles Weaver Lewis, 85, of Buffalo, World War II Army veteran and owner of the Lewis Agency, died Feb. 18.
Beulah A. (Gillette) Ludwig, of Hamburg, died Feb. 18.
Mildred S. (Cyrankowski) Majerowicz, died Feb. 17.
Geraldine R. "Tweedy" (Fedy) Mergenhagen, died Feb. 17.
Joan Miller, died Feb. 17.
Charles A. Mumm, a Navy veteran, died Feb. 18.
Adrienne Maureen Polacci, 69, of Racine, Wis., formerly of Lockport, a former Sister of St. Joseph who taught at Calasanctius School and D'Youville College.
Kathryn (Long) Schwinger, 64, of City of Tonawanda, worked for Tonawanda City schools and ran the YMCA Extended Day Care program, died Feb. 17.
Raymond P. Smith, a stationary engineer for the Buffalo school system and staff member at Nightengale Funeral Home, died Feb. 17.
Thomas E. Smith, 63, of North Collins, died Feb. 17.
Marian L. (Geertson) Staley, of Alden, died Feb. 17.
William E. Starin, 80, died Feb. 17.
Deborah K. (Mueller) Stephens, 61, an employee of the Amherst Police Department, died Feb. 18.
Michael Svisco, of Town of Tonawanda, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, died Feb. 17.
John J. Szczepankiewicz, died Feb. 17.
Eunice E. Wilson, died Feb. 14.
Edward John Wood, 69, of Raleigh, N.C., formerly of Kenmore, a Navy veteran and former tool setter for General Motors Corp. in Tonawanda, died Feb. 16.


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Located on the Big Island, the sunny district of Kona stretches over 100 kilometres to encompass historic landmarks, lava-lined coasts and celebrated coffee farms. Visitors to the versatile Kona coast find adventure at every turn. The region is famous for deep-sea fishing, hosting the International Billfish Tournament every year. South Kona's calm and clear waters are ideal for spotting dolphins and honu (Hawaiian green sea turtles). Kealakekua Bay is steeped in history, as the place where Captain James Cook first set foot on the island and died. While the Historic Kailua Village (Kailua-Kona) bustles with shops, restaurants and nightlife in the heart of the district.
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No trip to Hawaii's Big Island is complete without partaking in an authentic Hawaiian luau. A grand celebration of Polynesian culture, a traditional Hawaiian luau indulges guests with dishes like kalua pig cooked in an imu, haupia and poi, and live music and performances. Luaus are hosted at venues throughout Hawaii Island, most prominently in the resort areas of Historic Kailua Village and Keauhou in Kona and along the Kohala Coast.
For foodies, there's no better time to visit the Big Island, then in September for Mealani's Taste of the Hawaiian Range. The festival features over 30 of Hawaii's best chefs and tastings of everything from grass-fed beef to fresh island vegetables.
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The Big Island's shopping scene is rich with first-rate retail opportunities. Shopping malls and stores dot Hilo and Historic Kailua Village and the Kohala Coast, while art galleries and boutiques can be found off the beaten track in small towns like Holualoa and Hawi.
The Big Island's most exciting collection of shopping, dining and services can be found at Kings' Shops and Queens' MarketPlace in Waikoloa. Kings' Shops is a one-stop shopping spot that includes everything from high-end boutiques and unique jewellery to art galleries and activity centres. Queens' MarketPlace is one of Hawaii's busiest shopping centres; a family-fun shopping experience that hosts boutiques, galleries, shops and services and free Hawaiian cultural activities and entertainment.
Specialities stores are big business on the Big Island. Kona Coffee is world-renowned and can be sourced in Kailua-Kona or Holualoa. Despite not being native to the islands, the macadamia nut has become synonymous with Hawaii and can be enjoy from the famous Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Company or Big Island Candies, which are both located just outside of Hilo.
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LORDSTOWN, Ohio – The plant here that builds the Chevy Cruze is running three shifts now, but Glenn Johnson remains haunted by a nightmare vision of what could have happened if President Obama hadn't used taxpayer money to bail out the auto industry in early 2009.
"Most of GM would have shut down," said Johnson, 56, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112 at the plant, which employs 4,500 workers. "Then a Bain Capital would have come in and spun off parts of what was left and sent the rest overseas."
"We would have been just another statistic," Johnson said – and under that scenario, the GM Tonawanda Engine Plant, which employs about 1,000, would have been endangered, too.
