Stories from Sunday, July 6, 2003

Children in Bryan School's Summer School class, "Kids In the Kitchen" learned about exotic fruits and vegetables as a culminating activity for the four week class. Mike McCullick from an area grocer's produce department visited the class and brought a variety of fruits and vegetables. ...

There are not many crops out there that allow producers to continuously make money on throughout the year, but such a crop does exist in Vernon County. It's fescue. The beauty of fescue is in its continuous yield. During midsummer, it's topped to collect the seeds, then it's swathed and rolled into hay and during the fall and in the winter it can be used as pasture. ...

Consumers who don't wish to be called by telemarketers have a new ally. The Federal Trade Commission has started the National Do Not Call Registry, a list of phone numbers telemarketers must delete from their call lists. The exceptions are telephone surveyors, charities, and political organizations. ...

Friday night, the Nevada Griffons won their third game, played in span of about 30 hours, to advance to the championship round of the Tournament of Champions qualifying tournament for the NBC World Series. The winning team in the tournament, which is sponsored by Champion Diamonds, will receive $1,000 and perhaps more important, will become one of the 64 teams that will compete in the annual NBC World Series to be held August 2-16, in Wichita, Kan. ...

100 Years Ago -- July 6, 1903 The members of the Dewey Gun Club are more than satisfied with the outcome of the tournament that was held at Lake Park Saturday. The contests were all close, exciting and some excellent scores were made. The weather was fine, the attendance good and the traps worked nicely. ...

Somewhere in my totally unmanageable baseball archive, there is a l962 copy of The Sporting News with an artist's rendition on the cover of baseball's 300 Win Club as caricatures from the previous 74 years, greeting Warren Spahn when he became the 13th member. ...

As a youngster, years ago, I fished Blackwater River --which seemed to be loaded with big catfish -- and my friends and I were on it a lot during the summer, setting bank lines and trotlines. The river was full of catfish and we caught lots of them. ...

Katharine Hepburn died last week. She was 96 years old. Her lifetime spanned nearly the entire history of the movies. A couple of years ago, the American Film Institute named her the greatest woman film actress yet. Who could argue? My mother adored her. ...

Hi neighbors. I trust you all had a safe and exciting Independence Day celebration. It's good to know we live in a country of free people; people able to express that freedom in many ways. Not everyone is born free. But who wouldn't go to any length to attain freedom, even if it meant moving half-way around the globe? There are lots of places in the world where people are not free. ...