Turf's Up 2009

Sevens member and Norwell pitching coach Kurt Gray has scheduled his annual "Turf's Up" Golf Outing / Norwell Baseball Fundraiser for 1:00 p.m. on September 26th at Timber Ridge. Click on the image above to view the flyer in more detail. Call or email Coach Gray at his contact points listed in the flyer to register.

Heaven of Delight

Isn't that green, mosaic ceiling pretty?  You'd hardly know, looking at it, that it's made of one and a half million beetle wings.

The Ossian Rampage

Although the opening paragraph is confusing, I believe what this article from the Berne Weekly News is saying is that Toby Schwartz, the guy who went on a drug-crazed rampage through Ossian back around August 20th, was cooking Meth out of his garage with the intent to sell. His home in Berne is within penalty range of the elementary school, and his girlfriend, Aaron Crew (wouldn't that be "Erin?"), has been arrested now as well. But the biggie here is that this guy was arrested for making Meth near a school on August 11 and was given home detention.

Home detention for making and dealing Methamphetamine near a grade school? Home detention for a Meth-head? And during the home detention the guy goes nuts and attacks people, steals their cars, robs people and stores, crashes into police cars? Am I reading this correctly Adams County?

A Broom In Alabama Standing On Its Own!

OK... we have a broom like this so I tried it with my own broom and it stood on it's own almost every time I tried. Katie's in fifth grade this year and she got the broom to stand on it's own as well..... what's the big deal? Below are a couple of pictures of my own free standing broom among the grape jelly we canned today.

Norwell 17, Heritage 0

The Knights defeated Heritage 17-0 on a wet field Friday night to move to 2-0 on the season.

Junior quarterback Noah Patten hit fellow junior tight end Jeff Shatto for a 12-yard score at the 8:45 mark, putting the Knights up 10-0. Patten's touchdown was set up by a fantastic 61-yard run down the right sideline by Fiechter on a third-and-23 play.  Fiechter, who finished with 154 yards rushing on 26 carries, scampered 68 yards for an exclamation point touchdown with 1:05 to play in the fourth quarter for the final score.

Way to go, guys!

The Star Wars Cast

I don't believe I've ever seen this picture before.

August Rush

OMG. I caught August Rush on HBO and if you like music and haven't seen it.... well... find a way to see it. The scene above, in the movie, is the first time this kid (a music prodigy in the movie) ever plays a guitar. There are several scenes like this in the movie.... very, very enjoyable.

And yes, that's Robin Williams, who plays a musical Fagin to Freddie Highmore's Oliver Twist.

A New Era of Celebrity

An interesting thought:  you all remember Andy Warhol's 1968 comment that "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."  Well, here we are 40 years later and darned if somebody famous isn't dying every fifteen minutes -- so Warhol's statement must have come true.  Michael Jackson, Les Paul, John Hughes, Farrah Fawcett, Eunice Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Robert Novak, Dominick Dunne...

The ascent of the microcelebrities, the 24 hour news cycle, citizen journalism, and our darkest fantasies all collide on Twitter now. The website's question "What are you doing?" sometimes feels more like "Who died today?"

Knights fall to Huntington North

The Knights Volleyball Team slipped to 3-3 on the season despite 15 kills and 23 diggs by Amanda McAfee (above), falling 1-3 to Huntington North on Wednesday.  In addition to Amanda's stats,

Norwell setter Mallory Bushee had 23 assists. Lauren Klansek had three blocks. Breanna Wilson had 32 digs and Liz Ault added 22 digs.

 

Should a thirteen-year-old sail around the world alone?

There's an old saying that it's easier to get forgiveness than permission.  The parents of a thirteen-year-old girl in the Netherlands are seeking permission to let their daughter take off two years of school to sail around the world by herself.  The government, of course,

... want Laura Dekker to be made a ward of court, so that her parents, who support her plans, temporarily lose the right to make decisions about her.

Laura's father, Dick Dekker, has had a request for her to miss two years of school turned down.

Laura had a yacht by the age of six and began sailing solo when she was 10.

"Since I was 10 years old, I've known that I would like to sail around the world," she told Dutch television.

"I want simply to learn about the world and to live freely."

 

Her fierce desire to live freely went in the opposite direction the moment she asked for permission... and now she finds herself on the verge of state imprisonment.  There was a time, when the world was less civilized, when teenagers had much expected of them.  Today?  Today not so much. Today you're a child until you're in your 20's.  A thirteen-year-old girl sailing alone around the world is a scary, scary thing.  What would any of us do if our own children asked for this? 

Eric Pulfer, Airman 1st Class

Eric Pulfer (Norwell 2007 and son of Sevens member Larry) has graduated basic training for the Air National Guard at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX

Thanks for your service!

A way to thank our servicemen and women

Hand out free coffee cards to our men and women when you travel