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Upper Beaches Daily Updates
The latest news, views and things to do in the Upper Beaches neighbourhoods
Three girls subjected to indecent exposure, police report
Police have released images and video of a man they suspect followed three girls, age 13 to 14, to their home and looked through their window while committing an indecent act.
The girls, age 13 to 14, were walking home for lunch near Dundas Street East and Woodfield Road at 11:07 when they were followed, police said.
Investigators are asking for public help identifying the man. For more information, including images and video, see the police news release.
Armed suspects sought in Beach Hill home invasion
Two armed males and a female are sought by police after a home invasion near Norway and Elmer avenues early on March 20, police reported yesterday.
The incident began with a female befriending a man and going to his apartment. When two other men showed up, armed with a machete and firearm, the victim “left his apartment in fear,” police reported.
Police have released several images of the suspects.
For more details and images, read the story in Streeter News.
Knife-wielding man at Victoria Park station
A man was reported chasing TTC patrons with a knife on the westbound subway platform yesterday evening.
Police found the man and no injuries were reported, they said on Twitter.
PERSON WITH A KNIFE: UPDATE
Victoria Park Subway
– No reports of injuries
– Officers have located the man involved
– Thank-you for your patience while we investigated this matter
— Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) March 22, 2023
Malvern Juniors take city championship
The Junior Black Knights team at Malvern Collegiate Institute hockey won the TDSSAA city championship on March 8, Beach Metro is reporting today.
This came just six days after the Varsity Malvern girls took home gold, the paper is reporting.
See Beach Metro Community News for the full report.
Outdoor skating continues to Sunday — if the ice holds up
The city is encouraging skaters to enjoy the last few days of the official outdoor skating season at our local rinks. However, the weather seems poised to end the season earlier than the scheduled March 19 deadline.
Sunday evening is when the city starts to close its outdoor artificial ice rinks, natural ice rinks and skating trails and begin its annual conversion of spaces into skateboarding parks, tennis courts and pickleball spaces.
Meanwhile the forecast for the next four days calls for rainy and overcast days with temperatures mainly above zero.
Identity of man sought after sexual assault
An image has been released by police seeking the identity of a man wanted in a sexual assault investigation.
The alleged assault occurred March 11 before 8:45 p.m. near Danforth and Victoria Park avenues, police said.
A man reportedly offered to help a woman who was shopping in the area but ended up attacking her, before fleeing the area in a silver SUV.
For more details and suspect description, see the police news release.
Local veggie burger hailed among the best
It may have made its name for its love of meat, but a local eatery also offers one of the city’s top vegan burgers — made with Beyond Meat served on an Ace Bakery bun. So says BlogTO in s story today.
The site placed Fearless Meat, 884 Kingston Rd., at number 3 in its rundown of the best veggie burgers in Toronto.
Arrest for crosstown bank robberies 20 minutes apart
A man was arrested yesterday after a bank robbery near Danforth and Coxwell avenues, police reported today.
It was the second such bank robbery of the day, they said. Twenty minutes before the East Danforth holdup, officers had responded to a holdup call near Bloor and Bathurst streets.
In both cases a man is alleged to have worn a mask and gloves while handing a teller a note saying he had a firearm and demanding cash. The man then fled the areas with the money, police said.
A 24-year-old Toronto man faces six charges, including two counts each of robbery and disguise with intent.
Developments to change the face of Danforth
The full scale of the transformation being wrought on East Danforth by multiple highrise developments was brought home at the community consultation yesterday.
The virtual meeting heard from three development teams on the eight buildings, ranging from 15 to 55 storeys, they propose to add to the existing buildings and to eight other towers already approved for the stretch of Danforth Avenue from Main Street to Dawes Road.
Little time was left at the meeting, however, for community feedback.
See Streeter’s full report on the event.
Registration on for Easter parade
With one month to go before the 57th Beaches Easter Parade, registration is on for local groups and businesses to take part in the parade.
Community groups can register for $250 while businesses pay $450. They have until March 31 to sign up on the float registration site.
The parade takes place on Queen Street East on April 9.
Man sought for spraying subway rider with noxious substance
A subway passenger was repeatedly sprayed with an unknown, pepper-like substance on the Bloor-Danforth line between Donlands and Greenwood stations on the evening of Feb. 28, police report.
Two men, unknown to each other, were travelling eastbound when, without provocation, one man sprayed the other man in the face, police said in a new release today. Each time the victim stepped away from the attack, he was sprayed again.
A man is wanted on three counts of administering a noxious substance. For more details, see the police news release.
Public consultation to be held on three massive Danforth developments
Thousands of residential units with several thousand more residences could be added if three planned developments on Danforth Avenue, between Main street and Dawes road, are approved.
A virtual community consultation on all three projects is being held on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. City planners and Beaches East York councillor Brad Bradford are scheduled to take part.
A total of eight new buildings, ranging from 15 to 55 storeys are being proposed.
For more on the projects and the online community meeting, see Streeter’s Thing To do listing.
Posters oppose Bradford’s mayoral run
Flyers have appeared on streets in Beaches-East York calling councillor Brad Bradford two-faced, headed “Deceive in the East” — a takeoff on “Believe in the East,” his slogan in the 2022 council race.
They have also popped up on social media, including on Twitter.
The posters are apparently intended to oppose Bradford’s expected campaign for mayor.
They purport to show his record of voting runs counter to the image he presents as a progressive politician.
Summerlicious applications open
Winterlicious seems barely over and it’s already time for local restaurants to sign up for the summer edition of the fixed-price dining festival.
Applications to participate in the Summerlicious program will be accepted from today to March 22, the city has announced.
This year’s Summerlicious runs from July 7 to 23 and there’s good news for participating restaurants: the fees have been cut to less than half the pre-pandemic rates. The new fee is $550. The city says this reduction should “make it easy and affordable for restaurants to participate and will encourage more Toronto residents to dine out and celebrate Toronto’s diverse culinary scene.”
Restaurants can find more information on the City’s Summerlicious 2023 Restaurant Participation webpage.
