| Wardle’s bicycle shop closes after 74 years
With $300 in savings, Bob and Lois Wardle changed the lives of hundreds of children. Since 1933, parents have been taking their kids to Wardle's Bike Shop and many children's eyes were brightened on Christmas morning by the sight of a Schwinn bicycle from the store under the tree. Wardle's bicycle shop closes after 74 years By Carol Ann Gregg Allied News With $300 in savings, Bob and Lois Wardle changed the lives of hundreds of children. Since 1933, parents have been taking their kids to Wardle's Bike Shop and many children's eyes were brightened on Christmas morning by the sight of a Schwinn bicycle from the store under the tree. "I never realized that everyone came here," Gay Griffin said of her family's shop on South Center Street in Grove City. For several weeks she has heard all the stories about what her father's bike shop and her mom's toys meant to local people.
Tour of California notebook: Riders hit Sausalito early for ...
All that was missing at the Tour of California team presentation and gala in Sausalito on Friday was an "Entertainment Tonight" crew to interview the stars and Joan Rivers to critique what they were wearing. The 136 riders from 17 professional cycling teams were given the Hollywood-like red-carpet treatment, literally, when they arrived for the gala beneath a giant tent erected off Spinnaker Drive. After competing in a prologue in Palo Alto on Sunday, the world-class cyclists will kick off on Monday morning in downtown Sausalito to begin the first stage of the seven-stage, 650-mile race. The Friday night "black tie and spandex" gala included a hanging bicycle museum above the crowd. It featured a bicycle built for five, an English Ordinary and a 1941 Schwinn Excelsior used in the first series of mountain bike races in Marin.
Writing his future
Luke, their middle child, is healthy, but when their 10-year-old daughter Kennan was 4, Tracey recalls clearly the day she saw her exhibiting the telltale signs of Friedreich's Ataxia."It never entered our minds that we would have another child with it," Tracey said. "They were fine and then all of a sudden they weren't. It just shifts your whole world."Tracey said that Andrew and Kennan both have heart issues and tire easily. During their summer vacation last year, it was the first time the family took two wheelchairs along because both children tire easily.Tim Boynton is the senior pastor at Kingsburg's Evangelical Covenant Church and Tracey is involved with many ministries through the church. She also recently began substitute teaching.Tracey said that the family takes each day as it comes.
'Raulistas' Expected to Back Raul Castro
Other generals and colonels have run fishing, transportation and Habanos S.A., which works with a European firm to market Cuban cigars abroad.
Ramiro Valdes, 75, one of only three men honored with the title of Commander of the Revolution, for years operated a key company importing computers and other electronics, until Raul named him communications minister shortly after Fidel fell ill.
The armed forces also manage a chain of hundreds of small consumer goods stores and a tourism company that runs more than 30 hotels, with subsidiaries that provide domestic tourist travel by air and land.
Generals who once served as battlefield commanders have become leaders of a new military entrepreneurial class, with personal stakes in Cuba's future.
"Second- and third-tier officials have every incentive to stand together, if only as the best strategy for preserving their equities," Latell wrote.
Soldiers at Walter Reed Deserve Better
So private citizens are not only giving soldiers the gear they need to fight this war — everything from body armor to parts for helicopters — they are now helping mend and care for those same soldiers, because the government cannot or will not. Come on; get angry! Rant and throw things; this really is worth turning away from blondes and lawyers on TV. On February 21, when asked at a press conference if anyone was being fired for this mess, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army said, "No." Well, "no" means that this travesty is guaranteed to happen again and again. We cannot win wars by treating our soldiers like this, and we might deserve to lose if you — yeah, you reading this — do not care enough to do something. We are a great nation, but we are diminished by this.
MacMillan Wharf: Chapter Twenty-Three
Annie was at the helm of the Whale Center rescue boat as they rounded the tip of Provincetown. She looked to her left and saw the old weather-beaten Coast Guard Station near Race Point Beach. This was nearly the exact spot where yesterday she and Juicy hauled Linda’s body onto the deck of the Explorer. She looked around the boat. Bruce sat next to her, holding his arm in the sling that Annie fashioned out of a T-shirt. Juicy leaned against the stern, staring out at the water. She wondered if he, too, was thinking about what happened. For a moment, their eyes met. From the sad look he gave, she knew instantly that he was. All three were silent as the boat skipped over the waves. When they were off shore of Herring Cove Beach, the large white hull of the Explorer came into view about a mile away.
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