| Baby Talk for 2-11-07
A boy, Ethan Wiley, 7 pounds, 8 ounces, was born at 2:04 p.m. Jan. 11 at Wilford Hall, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, to Martin and Vanessa Gerst, San Antonio. Grandparents are Rick and Anita Murrow, Janie and Mike O'Brien and Dennis Gerst, all of Enid. Great-grandparents are Leon and Maxine Murrow, Enid, and MaryEllen McCall, Olatha, Kan. Ethan has one brother, Aiden.JenkinsA boy, Tristan Nathaniel, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, was born at 10:59 a.m. Jan. 22 at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center to Weston and Andrea Jenkins, Enid. Grandparents are Walter and Patricia Jenkins, Hunter, and Yolanda Ruiz, Enid.PressonA boy, Levi Michael, 2 pounds, 10 ounces, was born at 10:21 p.m. Jan. 24 at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center to Kaci Williamson and Richard Presson, Enid. Grandparents are Deborah Moses and Nita Presson, both of Enid; Roy Williamson, Wichita, Kan.; and Richard Kutz, Payson, Ariz.
Depleted Cestrians so close to glory
A battling Chester-le-Street, hit by injury and illness, just failed to retain their North of England senior women's team title at Heaton Park, Manchester. Despite top-10 finishes by Morag McDonnell and Alyson Dixon, the Cestrians had to be content with third place behind Yorkshire squads Bingley and Hallamshire. However, two of Chester's lesser-knows lights, Tracey Laws and new signing Angela Hunter, rose to the occasion to make sure they did not return home empty-handed. On a quagmire of a course, McDonnell was always in with a medal shout despite Hallamshire's Hatti Dean surging into an early lead. Despite taking a tumble on the muddiest section of the course, McDonnell picked herself up to claim third place, the second time she has finished in bronze medal position in three years.
Letter: What good neighbors do
Thanks to the two Marblehead residents who wrote to condemn the failure of drivers in Marblehead to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. It’s a letter I’ve been meaning to write for months myself. I have had far too many close shaves along Humphrey Street where I walk my dog almost daily. Not only do people routinely fail to stop for pedestrians to allow them to cross, but more times than I care to count I have almost been run down when I have been in the crosswalk halfway across the road. I have seen this happen repeatedly, to young mothers with infants in strollers, to children, and to the elderly. Drivers regularly fail to observe the speed limits, and it’s plain that many of them are driving 10 to 20 miles over the posted 30 mph speed limit.
UTC students control robot in Kyrgyzstan
BANGOR — Feet, chairs and a trophy case are what United Technologies Center students saw when they finally got remote control this week of their hand-built robot at work on the other side of the world. The robotics students at the technical school on Hogan Road shipped the device, called the UTC Explorer, to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, earlier this month. Bishkek is the capital of the Central Asian nation of 5.2 million people. The idea behind the experiment was to see if the students could command the remote-controlled robotic device from Bangor. At first, the news was not good. "It didn't go the way we wanted it to," Ron Canarr, UTC electronics and robotics teacher, said Wednesday of Tuesday's trial run. "We started at 9 a.m. and we just couldn't communicate with it.
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