Fundraiser for Turkey at St. John the Baptist Norway
A fundraising event is planned for St. John the Baptist Norway church on March 4, from 2 to 6 p.m.
Baked goods and other items will be sold to support earthquake relief in Turkey. See the Streeter Things To Do listing for more information.
Federal rep ponders what he could do as provincial leader
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith appears closer to declaring himself a candidate for the Ontario Liberal leadership, though he won’t make his final decision until next month when the party sets the rules for the race.
That’s what may be gleaned from a CBC story today in which the Beaches-East York MP, who has been touring the province for a possible run, touted his experience as an outspoken backbencher in Ottawa as showing he could bring democratic renewal to the Ontario political scene.
Soup-tasting competition to return to Centre 55
Some talented soup chef is going to win a Silver Ladle (and some cash) for making the best soup in town — and the rest of us get to taste all the entries on March 2.
That’s when Community Centre 55 holds its annual soup-tasting competition. Becoming a judge (a taster) costs just $5, with the money going to support the centre’s programs.
More about the competition in Streeter’s Things To Do listing.
Local home prices dropping, real estate board says
Home prices are down by 12 per cent from last year in this area, according to figures recently released by the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board. The report indicates the year-over-year decrease for the real estate “E02” area, including Beaches, East End-Danforth and Woodbine Corridor.
As of January, the average home here is now about $1.3 million, TRREB reports. Single, detached houses have taken the biggest hit, dropping 13.8 per cent to about $1.6 million.
Charges in ‘hate-motivated assault’ of child on local bus
A man has been arrested for an alleged assault near Danforth Avenue and Main Street, an incident that police are calling a hate-motivated offence.
It is alleged on Feb. 8 a man threatened several passengers on a bus near the Main Street Station, made racial slurs, and assaulted a 12-year-old. He reportedly left the bus and fled before police arrived. The child suffered suffered minor injuries, police said.
On Feb. 20 a Toronto man, 32, was arrested and faces three charges.
After consulting with their hate crime unit, police said the investigation is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence. See the police news release for more details.
Parking restrictions eased for Family Day
Police have announced they will not be ticketing vehicles parked on the street on Feb. 20 on rush-hour routes and in areas with posted Monday–Friday regulations.
Bradford touted for mayoralty run
Beaches-East York councillor Brad Bradford says he’s received calls asking him to run for mayor, since John Tory’s sudden resignation, according to a Toronto Star article about possible candidates yesterday.
Bradford, who was supported by Tory when first elected to council in 2018, reportedly told the Star he hasn’t decided yet whether to run for mayor.
Leslieville market moves indoors
The Leslieville Farmers’ Market has partnered with the Neighbourhood Food Hub to launch the indoor Hub Community Market — bringing us farm produce and more every Sunday, starting Feb. 19, in an indoor setting.
More information on the Streeter Things To Do listing.
Skate Day is back at Ted Reeve
Beaches-East York’s city councillor, MPP and MP are joining together to host their annual Skate Day at Ted Reeve Arena.
It takes place on Feb. 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
See more information on this event at the Streeter Things To Do listing.
Report our potholes to be fixed
You may see repair crews out on the roads today as the city launches its first pothole-fixing blitz of the year.
Chances are, though, plenty of Beach potholes will remain unless they are reported. To get those car-wrecking eyesores filled, report them via the 311 Toronto mobile app, online at Toronto.ca/311 or by calling 311.
The city says most repairs are carried out within four days of potholes being reported.
‘Hate-motivated’ assault reported on bus near Main
And the reports of violence on the TTC keep coming. On Feb. 8 police were called to Main Street Station after a girl was reportedly assaulted on a bus near Main Street Station.
Police are calling it a hate-motivated crime because a racial slur was allegedly made.
See the police news release for details and images.
Winter Stations rising on the beach
This year’s winners of the Winter Stations art installation contest have been chosen and you can watch six of their works being built on Woodbine Beach.
Three university teams are involved in this year’s Winter Stations. See the Toronto Observer story for more about this prestigious event.
This ward soon to have three cameras to catch speeders
The city is adding 25 automated speed enforcement cameras, one for each ward in Toronto. The most recent ASE site in Beaches-East York is on Main Street south of Swanwick Avenue.
It joins two other such cameras in the ward, currently located on Wolverleigh Boulevard, west of Glebemount Avenue, and on Gerrard Street East, east of Beaton Avenue.
See the full Streeter story on the new cameras.
Two arrested in alleged home invasion
Three days after a reported home invasion near Woodbine and Norway avenues (see Jan. 29 item below), the man and woman suspects have been arrested, police say.
Police received information from the public that led to finding the two in the area of Danforth and Cedarvale avenues, according to a news release.
Arrested on Jan. 31 at about 7:30 p.m., the Toronto man, 38, and Toronto woman, 3o, face a total of 14 charges, including breaking and entering, robbery with an offensive weapon and assault with a weapon.
For more details, see the police news release.
Have you spotted the orange pigeon?
Social media is reporting an unusually orange pigeon hanging around with other normally hued birds in the east end — notably outside Shopper’s World on Danforth Avenue at Victoria Park.
If you see it, tell us. The world wants to know.
Man and woman sought in home invasion investigation
Investigators are looking for a 38-year-old man and 30-year-old woman after an alleged home invasion, police said yesterday evening.
In the early hours of Jan. 28, two people armed with knives allegedly broke into a residence near Woodbine and Norway avenues and attacked a tenant. The tenant suffered serious injury, police said.
More information and images of the suspects are available in the police news release.
Town hall budget meeting for east-end residents
Have your say at the town hall meeting on the city’s 2023 budget, co-hosted by Toronto-Danforth and Beaches East York councillors. The meeting’s on Feb. 3. See more about it in Streeter’s Things To Do listing.
JAN. 27 REMINDER: Winterlicious starts today at restaurants across Toronto and in Leslieville. See Jan. 20 item below.
New CafeTO fees to hurt local eateries: Fragedakis
Local restaurants may be hit hard by the changes to the city’s CafeTO program this year, says Mary Fragedakis, executive director of the GreekTown on the Danforth BIA. She was talking to John Moore on Newstalk 1010’s Moore in the Morning program today.
