Flora man plans waterways paddling event to talk about Alzheimer's

Keith Plunkett, Mississippi paddler and organizer of Lucy’s Revenge — an Alzheimer’s awareness project — will be joined by an expected 30 paddlers in Ocean Springs this weekend for the kickoff weekend of the year-long event.

Paddlers will meet Saturday at Marker No. 1 of the Old Fort Bayou Blue Trail. The effort will continue on Mississippi Gulf Coast regions through July and August.

Plunkett will travel across five regions in Mississippi to paddle waterways during the next year.

During the trips, the Flora resident will tell stories of Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers in each region and will highlight efforts by the Alzheimer’s Association and medical professionals to defeat the disease.

He will also speak with groups across the state to raise awareness and money to aid families affected by the disease with support services.

Plunkett has set a goal of 600 miles, or roughly 120 miles per region and hopes to entice a few others to join him on some of the excursions throughout the year.

The project is named in memory of Plunkett’s grandmother, Lucy Plunkett, who suffered from Alzheimer’s before succumbing to the disease in 1993.

For more information visit http://www.lucysrevenge.com/.

Clarion Ledger

Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to host “Shooting for the Cure”

The Mississippi Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is hosting its “inaugural” Skeet Shoot, “Shooting for the Cure”, on Saturday, April 17th 2010. The Shoot will take place at Luckett Lodge, 214 Clark Creek Road Brandon, MS., registration at 7:15am, and the shoot commencing at 8:00am with VIP catering lunch. The main event will consist of 50 targets and teams of four shooters.

Sponsorships for this event are available at three different donor levels for merchants and businesses. Donations are currently being accepted for shooter bags, raffle, beverages, or door prize drawings. Every donation helps raise money for a great cause, by providing monies for research, support and services for individuals and families of leukemia or lymphoma.

Tickets are limited to the first 75 shooters at $125 and include lunch and 50 targets for 14 stations in a beautiful serene setting, “Shooting for the Cure” t-shirts and camouflage military hats.

For information on tickets, donations, or sponsorship opportunities call Ann at 601-956-7447.

Flora Resident Sees Jesus In Pecan Tree

I've looked at that picture a few times now and Jesus is still not coming into view. Maybe I can't see Jesus because I'm such a pitiful sinner, or maybe it's because I don't particularly like pecans.

He Says Image Appeared Weeks Ago

A Flora resident said he can see the image of Jesus in his pecan tree.

Timothy Vincent said the image miraculously appeared a few weeks ago in his backyard. He said one day he saw an odd woodpecker on his tree and when the bird few away, the face of Jesus was there.

WAPT

No Canton Balloon Festival or just a bunch of hot air?

The Clarion Ledger is reporting that the Canton Championship Hot Air Balloon Festival may not happen this summer due to budget constraints on the Madison County municipality.

Some Board of Aldermen members on Tuesday appeared doubtful that the city could come up with the $30,000 or more parks and recreation officials say is needed to put on the four-day balloon race and fireworks event that draws tens of thousands of people to Canton each year for July 4 weekend.

The festival costs about $70,000 altogether, but sponsors and donors cover much of the price tag, said parks and recreation director Alvin Davis during the aldermen’s work session. Ridgeland has also helped with the expenses in years past in exchange for hot air balloons to use for its own annual Celebrate America Balloon Glow that takes place the same weekend as Canton’s festival.

Is it likely that Madison County might step in to help fund the event? I would say with the current makeup on the Board of Supervisors that is a possibility.

Wapiti-gate! or The Canadensis Collusion

Oh the Humanity!

Well, no actually not humanity, but wapiti, otherwise known as elk. Or, for you science nerds, cervus canadensis. That is what the Montana Democrat Party is attacking Republican Representative Denny Rehberg over. More specifically about what the Representative knew about his staffer Randy Vogel allegedly illegally killing an elk.

“What did Denny Rehberg know about his staff poaching an elk and when did he know it?”

Roll Call reports that the Democrats last night put out a statement demanding answers, Watergate-style, about an incident in which Rehberg staffer Randy Vogel was placed on leave for allegedly illegally killing an elk. The MDP’s executive director, David Benson, tried to frame the matter as one of secrecy, lies and cover-ups. “Either he knowingly hired a poacher, or he hired someone who knowingly lied about it,” he said in the statement.


Rehberg’s office released a statement explaining the incident, saying the staffer wasn’t on the Congressman’s staff at the time of the incident and was informed on March 3 that he was being ticketed for it. “Congressman Rehberg was unaware of the incident in question until Randy informed him of it after receiving notice of the ticket,” the statement says.

Guess they would do or say anything to shift focus from the way Democrats in Washington have been running the country. At this rate, it won't be long before we'll all need to hunt out of season just to put food on the table.

Congress should do the right thing—nothing

The same ethical advice for doctors also makes sense for Congress as it considers several pending global warming bills – first do no harm. Given serious questions about global warming science as well as the efficacy of costly proposals to address it, the best choice for Washington is none of the above.
With economy-wide cap and trade stalled in the Senate, a number of slightly scaled back variants have been proposed, including measures targeting selected industries or a carbon tax. All threaten to do more harm than good.

Before considering these measures, Congress should first get to the bottom of Climategate, Glaciergate, Hurricanegate, Amazongate, and other scandals that raise troubling questions about scientific credibility. Virtually every scary claim used to justify precipitous action—unprecedented temperatures, rapidly melting glaciers, increasing hurricanes, plummeting crop yields, disappearing rainforests—is under genuine suspicion. The fact that temperatures have been statistically flat since 1995 is another reason not to treat global warming as a dire crisis.

Haste in light of these scientific doubts is all the more troublesome given the cost of cracking down on fossil fuels, no matter how imposed. All of the legislative proposals have one thing in common—they reduce carbon dioxide emissions by driving up the cost of energy so that individuals and businesses are forced to use less. Inflicting significant economic pain (likely trillions of dollars and millions of jobs for cap and trade, somewhat less for watered down measures) is how this all works.

These measures have another thing in common—their uselessness. Even if one still believes the worst case scenarios of global warming, unilateral action against the American people and American economy would hardly dent the upward trajectory of emissions. China alone out emits the U.S. and its emissions growth is projected to be nine times higher than ours. And it is hard to ignore Chinese government officials’ frequent and unambiguous statements that they will never impose similar restrictions on themselves, though some global warming activists still try.

Washington cracking down on fossil fuels in the name of addressing global warming would result in much economic pain for little if any environmental gain. First do no harm.

The Heritage Foundation

Reports that HB 1282 to extend deer season has died in committee at the hands of Senator Tommy Gollott

The bill had the full support of MS Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks and would have featured and additional 3 full weeks of rifle hunting for the state's young hunters under the age of 16.


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