| Disability rules to affect foreign cruises
A proposed set of regulations based on the Americans with Disabilities Act would affect all U.S. cruise ships and all foreign cruise ships at U.S. docks. The proposal is on hold pending public comment but the government should finalize it later this year. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that the federal government's proposed rules would ban discriminatory practices aboard such vessels and would likely force all cruise ships docked in U.S. ports to become more accessible to the handicapped. International Council of Cruise Lines exec Ted Thompson said the implications of the proposal would not fully be known until any new ship design guidelines are revealed. It is difficult to analyze the impact of these regulations until we know more regarding the content of the guidelines, Thompson said.
Shelter, research facilities' on city agenda
RED BLUFF Tuesday night shapes up as having the potential for being a fairly long session for the City Council as it tackles a request for waiver of fees for a homeless shelter on Montgomery Road, and approval of zoning changes to give the city better control over future "research facilities" in its industrial zones. Another item of more than passing interest won't get any ink in the newspaper because it will be in closed session. Council will meet behind closed doors from 6:15 p.m. until the start of the regular meeting at 7 p.m. for conference with legal counsel over the lawsuit filed last year by then City Council member Larry Stevens against the city over the Americans With Disabilities Act. Before the council will be a request from the Poor And The Homeless to waive more than $69,000 in various city fees for the homeless shelter it wants to build.
Hoop dancers strut their stuff at Heard
Performing in the final round at this year's 17th-annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest at the Heard Museum in central Phoenix on Sunday, Waskwane raised her arms up and down, asking the audience to cheer. She was just about to finish her three-minute routine and needed to hear the crowd.
Waskwane was defending her world title in the youth division. .
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Former Marine Sgt. Ty Ziegler; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during the national anthem at the dedication ceremony. The highest-ranking administration official present Monday was Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson. .
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