City council is considering a staff report that proposes charging new fees for restaurants participating in CafeTO.
“Many small businesses are struggling terribly right now … and this is another stressor,” Fragedakis said. She predicted the new fees would put CafeTO out of reach for many of them.
Hear the interview on iHeart radio, including Mayor John Tory’s defence of the fees.
Identity sought in assault investigation
Police are looking for a man shown on security cameras after an alleged assault near Danforth and Jones avenues at about 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 24.
The victim fell to the ground and sustained serious injuries, police say.
The police news release provides an image and more information.
Start making reservations now for Winterlicious dining festival
Winterlicious is back, set to offer prix fixe lunches and dinners from Jan. 27 to Feb. 9.
Upper Beaches-area restaurants participating in Winterlicious Toronto include The Beech Tree and Bowl of Karma on Kingston Road.
You can find the entire Toronto list on the city’s Winterlicious page.
CampTO registration set to open
It’s time to start planning the kids’ summer camp activities at local parks and centres this summer. The city has announced its CampTO programs are online for your consideration, ready for registration beginning Feb. 11.
Some new programs have been added to the CampTO lineup for the programs that run from July 4 to Sept. 1.
Camp locations in and around the Upper Beaches area include:
- Adam Beck Community Centre, 79 Lawlor Ave.
- Birchmount Community Centre, 93 Birchmount Rd.
- Main Square Community Centre, 245 Main St.
For more information on the program and registration, see the Streeter calendar listing.
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Bobcats finish season in hard fought game against Bulldogs
October 26, 2023
The Thermopolis Varsity football team saw their season come to an end, in a well-attended, and hard-fought game played in Lovell this past Friday
night. Coming into the game, the Bobcats needed to win by a margin of greater than five, in order to see their way into the post-season.
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Service Life Of Air Showers
Each item will have its service life, and the length of the service life is determined by many factors. Now we will discuss the service life of the air shower and the time requirement for its replacement.
Many air shower users will have a question. How long is the service life of the air shower, and how long can it be used? Is it the same as the replacement cycle of the air filter, which needs to be replaced regularly? Of course, then again, because the air shower is also equipped with a primary filter and a high-efficiency filter, there are usually replacement requirements for these two filters.
The use and use of the air shower is determined by the main material and the use environment of the air shower, and whether it is regularly maintained or not also determines the service life of the air shower. Let's talk about the factors affecting the service life of the air shower:
Generally speaking, the use of the air shower room in a humid environment is definitely not as long as that in a dry environment, because the humid environment will have a certain degree of corrosion on the outside and inside of the air shower room, especially the electrical part will occasionally have a small impact. , but the effect is not significant.
1. The service life of the stainless steel air shower is about 10-15 years, and the more ventilated and dry environment can be used for about 20 years
2. The service life of the bottom plate of the color steel air shower room is generally 3-5 years. If it is not maintained frequently, it may be about 1 year to 2 years. The service life of the color steel plate box is about 8 years. With the increasing environmental requirements, Generally speaking, the color steel plate air shower room on the market has basically been eliminated, so it is not recommended that the air shower room users choose the color steel plate air shower room.
3. The service life of the cold-rolled steel plate baking paint air shower is about 10 years, and the dry environment can be used for about 15 years. If properly maintained, the service life is comparable to that of the stainless steel air shower.
Kwang Purification is proud to offer examples of a variety of our air shower projects below. Stainless Steel Air Shower, Cargo Air Shower, Automatic Door Air Shower, Corner Air Shower, Multi User Stainless Steel Air Shower, Air Shower With Sole Cleaning System.


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Online Homework Conflicts with Parental Limits on Kids’ Screen Time
January 09, 2019
Homework has long been a controversial topic among U.S. parents (to begin, see Time Magazine‘s 1999 article, “The Homework Ate My Family”). But increasingly the homework controversy isn’t just about how much schools should or should not be assigned. Increasingly, parents are also raising concerns about online homework and screen time.
If you have children of school age, you’re likely aware of the challenges associated with managing their screen time. You probably also know how difficult it can be balancing homework requirements with screen time limits. The situation is so widespread, some parents are even beginning to wonder if educators share their concerns about child and teen screen addiction at all.
One Family’s Screen Time Dilemma
John and Megan live in New York City and have two children enrolled in the city’s public school system. Kyle is 12 and attends a middle school in Manhattan. Hannah is 16 and attends Bronx Science, one of the city’s top-ranked high schools. While Megan and John have long sought to limit their children’s screen time, they have all but given up.
“Five years ago, we had a rule with Hannah–no screens until your homework is complete,” explains John, “But by seventh grade, this was impossible. Half her teachers, even in middle school, wanted her to complete an assignment online, or they were doing the flipped classroom thing, and she had to spend 45 minutes watching math videos every night, or she just had to log on to Jupiter or another online platform to find out what the assigned homework was. We couldn’t say, ‘no phone, no computer access’. It was either limit screen time and jeopardize her studies, or cave in.”
Megan notes that since their daughter was in middle school five years ago, the situation has grown even worse. “Now Kyle is in seventh grade, and he sometimes needs to do something online for every class each night,” she says. “It might be a video or group project on Google Docs or an online educational game. What are we suppose to say? Don’t do your homework? But I don’t think teachers are really thinking through the consequences.”
If John and Megan are frustrated and feel like they don’t have any choice but to give in to their local schools’ online homework demands, they certainly aren’t alone. There are now a growing number of studies that appear to link excessive child and teen screen time to lower levels of academic achievement and higher levels of anxiety and depression, helping your children limit their screen time is often impossible due to educators’ growing reliance on online learning.
Most U.S. Teachers Require Students to Complete Online Homework
As reported in an October 2018 article in The Atlantic, most schoolwork now requires the use of a computer and an internet connection. In fact, one federal study found that 70% of American teachers assign homework that needs to be completed online, and at the high school level, the number of teachers assigning online homework is much higher (90%). In most cases, online homework assignments aren’t an occasional request but a daily occurrence.
