| Jupiter middle schooler's fund-raising sets pace for Saturday race
Every morning before he goes to school, 12-year-old Jupiter resident Joey Dias takes a walk to prepare for Saturday's For the Love of Children 5K walk/run sponsored by the Children's Home Society of Florida at Carlin Park. "When my Mom and I first walked in the race, wheelchairs were passing us so we said we needed to prepare," he said. .
Operation Baldy Freedom
Twenty-one soldiers who had been severely wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars left the Wood River Valley last week feeling less burdened by their injuries. Accompanied by family members, the soldiers spent five days with the Wood River Ability Program and with Sun Valley Adaptive Sports learning to ski on Bald Mountain. They were taught by WRAP President Marc Mast and about a dozen instructors from the Sun Valley Ski and Snowboard School. Seven of the 14 soldiers in WRAP's program were either paralyzed below the waist or had had one or both legs amputated. One was missing an arm, and six had been badly burned. Some, primarily the burn victims, were able to ski standing up, while others used sit skis or mono skis and outriggers. The soldiers had only recently been treated at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, and for many, the ski trip was their first big physical challenge since they had been wounded.
Spay/neuter clinic gets great response
From left, Katie Dineen of the Peninsula Humane Society, local volunteers Frances Plunkett and Kerry Lovvorn, and Allie Span and Scott Alsteen of the Red Bluff Animal Shelter work Friday at a mobile spay and neuter clinic in Rancho Tehama. </Caption> .
Final Afterthought
Richard Paris, captain of the Ethan Allen tour boat which sank in Lake George in October, 2005, killing 20 of the 47 passengers aboard, had retorted the tragedy was an act of God.
In other words, an accident which could not be avoided.
I beg to differ.
An act of God?-an accident? That is the excuse many people use as a result of a tragedy. An act of God, or an accident as the definition is explained, is when a rock falls from space, burning from the friction of the atmosphere and penetrates my roof. Nobody can "prevent" it and nobody has "control" of the action that takes place when the rock penetrates my roof. When the human factor is involved in an incident, there is no such thing as an act of God or an accident. The human factor has forethought for prevention and control.
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