Then again, in Dayton, Ohio, Tom Rose suffers a nightmare vision every time he gets his pension check, which is 40 percent smaller than he expected.
Rose blames that fact on the auto bailout, which, he said, put union members before salaried retirees such as himself.
"The UAW had the political clout, and we didn't," said Rose, 66, one of upward of 20,000 Delphi retirees – including 750 in Western New York – who lost part of their pensions while GM made UAW retirees whole. "It's just that simple."
Of course, there are many more auto industry workers in this perennial swing state than there are Delphi retirees, and that may help explain why Obama is clinging to a narrow lead here over Republican Mitt Romney.
Yet the same auto bailout that has helped revive the Ohio economy also throws a monkey wrench into the arguments that both candidates are making on the economy.
Four years after penning a column headlined "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," Mitt Romney says government needs to get out of the way to make business thrive – even though the nonpartisan Center for Automotive Research says that if Washington hadn't rescued the auto industry, 1.4 million auto industry jobs would have been lost.
And Obama touts the auto bailout as one of his great successes – even as Republicans point to an ongoing investigation into whether the administration made the politically powerful UAW a winner and the Delphi retirees losers in the deal.
On the brink of failure
Four years ago, the Big Three U.S. automakers seemed like certain losers.
GM and Chrysler had been struggling for years, and then, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans stopped buying cars.
That left GM and Chrysler starved for cash and on the verge of collapse. Parts manufacturers and Ford were imperiled as well because the industry is so intricately intertwined, Steve Rattner, the first head of Obama's auto task force, said at a recent Center for American Progress discussion on the auto bailout.
The Bush administration gave GM and Chrysler $25 billion to keep operating into early 2009, but then the new president was faced with a huge decision.
He could rush GM and Chrysler through a quick government-supervised bankruptcy and give them the cash to keep operating.
Or he could follow the polls that showed deep public opposition to yet another government bailout and let GM and Chrysler go through the regular bankruptcy process – which, given the shortage of private financing at the time, could have resulted in the firms' being liquidated.
At the time, Romney stood strong in opposition to a bailout.
"Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself," wrote Romney, the son of a former American Motors CEO, at the time in the New York Times. "With it, the automakers will stay the course – the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority and never-ending job losses. Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check."
But Obama decided to write a check – for $55 billion. And he's glad he did.
"Now, when Gov. Romney said we should let Detroit go bankrupt, I said, we're going to bet on American workers and the American auto industry, and it's come surging back," Obama said in last week's presidential debate.
Indeed it has. Thanks to growth in Asia and successful new offerings such as the Cruze, GM has returned to profitability, as has Chrysler, while Ford has reported annual profits for three years in a row.
That success has echoed throughout the industry.
9,600 jobs since 2009
In metro Buffalo, for example, GM has announced a $425 million investment at its Tonawanda Engine Plant that could grow its employment by about 400 people, to 1,400, by 2014. Meanwhile, Ford is investing $136 million in its Hamburg stamping plant, which employs 650, a move that's expected to boost employment there as well.
And in Ohio, where one in eight jobs is tied to the auto industry, things look especially bright. The auto industry has added 9,600 jobs in Ohio since June 2009 – a 14.7 increase, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the state unemployment rate is nearly a full percentage point lower than the nationwide rate.
UAW members at the GM Lordstown plant thank President Obama for it all.
"If it weren't for Obama, I wouldn't have my job," said Jennifer Harker, 40, of North Jackson.
"We owe everything to Barack Obama," said Bill Bowers, 67, chairman of the UAW retirees at Lordstown.
Sandy Kihm of Lordstown, 56, agreed, adding: "If he hadn't done this, all of Ohio would have collapsed."
It all adds up to a politically powerful argument for Obama's re-election in this auto-dependent state, said William Angel, a political science professor at Ohio State University at Lima.
"It undermines the Republican argument that the government can't do anything to help the economy," Angel said.
Catering to the UAW
The trouble is, in helping the economy, the auto bailout especially helped members of the United Auto Workers.
UAW retirees got their full pensions guaranteed, while salaried retirees from Delphi, a onetime GM spinoff that had been in bankruptcy for years before the financial crisis, lost 30 to 70 percent of their pensions, along with their health benefits.
What's more, longtime UAW workers didn't have to take a pay cut under the bailout, even though such concessions are common at bankrupt companies.
The bailout would have cost $26.5 billion less if the UAW hadn't received that special treatment, according to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that says the $23 billion loss taxpayers can expect from the bailout is due to the union's end of the deal.
How and why all this happened remains a mystery that three congressional committees and the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program are trying to unravel.
