| KRIEGER: Forsberg worth the risk
Forsberg's homecoming may produce a similar result. But the joy of his return for hockey fans will be in the discovery. It doesn't have to be the same as it was. It only has to be better than it is. Joel Quenneville suggested he will skate on a line with Sakic or Paul Stastny once he is ready. Is there a hockey fan in Denver who would not pay to watch that? Peter Forsberg is a special hockey player who has a special relationship with this town. Sport may be a business, but it can also be a bond, a sentiment. We are allowed to celebrate the return of a favorite son and to let everything else take care of itself. Bringing back Forsberg is not a forlorn attempt to recapture the past. It is the hard-headed addition of a unique hockey asset with all the upside in the world and no downside at all.
Waldegaard: Age is nothing but a number
Tears of joy epitomised Bjorn Waldegaards unquenched spirit for the Safari. Winning the Kenya Airways Safari Classic Rally with 31-year-old son, Matthias, was an utterly emotional feat at North Coasts Sarova Whitesands, yet the four-time WRC Safari Rally winner wants more of the unforgiving terrain he conquered in his heyday. Waldegaard won his first Safari Rally in 1977 in Ford Escort. He went on to win in 1984 with Hans Thorzelius in a Toyota Celica TCT, 1986 and in 1990 with Fred Gallagher in a Toyota Celica GT4. "Its in a Ford that I became famous in the Safari and it was great to win again in a Ford Escort Mark 1," the Historic Motor Sports driver said. Asked whether hell be back in Kenya to race, the mzee wa kazi of the old Safari quipped: "You know that I am an old man and Safari is a rough endurance race.
Chelsea cellphone tower greeted with anger
The 76-metre cellphone tower near Highway 5 and Scott Road in Chelsea was erected in late 2007 without the approval of the municipal council or consultation with people living nearby. The tower is near Chelsea Elementary School, Ecole du Grand Boisé, a day-care centre and housing.
Antenna opponent Christine MacDonald said cellphone towers have been blocked, or shut down, in Charlottetown, Britain and Taiwan because of public health concerns, including headaches, nausea and sleep problems.
Residents couldn't agree on a location and the municipality refused to issue a building permit. But Industry Canada approved the site anyway because federal officials concluded it was in the national interest, according to Alain Côté, the official in charge of cellphone communication in Quebec.
Man on bicycle dies after crash on U.S. 13 on Eastern Shore
A 43-year-old man who was riding a bicycle along U.S. 13 died this morning after being hit by a vehicle that left the scene of the crash, state police said. Marvin A Hines, of the 2700 block of Fisher’s Circle in Melfa, was riding in the right southbound lane of the highway near the Tasley overpass when he was hit by a vehicle that sped away, said Sgt. Michelle Cotten, state police spokeswoman. The crash occurred shortly after midnight. Hines died at the scene, Cotten said. A state trooper located a silver Chevrolet Silverado truck and charged the driver in connection with the crash, Cotten said. State police have charged Willie Lee Bailey, 52, with involuntary manslaughter, felony hit and run and driving under the influence of alcohol, Cotten said.
Food, wine and music Three Grass Valley celebrations offer taste and ...
Friday evening kicks off festivities with the 3rd Annual Northern Sierra Winter Wine & Food Masquerade, a Mardi Gras food and wine pairing that combines the mystique of a masquerade with the talents of local winemakers and chefs and all set to music.
On Saturday, March 1, the festivities continue with the 7th Annual Foothills Celebration where the charm of historic downtown Grass Valley is combined with a stroll through the streets, while listening to live music and indulging in more scrumptious gourmet food and wine.
Finally, on March 2, Music In The Mountains presents the 1st Annual Foothills Celebration Sunday Brunch, a delicious midday meal accompanied by Paul Perry on piano with a string ensemble held at the new Gold Miners Inn- Holiday Inn Express. Grass Valley pulls together regional talent and parties in style.
Raising the bar
Freije smiles as if he is going to get told off for what comes next. 'When I was head of the boxing club, we'd try to get the team to be healthy - for example, trying to get people to make juices. But for explosive sports, just before they kick off you'll find boxers doing mental things, trying to get as much carbohydrate in the system as they can.' Like what? 'Family bars of Dairy Milk. Whole packets of fruit pastilles.' Boxing is not the only sport to have some unorthodox solutions to energy shortages. One of Britain's most successful professional surfers, Robyn Davies, is a lifetime vegetarian, but some of her fellow surfers are not so fussy. 'Surfers eat anything near at hand if it's going to give them energy to get back in the waves. A friend of mine was so desperate not to get out of the surf that she scrambled up the rocks, smashed off a couple of limpets, sucked out their insides, then paddled back out for another three-hour session.
Suicide bomber strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
The WWI may not have been a religious war, but WWII certainly was.
1. All the Fascist Axis (Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, even France) were Catholics, and had Pope's blessing
2. The Allies were Protestants (USA, UK, Netherlands etc.)
3. Both concurred on a Final Solution in the West (even for Canada 1 Jew was too many). Israel is a living proof
4. Fascist wantedHoly Victory (Sieg Heil). Revisionsts now say that they only meant Hail Victory
5. The tone of the movie Triumph of the Will is religious
That is understandable. The soul of the Modern Democratic West is anti-Jewish. Magna Carta contains 3 clauses limiting Jewish activities.
How does the WWII differ from the present unstated Sunni-Shia carnage? What confuses the Westerners is that in Islam religion is not separate from politics, in the West it is.
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