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Monday, February 08, 2010

WHAT CONSTITUTES A PERFECT AFTERNOON…..?

I must have had mine last week—Gail and Laura headed downtown to do some shopping, and to spruce up Leslie’s new office. Sophia came over for her regular “date” from 1:00 to 5:00 at Grandmama and Papa’s house. She and I did some imaginative play in the house….
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Then we went outside for a while….
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Posted by Earl on 02/08 at 12:03 AM
Family Matters •

Sunday, February 07, 2010

CHRISTY OBIE-BARRETT—A REAL OREGON HERO!

Brian Obie, Eugene’s mayor in the late 1980s, says his precocious daughter, who had just one brother, planned on a big family from the time she was 5 or 6.

“I didn’t think she was serious,“ he says.

She was serious…..
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Even before she married,
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she says she was clear about her goal. She wanted 12 children, some adopted….

Posted by Earl on 02/07 at 11:10 PM
Miscellany • HEROES •

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

TELL YOUR KIDS ABOUT HAROLD LEZZENI - A MAN OF COURAGE AND VISION…AND REAL GRIT

Harold Lezzeni was 81 years old when the house he was born in was wrecked by the landslide - there were four feet of mud that cascaded down the hill behind his place and clean through the living area of the house, sweeping away his library, his photographs, his furniture, and everything.
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What could he do? He was 81…his insurance didn’t cover anything due to “floods”, which included the rainstorm that brought the mud. The county, on whose land the mudslide originated, allowed him to spend hundreds of hours over two years compiling the damage figures, and then informed him that they were immune from his claim, so long as no bodily injury was involved. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gave him $6,000.00.
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He started digging…..read the REST OF THE STORY HERE, along with more photographs of the house.
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Hat Tip: BOOKWORM

Posted by Earl on 01/20 at 12:05 AM
Miscellany • COURAGE AWARDS •

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE MEN LIKE DETROIT’S MAYOR—DAVE BING

I remember listening to Dave Bing play ball on the radio….I may have seen Dave Bing on the basketball court. I remember reading about Dave Bing in my sports magazines, and admiring his skill….but I didn’t admire him nearly as much back then, and certainly for nothing as important, as I do today.
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Why did Dave Bing run for mayor of Detroit? Cassaundra says simply, “He felt he had to.“....Yes, people know Detroit is in bad shape ... but what do they really know? Do they know that the graduation rate for African-Americans in the Detroit Public School district is 20%? Do they know that the unemployment rate in the city was recently measured at 27%—and that by some estimates the actual number may be 20 to 25 percentage points higher? Do they know that the turnout in the May 5 special election to replace Kilpatrick, in which Bing first won the mayoralty, was only 15%?

Then there is the city’s deficit, estimated to be approximately $325 million. And the city’s median income, which in 2008 was $28,730—the lowest of any major city in the country.

Are you having fun yet, Mr. Mayor?

Dave Bing is a multi-millionaire businessman and an ex-All Star basketball player.
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Dave Bing is 67 years old…...

Posted by Earl on 01/19 at 11:38 PM
Miscellany • HEROES • Politics • Domestic •

Saturday, January 09, 2010

PLAYING TOURIST IN MOMBASA

As you remember, we arrived in HISTORIC MOMBASA by TRAIN FROM NAIROBI, disembarking about 9:00 a.m. This is East Africa’s busiest port
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an ancient town built on an island that has been significant for for over 400 yearsSIGNIFICANT FOR OVER 400 YEARS, and counting. You can follow our adventures on THIS MAP FROM GOOGLE
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After collecting our luggage (thankful, as always, for wheeled bags) we headed up Haile Selassie Blvd, the main street of town.
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Posted by Earl on 01/09 at 05:14 PM
2009 SUMMER TRIP - Kenya, England, Paris • MOMBASA •

Thursday, January 07, 2010

YOU, TOO CAN RELIVE THE DITCHING OF US AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1549

Almost a full year ago, a former fighter pilot DITCHED THE PASSENGER JET he was flying in the Hudson River, without the loss of a single life.
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Now, you can re-enact this historic (and totally unprecedented - I mean, no one DIED? Are you kidding?) water landing…...from Captain Sullenberger’s seat! I really do wish Dad had lived to see this - he would have enjoyed it immensely!

Posted by Earl on 01/07 at 06:18 PM
Miscellany • HEROES •

DELBERT E. HAHN, RIP

Delbert E. Hahn received
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a citation for a Purple Heart issued in 1945; and a certificate for a Bronze Star medal “for heroism in ground combat in the vicinity of Normandy, France ... June 1944.“

He was buried, with his wife, on December 16, 2009 in the Florida National Cemetery
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“Let us open the gates of the Lord,“ said a military chaplain, who led the procession of strangers into the gazebo. “Let us remember,“ said the chaplain, “none of us lives only unto himself.“

Among the 56 people at the graveside service, there were exactly ZERO relatives or loved ones….not even any friends. But two very important people WERE there….
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Mike Colt, 19, and his girlfriend, Carol Sturgell, 18, had driven more than an hour from their Tampa homes last month to be at Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell.
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They weren’t really sure why they had come. They just knew they had to be here.

Why? To find that out, you’re going to have to go to Blackfive and READ THE WHOLE THING

Posted by Earl on 01/07 at 04:53 PM
Miscellany • HEROES •

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