Melt butter in a medium nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Add brown sugar substitute, vanilla, and cinnamon; cook 1 minute or until sugar substitute dissolves.
Arrange banana in pan; cook over medium-high heat 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated, turning once. Spoon banana mixture evenly over 1/2-cup portions of ice cream.
‘Salute from the Shore’ flies for fifth straight year over Myrtle Beach area | Myrtle Beach Sun News
The vice president of operations for Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Bennettsville and a former commercial and freight airline and S.C. state pilot, Avent said this marks his third Salute from the Shore flight.
Answer | I have a collection of World War II aircraft, and I have been involved with a lot of other fliers who have World War II aircraft. When the request came to be able to fly veterans along the beach for Salute from the Shore ... I used an old C-47, which in American terms, is a DC-3, and it’s in a military configuration. ... It’s painted in D-Day colors, like it would have looked if flown in Normandy on D-Day. It was actually in England when D-Day occurred. ...
It now has only eight seats in back. It looks like it was in 1943 when it was built. ... I’ve tried to leave it as close to the original as possible. ...
A friend of mine in Columbia emailed me about flying veterans on the Fourth of July and he asked, “Would you be interested in using your C-47?” ... We were one of three or four airplanes in my first year. ... We’ll have a better pace this year than we’ve had in the past, because we’re going to schedule flights to come through at a pace so that everybody can stay not too far from one another.
A. | It’s been an addiction my whole life, and I have a very, very patient wife, and children, who have allowed be to able to pursue this. ... I used to work for Eastern Airlines, and I worked for Northwest Airlines’ system. ... Then an opportunity came to come back to South Carolina ... and for 20 years, it’s afforded me the ability to have a fun hobby of ... aviation and history, and I like the old airplanes.
Q. | Every year, does something different stand out in memories from Salute from the Shore? Maybe a certain place or hook on the coastline?
A. | I love Cape Romain; it’s one of the neatest places on the coast of South Carolina, among many interesting places. Until you’ve flown the coast of South Carolina and seen it, you don’t realize that about half is not populated, but the other half is developed and very populated. ...
From Cherry Grove to Hilton Head Island, last year, we were amazed last year at the number of people who were on the beach with American flags. It was an honor, and it is an honor to be part of this, and we have have men and women who have served our country and are serving our country flying with us. It’s just something to relish for the rest of my life. ...
Also, everyone flying with us has an opportunity to see what the view is from the front of the airplane.
A. | We have a beautiful coastline. It doesn’t get the publicity it needs. One of the last things I got to do when I was flying planes for the state of South Carolina was that we flew the whole coast.
Q. | Just how fast does time fly by on each Salute from the Shore trip, and how tough is it to cruise slowly and steadily, covering the Palmetto State coastline?
A. | We can’t do it in an hour in the big airplanes like the faster airplanes. We’re only going 120-140 knots, so it’s about an hour and 20 minutes in my estimation, for the coastline of South Carolina is 184 nautical miles in this route we will fly. ... The coastline is actually longer, but we’ll cut Bulls Bay and Cape Romain out of it, and go by McClellanville and stay just on the inside of the wildlife preserve. ... We’ll leave from DeBordieu Colony and go east of the Georgetown County Airport, and we’ll stay west of McClellanville. We’ll stay on the other side of U.S. 17 because of the wildlife area and cut back just before the big radio towers toward Mount Pleasant. We’ll stay inland and cut back out. ...
It’s really about 195 nautical miles if you’re along the coast for the whole thing. ... It’s a pretty jagged coast. You actually start out from east to west on the north end, and by the time you get to the south end, you’re tracking pretty steadily southwest. It is not a north-south coast, it runs more east-west, or northeast to southwest.
Q. | You just returned from a family trip in Germany, flying round trip, but as a passenger. How then does getting back behind the control of your own plane feel as a refresher?
A. | It’s a much more enjoyable ride. I went out yesterday [June 23] and got on the airplane just to get my cobwebs out and get my brain back on track. Especially with an old airplane and on old engine, you have to stay on top of it all with what going’s on, and stay ahead of the game.
A. | This is not about me. There are several pilots and a lot of people who are giving their time and efforts on the Fourth of July.
A. | We have a C-47, what I fly, with Frank Shutt; a C-45 flown by Hal Ewing; an SNJ-6 with Jim Zazas; a T-28 with Wendell Hall; a Jet Provost with Rick Mantei; a P-51 Mustang with Dr. Alex Newsom; an FG-1D Corsair with Eliot Cross; a Globe Swift with Charlie Sidesticker; another Globe Swift with Bo Mabry; a Legacy with Stan Ashley; and an SNJ-4 with Bobby Jonte.
