WASHINGTON -- The administration plans to warn China that its weapons exports could bring punitive sanctions, and a debate continues within the government over whether the message is tough enough, according to senior administration officials.
In response to what Washington calls mounting evidence that Beijing is shipping missile technology to Pakistan, Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher will raise the issue when he meets with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen Sunday in Singapore, the officials said. The issue will be discussed in detail on the following two days in Beijing by Lynn E. Davis, undersecretary of state for international security affairs.
In May, despite what U.S. intelligence agencies described as compelling evidence that China had shipped parts for M-11 missiles to Pakistan, the administration renewed China's favored trade status, making it conditional on improvements in China's human rights record.
Since then, intelligence reports have led some senior arms experts to conclude that Pakistan has received all the components to assemble the missiles, senior officials said yesterday.
These officials also describe intelligence reports indicating that China has stepped up its cooperation on missile technology with Iran, which is trying to develop more sophisticated arms, and that China has shipped chemicals that could be used for weapons to Tehran.
But there is a deep split within the Clinton administration over whether Pakistan actually has missiles and whether the Chinese and Pakistani agencies involved should be punished with sanctions, as required under U.S. law. The sanctions would bar the government or U.S. companies from doing business with the agencies involved.
The Central Intelligence Agency, for example, has taken a very hard line, while senior Pentagon officials, including William J. Perry, deputy secretary of defense, say there is no firm evidence that China has shipped the missiles. The State Department is divided, although some officials close to Mr. Christopher have said that given the evidence, China should not be given the benefit of the doubt.
A Howard County man died early Saturday from injuries he suffered when the car in which he was a passenger ran off Jessup Road and overturned after striking a tree in the front yard of a house, Anne Arundel police reported.
Alvin C. Lewis Jr., 23, of the 8300 block of Barkwood Court in Jessup, Howard County, was driving a 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse west in the 2800 block of Jessup Road about 10:20 p.m. Friday when he lost control of the car, which landed on its roof, police said.
Bradley Eugene Lester, 28, of the 8200 block of Washington Blvd. in Jessup suffered multiple internal injuries and died shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003 Troutman shows third top steer By BRIAN SCHROCK, Daily American Staff Writer
Jonathan Adler says he has a missionary's zeal for great design, and perhaps to that end, the New York-based ceramicist and decorator is coming to Southern California to preach. Adler will appear Nov. 8 at Barnes & Noble in Santa Monica and Nov. 9 at Barnes & Noble in Newport Beach to celebrate the launch of two books: "Happy Chic: Colors" and "Happy Chic: Accessorizing. " Adler wrote them simultaneously, a process that he describes as "agonizing but with a great payoff, like childbirth," and says that he'll add to the series in the coming years.
The Easter story is celebrated each year with such fanfare and splendor that one might think it was all just one big convincing event in the gospels. Nothing could be farther from the truth. If ever there was doubt about the Easter story, it did not begin with the Scientific Revolution, the Age of Skepticism or more recent Post-Theism. Doubt was there at the beginning in the gospel stories. Take the gospel of Mark, for example. The oldest manuscripts of Mark's gospel end the 16th chapter with these words in verse 8: "So [the women]
Alex Coolman Newton Wayland is cooking musical stew, stirring up the ingredients of a dish called Ray Charles. Charles comes to the Orange County Performing Art Center to play with the Pacific Symphony Pops tonight and Saturday. And Wayland, the conductor for both evenings, has put together a program intended to illustrate the Georgia crooner's roots. The 69-year-old singer has been called "the genius of soul," for his powerful, gospel-tinged vocal style and his seemingly unlimited powers of composition.
TONY DODERO Thursday morning found me groggily wandering into a gathering at the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant in Costa Mesa. No, I was not there seeking redemption. Besides, I'm sure many of you think that would be impossible anyway. I was there for my annual attendance at the Newport-Mesa-Irvine Interfaith Council National Day of Prayer breakfast. The event, which is mimicked at churches nationwide and has roots dating back 54 years, is the place to hear the prayers and thoughts of those who share the Sikh, Bahai, Hindu, Islamic, Mormon, Jewish and Christian faiths all at the same time and in the same room, without a war breaking out. Indeed, the reason for the existence of the interfaith council, a coalition of diverse religious groups, is to promote unity and open discussion between faiths.