To hear Rattner, the former auto czar, tell it, GM had no choice but to treat the union rank-and-file well, even though it cut wages for new unionized hires and retirement benefits for the Delphi retirees.
Rattner said the auto bailout had to be completed quickly or the uncertainty hovering over the industry would have further damaged U.S. auto sales and made the problem even harder to solve.
"So did we give the union workers more than they would have gotten in case of liquidation? Of course we did," Rattner said. "We needed them to come to work."
One big question lingers, though: Did the UAW get special treatment because of political pressure from the Obama administration?
'Thrown to the wolves'
Three former leaders of Obama's Auto Task Force told a congressional committee this summer that no, they did not pressure GM into favoring the unionized workers.
But only at the hearing did the Auto Task Force members agree to be interviewed by the inspector general who is investigating the issue, who suspects something fishy.
The inspector general "believes that the Auto Task Force played a role in the pension decision," Inspector General Christy Romero said in a May letter to Congress.
In light of all that, and their own experiences, many salaried retirees of Delphi have reached the same conclusion.
They believe the Obama administration lavished benefits on the UAW, a union with nearly a million active and retired members and a long tradition of activism on Democratic campaigns.
"We were thrown to the wolves," said Mary Miller, 61, a Delphi retiree from Dayton. "It was a stunning abuse of power."
Five Delphi retirees interviewed for this story all said they would be voting for Mitt Romney.
"I don't think Obama is a leader who knows what he's doing," said Tom Green, 62, a Delphi retiree from Springboro, Ohio, who calls the auto bailout "cronyism at its best."
Green said he's had to go back to work because of the pension cut, and Roy Smith of Dayton said he's "blown through" his 401(k) for the same reason.
"I did vote for Obama four years ago," said Smith, 64. "I will not vote for him this year because of how he's treated us."
Rose said other salaried Delphi retirees, including some who earned less than union wages, have lost their homes. He echoed the Heritage Foundation report that called the deal "a UAW bailout" rather than an auto bailout.
"That's the trouble with the government getting involved in this way," said James Sherk, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who co-wrote its study on the bailout. "It so naturally lends itself to political interference."
Bailout could be edge
For Obama, the auto bailout also lends itself to political strength, at least here in Ohio.
Angel, the professor from Lima, and others think it may be one reason why Obama has maintained a lead in polls here even while his national standing has slipped.
And Obama's strength in Ohio couldn't be more important.
"If he can still win there, he'll likely win the election," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, which showed Obama with a 5 point lead last week.
Ohio is a remarkably reliable bellwether; it has sided with the winner in 26 of the last 28 elections.
And like the nation itself, Ohio now finds itself deeply divided. For proof, just listen to Carl Peterson and Charles Schumacher.
"Mitt Romney is for the high-class people," said Carl Peterson, 32, a mechanical design engineer in Columbus who is originally from Buffalo. "He'd put business before the country."
Meanwhile, Schumacher, an 84-year-old Amherst native and resident of Hilliard, Ohio, said of Obama: "The guy's a Marxist. ... I despise the creep."
Those passions carry over to the auto bailout, too.
"It was so important for Ohio," said Doug Croom, 37, a Buffalo native who's now an auto worker in Columbus. "So many people are working because of it."
Most, if not all, independent experts said the government was the financier of last resort in the auto bailout. But Jack Lyons, an 83-year-old Columbus resident whose son Peter lives in East Aurora, disagreed.
"As a taxpayer, I object to this," Lyons said. "I think the banks could have accomplished the same thing. But Obama wanted to help the union."
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Although nearly all cholesterol in the central nervous system is locally synthesized, peripheral cholesterol is suspected of playing a role in cerebral amyloid deposition and contributing to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Several lines of evidence point to serum cholesterol's culpability. First, epidemiological studies have found parallels between atherogenic risk factors for cardiac disease and clinically diagnosed AD. Second, observational studies indicate that statin use is associated with reduced odds of AD. Third, genetic studies have shown that a genetic allele for APOE, the primary transporter of cholesterol in the brain, is associated with earlier and higher deposition of amyloid.
Following up on these clues, scientists from University of California, Davis (UC-Davis), the University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley), and the University of Southern California investigated whether there is an in vivo association between serum lipids and cerebral amyloid deposition. They found that elevated cerebral amyloid level was associated with cholesterol fractions in a pattern analogous to that found in coronary artery disease.
