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Though Ive never been really bad at most of it, I rarely developed a passion for any kind of work-out. As a kid, I was on a treck and field athletics team for about a year. Then I tried myself at gymnastics I felt awkward about the trainer. Then I had a stint at the aero wheel indeed, I was good. Though I didnt do ALL the tricks they show in this little video:

But I was that good that they wanted to train me for championships. It would have meant that my family would have spent their weekends on the road, driving me around. So that didnt happen. It didnt make me upset. Sometimes things just dont happen in life.

School swimming classes started in third grade. I couldnt swim, so my parents flash-taught me at a local swimming pool during the one-week fall vacation that year. We went every day. By the end of the week I was a swimmer. I never was fast, but I got best grades as to style. And I never had a problem with endurance.

I was second best in high jumping in our class in middle school, but a horrible gymnast. I preferred to play soccer with the boys who actually invited me along to be a goalie or an offense. In high school I excelled on the balance beam. I didnt even need a springboard to jump onto it. And I was a passionate ballroom and Latin dancer in my early twenties when I attended a dance school and was even asked to be a freelance partner at classes I hadnt booked.

I made half-hearted attempts at compensatory gymnastics at university. I tried treck. I even bought a new bike at one time. To make a long story short Im a walker. Power walking is fine with me. Long-distance walking, as in German hiking, as well. Mountain hiking not so much. I love loop hiking. So, I dont have to return by the same way.

What has me so wary about sports or working out? Maybe it is because competition has never been a way by which I wanted to express myself. Maybe all this grading in school, being voted on a team because of ones popularity (nerdy me usually was among the last), the embarrassment of failure simply put its mark on me. But I happily climbed trees. And the aero wheel is still something the memory of which I treasure. Because that was ME.

Later, in Stuttgart, Germany, I made walking a daily routine. There were beautiful meadows, lakes, and woods around where I lived, and an hour of walking passed in a jiffy. I continued doing so in Steilacoom. Whats NOT beautiful about walking through town for an hour, seeing things change as the seasons change, chatting with neighborly people over the fence?! Here in Lakewood, I always have to get into the car to start walking somewhere worthwhile. Its a bit of a pain; I have to kick my shin a little harder. Meanwhile, our fitness club membership goes unused because of Covid. So, my husband and I have developed a routine of core training that we promised to do at a specific time during the day. I fail at that more often than not. Its not ME.

I need to find back to my little walking routine again. It makes me happy. It keeps me healthy. Its ME. If you are stuck in a similar rut maybe you have also just been trying out the wrong kind of work-out. Keep trying to find out what makes YOU happy. Sometimes its just a change of scenery that works miracles.

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TROY The latest exhibition to open at the Arts Center of the Capital Region is rich in texture, color and subject matter.

Called Fence 20, the exhibition features more than 100 works from Arts Center members. The Troy gallery traditionally hosts Fence shows each year as a way to spotlight a range of local artists and this year the exhibition is juried by Ian Berry, director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

The show opens with the dark and slightly grotesque sculpture of a frowning figure, its skin peeling away and muscles deteriorating. The piece, called Forgotten Pain by William Fillmore, sets a gruesome tone, though there are plenty of other works in the exhibition that strike a lighter chord.

Take Virginia Scholz vibrant landscape with its glowing sky and delicately branched tree, called Old Best Road. Or theres the lush green abstract from Natalie Boburka, and the humorous Van Gogh with iPhone 11, by Meghan Cioffi, with the Starry Night background.

Overall, the exhibition is grounded in the current moment, meaning there are plenty of works ruminating on the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps the most obvious, and the largest, is Conversations in COVID, by Annette Chesser which features sculptures of the coronavirus plastered with emails and social media posts about how life has changed during the pandemic. One post says Other jobs: we r closing down due to the corona. My job: some of u may die but thats a sacrifice were willing to make.

In another nearby work, several guitar necks, stripped of their strings, are fanned out on a white canvas. Bows, with their horsehair strings cut, are displayed in between the guitar necks. Titled And We Danced All Night, by Phil Teumim, it could be read as a remembrance of an evening of celebratory music that went on for so long that the strings simply fell off. However, today, its a reminder of the absence of live music and the silence of local stages.

Nearby, theres an eerie painting, blue-hued with a blurry figure looking just past the viewer and wearing a mask. The edges of the David Austin work are dark, blue-black and the background features a slitted light that puckers around the figure. In terms of size, its an unassuming piece, but its powerful in the subject matter.