Address: 1885 Anaheim St., Costa Mesa Phone: (949) 548-7161 Denomination: Church of the Nazarene Year established: 1942 Service times: 9:30 a.m. for Sunday worship, 11 a.m. Sunday school for all ages and 6 p.m. spiritual growth classes. Community prayer time is held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. A Spanish-speaking congregation also meets weekly, with Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., morning worship at 11 a.m., and a praise service at 5 p.m. Senior pastor: Dale Fitch Size of congregation: 50 Makeup of congregation: People of various ethnic backgrounds and of all ages Child care: Children are welcome to stay with their parent(s)
During the three decades that have passed since South Coast Repertory first introduced “Godspell” to local audiences, most of our community theaters and colleges have offered their interpretations of this popular rock-gospel musical. One notable exception has been Vanguard University, which would have been a logical venue for this show, steeped as it is in religious education. Now this Costa Mesa collegiate company has weighed in with a highly energetic as well as a particularly visceral version.
Like many others attending the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Gospel Concert Sunday, Laura Wright brought money with her to donate to the fund at the end of the evening. For Wright, 26, giving to this charity held special meaning, since she would be giving back to the very scholarship fund that made it possible for her to finish her college studies just a few years ago. Wright, who graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in engineering in 2004, now runs her own marketing firm in North Hollywood.
Nigel Bailey PRO Regarding the St. Andrew's church growth, with all the rhetoric about who said what 22 years ago about future expansion plans, it seems that a point is being missed. There is no written agreement binding either party. If it had been a major point of negotiation, I can assure you there would have been a written record. In the meantime, the thing that is being missed is that with all of the conversation about "expansion," it has not been pointed out that not one single seat is being added to the sanctuary.
Editor's note: This is the second of two parts. On Sundays, I usually attend services at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa. On a recent Sunday, I needed a musical spiritual uplifting. I drove 30 minutes to Saddleback Church in Lake Forest to visit the Praise Tent for the desired musical spiritual renewal. The Praise Tent is the only place I know in Orange County where you can find a foot-stomping, hand-clapping and voice-raising, Holy Spirit-uplifting gospel music experience.
Q: I heard that the Bible says the world is going to get worse and worse as the end of time approaches. Is that true? We've had some horrible crimes in our city lately, and I can't see how things can get much worse. — Mrs. K.P.K. A: Yes, the Bible does indicate that as the time for Christ's return approaches, evil and social chaos may well intensify. The Bible says that "evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived" (2 Timothy 3:13). Are we living in those days?
In the church we have liturgical seasons. We begin our year with the season of Advent. We celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, move into a bit of Ordinary Time, and then it's on to Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season. We celebrate Easter and its season. Then we have the day of Pentecost with its fiery red, and soon it's back to Ordinary Time. We're into the "low season" of Ordinary Time as we approach "rally day," and we hope our church folk come back after their lazy summers of sleeping in and traveling.
Stan Bryson had become jaded by the way local Christian-based events shoved Jesus at nonbelievers. Although he enjoyed sharing his beliefs with others, more and more he noticed the events he assisted were often laden with icons of Christian culture, and at the end of the day organizers quickly closed up shop and moved on. After more than 20 years of working with Calvary Chapel members to produce amateur surf contests, Bryson was convinced more...
The Lifeletics Summer Baseball Camp, a five-day workout involving elite instruction from professional coaches, begins its next summer session Monday at LeBard Park, home of Seaview Little League.
The academy runs from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. through Thursday. Morning stations will blend individual instruction with station-to-station work (pitching, hitting, fielding, outfield, repetitions), with each athlete receiving small-group private instruction in each station.
Following a short break, the itinerary continues with quick-hitting, high-energy station instruction in fundamental areas such as rundowns, cuts/relays, team defense, skills, baseball athleticism and swing repetition.
The summer academy, now in its 10th year, also involves an Olympic-style competition as well as game competition and position-specific training. Lifeletics' Format B involves game competition, as well. The final camp of the summer is Aug. 23 to 27 at LeBard Park.
Medicine: Money-back guarantees are proven marketing strategies in business. But in the health field, contingency fees are controversial.
If the toaster doesn't toast, the dress looks awful or the new car is a lemon, most Americans don't hesitate to stomp back to the store and demand a refund.
We even seek reprisals if we're dissatisfied with such subjective experiences as restaurant meals and Broadway shows.