“It’s fun!” reports 63 year old Amy Tan, author of ‘The Joy Luck Club.’ “To hell with aging gracefully!” And I dare say the icy blue streaks amid her silvery bob looks terrific. She’s even rocked it with vivid purple, as did my former co-star, Shelley Fabares, doing so to celebrate open-armed living after nearly dying from liver failure.
The woman who pens the blog, ‘The Menopausal Mom,’ Marcia Kester Doyle, echoes many who say, “Now that I’m older, I care less about what people think,” but instead of yelling at kids to get off her lawn or going to the mall wearing Crocs, Doyle sports longish hair that starts out as a buttery blond at the roots and graduates to lavender mid way down. “I colored my hair these unique shades because it sends a clear message -that a woman my age is still allowed to be FUN.” she states, “I spent too much of my life trying to fit the mold and please others. My new hair color makes me feel younger, confident and sexy. At our age, we shouldn’t have to worry about what others think. Life is short — enjoy the ride”
Stacie Strong is about as conservative as you can get: 54, a Midwest grandmother who works in a book store, and loves to bake cookies.
“I let my hair color grow out to my natural color -- brown and going gray. But it started to feel a little frumpy and a bit old. I was in a rut. I had wanted to try fun colors for years, so I thought, ‘You know what? I will dye my hair on my (own) terms.’ And I loved it! Some of the responses I got was, ‘Is there a reason, like a fundraiser or lost bet, that you did that? Aren’t you kind of old for that?’ And my favorite: ‘I hope I’m that cool when I get old!’ Made me laugh out loud.”
Before you think, “Oh, how sad, all these old broads trying to be relevant and young when Father Time (of course Time would have to be a man!) has clearly passed them by. But let me tell you something- I looked at photographs of these women and they do look younger! Whether it be the hipper, face flattering, layered, sometimes spikey ‘dos,’ there is a candid smile and a cunning, flirty, gleam in each eye. Their attitude is young, modern. They are willing to embrace a certain edginess as they bring their obligatory deviled eggs to the church pot-luck dinner. They are not afraid to clash with the tree during family Christmas portraits.
It is often said that grey hair is Mother Nature’s way of softening ones complexion. And I think we’re all in agreement when I note that nothing makes a woman- or man- look so old than perpetually dying their hair the same dark brown, or black, of a long past youth.
It looks terribly hard against the face and only accentuates the fine webbing of crow’s feet and lines.
But as Amy Tan explains, why try to cover the gray? Simply blend it with streaks of fuchsia or Caribbean blue!
My own hair tends to be dishwater blond and I’m certainly not above adding paler blond highlights. I’ve not yet seen any gray, but now I’m sort of looking forward to it. Who knows, I might go nuts and begin to blend in streaks purple or even crimson red?
Judith Parker, a former Westgate sales agent and the lead plaintiff in the case, said at the time that she expected Siegel’s company to “pull out every dirty trick in the book to keep from paying.” Parker is owed $6,000 in commissions.
It has taken more than two years since Baxley’s ruling to bring Siegel to trial. That effort picked up steam last year after Siegel – a flamboyant businessman who claims to be building America’s most opulent home in Orlando, Fla. – appeared on national television shows boasting about his wealth.
Surfside Beach lawyer Gene Connell told The Sun News in October that Siegel’s statements – including a vow to complete his 90,000-square-foot home, nicknamed Versailles – indicate the Westgate founder has plenty of money to pay his workers. In an ABC News appearance in July, for example, Siegel said that while the nation’s economic collapse forced his family to cut back on their number of servants it did not impact his wife’s caviar purchases or her taste for Gucci, Valentino and Versace.
CFI lawyer John Wilkerson III said at the time that Siegel’s personal fortune has nothing to do with debts his companies might owe.
Siegel was supposed to appear in court last year to detail his finances but the hearing was canceled at the last minute after his lawyers told Baxley that the corporate jet was broke and they could not make the trip from Florida.
Siegel, who also is Westgate’s president and chief operating officer, sent mixed signals last year about his company’s financial health. In a September news release, Siegel said: “Westgate is operating at the highest profit levels in the history of the company.” Westgate raised more than $440 million in 2012 to pay down debt and provide extra liquidity for project development and acquisitions.
However, in a September email to Westgate employees, Siegel said the economic climate remains so shaky that he will start firing employees if President Barack Obama is re-elected.
“If that happens, you can find me in the Caribbean sitting on the beach, under a palm tree, retired, and with no employees to worry about,” Siegel said in the email.
The local sales agents were paid an hourly wage but not the commissions CFI had promised for generating sales at the Westgate resort at 415 S. Ocean Boulevard. Westgate, which was founded by Siegel in 1982, operates 27 resorts in destinations including Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Fla., Branson, Mo., and Gatlinburg, Tenn.