The online homework phenomenon is also not a new trend. In 2015, the National Center for Educational Statistics reported that 88% of 8th-graders and just 5% fewer 4th-graders reported using a home computer, and 80% of 8th-graders reported engaging in some screen time to complete schoolwork.
Even Teens Admit They May Be Spending Too Much Time Online
While teachers continue to assign homework that requires kids of all ages, and especially teens, to be online, many teens worry they may already be spending too much time online.
A 2018 study by the Pew Research Center found that roughly half of 13 to 17 year olds surveyed worried that they spend too much time online, specifically on their phones. In fact, over half of the adolescents surveyed (52%) were worried enough to have already attempted to cut back the time they spend on their phones.
What the Pew study doesn’t mention is that online homework may be partially to blame for teens’ screen time. Mobile phones are necessary to access many social media apps, including Snapchat, but many teens, especially those without access to their own computer, also rely on their phones to access online learning apps. As a result, teens often use the same device to socialize and complete their homework, making it difficult to establish firm boundaries. But this raises another question: What are the consequences of constantly toggling back and forth between multiple social and educational apps?
Mixed Reactions to Multitasking in a Multi-Screen World
Most current research on multitasking, and specifically media multitasking, suggests that if there are any benefits, the benefits are lost when the multitasking surpasses a reasonable threshold.
In one 2012 study, Rachel F. Adlera and Raquel Benbunan-Fich from the City University of New York recruited 205 subjects (90 female and 115 male) and assigned each subject a condition: 102 subjects solved a series of tasks sequentially in a “Non-Multitasking (NMT) condition” while 103 subjects were allowed to switch tasks at will in a “Discretionary Multitasking (DMT) condition.” The researchers discovered, “Performance increases at lower levels of multitasking when increased arousal from shifting goals is beneficial to keep the users alert and engaged with their tasks. However, performance decreases after a certain point when constant goal displacement has a negative effect on performance.”
A 2016 survey of recent studies on media multitasking carried out by Se-Hoon Jeong and Yoori Hwang reached a similar conclusion. Based on a review of 49 studies on media multitasking, they concluded, “multitasking had negative effects on cognitive outcomes but had positive effects on attitudinal outcomes.” In other words, while multitasking may motivate a learner, it ultimately also distracts learners and serves as an obstacle to reaching peak performance.
A 2018 study based on a decade of research carried out by Stanford University professor Anthony Wagner reached an even less optimistic conclusion about the effects of media multitasking. As Wagner recently told the Stanford News, excessive media multitasking and screen time compromises one’s performance when carrying out tasks that require cognitive memory. In fact, according to Wagner, no existing studies suggest the opposite.
What Parents Can Do to Intervene
While many parents feel that their hands are tied and they have no choice but to continue letting their children and teens spend hours online every day, a few potential interventions remain viable.
- Fight technology with technology: For years, parents have been relying on programs such as Net Nanny to limit the types of websites their children can visit. New devices–for example, Circle Media–are now also becoming popular with some parents. Circle enables parents to easily manage any internet-connected device in their home and even to lockdown certain devices.
- Put pressure on your child’s teachers or schools to scale back online homework assignments: While one might not be able to take on this fight alone, with the support of other parents, it may be possible to persuade a teacher or school to at least limit how much online homework they assign each night.
- Help your kids break bad online habits: As online homework increasingly becomes an unavoidable part of family life, parents are also advised to help their children understand the consequences of media multitasking.
While the above interventions may help, to effectively manage kids’ screen time at home, teachers and schools, which are now part of the problem, will need to become part of the solution.

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World Direct Shipping soon plans to launch a direct, weekly service at Port Manatee in Palmetto, Fla., offering a fast two-way connection between Mexico and U.S. markets for refrigerated produce and other goods.To begin Oct. 28, the service will focus on fulfilling a need for a more prompt transportation link for both perishable and nonperishable goods, World Direct Shipping officials said in a press release."With a transit time of only two-and-a-half days, [we offer] the quickest short-sea connection to the U.S. Southeast, Northeast and Midwest," said Carlos Diaz, World Direct Shipping's business director. "Port Manatee's [close] proximity to Mexico is ideal for this service. This new fast connection will offer reduced costs and enhanced delivery of a fresher product to consumers east of the Mississippi River."A ship with an 862-container capacity will transport the cargo between Port Manatee and the Port of Coatzacoalcos in the the Mexican state of Veracruz. Produce would include pineapples, avocados, limes, mangos and bananas, while nonperishable goods would include machinery, vehicles, lumber, paper products, juice concentrates, sugar and beer.Initially, imported cargo would move from Port Manatee via a truck/rail combination. As volumes grow, World Direct Shipping would be interested in a unit-train service direct from the Florida port, said Port Manatee Marketing and Public Relations Manager Virginia Zimmermann in an email. Port Manatee’s railroad operates about eight miles of track and connects to a CSX Transportation mainline less than a mile from the port's north gate.

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Just wanted to post up a thread about this guy whom I was lucky enough to go and watch on Thursday night.
For anybody into blues, matt really is a fantastic player with great feel for the music (and his tone is crazy good).
It's a 3 piece band with Hammond Organ (left hand bass), Matt Schofield playing guitar and vocals and a drummer. All 3 of them are very talented guys and if you get the chance to see them I urge you to do so, I've already bought tickets to see him again in November.
Here are a few pics I took on the night:
Matt is shit hot, I went to see him a few years back when he had that trio with the guy on the organ.
His sound and playing is amazing. Plus he is really down to earth and pretty humble with it.
Even my lady was impressed and her taste in music is usually reserved for Robbie Williams....

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Adventure novel shatters cliche plots
'Tunnels' presents entertaining story, charisma
In this fantasy/science fiction novel, the main character, Will Burrows, and his father have somewhat of an obsession with digging tunnels. Although the father and son are said to have no secrets with each other, the story is twisted when Will discovers that his father has been digging a secret tunnel and then goes missing.
You have heard this story before. It starts with a 14-year-old kid from a dysfunctional family who is bullied at school for his appearance. He befriends another outcast; they stand up for each other and get in fights. Sound familiar? This essentially sums up most high school dramas ever invented, give or take a love interest.