But would you demand your money back if your health care didn't measure up to what you wanted or expected?
In what some in the medical establishment see as one of the most distasteful repercussions of medicine's transformation into a bona fide business, some health care professionals are beginning to support the idea of the money-back guarantee.
The concept, some critics charge, strikes at the heart of the traditional doctor-patient relationship, which is based on the patient's trust that the doctor will do his or her best and the rest is left to fate. Proponents of the money-back fee structures, however, question the sacred concept that the doctor gets paid no matter what happens.
The controversy of contingency fees in medicine began last year when one of the nation's top infertility clinics, Pacific Fertility Medical Center, began offering some patients a partial refund if they didn't get pregnant. That controversial program has spread to at least five infertility clinics nationwide.
Some urology clinics are offering refunds to men who undergo vasectomy reversals if the surgeries aren't successful, including one doctor's office in Houston that advertises its refund offer on a billboard.
Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Region is offering a refund of up to $25 of the co-payment if members aren't satisfied with their doctor's visit.
And Blue Shield of Northern California, several years ago, dipped a cautious toe into this puddle by offering, in a few cases, to pay for a patient's treatment with an experimental therapy that was not approved for insurance reimbursement provided that the treatment was successful. Blue Shield no longer offers that option, and a representative says the company now views contingency fees based on outcome as "a bad idea."
But refund offers, or payment made contingent on the outcome, should have a role--albeit a limited one--in medicine, argues Dr. Geoffrey Sher, who pioneered the refund program at Pacific Fertility Center, where he is executive director.
"Outcome-based pricing makes in vitro fertilization more accessible to more people [who don't have insurance]," Sher says. "The vast majority of people don't have access to IVF because they can't afford it."
Fees contingent on outcome are particularly suited to the infertility field, he says, because it is obvious whether the treatment is successful.
"I am against outcome-based contingency fees in medicine where you cannot guarantee outcome," Sher says. "But there is no field in medicine where the outcome is so clear-cut as ours. The end point is so measurable. You're pregnant or you're not. I'm not saying this belongs in every field of medicine."
Instead of suffering, the doctor-patient relationship should be enhanced by risk-sharing fee structures, he suggests.
"Nobody would argue that perception of caring is as important as the quality of care. But don't you feel better if you get all the TLC and yet are assured that you are coming to a place where it's cost-effective? It's like getting a warranty on a product you buy."
Such fee structures do not necessarily violate Federal Trade Commission standards on truth in advertising, says Michael Katz of the FTC, which has kept a close eye on the largely unregulated infertility field.
"Our interest is whether the advertising is truthful and accurate, or does it misrepresent facts? We will not get involved in an issue about whether something is ethical," he says.
The American Medical Assn. in June reiterated its objection to contingency fees because of the growing popularity of the concept in the infertility field. The AMA statement explained that a doctor's fee should be based on the "value" of the service, not the outcome.
"Doctors do the very best they can, and what happens after that is beyond their control," says Dr. Robert M. Tenery Jr., a Dallas ophthalmologist and member of the AMA's council on ethics and judicial affairs.
Contingency-fee plans "change medicine from a bond between the doctor and patient to some sort of business transaction. That is not what we want the relationship to be," he says.
The city is planning to conduct a survey to find out what kind of programs and services residents would want included in the proposed Senior Center, to be located at Talbert Avenue and Bushard Street. The surveys will be available at City Hall, 10200 Slater Ave., starting next week and will also be included in residents' water bills. For further information, call (714) 593-4446.
Girls' basketball: Valencia coach asks senior for big night and she scores 29 in 65-59 defeat of Hart to help Vikings move into first-place tie in Foothill League.
The Valencia High girls' basketball coach challenged forward Marissa Meadows to score 20 points in a pivotal Foothill League game Friday night at Hart.
By the time it was over, the 6-foot senior had a career-high 29 points and eight rebounds, and the Vikings had a 65-59 victory.
Valencia (19-5, 6-2 in league play), defending league champion, set a school record for victories and tied Saugus (19-4, 6-2) for first place. Saugus lost, 59-53, at Burroughs on Friday night.
"That win right there gave them either the Foothill League championship or co-championship, in my opinion," Hart Coach Dave Munroe said of Valencia, which defeated the Indians for the fourth consecutive time.
