RAF Montana Liaison Scott Newpower organized volunteer pilots to fly a group of veterans into Meadow Creek (0S1) August 16-18. The Montana Vet Program approached Montana Pilots Association to ask for the lift. Under the sponsorship of Eagle Mount this Great Falls-based group provides veteran-led adventures to promote healing through camaraderie and physical activity. Military vets of all ages experience the backcountry, or what they say, “getting on by getting out.” Part of the group’s tradition is to carry the “pig egg”, a 75-pound satchel weighed down by the 6,839 dogtags of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. See https://www.eaglemount.net/mt-vet-program/
The MPA agreed to fly a group from Seeley Lake into Meadow Creek on Aug 16 and back out Aug 18. Scott — MPA Immediate Past President — organized volunteer pilots with aircraft. Scott, RAF members Mike Lindemer and Wade Cebulski — MT Aeronautics Airport/Airways Bureau Chief — flew five veterans in, where they hiked and explored the South Fork’s Wild and Scenic environment. The vets managed to get quite a bit of maintenance work done, as well. They mowed, painted the circle marker, the windsock posts, and stacked firewood that volunteers had cut from the fire-killed trees around the campground area.
Saturday morning, August 18, volunteer pilots Jeremy Goulet from MT Aeronautics, Scott and Mike Lindemer were joined by RAF members Dallas Deardorff and Carmine Mowbray at Meadow Creek to pick up the fellows and return them to Seeley Lake.
“This would have been a helluva hike getting in and out for a ‘blind’ guy like me,” one of the veterans said. In spite of his visual impairment, he had a great time.
Nick Burchill was banned for life from the property after 40 sea gulls, attracted by spicy pepperoni, decimated his hotel room.
The Fairmont Empress in Victoria, Canada. Burchill was banned for life after an incident with spicy pepperoni and 40 sea gulls decimated his hotel room. (Credit from left: Andrew Malone, Bobak Ha’Eri, Jean Beaufort)
He’d carted a suitcase full of spicy pepperoni across Canada as a gift for friends only to discover his hotel, the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, British Columbia, had no in-room refrigerators. So he did the only reasonable thing he could think of: he opened a window, laid out the meat and then decided to go for a five-hour walk. When he returned he found “an explosion;” 40 sea gulls had invaded his room and saliva, feces, feather and pepperoni was everywhere, according to the New York Times.
“The shocking thing for me was the saliva,” Burchill wrote later in a letter to the hotel. “I didn’t know that sea gulls drooled. The slime was covering everything. They were whipping it up into the air. It was like a tornado.”
But the ordeal didn’t end there. Burchill tried to handle the situation himself, chasing out the gulls by throwing a shoe and wrapping one bird in a towel and then throwing the bundled-up bird out the window. Both the shoe and the gull landed on a line-up of tourists waiting for high tea outside the hotel. Then, somehow, Burchill knocked out the power in his room when his hairdryer fell into water.
Finally, he called a professional. When housekeeping arrived Burchill was at a loss how to explain the state of his room: “I can still remember the look on the lady’s face when she opened the door. I had absolutely no idea what to tell her, so I just said, ‘I’m sorry,’ and I went to dinner.” Fairmont banned him for life.
But, proving true the old adage that time heals all wounds, Burchill decided to request forgiveness nearly 20 years later and, miraculously, Fairmont accepted the apology and lifted the ban.
The hotel’s general manager Indu Brar phoned Burchill to deliver the news laughing. “I have to say, it absolutely made our week,” she told the Times. [NYT] — Erin Hudson
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Crimson Light is a psychological thriller about two orphan sisters who are outcasts in their new town. Everything turns on its head when a mysterious man appears and the townspeople all turn up dead.
What a great game to play, after more than one failed recording (all of my own fault) I almost gave up playing, but I am so glad I didn’t as this was so much fun when I really got into it. Playing as Alexis in a robot filled world you decide to go on a search for the mystical human, switching a story up from perhaps playing as a human searching for some other mythical creature.
Museum Day Live! The Taubman will feature performances and interactive activities. Mill Mountain Theater will join us at 11:30am and Opera Roanoke at 2pm.
October 16, 2018 by Jerry Roberts, posted in ART ~ FILM ~ POP CULTURE, VICIOUS RUMORS ~ LIES & OPINIONS	
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