Tunnels, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, manages to break that mold. In fact, it completely shatters this cliche with its serpentine plot and mixture of harsh reality and widespread conspiracy.
What separates the ironically named Will Burrows from the average teen is that he and his dad, Roger, dig. A lot. They share an obsession for excavating and discovering under their small British town, Highfield. Secrecy is a key to their work, ever since an important professor claimed credit for a buried Roman villa, leaving Dr. Burrows only a small footnote. Between Will and his father, however, there are no secrets.
Because of this, Will is stunned when he finds evidence indicating that his father has been conducting a secret dig, near his house. Then, his father disappears.
Since the police are baffled at where to start, Will and his friend Chester set to work finding out where he has gone. They find few concrete clues, but a collapsed tunnel in Will's basement and cryptic notes in Dr. Burrow's office seem to indicate that something is afoot.
Chester helps Will clear the tunnel and they discover a strange elevator where city records show nothing manmade should exist. Here, Will's scientific curiosity gets the better of him and Chester follows him down.
Things below are stranger than anything Will could have possibly imagined. A whole society known as the Colony exists there, under the earth. Unfortunately, he and Chester are accused of breaking some sort of trespassing law, so he and Chester are imprisoned and interrogated by a group of pale, black-eyed men known as the Styx.
Here, the plot takes an unexpected turn again. The guards inform Will that he has visitors, and they claim that Will's real name is Seth and they are his real family. They take Will out of the prison, leaving Chester alone.
Although Will initially refuses to believe them, his new family's resemblance to him and their utter conviction eventually convince him. His newfound younger brother, Cal, looks up to him, a new experience for Will.
However, Will soon grows uneasy with life in the Colony. He learns that his real mother fled to the surface to escape the Styx, who control the citizens underground through a kind of cult. Chester continues to be imprisoned and is growing more desperate day by day. In the meantime, Cal shows a willingness to escape with Will.
"I found Tunnels to be a gritty adventure, living up to its name with its dark tone and twisting plot. Because of this, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy or science fiction, or just weird conspiracies." --Daniel Moore, '14
The remainder of the book deals with Will's attempts to escape and rescue Chester. He soon learns that the Styx have influence everywhere, even on the surface. He is locked in a desperate fight and he can never return home.
Despite the absurdity of the premises, I found that Tunnels had a sort of grim charisma to it. Will, Chester and Cal are real, relatable characters, and their decisions and interactions are interesting. The plot held me in a kind of bizarre fascination, showing at the same time both the wonder of this strange world and the doubts the protagonists felt about it.
I found Tunnels to be a gritty adventure, living up to its name with its dark tone and twisting plot. Because of this, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy or science fiction, or just weird conspiracies.
The book covers a little less than 500 pages and is first in a series of five books to date. The book is available on Amazon.com for about $9.
For more book reviews, read the Feb. 27 article, Cancer novel balances humor, gravity.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Irish Writers of all time. This list of famous Irish Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Irish Writers.
With an HPI of 85.81, Oscar Wilde is the most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 119 different languages on wikipedia.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On his release, he left immediately for France, and never returned to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.
With an HPI of 83.64, Jonathan Swift is the 2nd most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 93 different languages.
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
With an HPI of 83.61, James Joyce is the 3rd most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 144 different languages.
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, most famously stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism. Joyce was born in Dublin into a middle-class family. A brilliant student, he attended the Jesuit Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare, then, briefly, the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling at the Jesuit Belvedere College, despite the chaotic family life imposed by his father's unpredictable finances. He went on to attend University College Dublin. In 1904, in his early 20s, Joyce emigrated to continental Europe with his partner (and later wife) Nora Barnacle. They lived in Trieste, Paris, and Zürich. Although most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe centres on Dublin and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies, and friends from his time there. Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of the book, he elucidated this preoccupation, saying, "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."
With an HPI of 83.25, George Bernard Shaw is the 4th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 113 different languages.
George Bernard Shaw 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas. By the early twentieth century his reputation as a dramatist was secured with a series of critical and popular successes that included Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma and Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable, and although not a republican, castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period. These stances had no lasting effect on his standing or productivity as a dramatist; the inter-war years saw a series of often ambitious plays, which achieved varying degrees of popular success. In 1938 he provided the screenplay for a filmed version of Pygmalion for which he received an Academy Award. His appetite for politics and controversy remained undiminished; by the late 1920s he had largely renounced Fabian Society gradualism and often wrote and spoke favourably of dictatorships of the right and left—he expressed admiration for both Mussolini and Stalin. In the final decade of his life he made fewer public statements, but continued to write prolifically until shortly before his death, aged ninety-four, having refused all state honours, including the Order of Merit in 1946. Since Shaw's death scholarly and critical opinion about his works has varied, but he has regularly been rated among British dramatists as second only to Shakespeare; analysts recognise his extensive influence on generations of English-language playwrights. The word Shavian has entered the language as encapsulating Shaw's ideas and his means of expressing them.
With an HPI of 81.98, Samuel Beckett is the 5th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 102 different languages.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, he wrote in both French and English. Beckett's multi-faceted work offers a bleak, tragi-comic outlook on existence and experience, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. It became increasingly minimalist in his later career, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd". His best-known work is his 1953 play Waiting for Godot. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.
With an HPI of 78.68, Bram Stoker is the 6th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 77 different languages.
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned.
With an HPI of 76.22, W. B. Yeats is the 7th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 95 different languages.
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland, and educated there and in London. He was a Protestant and member of the Anglo-Irish community. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
With an HPI of 74.55, Laurence Sterne is the 8th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 46 different languages.
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric. He wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family that travelled mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt. Having found a talent for writing, he published early volumes of his best-known novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Sterne travelled to France to find relief from persistent tuberculosis, documenting his travels in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published weeks before his death. His posthumous Journal to Eliza addresses Eliza Draper, for whom he had romantic feelings. Sterne died in 1768 and was buried in the yard of St George's, Hanover Square. It has been said that his body was stolen after burial and sold to anatomists at Cambridge University, but recognised and reinterred. His alleged skull was found in the churchyard and transferred to Coxwold churchyard in 1969 by the Laurence Sterne Trust.