Valencia, ranked No. 7 in the region by The Times, hosts No. 6 Saugus on Thursday in a league finale.
Meadows, who scored 20 points in a 55-53 victory over Hart on Jan. 12, made 11 of 13 shots and seven of eight free throws on Friday.
"The guards did a great job of getting the ball into her and she did a great job of finishing," Mike said. "Marissa played huge."
Brigandi scored 17 points before fouling out and Kimble, a freshman, scored 18 points, all in the second half. Guard Sarah McIntosh had 13 points.
Sophomore guard Amanda Patton, the Indians' top scorer, was flanked by Holly Feneht of Valencia and scored only three points.
Feneht scored 10, point guard Valerie Pina had eight points and six assists, and Stephanie Patterson finished with six points, nine rebounds and five assists.
Hart led, 21-20, midway through the second quarter before the Vikings went on a 17-3 run to claim a 37-24 lead.
The Indians closed the margin to 58-55 on Kimble's steal and layup with four minutes left in the game.
But Patterson answered with a 12-foot jumper and Rashae Minor made two free throws for a 62-55 cushion.
Crime: Authorities release sketch of man who assaulted woman, 21, on sidewalk as she walked home from work on the night of Jan. 18.
Oxnard police released a sketch Tuesday of a man they believe raped a woman last month on her way home from work.
The victim, a 21-year-old Oxnard woman, was grabbed by a man on the sidewalk on Vineyard Avenue near North H Street about 10 p.m. Jan. 18, Oxnard Police Det. David Klug said.
The assailant dragged the woman about 20 feet to an isolated area behind a row of tall shrubs and sexually assaulted her.
At the time of the attack, he was wearing a black baseball cap turned backward, black cotton pants, a black long-sleeved sweatshirt and white tennis shoes.
UCLA coach says video confirms his belief that official erred when he whistled a crucial charging foul that disallowed Darren Collison's tying basket in final minute of loss to Arizona State.
TUCSON — Now that he has reviewed the tape -- and listened to the television commentators -- Ben Howland feels certain about what happened.
Asked whether the charging call against guard Darren Collison with 39 seconds remaining in Thursday night's loss to Arizona State should have gone the other way, the UCLA coach responded: "There's no question.
"They were actually showing it on 'SportsCenter,' " he said. "It was pretty clear what had happened."
In replays, Arizona State forward Jeff Pendergraph appears to lean into Collison's path, catching the UCLA guard with his left side.
A blocking call would have given Collison two points to tie the score and a free-throw attempt for the lead. Instead, his basket was disallowed and UCLA never scored again in a 74-67 loss.
The 11th-ranked Bruins were overzealous in their desire to double-team Arizona State guard James Harden, leaving too many other shooters open. The coach also noted that on five occasions in the second half his team took a lead of four points but was never able to widen that gap.
"We had our opportunities to break the game open, give ourselves a little more of a cushion," he said, adding that the Bruins should have taken control "so that we're not depending upon a call to go one way or another."
UCLA used a different substitution pattern against the Sun Devils, going with a smaller lineup for matchup reasons, which meant more playing time for swingman Michael Roll and fewer minutes for bigger reserve James Keefe.
It did not help that starting guard Jrue Holiday had a subpar night. The freshman, who had been averaging almost 10 points, missed all five of his shots.
The defeat threw the Pacific 10 Conference race into a muddle with the Bruins falling into second place, half a game behind Washington, and several other teams within striking distance.
That means UCLA must quickly regroup for today's game against Arizona, the hottest team in the conference.
The Wildcats have won six in a row dating to a late-January game in which a Houston player was ejected for stepping on the face of fallen Arizona forward Chase Budinger.
"I've been pretty happy with us over the last three or four weeks," said Russ Pennell, Arizona's interim coach.
While Pennell acknowledged the incident against Houston fired his players up, he sees other reasons for their recent success. Led by three veterans -- Budinger, Jordan Hill and Nic Wise -- the Wildcats have been scoring 11 points higher than their season average.
"Everyone's accepted their roles and some of the younger players have gotten better," Pennell said. "To me, it's just a maturity and a comfort level."
With an early tipoff today (10 a.m. PST), the Bruins will try to extend a streak that has seen them win in Tucson three consecutive seasons. Howland says he believes that whichever team captures the Pac-10 title will have at least four losses.