This finding was reported December 30 in JAMA Neurology, in a paper entitled "Associations between Serum Cholesterol Levels and Cerebral Amyloidosis." The paper described how the scientists evaluated 74 diverse male and female individuals 70 years and older who were recruited from California stroke clinics, support groups, senior facilities, and the UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center. The study's participants included three individuals with mild dementia, 33 who were cognitively normal, and 38 who had mild cognitive impairment.
The participants' amyloid levels were obtained using a tracer that binds with amyloid plaques and imaging their brains using PET scans. Higher fasting levels of LDL and lower levels of HDL both were associated with greater brain amyloid—a first-time finding linking cholesterol fractions in the blood and amyloid deposition in the brain.
Charles DeCarli, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center and an author of the study, said it is a wake-up call that, just as people can influence their late-life brain health by limiting vascular brain injury through controlling their blood pressure, the same is true of getting a handle on their serum cholesterol levels.
"If you have an LDL above 100 or an HDL that is less than 40, even if you're taking a statin drug, you want to make sure that you are getting those numbers into alignment," DeCarli said. "You have to get the HDL up and the LDL down."
Recent guidelines devised by institutions dedicated to cardiac health have suggested abandoning guidelines for LDL targets. This suggestion may be an instance in which the adage that "what's good for the heart is good for the brain" does not apply, said Bruce Reed, lead study author and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center.
Besides raising the possibility that people receiving cholesterol treatment should continue it regardless of their cardiac status, if they are developing memory loss, the study "also suggests a method of lowering amyloid levels in people who are middle aged, when such build-up is just starting," added Dr. Reed. "If modifying cholesterol levels in the brain early in life turns out to reduce amyloid deposits late in life, we could potentially make a significant difference in reducing the prevalence of Alzheimer's, a goal of an enormous amount of research and drug development effort."
Although the researchers did not study the mechanism for how cholesterol promotes amyloid deposits, they did note that such considerations "must account for the fact that essentially all central nervous system cholesterol is locally synthesized and that there is minimal exchange of HDL-C particles and essentially no exchange of LDL-C and very low density lipoprotein cholesterol-C particles across the intact blood-brain barrier."
Serum cholesterol levels, speculated the authors, may be related to or interact with chemical species that can both efficiently traverse the blood-brain barrier and also influence amyloidosis. Alternatively, "systemic hyperlipidemia may damage the blood-brain barrier via inflammatory and other mechanisms, with consequent leakage of serum cholesterol, inflammatory cytokines, and other amyloidogenic factors."
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In its inaugural season of competition the Stetson lacrosse team enjoyed a number of successes on and off the field in 2013. The Hatters won their first game ever in a 19-7 home victory over Kennesaw State on Apr. 14, they went 2-2 in Atlantic Sun Conference play, and the program reached the conference semifinals in its first year of existence.
With 16 letter-winners returning, 11 of 12 starters back from a year ago, and a crop of 11 newcomers, the 2014 version of the Stetson lacrosse team is prepared to take big strides in the development of the program.
"The experience of that first year for the coaching staff helped us work out many kinks with logistics, the processes in place here at Stetson, and to get a feel for what works and what doesn't work for our program," second-year head coach Nicole Moore said. "This year we have more insight to help us prepare our student-athletes for success.
"Every year holds its unique set of challenges, and that is what can make each individual year special and memorable with the right mindset," Moore went on to say. "We are building the mindset of our team to see challenges as opportunities for growth and achievement of excellence."
The 2013 season provided many challenges for the first-year program that started the year with 13 straight losses, but the Hatters excelled during A-Sun play, winning their final two games to earn the third seed in the conference tournament.
A number of Stetson's student-athletes earned individual accolades for their efforts as well. Five returning sophomores – Maylis Broderick, Caili Guilday, Danielle Horgan, Paige Levesque, and Mary Kate O'Sullivan – were named to the A-Sun All-Freshman Team, Horgan and O'Sullivan earned All-Conference Second Team honors, and an additional sophomore was recently named to the Preseason All-Conference Team in Amanda Parker.
"Our returners were all part of building the foundation that we are continuing to build," Moore said. "We are learning every day, and that is something special. As a coaching staff, we are grateful for those team players who come to practice or to train, day in and day out, ready to learn, ready to compete, and ready to be great teammates. It makes this experience the worthwhile experience that coaching can be."
More important than successes on the field, though, for Moore, is what her student-athletes get out of the experience playing lacrosse and being a part of this program.