With an HPI of 71.90, Iris Murdoch is the 9th most famous Irish Writer. Her biography has been translated into 50 different languages.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, the Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Her other books include The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), The Red and the Green (1965), The Nice and the Good (1968), The Black Prince (1973), Henry and Cato (1976), The Philosopher's Pupil (1983), The Good Apprentice (1985), The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), The Message to the Planet (1989), and The Green Knight (1993).
With an HPI of 71.56, Joseph Murphy is the 10th most famous Irish Writer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Joseph Denis Murphy (May 20, 1898 – December 16, 1981) was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science.
Pantheon has 52 people classified as writers born between 550 and 1991. Of these 52, 17 (32.69%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include John Banville, Edna O'Brien, and John Boyne. The most famous deceased writers include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, and James Joyce. As of October 2020, 5 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Jane Wilde, Terence MacSwiney, and Stefan Molyneux.
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Mary J. Blige, NAS, Pharrell on tap for 2019 Essence Fest
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 2019 Essence Festival will feature headlining performances by Mary J. Blige and rappers NAS, Pharrell, Jermaine Dupri and Missy Elliott as Essence Magazine's "party with a...
Super Bowl week to feature Bruno Mars, Cardi B, Migos
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Travis Scott to Jermaine Dupri are among the music artists who have been criticized for taking part in Super Bowl-related events, but their shows — and many others — will still go on. That's despite a political firestorm over whether social justice needs to be addressed at the NFL's marquee event.
Entertainers address social injustice issues at Super Bowl
ATLANTA (AP) — Some entertainers believe social injustice needs to be addressed during the Super Bowl and are ensuring the topic that ignited a political firestorm, engulfing the NFL, will be in the spotlight.
They passionately disagree on how. Some will perform in Super Bowl-related events while others will be noticeably absent.
2019 Songwriters Hall class: Missy, Cat Stevens, John Prine
NEW YORK (AP) — Missy Elliott is making history as the first female rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, whose 2019 class also includes legendary British singer Cat Stevens and country-folk icon John Prine.
APNewsBreak: Elliott, Hynde and Gill up for Songwriters Hall
NEW YORK (AP) — Missy Elliott, one of rap's greatest voices and also a songwriter and producer who has crafted songs for Beyonce and Whitney Houston, is one of the nominees for the 2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Elliott is the first female rapper nominated for the prestigious prize and could also become the third rapper to enter the organization following recent inductees Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri.
Bebe Rexha: ‘I want to help other artists’
ATLANTA (AP) — Rap mogul Jermaine Dupri will celebrate his groundbreaking record label So So Def with a multi-city anniversary concert tour.
Dupri told The Associated Press on Monday that The So So Def 25th Anniversary Cultural Curren$y tour will feature himself, Xscape, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Bow Wow, Anthony Hamilton, Bone Crusher, Youngbloodz, Dem Franchize Boyz and J-Kwon.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Diamond may have retired from touring due to Parkinson's disease, but the singer didn't let that stop him from giving a cheery and memorable performance at the 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony.
Diamond, who was officially inducted into the Hall in 1984, earned the Johnny Mercer Award on Thursday and closed the multi-hour event in New York City with a rousing rendition of "Sweet Caroline."
NEW YORK (AP) — When Jermaine Dupri gets inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he will be only the second hip-hop creator honored after Jay-Z. It's not something he takes lightly.
"No matter what you want to say about my records that I created, no matter what you want to say about the artists that I've put out, I'm going into the Hall of Fame, and you can't do nothing about it," Dupri said.
Songwriters Hall nod makes Jermaine Dupri feel ‘accomplished’
NEW YORK (AP) — The Weeknd, Jason Mraz, Fantasia and Tony winner Brandon Victor Dixon will appear at the 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony this month.
The organization announced Friday that Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Leon Bridges, Stephen Dorff, Chad Elliott, Bob Gaudio, Nora Guthrie, Keith Stegall and Steve Wariner will also attend the June 14 event in New York City. The newly announced attendees will either perform or present an award.
APNewsBreak: Mellencamp, Dupri heading to Songwriters Hall
NEW YORK (AP) — The 2018 Songwriters Hall of Fame class will include John Mellencamp, Alan Jackson, Kool & the Gang and Jermaine Dupri, who will become the second hip-hop act inducted into the prestigious organization.
Jay-Z opens up about why he boycotted the Grammys in 1999
NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z said though he boycotted the Grammys almost two decades ago, he's better served helping the Recording Academy grow instead of abandoning it.
Janet Jackson isn't in a "position to date" again following her split from Wissam Al Mana.
The 51-year-old singer and the businessman, with whom she has eight-month-old son Eissa Al Mana, went their separate ways earlier this year following five years of marriage and, although speculation about her love life has been rife ever since, she doesn't feel ready to meet anyone new at the moment and just wants to focus on motherhood and her career.

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Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors, officially announced that Nevada has been selected as the official site for the Tesla Gigafactory.
“This is great news for Nevada. Tesla will build the world’s largest and most advanced battery factory in Nevada which means nearly one hundred billion dollars in economic impact to the Silver State over the next twenty years. I am grateful that Elon Musk and Tesla saw the promise in Nevada. These 21st century pioneers, fueled with innovation and desire, are emboldened by the promise of Nevada to change the world. Nevada is ready to lead,” stated Governor Brian Sandoval.
“I would like to recognize the leadership of Governor Sandoval and the Nevada Legislature for partnering with Tesla to bring the Gigafactory to the state. The Gigafactory is an important step in advancing the cause of sustainable transportation and will enable the mass production of compelling electric vehicles for decades to come. Together with Panasonic and other partners, we look forward to realizing the full potential of this project,” said Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors.
Gov. Brian Sandoval is asking the Legislature for as much as $1.3 billion in financial incentives to help Tesla build its Gigafactory, said Steve Hill, executive director of Sandoval’s Office of Economic Development.