Update: The 11th-ranked Bruins, who dropped to second place in the Pacific 10 with their loss at Arizona State on Thursday, probably need a victory in Tucson to stay close to the top in their bid for a fourth consecutive conference championship. They'll look to do a better job of getting the ball to Jrue Holiday -- who went scoreless against Arizona State on Thursday night -- when he cuts through the lane. The Wildcats, led by Jordan Hill's 18.3 points a game, have rebounded from a sluggish start to win five straight in the Pac-10. No other team has accomplished that this season.
If you worry that our culture's reliance on GPS and mobile maps is ruining our ability to explore the hidden nooks and crannies -- the unexpected -- in our world, this story is for you.
It's the tale of former Marine Sgt. Winston Fiore, 27, who just completed a 408-day, 5,000-mile walk through nine countries in Southeast Asia to raise funds for the International Children's Surgical Foundation--an organization that provides free plastic surgeries to children in developing countries, mostly who suffer from a cleft palate.
It's also the story of how blind reliance on maps on your mobile device--in this case walking directions in Google Maps--can lead a traveler to find people and places he would never have found otherwise, simply by directing him to the shortest distance between point A and point B.
The story begins in 2007, when Fiore was deployed with the Marine Corps to Senegal for three weeks of training. It was the first time the Bloomington, Ind., native had visited a developing country, and he was struck by how little of the world he had seen. While crammed in the back of a van, he resolved to spend a year traveling on foot through a developing part of the world.
Back in the U.S., he hooked up with the International Children's Surgical Foundation after coming across an article about the founder, and chose to do his trek in Southeast Asia, where there is a disproportionate number of children who suffer from a cleft palate.
He began mapping out his trip in 2010, creating what he describes as a "pretty oval" route that would take him through some of the biggest metropolitan areas in Brunei, China, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The route was about 5,000 miles--a nice round number, and he thought he could do it in a year.
The first week of his trek, he made printouts of the walking directions from Google Maps--fumbling through the pages each day, trying to figure out where to turn, or if he had gotten off track. Then he discovered he could buy a SIM card in whatever country he was in, and was able to get directions directly off his phone.
Each morning of the trek, Fiore would wake up and map out his 25 miles for the day. And each day he followed the maps' directions. There were boring days in Laos walking through one palm oil plantation after another, but there were also magical moments -- like when an elderly couple who spoke no English took him into their home when there was no other structure around and gave him dinner and breakfast before sending him on his way.
Once, as he was walking along a three-lane highway in Taiwan, he was directed to take a right onto a tiny road that turned into a brick stairwell embedded in the forest that led to a Buddhist temple in the woods. Another time, in China he was directed to turn off a paved road and discovered a massive, imposing temple that looked like something out of "Batman Begins." He walked up the stairs and was fed by the monks who lived there.
Then there was the time, also in China, where the directions led him to the edge of a river with no bridge in sight. Just as he was starting to freak out, he saw a man who ferries people across the river, and he got a ride for free.
"It's not like the directions said, 'There will be an old Chinese man to ferry you across the river, and he likes mangos,'" said Fiore in an interview with the L.A. Times. "But the walking directions routed me there, and he was able to get me across the river."
Fiore completed his journey on Tuesday, and has raised $65,000 of his $75,000 goal to give to the International Children's Surgical Foundation. That's enough money to fund more than 200 operations. (Note that he is still accepting donations).
February's planned launch of Sirius Satellite Radio service is good news for Agere Systems of Allentown, the exclusive maker of receiver chips for the new coast-to-coast broadcast.
Analysts predict Sirius will have more than 150,000 subscribers by year's end and could have as many as 15 million by 2007.
"This is obviously an unknown quantity, but if this takes off it could be a pretty good market," said Arnab Chanda, a Lehman Brothers stock analyst who covers Agere.
Agere, the world's No. 1 maker of communications semiconductors, has been working with Sirius since 1998. Agere developed a set of microchips capable of capturing the company's satellite broadcast signal and translating it into a CD-quality audio signal.
The chips are also capable of picking up ground Sirius signals in urban areas where tall buildings might block satellite transmissions. The ground-based signals are then blended with satellite signals to produce high-quality sound.
"We are delighted to have this opportunity to work on this innovative system which will transformthe way people perceive car radio over the next several decades," said Rob Franzo, director of Agere's automotive products group.
