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Staying together for 70 years, laughing all the way

Concord Monitor 18 Jun 2018

They met at a skating rink more than 70 years ago, a Vaudeville-like act from Suncook whose act never grew old.The jokes and ribbing kept coming, enough to expect that famed drum sound effect after each routine.I worked on the railroad,” 90-year-old Richard LaFond said. “You needed to do something... ....

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Boys & Girls Club mixes studies and play while school's out

Pine Bluff Commercial 18 Jun 2018

In a roomful of busy and chattering children, 10-year-old Taylr Heinrich talked with enthusiasm about skating, swimming and taking trips to the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas. Those are among the sorts of activities that she may be doing with the Boys & Girls Club of Jefferson County this summer. But Taylr said she’s doing school work, too, during the summer at the club. "It makes you get ready for the next [...] ......

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The first time... Famous Irish women talk about sex

Irish Independent 18 Jun 2018

It took these fabulously frank women to share their special memories. Mary O'Rourke ... We were very sexually attracted to one another, so we skated very, very near to the edge many times in our relationship, but we didn't do it ... I also think that the situation was different because, rather than skating near the edge and getting worked up in a car, we were finally allowed to do it and it wasn't forbidden fruit any more ... ....

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The first time... Some well-known Irish women talk about losing their virginity

Irish Independent 18 Jun 2018

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End of the Warped Tour: What the loss of rock's 'cheap, scruffy' roadshow means for ...

Sacramento Bee 18 Jun 2018

Days before Andy Biersack joined his first Vans Warped Tour as an artist, the singer for the L.A ... Warped Tour, the traveling punk and skate-culture festival, a teenage summertime fixture since 1995, is finally hanging up its Vans sneakers for good ... ....

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TRAIKOS: NHL draft weekend a chance to turn struggling franchises around

Toronto Sun 18 Jun 2018

It was a year ago when Gabe Vilardi fell outside the top 10 — despite being the fourth-ranked North American skater according to NHL Central Scouting — because of concerns with his skating ... Bouchard won’t fill those skates, but he will fill the net after leading OHL defencemen in points last season ... He skates and thinks the game like Coffey, meaning Connor McDavid might finally have someone who can pass him the puck ... ....

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Father's Day families hook Hodges Pond fish

The Daily Star 18 Jun 2018

The fish were biting on a sunny Father’s Day in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park as locals took advantage of a rare opportunity to cast their lines in Hodges Pond ... “I would call today ladies’ day,” Krupa said. Nearby, Chevelle Walker of Utica excitedly pulled a small fish from the water ... The kids were also invited to learn about different species of fish in the skate house from former SUNY Oneonta professor Roy Bartoo ... ....

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Hockey: Century's Zmolek commits to MSU, Mankato

Post-Bulletin 18 Jun 2018

Bennett Zmolek looked like a hybrid of his two older brothers during his first season of high school hockey. Now he knows he’ll follow in their skates in a few years and play Division I college hockey. Bennett Zmolek appears set to take the same path that his oldest brother, Riese, has taken. Bennett, who recently finished his sophomore year at Rochester Century, has committed to play for Minnesota State University, Mankato ... ....

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Local Eagle Scout earns all merit badges

News-Press Now 18 Jun 2018

Many boys join the Boy Scouts of America at some point in their childhood. Some stay. Few become Eagle Scouts. A vanishingly small number manages to earn all possible merit badges. Then there’s Charles Alex Velazquez ... “It’s been long and hard,” Velazquez said ... “We are proud of him,” Williams said ... Velazquez also learned how to scuba dive, skate, ride a horse, raft white waters, sail a boat, drive a motorboat and many more skills ... @NPNOWKopp....

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President’s Trust invests over €600,000 to help vulnerable youngsters

Independent Online 18 Jun 2018

“The Trust does not replicate work being done by other organisations ... “Our sponsors are our active partners ... Spark, meanwhile is the fruit of a partnership with the Birżebbuġa Local council and AgenzijaZgħazagħ, to build a new skate park for youngsters in the area who had nowhere to practice their sport and were endangering their lives by going on the roads ... Other projects include ... ....

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End of the Warped Tour: What the loss of rock’s ‘cheap, scruffy’ roadshow means for ...

Post-Bulletin 18 Jun 2018

Days before Andy Biersack joined his first Vans Warped Tour as an artist, the singer for the L.A. glam-metal band Black Veil Brides got a little overexuberant onstage ... He missed the landing ... But he wouldn’t have missed those dates for anything ... Warped Tour, the traveling punk and skate-culture festival, a teenage summertime fixture since 1995, is finally hanging up its Vans sneakers for good ... festival culture ... The spirit will live on.” ... ....

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The untold good news story of America today

BBC News 18 Jun 2018

While the prairies that surround it are characteristically flat, Blue Earth - population 3,300 - has experienced more than a few bumps in the road. For decades it has grappled with one existential crisis after another ... If you're wondering why his vast space has some strangely curved walls, it's because it used to be a skating rink and a bowling alley, another change borne of survival as the town's population shrank.THE CAN-DO SPIRIT ... ....

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Mumbaikars turn up in big numbers for global skating relay

The Times of India 17 Jun 2018

More than 400 plus inline skaters participated in the global initiative at the Somaiya Skating Rink, at Somaiya Ayurvihar campus at Sion, Mumbai’s only roller skating rink yesterday between 5.30 pm and 10.30 pm ... way that during that time, someone, in some part of the world was skating....

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