There are also echoes of other national and global crises, like climate change. Katarina Spitzers sweeping hyperrealistic landscape of Glacier Bay, Alaska, is one stunning example of that. Titled, Our Vanishing Landscape: Glacier, Bay, Alaska, the work features sunlit mountains surrounded by a thinning strip of ice.

In another room, silhouetted figures walk with the heads down in a grey-cityscape. Peter Watrous Refugees is a reminder of another global crisis thats slipped out of headlines in light of the pandemic.

Fence 20 is a weighty exhibition of regional talent and artistic discourse. It runs through Nov. 7. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday-Thursday. For more information artscenteronline.org.

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Endorsements are coming in for Third District Congressional candidates Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush and Republican Lauren Boebert, including a notable break from party ranks.

Former Speaker of the Colorado House Russ George, a Rifle native who also directed two state departments under both Republican and Democratic governors, said this week he endorses Mitsch Bush over his partys nominee to represent the region in Congress.

Meanwhile, Boebert added to her list of endorsements from Garfield County Republican officials, which already included Sheriff Lou Vallario who is actively campaigning on her behalf.

In a recent interview with the Post Independent, Garfield County Commissioners John Martin and Mike Samson, who also are seeking reelection this fall, said they support Boebert, as well.

We need pragmatic, steady leaders who will meet the multiple crises we all face in this moment, and Diane Mitsch Bush is that leader, George said in a statement sent out by the Mitsch Bush campaign on Thursday.

Her proven bipartisan track record and reputation as an independent leader who was willing to stand up to Democratic leadership in the State House shows me that she will work with anyone to do whats right for Colorados Third Congressional District, George said.

George is a fourth-generation Rifle native and longtime water attorney before he entered politics.

He was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1992 to represent District 57, which at the time included not only Garfield, Rio Blanco and Moffat counties, but also Democratic-leaning Pitkin County.

He later served as Speaker of the House in 1999 and 2000, and went on to direct two state agencies the Department of Natural Resources under Republican Gov. Bill Owens and the Department of Transportation under Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter.

He also was appointed by former Gov. John Hickenlooper to the task force that worked to develop the Colorado Water Plan in 2015.

Mitsch Bush, from Steamboat Springs, served in the Colorado House from 2013-17 and is a former Routt County commissioner.

She faces Boebert, an ardent gun-rights advocate and social conservative who defeated five-term incumbent Republican Third District Congressman Scott Tipton in the June primary. Third-party candidates Critter Milton (Unity) and John Keil (Libertarian) are also on the ballot.

Boeberts endorsements from Samson and Martin come despite run-ins earlier this year with the Garfield County Public Health Department over coronavirus-related violations at her Shooters Grill restaurant in Rifle.

I look at Laurens views and her political ideology, which aligns with mine much more closely than that of Diane Mitsch Bush, Samson said.

Likewise, Martin said he supports the Republican candidate for Congress for many of the same reasons.

She is inexperienced in government, but long on life, Martin said. I have worked with and know Diane Mitsch Bush when she was a county commissioner. She has certain views, some I agree and some I disagree. But [Boebert] is the Republican candidate, which I support.

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On October 1st a Lincoln resident reported that an acquaintance of hers forcefully removed car keys from her hands and fled in her vehicle. The suspect was identified as 28-year-old David Carrasco.

On October 2nd at about 3:30 p.m. a Lincoln Police Officer saw Carrasco on the porch of a residence in the 1500 block of 5th Street.

Carrasco immediately ran into the residence. He fled out the back of the residence, jumping fences in an attempt to evade arrest. Ultimately he was captured in a back yard. He was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, syringes, and a meth pipe.

Carrasco was arrested for carjacking, auto theft, resisting arrest, and possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. He was booked at the South Placer Jail where his bail was set at $265,000.

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ROSWELL, N.M.(KRQE) A family on a weekend outing could not believe what they saw. Two dead elks; a result of a project designed to study and protect the endangered jumping mouse in the Lincoln National Forest. The study may be causing more harm than good.

The family asked KRQE News 13 to hide their identity. You could tell they both had struggled for quite a while, said the family.

A family on a camping trip over the weekend came upon an upsetting and disturbing scene in Wills Canyon in the Lincoln National Forest. So we were driving, my wife and myself and our two kids, we have a boy and a girl; Driving up a canyon coming across elk that have been tangled up in this electric fencing, said the tipster.