Franzo said Agere also worked with Sirius to design the encoder and other transmission equipment used at the company's New York City studios.
"Agere has good technology," Chanda said. "There's not a lot of companies that could do what they're doing."
Besides the publicity that satellite radio provides for Agere's technological capabilities, it also helps the company sign up a handful of valuable new customers.
Sirius-enabled radios are being manufactured by some of the top names in car audio, including Jensen, Kenwood, Panasonic, Visteon and Clarion.
Agere is making its Sirius chips at a plant in Singapore. Franzo said the company has shipped many of them to radio manufacturers.
Franzo would not say how much the receiver chip set costs, or how many units Agere expects to sell this year. Chanda, the analyst, estimates the chips cost between $15 and $20.
Automotive products is a relatively new business segment for Agere. Franzo said if satellite radio succeeds, it will open the door for Agere to design more car-related products.
"Once we build a relationship with the industry and have proven ourselves, we'll explore other opportunities," he said.
There was a lot to celebrate at Dieruff High School during the 2013-14 school year, not the least of which was the school's four Freddy Awards on Thursday night at the State Theatre.
Only Freedom earned more Freddys (six) than Dieruff, which delivered an outstanding production of "Chicago."
Andrew Stewart, Paris Cordova and Rachel Wingfield were individual Freddy winners and all were a great source of pride for the school as it completed its 55th school year.
Wingfield, the winner of an award for outstanding performance by an actress, missed Dieruff's Kiska Award banquet the previous night.
Wingfield missed the Kiskas because of rehearsal for the Freddys, but wasn't forgotten. She received one of the school's three Joseph A. Barrett awards, saluting her for being a senior athlete who exemplifies, by her leadership and discipline, to be the most coachable female athlete.
Wingfield, who will major in business at IUP, earned five varsity letters in cheerleading and volleyball, is obviously a well-rounded individual.
So are the overall Kiska Award winners David Dymond and Kayla Lee, who are headed to Slippery Rock and Temple, respectively.
King was the school's wrestling coach and longtime Spanish teacher, who died last Dec. 12 at the age of 76.
His legacy will be remembered at Dieruff's Troika Awards ceremony for academic excellence on Wednesday night with the presentation of the first Dick King Memorial Wrestling Award.
"When he died, so many people were so kind to donate to his memorial fund and now we want to use that money the way Dick would have wanted and that's to honor someone who was not only an athlete, but also someone who achieved academically as well," Rita King said of her husband. "He strongly believed in the importance of academics and felt that you had to work hard in the classroom first."
King, who was one of the school's original teachers when the building opened in September of 1959, coached wrestling for 12 years — six as head coach and six as an assistant.
"Dick loved Dan and all of his wrestlers," said Rita King, who has the distinction of being the school's first athletic secretary. "Dick retired in 1992, but the school always meant a lot to him. We met at Dieruff. We felt like we were alums even though we graduated from Allentown High School. It is great that the school is presenting this award in his name."
Speaking of special former Huskies who have died in the recent months, I bumped into the former Dieruff boys basketball coach Dan Kemeter the other night at Coca-Cola Park and Kemeter expressed sadness over the recent passing of Danny O'Donnell, the school's senior athlete of the year in 1967.
O'Donnell was the co-captain of one of Dick Schmidt's four consecutive district championship basketball teams and was also a standout in cross country and track. He honorably served his country in the U.S. Navy and had a stint in Vietnam.
More than that, O'Donnell who was 65, was a role model. He lived on the same Irving Street block that I did while growing up and was one of the guys a young Keith Groller looked up to as a kid along with people like Dan Waelchli and Tommy Young.
Hopefully, Danny would have been proud of me on Wednesday night when I was inducted into the Dieruff Hall of Fame along with a wonderful unsung hero named Colleen Dymond, David's mother and the president of the booster club.
Joyce Reed-Ebling, Andre Reed's mother, reports that a few seats remain on one of the Lehigh Valley buses bound for Canton, Ohio on the weekend of Aug. 1-3 to see her son inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The bus being run by Sandi Herman has a few available seats. Herman has a package that includes three nights lodging, three breakfasts, tickets to all of the major Hall of Fame events. It also includes the Hall of Fame game the night after the induction ceremony featuring the Bills against the Giants
The Stellar Summer High School Basketball League begins Tuesday night at Cedar Beach with 25 teams involved.