"I want this team to realize that this experience is more than just winning," she said. "Yes, we go hard every day to prepare to win, and we have that inner burning, desire, and intensity to win, but what is even more precious than a win is seeing the potential, the growth, the goodness, and the ability in themselves and in their teammates. I want for them to put themselves on the line for their teammates, to play for each other, to work for each other, to support one another, and at the end of the day, to know that the connections they have made with their teammates and coaches are special and will empower them in their future endeavors. When this is achieved, winning comes much more easily."
Stetson, which plays 12 of its 17 regular season games at home, begins its 2014 journey on Friday at 7:00 p.m., taking on the first of two [also Florida] nationally ranked opponents this year. The Hatters will play Syracuse at ESPN Wide World of Sports as a part of U.S. Lacrosse's Champion Challenge.
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As the boat churned against the waves on its way to Alcatraz, Nancy Hinrichs felt a familiar fear in her gut as she searched for her friend on a chilly day in September.
The bay crashed against the boat, a constant reminder of what she faced. She would have to jump in the salty, cold froth and swim 1.25 miles, the farthest she had swam in at least a decade, from the famed prison island back to San Francisco. This swim, the race site warned, was only for the experienced.
Hinrichs was experienced. At one time, she was an All-American college swimmer who loved competing in the 400 IM, a grueling event that even the great Michael Phelps loathed. She was a nationally ranked Masters swimmer. She was a successful coach at the University of Northern Colorado who produced 100 All-Americans.
But all that was before two life-changing brain injuries, an early retirement and a severe bout with depression.
She'd made more gains in the last two months than she had in years training for the swim and going to the Olympic trials with the Loveland Swim Club.
Still, that familiar fear sat in her gut as she stared into the water.
In that former life, the one Hinrichs remembers, like the way grandparents search through a decaying photo album, she was a meticulous coach who kept detailed records of her workouts. The organization was comforting. It was who she was. When she was 9, she went around her neighborhood and ran her own Easter egg hunt. The next year, she did it again, with a plan on how the eggs would be colored.
When the timing clock, as big as some picnic tables, fell and pinned her head on the UNC bleachers — she believes it was in 2002 — she lost that ability to organize. Doctors called it a loss of her "executive skills." To her, it felt like losing a twin. Life was an uncertainty. That uncertainty terrified Hinrichs.
"It was like belonging to a club, and I was the only member," Hinrichs said, "or like being in a dark room, only you couldn't find the doorway to lead you out."
She shivered against the air. It was 59 degrees. The water promised to be colder.
Hinrichs found Ann Sparrey, her friend and former teammate, which comforted her for a second before she lined up on a small boat deck. A voice yelled at her to jump, startling her into a series of gasps.
She did jump, but the feeling of accomplishment lasted seconds before the froth rushed down her throat, making her throw up. Her wetsuit was suffocating her. The cold current caught her and began to sweep her away like a butterfly in a windstorm. And several thoughts bombed her damaged brain.
This is insane! This is horrible! You need to be committed! You sure overestimated yourself! You need to focus!
And then there was one more, a small but persistent comfort among all the yelling.
I NEED this.
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After that timing clock fell on her head a decade ago, Hinrichs found it almost impossible to function in the present. So she coached in the past. Hinrichs kept such detailed records of her past workouts at UNC that she could copy them.
To survive, she had some tricks. She leaned hard on her true coaching gift, an uncanny ability to tweak a stroke. Friends and a new assistant coach organized trips, meets and schedules. Richard Hess, who now coaches the city's Masters classes, helped her recruit by watching meets and telling her who to call.
When some quietly suggested she retire, she held on to coaching even tighter. The water wasn't just a livelihood. It was her life.
Her father was a Navy frogman who took his daughter swimming when she was 2. When she was 5, she wore a scuba tank. On a whim, when she was 12, a coach asked her to swim the length of the pool. She swam it underwater. Three years later, she was coaching 8-year-olds.
She also loved gymnastics, and she went to Southern Illinois to compete. But she felt much closer to her swim teammates, bonding with them in relays and meets. She went to Western Illinois, earned a scholarship on the swim team, went to nationals and coached there after her career, eventually being named to the school's athletic hall of fame.
She kept that tight grip on coaching for years until one morning, when she slipped on the pool deck and hit the back of her head. UNC placed her on medical leave in 2008. When she talks about it now, she says, simply, "It was time for me to go." At the time, she didn't know how to let go.
