| Rally girls visit Hearing Dogs training centre.
Rally drivers Jayne Auden and Amanda Cornforth took some horsepower to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People as they visited the charity's Beatrice Wright training centre near Selby, North Yorkshire with the rally car ahead of their Jim Clark National Rally fundraising outing on May 25-26.
The pair are raising money for Hearing Dogs and promoting deaf awareness through their sport of rallying with the Hear and Now project by contesting the Jim Clark National Rally, which is based in the Scottish Borders, together.
Auden is hard of hearing herself but hears through the use of digital hearing aids and it has never held her back from achieving in life.
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Wheeling Native Promotes Space Travel
Billionaire software engineer Charles Simonyi and two Russian cosmonauts launched into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last month. Dozens of officials and well-wishers watched from about a mile away.
Also in the audience was Wheeling native Stacey Collins Tearne.
Tearne is a 1989 graduate of Wheeling Central Catholic High School and a 1993 graduate of Bethany College with a bachelors degree in communications with an emphasis in public relations. Today, Tearne is vice president of communications at Space Adventures Ltd.
Founded in 1998, Space Adventures Ltd. is the worlds premier private space exploration company and the only company currently providing opportunities for actual private spaceflight and space tourism.
According to Tearne, her job is to build public awareness in order to inform the public that private spaceflight is available.
Editor takes on US president in `Journalist'
Broadview Heights writer G.L. Rockey's novel The Journalist is a conspiracy theory about a self-important editor (he actually plays the ``Do you know who I am?'' card) of a semiweekly Miami newspaper and his quest to expose the megalomaniac president of the United States. The editor, Zachery Stern, is a former priest who's writing an autobiography in the third person (``His slate-gray eyes... look through you''), has been having an affair with a staffer half his age and frequents a cafe that's the hangout of a ``postmodernist thinker'' group called the Pi Underground. President Benjamin P. ``Benny'' Armstrong is a former TV sitcom star who's been making increasingly worrisome statements about recent terrorist activities in Europe. He's using provisions in the U.S.
Helping Paws progam aids disabled, handicapped
DWIGHT, Ill. (AP) - Angela Little sat at a small table, pretending to read a book. When the alarm clock sounded across the room, she ignored it. Her dog, Hannah, rushed over to her and jumped up, trying to get her attention.
Without saying a word, she gestured to the dog, followed her to the alarm clock and turned it off. Hannah got a treat and Little got a sense of accomplishment.
Hannah is in training to be a hearing alert dog. Her trainer, a native of Gibson City, is an inmate at Dwight Correctional Center.
"I figured if I had to be here, what better a program to be in," Little said.
The program, Helping Paws, is the first and only one in Illinois. The first dogs entered the prison in May 2000. Since that time, 116 dogs have passed through the fence at Dwight.
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