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Lo Lo Jones Makes the Finals for the 100 M Hurdles
Lo Lo Jones ran track for Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. She landed a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team for the 100 m hurdles. In between, she has overcome many obstacles. Lo Lo ran her heart out in Beijing and made the finals for the 100 meter hurdles.
As the race began, […]
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Shawn Johnson Wins the Gold
Wow…what a performance for Shawn Johnson on the balance beam. She did a fantastic job and her smile says it all! Finally a gold medal for Shawn, making all the hard work pay off.
I was relieved she did not have to perform first on the beam–as she did in the floor routine. I felt her floor routine […]
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Olympics…Des Moines Natives Going for the Gold
Des Moines, Iowa is going to be represented in Beijing. We have two athletes going for the gold: Shawn Johnson a current Valley Student…Lolo Jones a former Roosevelt athlete. Johnson is a talented gymnast and Jones is competing in 100 m hurdles.
Shawn Johnson is a West Des Moines native. In my opinion, Johnson is a shoe-in to win the […]
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2008 Hy-Vee Triathlon | Link To Photos
The 2008 Hy-Vee Triathlon starts today in West Des Moines. It consists of a 40k bike ride, 10k run and 1,500 meter swim. The swimming event was originally scheduled to take place at Gray’s Lake in Des Moines. Due to the flooding, it was moved to Blue Heron Lake (that was only decided this week…as […]
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Cedar Rapids Floods 2008
I happened to watch the TODAY show on Friday. There was a video clip from Cedar Rapids regarding the floods. It showed a lady and her nine children interviewed by Matt Lauer. The family was evacuated from their house, the water was up to the roof, the mother got out with 5 baskets of “stuff” and had recently lost her […]
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Kudos to Marshall County in Iowa
I read Marshall County plans to ban using plastic bags for purchases in retail stores. Kudos to you…and hopefully other counties in Iowa will follow their lead to “go green”! These plastic bags do not decompose…they are made of polyethylene. Other places that have banned these plastic bags are South Africa, China, Ireland and San […]
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Des Moines Flood of 2008
Here it is June 12th, 2008 and there is flooding all over Iowa….the floods of 2008…are they worse than the Des Moines flood of 1993?? I wasn’t living in the Des Moines area in 1993, but I understand it was as bad if not worse than what I have viewed today! I was shocked at the devastating pictures in the Des […]
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KCCI.com Weather Radar | Iowa Road Conditions | Des Moines, Iowa
This afternoon was another stormy one in central Iowa and I decided to refresh my memory as to which websites offered the best radar and weather coverage. For the past couple of years, I’ve pretty much gone to KCCI.com anytime I needed to check the radar. In fact, I have a shortcut to their statewide loop in my favorites […]
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Younkers Black Friday Sale Isn’t Green
I’m not sure if this is the second or third year that Younker’s Department Store has done this, but it seems like someone at their Bon-Ton Store headquarters should rethink their day-after-Thanksgiving, “black Friday” strategy. I got up at 7 A.M. on Thanksgiving Day and drove to the Highway 6, Casey’s General Store in Waukee. […]
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