They say they came across the two bull elks that where tangled in a fence that killed them. At first, they did not know if the elk were caught by poachers or got stuck in a farming fence. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish says it was something else.

There were two bulls who got tangled in an electric fence at the head of Bulls Canyon in the southern part of the Lincoln National Forest, said Tristanna Bickford Communications Director for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.

The electric fence was placed earlier this year by the United States Department of Agriculture in an effort to monitor the endangered jumping mouse. The project is to study its habitat and see if what can be done to preserve the animal. In the press release from July, the USDA hopes they could build permanent fences to improve the living conditions of the jumping mouse, but for the family, they think this was a tragedy that two elks where killed in such a way.

For them to be killed like that and be wasted, is I dont know, Its frustrating from a recreation standpoint and inhumane from a conservation standpoint, the tipster said.

KRQE News 13 reached out to the Lincoln National Forest and the USDA for comment. They declined to comment because of a current lawsuit about the jumping mouse. The environment group believes the government is not doing enough to save the mouse.

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Big Bachelor brood! Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert have been vocal about their future family plans since tying the knot in 2016.

The Bachelor in Paradise alums announced their first pregnancy in March 2017. Feeling crazy grateful to finally share a little secret weve been keeping! Were already absolutely head over heels in love with our little one, the Colorado native captioned her baby bump debut at the time. #babyjanner #hanginthereTanner #eatingfortwotherightway.

The Bachelorette alum shared the same shots via Instagram, writing, Dad Bod. Check. Dad Jokes. Check. Becoming a Dad. Check.

Their daughter, Emerson, arrived five months later, and she became a big sister in July 2019when her baby brother, Brooks, was born.

Roper gave birth to her son at home in her master closet. The moment I realized that we werent going to make it to the hospital, I was, like, screaming, the Mommies Tell All podcast cohost told Entertainment Tonight the following month. It took my painto a whole other level because it became fear.

Her husband chimed in at the time: I could see the whole head [before the paramedics came]. He was crowning. I was there by myself [and saw] a head of hair, and I was like, Oh, my God, this is actually going to happen.

In May 2020, the former ABC personalities announced that Roper is pregnant with baby No. 3.

HERE WE GROW AGAIN, the Bachelor alum captioned her Instagram announcement. It feels so good to be able to finally talk about this pregnancy! If you noticed I havent been on social media much the past couple of months, its because I was dealing with terrible nausea and fatigue, on top of taking care of two kiddos during a pandemic. Although this time has its uncertainties, we are so thankful and excited for this baby. I truly believe babies being born during this time are here for a special reason, to be light workers.

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Well, when good fortune turns your way, all you can do is celebrate your good luck and hope it continues. Im talking about the Fishing Gods. Youll recall that last week I recounted my catching of the biggest fish of my lifetime on a rod and reel a 13-pound channel catfish.

Just a few days after that personal record catch, me and my good young fishin buddy, Gilson Scales, went to a pond to see how my aquatic weed and algae management in the fine Flint Hills fishing hole wuz progressing. Im so old these days that I wont venture out to fish or hunt alone. Gilson is not only my good outdoorsman friend, hes also my insurance policy just in case I take a header and incapacitate myself.

When we arrived, the water wuz plenty fishable and the wind wuz white-capping the pond. But, as I told Gil, the wind aint blowin under the water so the fish dont mind it. To deal with the wind, we had to fish on the upwind side of the pond (north) and throw our bait and lures with the wind.

Now my friend Gilson has a personal favorite fishing plug that looks like a monstrosity to me, but for some reason usually the fish like it. Its got bells, whistles, lights and rattles in the plastic lure. And, there aint hardly nuthin that will get him to change lures because hes had such good luck with it.

So as he wuz confidently throwing his monstrosity, I tied on a small translucent golden-colored, curly-tailed soft plastic lure called the Eclectic Electric Chicken and started throwing it with the wind. On about the 10th cast, a big ol bucket-mouth black bass slammed my chicken and the fight wuz on.

Luckily, after a good fight of about 5 minutes, Gilson wuz there to help me land ol bucket-mouth and when we weighed it on Gilsons electronic fish scale it weighed just short of 5 1/2 pounds. Thats not a record bass for me by far, but it wuz the biggest bass Id caught this year.

