Category: General

Veterans Honored Spontaneously

For all the vets who have made freedom possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FgecqttxoQg

And, this from a teacher, who I would bet would not be among the crowd of supporters…A school principal in Brooklyn, N.Y., is feeling the heat after banning the Lee Greenwood song “God Bless the USA” from a kindergarten graduation cermony, according to a report from the Huffington Post.
Instead, Greta Hawkins, who is a Jehovah’s Witness, will allow the popular Justin Bieber song “Baby” during the commencement on June 20. She has received racist hate mail in response to her decision.   Any wonder?

 

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Rogue Lightning Strike Kills TBF Angler

GW:  Lightning:  If you can hear thunder, you are already in danger!  Nothing’s worth it, boys!

Ponca City, OK – TBF mourns the loss of division championship angler, Lorenzo Magdaleno, 51, from Lake Placid, Fl. He was a veteran angler and a member of the Florida Bass Federation and the Homestead Hawg Hunters club for more than a decade. Magdaleno was pronounced dead by Florida officials on Friday, June 8, after a bolt of lightning apparently struck Magdaleno and his boat partner, Mike Hardin, from Tennessee while they fishing shortly after noon prior to the final day weigh-in of the TBF Southern Division Championship on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Read more

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Motor-less Mower Swings into Action

By Glen Wunderlich

Before the invention of the internal combustion engine, and even before horse-drawn farming equipment, crops still had to be cut to be harvested.  And, the tool of choice was the human-powered sythe.  My introduction to the strange instrument came some 36 years ago in a remote area of West Virginia, where doing things the old fashioned way was still the only way.  Paw Paw, my wife’s grandfather became my personal trainer. Read more

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Build Your Own Canoe In Two Days At CMM

Your chance is NOW to build a 16-foot wooden canoe! The Calvert Marine Museum and Patuxent Small Craft Guild are scheduling requests for the “Build a Boat by Appointment” program. Invite your family and friends to join in the fun and choose two consecutive Saturdays or any two days of your choice. Hours of class are 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. No experience necessary. Read more

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