She felt empty, and that emptiness swirled into a black hole. Coaching was even more than her life. It was her identity. She faced the same kind of crisis many professional athletes go through once they retire — she used to be around the water all the time, now doctors told her to stay away from it, in case she fell in and drowned. She was once a gymnast who could walk across a bar no thicker than her foot. Now she couldn't reach across a church aisle to hold a parishioner's hand without losing her balance. Doctors compared her brain with one rattled by Alzheimer's. An attorney, in an attempt to be helpful, suggested she could work at Walmart sweeping floors.
At home, away from her swim team, she felt severe anxiety, suffered from seizures and, most of all, felt guilty over letting her swimmers down.
"I sobbed every day," Hinrichs said.
But thanks to medication, a little white dog, an Internet chat room and an old coaching friend, she began to find her way back enough to entertain thoughts of swimming Alcatraz.
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Hinrichs stood outside the fence that surrounded Centennial Pool the summer after she was placed on leave. Many recognized her and invited her in, and she declined, following doctor's orders to stay away from water, even if she missed it terribly. Jim Nickell saw her, too.
Nickell respected Hinrichs' coaching ability and asked her aboard. Hinrichs explained her situation, and it didn't scare him off.
By then, things had gotten a little better. She discovered a brain injury chat room on the web, and for the first time in the years since that clock hit her, she felt as if others besides her husband, Rich, or her two sons understood her. She was no longer the only member of a club.
"I honestly felt like I had gone crazy," she said, "but here were these people telling me that what I was going through was normal, or at least normal for us."
A little white dog she named Gus made himself into an unlikely therapy dog. She adopted him from one of her swimmers just a couple of months before her second injury by the pool. He waited by her side as she was having a seizure and would crawl into her lap when she was paralyzed by anxiety. All she had to do was hold him tight, maybe burrow her face in his soft, curly fur, and the fear dissipated. She took him everywhere. When she rode her bike, he sat in the front basket. When she ran errands, he rode in a backpack. Even today, he only gets a break at a dog park in Evans, where he plays with one eye on Hinrichs.
"There was no training," she said. "He just sort of did all that."
Nickell's offer to Hinrichs to help coach his young swimmers in the Loveland Swim Club was a strange job for a former collegiate coach with dozens of conference titles, but it was perfect for her. All she had to do was help swimmers with their strokes.
Brain injuries are notorious for stealing some skills and leaving others intact. Hinrichs, in many ways, seems fine, with the only hints being a slight lisp, a giant pupil in one eye and the fact that she misplaces things more than normal.
Her ability to fix a stroke was, Hinrichs said, a gift from God, one that the devil apparently couldn't disrupt. She watches as many as 150 kids in any given week, in the afternoons, and picks apart their strokes. She doesn't have to plan workouts or worry about meets.
"I've coached with some of the best in the world, and she's one of the very best," Nickell said. "She knows what her swimmers are hearing and not hearing and changes what she's telling them so they will understand. The words are dependent on every kid. It's actually staggering."
Nickell does not notice her brain injury, and neither do the kids, but he does need to monitor her, he said. When she needs a day off, he gives it to her.
"She's such a valuable asset that she can do exactly what she wants," he said.
Hinrichs now keeps text messages from the other swimmers sending their thanks. After Nickell brought her to the Olympic trials this summer to keep his swimmers' strokes smooth, she was so proud she put the designation on her license plate.
"It's so nice to feel wanted," Hinrichs said.
Her husband, Rich, remains so angry about the way she was treated at UNC that he didn't want to talk for this story, even when he remains proud of his wife. It had to be uncomfortable for everyone. Hinrichs had been there almost 20 years and had great success, and yet everyone, including her, knew she wasn't the same because of a head injury that was difficult to understand. At the time, UNC senior associate athletic director Sherri Frye said the university was doing "what was best for Nancy at this time so that she can take better care of herself and get better." UNC officials declined to comment for this story.
Hinrichs understands how her husband feels. But as she said before, it was time for her to go. She has moved on.
"UNC is over," she said. "I'm in my happy place."
Doctors have cleared her to be around water, but she wouldn't listen to them anymore anyway.
"You can fall on a sidewalk," she said. "I've done that many times."
She laughed at that, but she wasn't kidding. So you can just imagine what her husband, her grown sons or even her friends thought when she said, at age 60 with a body wracked by injuries, that she wanted to swim 1.25 miles in rough water cold enough to numb the skin.
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Hinrichs didn't mind the doubts after she proposed swimming Alcatraz. She knew she had to lose weight, and she kept tripping herself into serious injuries.
