Marywood-Palm Valley School holds auction gala (The Desert Sun) - About 250 guests checking into the Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa ballroom for the fourth annual Marywood-Palm Valley School gala were turned away. Not really! They were just redirected upstairs for rooftop cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, conversation and the beginning of the silent auction.
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Few bird run-ins for Palm Springs flights (The Desert Sun) - While airplane collisions with birds more than doubled at 13 major U.S. airports since 2000, the bird strikes ? as they are commonly called ? haven't been a significant problem at Palm Springs International Airport. See database on bird strikes at U.S. airports.
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I Remember When: Memory of mercy mission still warms my heart (Stuart News) - It was the late 1960s. I was part owner and chief pilot of Islander Airways in Miami, an on-demand charter air service. We flew the Bahamas and the Caribbean for news media, film companies, and those with money who came and went as they pleased. I was known around the Bahamas as "Air Taxi Man." We gladly helped all the locals if we were able. Some had my personal number. "Call if you need us," I ...
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Get summer cellphone ready (Purdue University Calumet Chronicle) - Summer is a time for beaches, barbeques, and new phones. Well at least those with Sprint, LG, or T-mobile. T-mobile has recently announced a launch for its new Sidekick LX in mid-May, as well as LG's new Arena KM900; and Sprint is planning on releasing its phone, the Palm Pre, in the early summer months The Sidekick LX looks to take over for those out there who have got to keep up with ...
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Stanford professor dismantles barriers to creativity and progress (Santa Cruz Sentinel) - It's almost impossible to read the first line of Tina Seelig's book "What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World" and not grab pen and paper to jot down a river of pent-up ideas and possibilities.
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Technology improves results of CU psych study (Columbia Daily Spectator) - The digital age has left nothing untouched, least of all mental health. Technology has provided new methods for studying and treating mental illness and has perhaps even redefined the field of psychology. The Columbia University research community is taking full advantage of these methods.
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Parents slayings spurred Riverside City Council incumbent Schiavones compassion for crime victims (The Press-Enterprise) - Frank Schiavone is a carpenter, a private pilot, a Marine, a fisherman, a successful businessman and a Riverside City Councilman who's running for re-election in Ward 4. But one of his proudest achievements is an honor he received in 1984 from the Riverside Police Department as the reserve officer of the year.
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At your service (Daytona Beach News-Journal) - RECREATION
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Palm Bay police to patrol in paraglider (Sebastian Sun) - For the next six months, four men will suit up and take turns hovering in the skies above Brevard County's largest city, searching for the lost and looking for the out-of-place. They will be part of Palm Bay Police Department's Operation Soar, a new pilot paragliding program.
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Moore: Simulate a crash to survive it (The Shreveport Times) - By now everyone in America is familiar with the calm voice and steely nerves of Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, the man who, on Jan. 15, crash-landed a disabled US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River without any fatalities.
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