And, as it turned out, it wuz the only sizable fish we caught that day. And, for once, my Electric Chicken outperformed Gilsons monstrosity.

Thank you, Fishing Gods.

Fall has arrived for sure. We had a light frost on Oct. 2, the earliest date in recent years. But it didnt kill my garden plants and only killed a few leaves on the sweet potato vines.

Its fine fall Indian summer harvest weather and my neighbors are making good progress on their corn harvest and some have started combining soybeans.

As for me, Im waiting for some moisture so I plant my fall wildlife food plots. The ground is ready, the seed is bought and mixed, and all I need is a good rain.

All the migrating birds are gone except for the killdeers and a few doves. The purple martins left about two months ago. The barn swallows left about 10 days ago. And the hummingbirds left a few days after the frost. A few teal ducks have lit on my pond and the archery deer hunters have their blinds set up and are in the field eager to harvest a big buck. Plus, leaves are coloring and falling every day.

Ol Nevah and I went to Manhappiness last Sunday for a family visit. We took our grandson, his wife and great-grandson The Hudster on a picnic at the beautiful Pillsbury Crossing park and wildlife area east of town. There aint a prettier spot in the entire Flint Hills.

Before we came home, we went to Wamego and visited with old family friends the Joneses. They are a Jones family we will never be able to keep up with when it comes to kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. Theyve got us way more than doubled. But we agree with them: Grandkids and great-grandkids are really great.

Ill finish off this column with some more recollections about play time and play things during my callow youth seven decades, or so, ago. That wuz back in the day when every family raised at least a few hogs. Hogs were prolific and known as mortgage lifters. Im not sure they lived up to the mortgage lifter moniker, but they sure were tasty.

And, they became a source of fun for us rambunctious boys looking for things to occupy our time. Everyone fed their free range hogs ear corn as part of the daily ration. In the course of time, the hog lot became littered with more than baby pigs. It got littered with heavy manure-packed corn cobs.

And, those heavy corn cobs became missiles in epic corn cob wars. Yep, we boys ignored the stink and the uncleanliness of those corn cobs and threw and lobbed them at each other.

As I recall, most of those cob fights ended up with somebody crying and somebody mad after a well-placed or lucky cob found its target.

But, we all survived and so did our friendships.

Ive related this philosophy of life before, but after a prolonged, less-than-satisfactory run-around by medical and health insurance professionals this morning, I want to state my philosophy for life again.

These are my wise words for the week. Rest assured that any day of your life that intersects in way, shape or form with the medical, legal, insurance, utility, cell phone and automotive industries will not be one of the best days of your life. You can throw in government at all levels, too, just for good measure.

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A fence will be placed at the end of Whistler Street as part of efforts to deter the movement of transients, who sometimes engage in unwanted behaviour, through the troubled area.

Duncan city council voted unanimously at its meeting on Oct. 5 to contribute at least $5,000 for the approximately $10,000 fence.

Peter de Verteuil, Duncans CAO, said in a report that, after consulting the community, most of the concepts developed for the Placemaking design for Whistler Street that was presented to council last month had some form of fencing at the end of the block to deter transient movement through the area, at least until the street becomes the attractive destination for the community uses that are envisioned in the new draft plans.

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He said the idea of placing a fence there is not new, and had been discussed with local businesses and the community before, so staff viewed it as an opportunity to discuss the fence again.

Staff reached out in September and were surprised to learn that several individuals had already gotten together to raise funds for a fence at the end of Whistler Street, de Verteuil said.

The plan was ad hoc, grassroots, and very inspiring. Approximately $11,000 had been raised to date, as well as a lot of donated labour and some materials at cost. The design used rebar, and was planned to be installed on approximately Oct. 9.

De Verteuil said the city decided to contribute financially to a fence and staff looked into its costs, placement and design.

He said the city received a quote of approximately $10,000 for Montage Plus Spear top fencing, that will see a wrought-iron look ornamental fence placed at the site.

It will be six feet high and cover approximately 86 feet near the boundary that separates the city from the Municipality of North Cowichan at the north end of Whistler Street.

De Verteuil said the city will contribute $5,000, which will cover half the cost of the fence, with the money coming from its COVID-19 grant program, that still has $70,000 from the original $100,000 that was allocated for the program.

He said the rest of the money that the local residents raised for the rebar fence that was originally planned will be left with the fundraisers to allow for any repairs in the early days of the new fence, as well as for other improvements the group has been organizing for Whistler Street.