The Gigafactory will produce cells, modules and packs for Tesla’s electric vehicles and for the stationary storage market. The Gigafactory is planned to produce 35GWh of cells and 50GWh of packs per year by 2020. Tesla projects that the Gigafactory will employ about 6,500 people by 2020.
Japanese supplier Panasonic Corp. will produce lithium ion cells for battery packs and will fund part of the cost of the plant, which is considered an important part of Tesla’s ambitions of popularizing and lowering the price of EVs.
The Tesla Gigafactory would bring the cost of batteries down by producing them on a huge scale. Its approximately 10 million square feet, equivalent to about 174 football fields, would be running by 2017. That is when Tesla hopes to introduce its Model 3.

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Here I am at mount Dovrefjell back in April this year. On a bright and sunny day with clear blue sky. This was a perfect day for me and the memories are glued to my brain. For an amateur like me to see and to photograph these great animals is just spectacular.
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French president urges nation to stay united after attack
PARIS - France's president has urged the nation to stay united as it hunts gunmen who killed 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper.
Speaking on national television Wednesday night about the slain journalists, Francois Hollande said, "They are today our heroes."
The attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper was France's deadliest attack in decades. The newspaper has caricatured Islamic extremists and the Prophet Muhammad.
The attackers are at large, and Hollande called for them to be chased down, judged and punished.
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EXPANSION OF PIKEVILLE PLANT NECESSARY
Officials in Pikeville say their wastewater treatment plant is currently running at about 92 percent capacity. With many other projects on the horizon like a new shopping center and optometry school .... they say expanding their service is necessary. The city is one step closer to having the funding for the multi-million dollar project. Pikeville is receiving millions in loan and grant money for the new plant, which officials say will allow the area to continue growing. The new plant will serve more than 3,000 homes and businesses in Pikeville and Coal Run.
JOB FAIR IN PIKEVILLE
Dozens of laid off miners attended a job fair in Pikeville on Tuesday. 'Hiring Our Miners Everyday' along with the Kentucky Coal Association hosted the event for White Oak Resources. Representatives from White Oak were on hand to take applications for underground jobs available in Illinois. Officials say while the coal economy is struggling in Eastern Kentucky, they want to help those unemployed find work ... even if it means relocating.
BELL COUNTY MEMORIAL DAY ROBBERY
A Bell County man is facing robbery and other charges for trying to steal a woman's purse. Bell County Sheriff's Deputies say on Monday night, 33-year-old Donnie Wayne Smith used force while trying to take a woman's purse at a building on Old Pineville Pike. Deputies say when he got to jail, he tried to smuggle drugs in. In addition to robbery, he also faces drug and promoting contraband charges.
Breathitt County is finally getting rock blasting plans underway after years of planning. For several years, rocks like these have fallen on or near the road. Elkins said the nearly four million dollar repairs will serve the community well. Weather permitting, the road should reopen by December. construction, which started Tuesday on the Highway 15 Bypass in Hazard, is supposed to last about two weeks.
EMERGENCY MONEY APPLIED FOR IN PIKE COUNTY
The Pike County Fiscal Court unanimously moved to apply for a $54,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. County officials say the money would be used to buy equipment that can monitor air quality in emergencies like last month's tunnel fire. The creosote-laden fumes from the Robinson Creek tunnel fire have been a concern since the flames started April 26th.
UK RAZING BUILDINGS
The University of Kentucky plans to proceed with razing eight buildings over the summer to make way for new construction. The move comes despite some objections from preservationists, who have noted that some of the buildings are historic and iconic. The school expects to spend $4 million to demolish buildings including Hamilton House, which was built in 1880, and Wenner-Gren Research Laboratory, which housed UK's early aeronautic research.


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In the meantime, here are some of our favourite fun facts about teeth braces.
1. Braces can do more than straighten teeth
Braces are best known for straightening teeth to improve the appearance of your smile, but they’re capable of so much more. Did you know they can reposition your jaws to help your teeth bite together correctly?
By moving your teeth and jaws into the optimum position, we can improve their function, avoid premature wear and make it easier for you to clean all the surfaces of your teeth.
2. All orthodontists are dentists (but not all dentists are orthodontists)
Orthodontists begin their careers as general dentists before choosing to specialise in orthodontics (straightening teeth).
After qualifying as a dentist, Dr. Jackie Bracken completed a Clinical Doctorate in Orthodontics. She is now a registered specialist with the Irish Dental Council and one of Tipperary’s most experienced orthodontists.
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4. There are hundreds of braces to choose from
Fuelled by the growing demand for braces, there are lots of appliances and brands to choose from. We’ve handpicked our braces because they offer unrivalled precision and incredible results.
Invisalign is a leading aligner system that’s transformed more than 14 million smiles. Other clear aligners may look similar, but they’re usually less capable and better suited to very simple cases.
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In around 400 BC, the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote down the first-ever description of tooth irregularities. Hundreds of years later, Roman author Aulus Cornelius Celsus started using his finger to apply pressure to teeth to reposition them over time. Thankfully, things have progressed significantly since then.
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In partnership with Pennsylvania Key and The Hershey Co., The Giant Co. is giving child care centers in Pennsylvania grants.
The Giant Co. has created a $200,000 grant program designed to provide funding to child care providers in Pennsylvania who are facing operational and financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program is being offered in partnership with Pennsylvania Key and The Hershey Co.
Through Nov. 13, child care providers licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)can apply for grants up to $10,000.
“When our team members expressed the challenges they were facing with their own child care situations, we knew that others in our community likely were too, and we wanted to do something about it,” said Nicholas Bertram, president, The Giant Co. “The GIANT Company is committed to connecting families for a better future, and that’s especially true in times of need."
The grant program aims to support child care centers that have remained open during the pandemic. Grant funding will help child care centers overcome new challenges created by the pandemic and invest in new measures to help support families struggling to balance work, school and child care. Grant assistance is open to child care centers in communities served by GIANT or MARTIN’S stores that serve children from birth through 13 years of age.
