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Phil Rowe (Abbotsford, BC) was the Men's Open Main Draw singles and doubles champion last weekend at the ITF Futures Series Capital City Classic in Ottawa. Second seeded Rowe defeated top seeded Yan Mathieu (Montreal) 7-5, 6-4 to take the singles title. In doubles action Rowe and Mathieu combined to defeat Joel Dembe (Hamilton, Ontario) and Nissim Louis (Montreal) in the final 7-6(5), 6-3. Corey Blatchford won the Men's Open Main Draw singles consolation, and Norman Jean Pierre took the B title.Pelletier Earns Doubles Championship
Marie-Eve Pelletier (Repentigny, Quebec) created fireworks of her own on Canada Day weekend, netting the doubles crown at the $25,000 Perigueux Challenger in Perigueux, France alongside Monique Adamczak (Australia).
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Death of Jim Rubush saddens community R-BB assistant superintendent dies after battle with cancer
Editors note: Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. assistant superintendent Jim Rubush died Saturday morning. Reporter Andy Graham last visited with Rubush Wednesday for this story.MARTINSVILLE
Jim Rubush, 59, seemed pleased to have visitors. He would have been even happier to have taken them fishing.
It was a gloriously crisp and sunny Wednesday afternoon, a cold front having chased away the customary July humidity the night before.
Rubush was at home, on the shores of Lake Edgewood in Morgan County, rather than at his Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corp. office.
With a good fly rod cast through an open door, Rubush probably could have reached the water from where he lay in the hospital-model bed his hospice provider had delivered a couple of days earlier.
Alan Peppard: Ashlee's family affair
Ashlee Simpson is making a summer pilgrimage through midsize concert venues (can you say Myrtle Beach House of Blues?). It's known as her "Love Tour" – as in love your new nose – so it is appropriate that she was surrounded by the love of her family during her hometown gig Saturday night at Smirnoff Music Centre. Older sister Jessica Simpson came along, as did mother Tina Simpson and delightfully creepy dad Joe Simpson. The family bivouacked at Hotel ZaZa, where, on Sunday evening, they shut down the poolside Urban Oasis, feasting on champagne and French fries with ranch dressing until 1:30 a.m. .Retiree continues quest for knowledge
More opportunities are available today for the senior adult population than ever before. However, few seniors are as ambitious as a 75-year-old Columbia man who recently returned home after spending three weeks studying the Spanish language in Guatemala."While taking a philosophy course in major religions of the world at Columbia State, I met Ana McMillan, the Spanish instructor," explained Gene Aydelotte. "I remembered some Spanish from my high school days and enjoyed the class so much that I wanted to learn more."Gene said he did extensive research on the Internet before deciding on his destination."I traveled to a foreign country of which I knew absolutely nothing and had read little about," he said, "but I lived a lifetime during those three weeks, and it has certainly broadened my horizons."Gene studied Spanish in a well-known Spanish language academy in the ancient city of Antigua, where he experienced total immersion in the language and Mayan culture.Federal Court Blocks Navy's Use of High-Intensity Sonar Use near ...
(July 3, 2006) --Two years ago today, Kauai's residents and visitors were astonished by the strange sight of hundreds of melon headed whales in Hanalei Bay, later it was confirmed that the biannual RIMPAC excercise had been testing loud underwater sonar in the war games.Yesterday, Bill Walker, former Coast Guard sonar technician joined others along Kaumuali‘i Highway to protest the use of sonar in the biannual RIMPAC exercises taking place off Hawaiian shores this month.
The Kauai resdient carried an American flag outside the Pacific Missile Range Facility's Independence Day celebration last night.
Scientific data gathered over the world in the past decade shows this type of sonar has been directly associated with repeated occurrences of mass strandings and deaths of whales, dolphins, and other marine species in U.S.