So
far "Guitars for Kids" has raised $1086.00 to buy acoustic guitars for
Republic School's music program and its only been less than 2 weeks!!
Tonight on America’s Got Talent, Spokane’s own Cami Bradley is taking the stage again after making it to this season’s Top 12. The dozen finalists will be narrowed down to six in tomorrow’s show after the performances and voting this evening.
If you’re eagerly waiting for tonight’s show or completely confused about what is going on, read our feature about Bradley when she was only sorta famous, or catch up on previous AGT posts.
If you’re not at all interested in America’s Got Talent or reality shows or TV in general — we hear you, we understand. We will continue to provide updates, but rest assured that clicking on these links and reading them will remain strictly optional.
Nothing better than news that's fresh...new news. I wake up in the morning and reread everything I read the night before. To make old news new, they use one paragraph quoting someone of import who usually makes no sense and leaves one wanting more. So why come here? Because I am the world first bi-polar news photographer who thought he could write and when folks started calling me a photojournalist, I picked up on it. What the heck eh?? I noticed not the majority of readers have followed me to a BLOG. What? Too good to read a blog. Rather read that boring Wall Street Journal, or the Christian Science Monitor. They are all old news and none of them have Ron Rattray and Rick Price. Ron slowly learned to be a photographer. The hard part for him was affording a camera. Ron puts a lot of effort into finding the most interesting headlines and he keeps us up on what's happening just barely N of Danville, home of the Ma Kettle gang. Ma! call home. Lets hear from Ron.
A Forest Near the Pacific
Picture by Rick Price
Picture by Rick Price
A 19-year-old man playing with a remote control
helicopter in Brooklyn, N.Y., lost control of it, sliced off the top of
his own head and died Thursday afternoon, law enforcement officials
said.
The helicopter enthusiast, identified by
officials as Roman Pirozek Jr., and his father were in Calvert Vaux Park
at Shore Parkway and Bay 44th Street in Gravesend. Pirozek also sheared off part of his shoulder, officials said. Witnesses
told detectives Pirozek was performing a trick with the model
helicopter when something went wrong, according to law enforcement
officials.
The model helicopter was worth about $2,000. Yup they said that. Right at the end they said it. Crazy news happens all the time..some sad. Some gory...just not as much fun as shooting a big old buck with a bow.
- Marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug. In 2012, there were 18.9 million past month users. Between 2007 and 2012, the rate of current use increased from 5.8 to 7.3 percent, and the number of users increased from 14.5 million to 18.9 million.
However, asked if they had ever used marijuana, not current or past month use, but ever … Gallup found that the trend for trying marijuana had pretty much plateaued over the past 30 years:
Gallup wrote:
Even as Americans’ support for legalizing marijuana has doubled, and more than 20 states have loosened marijuana restrictions in various ways, Gallup finds relatively little increase throughout the past three decades in the percentage of U.S. adults who say they have tried marijuana.
Survey: Baby boomers sharply increasing their marijuana use -in the Seattle P-I
Mayor John Dooley says it's hypocritical for the city to give out noxious weed tickets, when they also have invasive species on city property..first there has to be a city wide strategy on nuisance weeds.
The bylaw's gone back to staff...other bylaws being looked at by council include introducing a financial penalty for business owners who don't buy their business license. EZ Rock-Listen Daily
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Fire officials say a wind-whipped wildfire in Northern California's Shasta County destroyed 30 homes and damaged others, as it quickly grew to more than 11 square miles.
Officials released revised damage estimates from the Clover Fire on Tuesday morning. The fire is burning in grass and oak around Happy Valley, a rural community about 150 miles north of Sacramento.Fire spokesman Mike Witesman says the fire also has destroyed 50 outbuildings since it began Monday afternoon and is threatening another 300 homes.
About 600 people have been evacuated.
Witesman says the fire spread by about 500 acres an hour during its early stages, but crews have since made progress battling it. Containment increased from 5 to 40 percent overnight.
On 09.08.13 at about 5:00 PM, Fort Bragg Advocate-News Reporter Tony Reed was in the area of MM 83, N. Highway 1, examining the area where Patrick Guzman's vehicle was located. From the roadway Reed saw an object on the steep bluff down to the ocean and was able to use the telephoto lens of his camera to determine that it is a handgun. Reed looked further and saw what appeared to be a white shoe in the rocks near the ocean, approximately 150 feet below.
Reed flagged down a passing California Department of Fish and Wildlife Warden who called Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputies. The deputies were able to make their way down to where the shoe could be seen. The deputies located the body of Patrick Guzman and requested the aid of the Westport Volunteer Fire Department to move Guzman's remains to the roadway. The handgun, which belonged to Guzman, was also recovered. The cause of Guzman's death is still under investigation.
Reed flagged down a passing California Department of Fish and Wildlife Warden who called Mendocino County Sheriff's Deputies. The deputies were able to make their way down to where the shoe could be seen. The deputies located the body of Patrick Guzman and requested the aid of the Westport Volunteer Fire Department to move Guzman's remains to the roadway. The handgun, which belonged to Guzman, was also recovered. The cause of Guzman's death is still under investigation.
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Fourteen North Idaho school districts were notified today they may
have received ground beef tainted with small pieces of plastic. The beef was recalled by Central Valley Meat Co. of Hanford, Calif.
It may have been served in some schools, but no problems have been
reported so far, said Melissa McGrath, spokeswoman for the Idaho
Department of Education. The beef was processed March 30 and delivered to 86 school
districts, charter schools, private schools and juvenile detention
centers between July 2 and Sept. 6, state officials said.
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We seem to be having an Indian Summer for a week or so...and then the temps will go down and fall will start in the trees. Will it be spectacular? Nobody knows...God plays with his palette but every so often he colors over it all with brown and the storm comes and leaves fall....no colors..that is rare but it does happen. If and when fall hits in color, I'll be there with a range of cameras..fall is my favorite and Sunflowers come in second. A nice stationary but that implies that people write. Ask a kid in college hat stationary is...no answer. Don't know. Insane.
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