Preference will be given to applicants in underserved areas, those that serve meals, those impacted by school scheduling changes, those that are offering innovative services (such as technology and tutoring for students who need more in-person learning), and those that may be forced to close without financial support. Applicants must have remained open for at least part of the last seven months since stay-at-home orders were implemented.
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Tom Bergeron is out as Dancing With the Stars host, so he's taking some time to reflect. As a part of his process, he unearthed an image from Season 1 of the ABC competition series. The photo, taken by Adam Larkey for Walt Disney Television, shows the TV personality side-by-side with co-host Lisa Canning. The pair were prepping to present Kelly Monaco and pro partner Alec Mazo with the Season 1 Mirrorball trophy on July 6, 2005.
Bergeron appears to be mid-speech in the still, which gives him a bit of a funny expression. He laughed this off when he re-shared the image on Wednesday, promising fans he was "completely sober" when it was taken. He also made sure to give Canning a shoutout, being as fans might be less-familiar with her. Canning only served as co-host for Season 1 of the program.
From Season One. Despite my expression, I was completely sober 🤣 (with co-host Lisa Canning) pic.twitter.com/PX7TTt5RzM— Tom Bergeron (@Tom_Bergeron) July 15, 2020
This trip down memory lane comes after ABC fired Bergeron and co-host Erin Andrews ahead of DWTS Season 29. Bergeron, himself, broke the news on Monday in the form or a tweet. He stated that he was "informed" that the series would "be continuing without" him.
"Just informed @DancingABC will be continuing without me," the 65-year-old actor wrote. "It's been an incredible 15-year run and the most unexpected gift of my career. I'm grateful for that and for the lifelong friendships made. That said, now what am I supposed to do with all of these glitter masks?"
On Wednesday, ABC named Tyra Banks as Bergeron's replacement, while also praising the former host's time leading the broadcast. They also claimed Banks would helm a "fresh take" on the DWTS franchise.
"Tom has been an integral part of the ABC family for nearly two decades, from hosting AFV to Dancing with the Stars‚ we are grateful for all he and Erin have done to make Dancing a success," Karey Burke, ABC Entertainment's president, said in a release. "As we gear up for the show's 29th season, we can't wait to welcome Tyra Banks to our Dancing stage. Tyra is an award-winning multihyphenate whose fierce female prowess and influence across many industries have made an indelible mark. Her fresh take on America's favorite dancing competition will surely bring more than a 'Smize' to fans everywhere."
Banks added, "I've been a fan of DWTS since its beginning … The fun mixed with raw emotion, seeing celebrities push past their comfort zones, the sizzling dance performances … it's always transported me to my days of turning it up 10 notches on the catwalk. Tom has set a powerful stage, and I'm excited to continue the legacy and put on my executive producer and hosting hats."
ABC has not slated a release date for Dancing With the Stars Season 29 just yet, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Producers have not announced contestants or Andrews' replacement, either.

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Voters will go to the polls in five states today to cast a ballot in Republican and Democratic presidential primaries.
At the end of the day, Hilary Clinton will probably be very close to securing the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination for president.
On the Republican side, Donald Trump is expected to win all five states. However, his nomination will still be in doubt because of party rules and a last ditch effort between the other remaining Republican candidates, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, to stop his nomination at all costs.
Here is a sample of the rhetoric we have heard in the last several days:
A vote for Cruz or Trump is a vote for Hilary Clinton – Kasich
John Kasich has no path whatsoever to the Republican nomination – Cruz
If you collude in business, if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail. But, if you collude in politics, because it’s a rigged system, that’s okay. – Trump
It takes two guys, long time politicians, to get together to try and stop Trump and they’re way behind. These two guys have to collude in order to stay alive. And they’re not doing very good. They’re way behind. – Trump
Pennsylvania demonstrates the Republican system. It will send 71 delegates to the Republican national convention. If Trump has a big win in Pennsylvania, as he is expected to do, he will gain 17 pledged delegates. The remaining 54 will be unpledged going to the national convention.
This is why Cruz and or Kasich still have hopes of gaining the nomination. They don’t have to win with the voters. All they have to do is stop Trump from gaining a majority of delegates on the first ballot to force the convention open to second and further ballots where the results from the voters will be largely ignored.
As the rhetoric rises and the games being played are brought to light, it becomes more obvious to voters that they really don’t matter that much to the Republican insiders who are trying to stop Trump from gaining the nomination.


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HAM Radio is a strategic part of emergency communications. The Central Kentucky Amateur Radio Club (CKARC) is an involved section of large-scale emergency operations when communications have been compromised or are in need of supplementation. This is a three-part story on the vital service in our area. First we look at the background.
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The Central Kentucky Amateur Radio Club (CKARC) was formed December 16, 1966 in Campbellsville, KY. by eight voting members. Then just two years later it proceeded to incorporate. The original incorporators were Buckner Miller, Paul Smith, and Hershel Dabney.
Also in 1966, the club became affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, Inc. (ARRL). Since 1914 the ARRL has been the largest membership association of Amateur Radio enthusiasts in the USA. The ARRL was formed by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska and continues to be the primary spokesperson for Amateur Radio still today.
The main function of the CKARC hasn't changed since its inception: to carry on the science of radio communications, to foster the interest and participation of the members in radio activities, and to serve the public in times of emergency or disaster. Keep in mind that many times when regular forms of communication fail during an emergency, it's the Amateur Radio community that can still operate to fill that void. And today due to ongoing technological advances, we have even more ways to communicate than ever before.
At present, we have 33 paid club members and approximately 210 people using our CKARC Facebook page to post Amateur Radio related information. We meet the fourth Thursday of each month January through October at 6 pm Central time at the Emergency Management Building in Columbia, KY. Also, we do new or upgrade license testing quarterly or we can usually accommodate at our regular meetings with advance notice.
Also, the CKARC maintains a website WA4UXJ.com which gives additional club information such as a link to contact the club officers, news, net control operators, etc.
President Dave Leach, KA8YID, 270-566-3831 provided this part of the HAM Radio story in our area. Over the next few days we will look at an overview of the local group from Mike Keltner, Adair County Emergency Management Director, and then a look at future leaders.
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