In the last two years, she fractured her tailbone, tore the meniscus in her knee, tore the ligaments in both wrists and ruptured her Achilles tendon. The injuries were painful. Even worse, they were limiting. She felt 90.
She saw Ann Sparrey's plans to swim Alcatraz on Facebook, and something from the past called to her. It was the kind of kick-butt challenge an athlete enjoyed. Maybe she could be that again. Sparrey, an old college teammate, offered to handle all the planning. All Hinrichs would have to do is swim.
"I told myself I had to do it," Hinrichs said. "I had to get back to whatever normal was."
She was lucky she was a former swimmer. It's doubtful she would have the coordination to run even a Thanksgiving 5K. But there wasn't much danger of Hinrichs hurting herself in the water as long as she didn't drown.
So that's why she was swallowing buckets of seawater on Sept. 8, sprinting through a strong current and struggling to keep her head above water. There was another problem — she couldn't move.
A wetsuit protects swimmers from the cold and makes them buoyant in open water, but to Hinrichs, the thick layer of rubber wasn't an extra layer of skin. It was a cage. It would have to go.
She tapped a woman on the shoulder as she swam by and asked for help. The woman pulled and stretched, and together they yanked off the suit. With only a thin suit to shield her, the cold water stung. But Hinrichs felt free. Now all she needed was a little mental push.
She found it in her father, the former Navy frogman. He was once lost at sea for 11 hours. He survived. If he could do that, she could do this.
She waved off an official on a Jet Ski who saw her struggling. She would finish the swim.
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Sparrey finished her swim in less than an hour and looked for her teammate. Sparrey was glad to get out of the tough conditions herself. Then she searched the shore for Hinrichs. Where IS she?, Sparrey thought.
When she saw a woman emerge in a green, one-piece suit, with red skin, Sparrey took a good look, saw that it was Hinrichs, breathed a sigh and began laughing.
"We walked her up to the finish because she was tired," Sparrey said. "We asked her how she lost her wetsuit. That was pretty hilarious actually."
Event crews put Hinrichs in a sauna — Sparrey remembered being a little jealous of that — and minutes later, she emerged, thrilled with her accomplishment. When Hinrichs checked the results, she was even more excited. She didn't finish last out of the 861 who finished. More than 140 didn't finish.
Later they went out to hear Sparrey's son play in his band.
"We had a good time," Sparrey said. "I got an appreciation of everything she had gone through."
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For the first time in years, Hinrichs can keep up with the Masters swimmers in the morning workouts at the Greeley Recreation Center. She can't match all of the swimmers, or even most of them, but she can do the workouts with a group of two or three females.
She's proud of that. But now the open water of Alcatraz seems more appealing.
She doesn't have to do flip turns in the open water, and those still make her sick. Just a couple of weeks ago, she had to sit in her car for a half-hour before driving home after a Masters workout. This is progress. Those same turns used to make her puke. She also used to swim 1,000 yards at the most in a workout. Now she can swim 4,000.
"I can push again," she said. "I can TRAIN."
She's not the same person she was. But she has her identities back. She's an athlete again. She's a coach again.
Rosemary Fri, a longtime tennis coach, administrator and member of UNC's Hall of Fame, admired Hinrichs' coaching during their years together, and she was sad that the "darn head injury" robbed her of some of that ability and more time at UNC. Fri now enjoys visiting with Hinrichs at the dog park in Evans with other friends: They even celebrate their dogs' birthdays.
Fri said Hinrichs is in a good place now coaching strokes in Loveland, which is a good fit for her, and she's seen more of a change since she completed Alcatraz.
"It gave her her confidence back," Fri said. "Swimming was such a big part of her life. She was so limited at one point, but now I see her wanting to continue with her swimming and her fitness and her life."
Doctors have told her that her head injury may not get much better. But even though they compared it to Alzheimer's, her brain won't deteriorate as it would under that disease. She still has bad days. She will probably be on medication the rest of her life.
But that day in September, rather than give into the familiar fear and anxiety of what remains an uncertain world, she looked around. She saw a swimmer, waiting to go in after her, with a prosthetic leg. You can restrict yourself naturally, she thought to herself. Or you can set aside your limitations.
She looked out at a prison famous for keeping its occupants locked up for life. And then she jumped in the angry water that surrounded it and swam away.


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I'm not the crazy kind of environmentalist who burns down ski lodges because all the human activity stresses out the lynx, but I do believe that God gave us this beautiful earth to live on and we had better take care of it for future generations.
