| Primer 3: Recreation
New West recreationists increasingly come into conflict over the highest and best use of public lands. Affluent vacationers seeking packaged adventures rely on businesses offering guided raft and Jeep excursions. Meanwhile, other visitors look to the public lands for non-commercialized encounters with nature. But even those visitors have vastly varied notions of what they want a quiet hike in search of birds, a sweat-soaked scramble up a peak, an adrenaline-charged ride on an ATV. Accommodating all these forms of recreation is a quandary for federal land managers. Any land-management decision perceived as limiting access is guaranteed to draw fire from all sides. The federal agencies are now wrangling with the question of how to curb ATVs, which clearly cause more damage than other recreational users.
Quick-thinking duo help Canton woman escape blaze
Lynn Rodway had just sat down for coffee Friday at Peltiers Collision Center in Canton when Doug McKinney burst through the door and said Kathy Hilt's house was on fire.
Tom Kadinger, who was at Peltiers, figured that Hilt was sleeping because she works nights. So the men jumped in a pickup and drove to 400 N. West St. at 2 p.m.
Rodway honked the horn on the pickup. Kadinger hollered and banged on the front door until he pushed it in and found Hilt three steps away. "Boy, we were abusive, kicking and beating the door," Rodway said. "(Kadinger) was about ready to break it."
Thick smoke consumed the home, Rodway said. Kadinger led her out and retrieved her cat on the sofa. Rodway used a knife to cut a leash on the kennel attached to the garage to get her dog, with flames leaping toward it from the porthole.
Corrections and clarifications
The sales price of a property was misstated Sunday in the Done Deals column of the Real Estate section. The property at 2527 W. Michigan St., sold for $55,500, not $555,000. Metro MLS, the multiple listing service, provided incorrect information. *** An article Monday in the Sports section about the Daytona 500 incorrectly stated that NASCAR drivers Dale Jarrett and David Reutimann did not compete in the race last year. 2/10/08 An article Saturday misstated when the state's Emergency Operations Center opened to coordinate the response to last week's big snowstorm. It opened at 8 p.m. Tuesday, not 8 p.m. Wednesday. 2/8/08 An article Friday about Milwaukee Common Council candidate Sam McGovern-Rowen misstated where he earned his bachelor's degree.
Principal sees technology as supplement to education
He now writes a blog for his staff after attending a half-day Northside Independent School District workshop on blogging last year. The elementary students know a little bit about word processing and PowerPoint presentations because that's what the school teaches them, Van Winkle said. And fifth-graders are beginning to get into iPods, he said. He sees technology as a tremendous benefit in the classroom, but it has to aid the learning process, he said. "I think that anything we can use within ethical and legal parameters that fosters high-level thinking is good for kids," Van Winkle said. "You're putting them into a whole another world of being able to think outside the box." Van Winkle remembers his first computer was an Apple IIe in 1986 when he worked as a fifth-grade teacher.
Lady Flames clinch SSAC championship, Flames win again
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USC guard shows serious dedication
Wooden record is impressive, however in college basketball you have more control over the players you are going to get. It's called recruiting. And if you have a winning program one year, then the following year more top prospects will want to play for you. That is why coaches like Krzyzewski get the top players year after year. In the NBA you have to worry about what will be available come draft time. And you have to worry about free agency. Not to mentions super inflated egos. Red Auerbach was a great coach in the technical sense, but he was an even better people manager. And he deserves to be recognized as the greatest ever.
— Sid, Vienna, Va. Hey Mike, My vote goes to John Wooden. His UCLA teams of the sixties and early seventies transformed college basketball into an art form.
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