We found a way to work together with property owners and marry their concepts for the fence with the Placemaking concepts for the area, de Verteuil said.

This a good first step [in the plans for Whistler Street].

Mayor Michelle Staples thanked staff for reaching out to the neighbours on the issue, and council for trying to find ways to come up with solutions for the neighbourhood.

I also want to thank the business community for the grass-roots work that was done, she said.

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Val Spreng, who served as Bucyrus Tree Commission president last year, stands with Bucyrus maintenance worker Eric Clady just after planting a honey locust tree on Arbor Day at the Bucyrus Elementary School in 2019.(Photo: Mary Lee Minor)

As many communities look ahead to a 2021 spring observance of Arbor Day, your local treecommission has taken a bold step. It has made a decision to stage an autumn version of this tradition. Next Tuesday at noon, Bucyrus Tree Commissionmembers haveinvited the community to "come as you are" to Aumiller Park, near the pool and foot bridge. There isa proclamation for the very first Arbor Day in Autumn from Mayor Jeff Reser. Time has been set aside to salute our Bucyrus Fire Department for service beyond its normalchallenges.They are coming.Their bond with the tree commission will be clarified duringthis Arbor Day gathering.

Oh, sure there are two trees being planted. It would not be an Arbor Day without thistaking place. President Jeff Panovich will be summarizing all the tree planting effortsaccomplished since November 2019. He will share what is ahead in 2020 for SpringStreet and Aumiller Park.

The Bucyrus Tree Commission meets regularly. We walk long streets devoid of trees and decide whether a replacement tree should be of small size orcould be a medium one. Small trees are those that end up being less than 30 feettall. Mediums range anywhere from 30to 50 feetin height.Large ones grow on past 50 feet. Where power and communication lines are notpresent, large trees can go in.

Wecommission members travel to nurseries and actually look at the growth habits and physical characteristics of trees.Because we make choices for both parks and tree lawns intown,we listen to advice about which trees lend themselves to being tough along citystreetsandthose which need the unrestricted spaces afforded by Aumiller Park.Seedlingsare not in the plans. Rather older trees, which have a better chance to reach maturity, arebeing selected. All of this work is about replacement and restoration.

One of the goals is to bring variety to neighborhoods throughout town.Besides Japanese tree lilacs, honey locusts and several maples, we consider ginkgo, redbuds and London planetrees, which do well in urban settings.

In Bucyrus, where we survey tree lawns, letters have been sent to residents along theintended planting route, asking if they are in agreement with the tree plantings. Wecertainly want people on the support side of this venture.If you think trees are a waste oftime, think about the fact thatstreets are like a public face of a town, Bucyrus. They bring lifethrough foliage and perhaps blooming to welcome spring. In summer there is shade relief.Fall offers foliage colors. As leaves, flowers and fruit fall, a layer of humus protects the soiland slows temperature changes.

In heavy rainfall, foliage cushions the force of the downpour. This slows erosion. Tree rootsbind soil and hold huge quantities of moisture. Even bark stores water.

The Bucyrus Tree Commission members take seriously the chargeof acting like a community forestry program. We work through several steps to use funding wisely. If youfind pleasure in trees or want to understand more about supporting the program, do plan tobring your lunch and head for Aumiller Park next Tuesday at noon. Add your applause to the service of our local fire department.

This autumn Arbor Day is a standing-room-only eventsharing, which will be kept short andsweet.

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EDMOND, Okla. (KFOR) An Edmond family is stepping up security after brazen thieves stole one of their vehicles and crashed through an iron fence to get away.

Two juveniles have since been arrested for the wild weekend crime caught on camera.

It just goes to show you that people who are dead set on doing this they dont really care, said property owner Scott Adams. They dont care about the damage, they dont care about themselves.

Adams, a local attorney, says his family slept through the whole thing getting a call around 3:15 Saturday morning.

My daughter came in the room and told me that the police were on the phone and her car was at Danforth & I-35 upside down, thats how we found out, said Adams. The thing that was really disturbing though was when I went back and looked through all the security video.

In the video, you can see one suspect checking out the property even on Adams front porch.

The issue is the safety of my family and thats what really has me upset, he said. Quite frankly, theyve very lucky because had I seen them, I can assure you it would be a whole different set of circumstances then what were dealing with today and Im glad I didnt.

Adams has beefed up security on his property since the incident.

News 4 is not identifying the suspects because they are juveniles.

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