By Barbara W. Russell
Steven White is an athlete and he competes in triathlons. For you “non-sport fans” a triathlon is a “multi-sport endurance event consisting of swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances” (Wikipedia). The key word there is “endurance”- these triathletes are in seriously good physical condition.
When I met White for [...]
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By Barbara W. Russell
As I waited in the Pooler-Bloomingdale Senior Citizens Center to interview Mary Facen, I didn’t know what to expect. Well, actually that’s not exactly true - I fully expected her to be a frail older woman with white hair, who would probably be using a walking cane or maybe even a wheelchair, [...]
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By Katie Turner
She has sung for audiences in Europe as well as the United States, and this summer she will go to Rome, Italy, to further progress her career as an opera singer.
Flaherty has been a quarter-finalist in the American Traditions singing competition, a semi-finalist in the Singer of the Year Competition in Shreveport, Louisiana, [...]
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On the day that Richard J. Tracey was born, his mother told him that the nurses in the hospital kidded her about his name. They assumed he would grow up being called Dick Tracey, reminding people of the famous comic strip detective of the same name. That’s what happened, and Tracey says that people still [...]
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Educators all across America know that for effective instruction to take place you must have order in your classroom. It stands to reason that for students to be able to listen and learn, the environment of their classroom must exhibit order as well as an air of intrigue. The programs that have been developed for [...]
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