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If you come to our house, your toilet paper might be pre-unrolled for you. Just consider it "customer service" 2-year-old style. I would feel too guilty if I threw it out, and I don't have nearly enough patience to reroll it. I did when I only had one child, but now that the third is in that stage, forget it.
As the kids are getting older, they start to understand and ask questions, "Can we recycle this candy wrapper and get more candy?" or "What is glass made of?" So I know my green-lessons are sinking in, but we still have a long way to go.
Yesterday, my 4-year-old picked up a piece of gum at the park and said, "Can I recycle this in my mouth?"
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The Amherst Industrial Development Agency on Friday voted to impose a moratorium on all tax breaks for new senior housing projects until the agency can determine if there's still a need for them to encourage construction.
Saying it was important to provide clarity and consistency to developers, the board of directors voted 4-2 to stop approving breaks for new senior projects through the rest of the year, effective immediately. Town Supervisor Dr. Barry Weinstein and IDA board member Barbara S. Nuchereno voted against the moratorium.
The resolution called for the agency to review the need for more senior housing in the town, and to solicit input from municipalities, senior service providers and other government agencies, operators of existing housing projects, developers and the public about whether there is a need for more taxpayer support.
Weinstein cautioned that "a moratorium has to be very carefully crafted."
"We had a moratorium in 2006," he said. "We just had a $3 million judgment against us. Enough said."
Weinstein was referring to a lawsuit by developer William L. Huntress, who acquired a wetlands parcel in 1998 without knowing there was a 50-year moratorium on development of the land.
Huntress sued after the Town Board in 2006 reversed an earlier approval of his plan to put an office park on the property.
The IDA's action on the senior housing moratorium, following a recommendation of the board's three-member executive committee, comes in the wake of a study by the Regional Institute at the University at Buffalo, funded by the Amherst and Erie County IDAs.
The study found that fewer than 1 percent of senior citizens in the county move away because they can't find appropriate housing, contradicting a long-held notion that a lack of housing was driving residents away. That raised the question whether there is still a need for IDAs to support the development and construction of new senior housing throughout Erie County.
"There seems to be a lot of confusion on who actually lives in the new independent projects being built and proposed," said Michael Joseph, a developer whose Clover Management Co. has built 10 senior projects throughout Western New York, and is now surveying almost 1,500 residents who live in the type of projects Amherst is reconsidering.
"There is a misperception as to who these people are because the rents needed to make the projects work tend to be higher than the rents in older, existing apartment projects."
The vote also came a month after the board rejected an application for $1.3 million in property, sales and mortgage tax breaks by Bliss Construction of East Amherst, through MEL Investors LLC.
The developer wanted to build an $8.9 million project for 99 market-rate apartments for seniors, to be called Maple Road Senior Apartments, but critics on the IDA board questioned the need for taxpayer subsidies when rents would be $900 to $1,000 a month. Opponents also cited the UB findings, and the proposal was rejected by a 4-3 vote.
"We just can't entertain projects and then bring up these questions," said IDA board member Edward Stachura. "Based on last month's proposals, we have a number of questions and issues."
MEL in a letter to IDA Executive Director James Allen asked the board to reconsider, at least to authorize a mortgage tax exemption and a sales tax exemption on construction materials and equipment. The group said the tax breaks would reduce the overall project cost by $300,000 and make it more likely that a bank would provide financing at a low interest rate.
But the IDA's executive committee rejected the request before Friday's meeting, Allen said, because they didn't want to reopen an issue that the board had already ruled on, and didn't want to veer from the existing policy.
The discussion and vote by the Amherst IDA came even as its sister agency, the Amherst Development Corp., took action to maintain support for previously approved senior housing projects. The directors, who are the same for both agencies, unanimously:
• Approved a request by Beechwood Continuing Care to refinance a tax-exempt bond that the IDA issued on its behalf in 1999 for construction of the Asbury Point senior living community on 5.3 acres at 50 Stahl Road. The outstanding bonds, originally issued for $8.13 million, now total $6.18 million, and will be refinanced for no more than $6.5 million but at significantly lower interest rate. M&T is buying the bonds.
• Issued a "collateral" mortgage to Weinberg Campus on North Forest Road to supplement the tax-exempt bond that was issued by the IDA in 2010. That mortgage will then be assigned to M&T, which holds the bonds but now wants some extra financial assurance that it will be paid because of "technical defaults" by Weinberg on the bonds.
The board also adopted the local labor policy that had previously been approved by the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. That policy is designed to ensure that tax breaks and other public subsidies help local workers during construction of IDA-supported projects through local hiring standards.
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