All teams from the former LVC are involved. Emmaus was not in the league last summer, but is back. Freedom features two teams.
The only team aboard from the former Mountain Valley Conference is Pleasant Valley, under new coach Matt Gould after the controversial non-rehiring of longtime mentor Ken Piontkowski.
DELAND — A host of awards was handed out at Youth Awards night Thursday at the 1986 Volusia County Fair and Youth Show.
-- Best in show in the construction category of the youth clothing contest: Tricia Eckhardt, senior division; Clara Harbeck, junior division. Best of show in the modeling category: Nina Gibson, senior division; Heather Fitzpatrick, junior division.
-- Best in show in the youth baked food category: Eckhardt, senior division, Mark Barnes, junior division.
-- Best in show in decorated cakes category: Leanne Dunn, senior division. -- Best in show in the open agriculture category: Stacy Clifton, youth division.
-- First place in the Toddlers' Egg Decorating Contest for age 4 and under, Ryan Walker; Connie Viers, 5- to 8-year-old division.
-- 4-H booth exhibit: Liberty Riders first. Future Farmers of America booth exhibit: Silver Sands Junior High School first. FHA booth exhibit: DeLand Senior High. FFA team top prize: New Smyrna Beach Senior High School, senior division, Taylor Junior High School, junior division.
-- FFA individual horse contest: Shannon Bell, first, senior division; Shane Cowart, junior division; Taylor Senior High School, first, team category.
-- FFA Horse Contest: Silver Sands Junior High School, first, junior high school team. The 4-H Horse Team Contest: Osteen Rough Riders, first.
-- Fat steer weight gaining: Juanita Fannin, first. Steer born and raised in the county: Tricia Hickling.
LARRY VANHUNNIK, regional director for multilevel facilities of the Good Samaritan Society, paid a brief visit to the village recently. The Daytona Beach facility has been added to his region. He was a guest of the Advisory Board meeting and also met with staff and residents throughout the village.
RESIDENT COUNCIL elections will be held in the community center from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. Sections 1, 10, 15 and 16 will be voting this year for candidates. The council members voted on at this time will serve a two-year term.
THREE UPCOMING bus trips for residents will take them to: U.S. Naval Review, Friday, at 8 a.m.; Kennedy Space Center, Saturday, at 8:50 a.m.; and Missionary Press dinner at the Orlando Expo Centre to hear Stanley Tam Tuesday at 5:15 p.m.
An American Red Cross blood drive will take place from noon to 5:45 p.m. on Aug. 2 at the Beaver Island School on Beaver Island.
During the month of August, all donors can enter a drawing to win one of four laptop computers plus one of four $250 gift cards. Blood donors must be at least 17, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good general health.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
They're concerned about how the milder winter freeze may affect the environment. But they're also trying to come to terms with a contradiction — the same climate factors that might keep lake ice from freezing might make freezing more likely if lake levels drop due to evaporation.
Scientists at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., say global climate change can be at odds with regional climate patterns. Accurately measuring ice cover across a lake system that spans 94,000 square miles in two countries is no small task, they say.
Their studies show that although the amount of ice cover can vary substantially from year to year, the overall coverage on the world's largest system of freshwater lakes is diminishing, especially in the deepest, middle portions of Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior.
"The deeper the water, the greater the heat storage from summer, and it freezes later than the shallow areas," research Ray Assel told The Plain Dealer. "Now, increase the air temperature and the lake takes in more heat and stores it longer, to the point that many of the midlake areas are freezing over less."
Assel's records indicate that ice formation at nearshore areas has decreased less than on the deepest parts.
Researcher Jia Wang said ice loss can cause other problems, including the destruction of the eggs of fall-spawning fish by winter waves from an open lake, erosion of coastal areas unprotected by shore ice and less winter recreation on the lakes such as snowmobiling or ice fishing.
The Coast Guard has estimated it cost more than $245,000 to rescue 134 fishermen from a huge ice floe off Ohio last month. The fishermen became stranded Feb. 7 when a miles-wide chunk of ice broke away in Lake Erie.
There might be one short-term advantage to decreased ice: Shipping may someday be more possible in the winter months. The locks at Sault Ste. Marie now close each year in mid-January and reopen in late March. But shipping companies might haul less cargo to pass through low-water areas.