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Feed the Heroes was a Community Effort By KD Michaels, Staff Writer It began with four turkeys and an idea and the end result was a banquet that just might become an annual event. Mona Miller, a Branson resident and a veteran, along with friends and family members, hosted “Feed the Heroes” to thank and honor those who give their all to serve our community. “Built Right donated turkeys to the Branson Veterans Task Force, and the Task Force distributed them to our veterans,” explained Miller, who has served as the morale officer in the Day Room during Veterans Week for the past 14 years. “We ended up with some extras. We were given four complete turkey dinners by Brenda Meadows (of the Task Force). We had a brainstorm and decided to feed the Branson Police Department, the Hollister Police Department, our local Highway Patrol officers, the Taney County
Sheriff’s Department, Corps of Engineers and the Western Taney County Fire Department. We came up with the idea and it just took off.” Miller began making phone calls, asking for donations for items to complete the feast. “The Main Street Casey’s and the Hollister Casey’s each donated donuts. Krispy Kreme donated donuts, and Walmart Supercenter donated a patriotic sheet cake,” said Miller. “Country Mart of Branson donated soda, and Country Mart of Hollister donated all of the plates, silverware and napkins. Price Chopper donated a ham.” Additionally, Miller received donations of water and candy bars from Harter House and to-go boxes from both Hungry Hunter restaurant and Area 71. Branson Stagecoach RV Park donated use of their clubhouse for the event, and residents of the park, in addition to their time to assist with the
decorations,” said Miller. “My mom is 82, but she put together gift bags with water, a cookie and some candy, as well as a thank you note for each person.” SEE HEROES, PAGE 2
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“I’ve had a lot of help,” Miller continued. “This community, when they knew it was for the officers, they stepped up to the plate.” Miller estimates approxi-
the Flashlight Candy Cane Hunt, on Friday evening, December 11, 2020, at the Branson Community Center. Families will enjoy hot cocoa and cookies while children decorate candy cane bags and write a letter to
mately 50 were fed—some dining in the clubhouse and others taking their meals to go. All enjoyed a buffet meal consisting of turkey, ham, and all the trimmings, a variety of salads, an array of desserts, and assorted beverages.
Santa. Kids will then go on a hunt in Eiserman Park to pick up as many candy canes as they can find. Prizes will be handed out to those who find some special candy canes. The candy cane hunt is offered to kids ages 3 to 12 years old. There are two sessions to choose from: the first session is from 6-7 p.m., and the second session is from 7-8 p.m. The cost is $5 per person, and you must pre-register online. Everyone is required to bring their own flashlight for the hunt. There might even be some visitors from the North Pole that stop by! Don’t miss out on this fun and unique holiday event! For more information on these events and to buy tickets online, visit the Parks & Recreation Special Events section on its website or call the RecPlex at 417-335-2368. “We’re feeding our heroes,” explained Miller. “They put their lives on the line for us every day. So, the least we can do is take one day and honor them and give them a full belly. Taney County residents love our officers, and we appreciate them every day!”
11th annual Christmas Bash set for Dec. 5 at RecPlex
By Cindy Thomas, Staff Writer First Baptist Church Branson invites the community to the 11th annual Christmas Bash on Saturday, Dec. 5, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. In a change from previous years, the event will be held as a drivethrough at Branson’s RecPlex Park. Event coordinator and outreach pastor, Terry Brown, said the church is excited about hosting the Christmas Bash for area families as it does each year, but concerns about COVID-19 necessitated this year’s format and venue change. The RecPlex entrance and parking are better suited for moving a long line of cars through than is the church location. Some activities, such as the free
haircuts and job fair, will not be on the schedule this time. Volunteers from Kanakuk Institute will greet arrivals and join church volunteers in coordinating energetic music and entertainment. Proceeding through the route, families can enjoy carols, candy and a live nativity. Each family attending will receive a free box of groceries through the church’s partnership with Christian Action Ministries. The event is free and will be held rain or shine. Attendees should plan to enter the RecPlex area from the north, and there will be plenty of signage and large inflatable Christmas decorations to mark the drivethrough route.
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New car wash opens on Branson’s Hwy. 248 By KD Michaels, Staff Writer Branson is now home to a new tunnel car wash. Branson Wash Co. opened last week on Highway 248 and is already receiving rave reviews. Built out of a desire to create a better, faster and higher quality car wash at an exceptional value, Branson Wash Co. features innovative and top-of-the-line equipment in a quest to deliver a truly unique experience. Co-owner Trey Pelz explained that Branson Wash Co. offers three different wash packages to fit any budget. “We have an $8 wash, a $14 wash, and a $17 wash,” said Pelz. “We also do unlimited monthly washes which a lot of people are taking advantage of. It’s $30 a month, and you wash unlimited times. What’s great about that is if you wash your car a couple of times a month, you’ve paid for it already.” The facility will be adding interior detailing after the first of the year and also offers their customers free vacuums, available any time. “They really suck,” said Pelz. “Bad joke, but they are really powerful.” Pelz commented on what sets his business apart from other similar facilities. “The difference for us is the care. All of our employees have a really high care meter, if you will,” Petz noted. “We put a lot of attention into every interac-
tion we have with our customers, and we treat every car like we would want ours to be treated.” Pelz is quick to thank his employees for their dedication. “God has really blessed us with a great team. We’ve got a great group that actually loves coming to work every day, and it’s a really fun atmosphere,” he noted. Branson Wash Co., located at 1305 State Highway 248 next to Culvers, is open Monday through Friday from 8 to 6, and Sundays from 11 to 6, with extended hours planned for the spring and summer months. “Our product speaks for itself,” Pelz added. “One of the things I tell people is to try another car wash, then come try ours, and you can make up your own mind, as far as what you think is the best.
We are confident in our product. We don’t say that to be arrogant. We just really put a lot of effort into our product, and I’ve always said, if it’s a good enough product, I don’t have to over-market it. That’s kind of our goal.”
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Branson’s ‘12 Days of Christmas’ kicks off Nov. 30
Submitted to Branson Globe Know what a weekend of bow hunting, a 65-inch TV, a dinner cruise for 10 and a night of wine and cheese tasting have in common? These are just a few of the amazing items you’ll be able to bid on Nov. 30-Dec. 11 during Branson’s 12 Days of Christmas. Branson’s 12 Days of Christmas is a fun online charity auction kicking off on Cyber Monday, Nov. 30 and running through Dec.11. All proceeds will benefit Skaggs Foundation. Every 24 hours during Branson’s 12 Days of Christmas new and exciting items will go up for auction like a money bouquet, a guided bass fishing trip, a year of bagels, an ultimate Big Cedar package, a gorgeously decorated Christmas tree and much more!
“COVID-19 has presented us with challenges we’ve never faced before,” said Skaggs Foundation President Meghan Connell. “We put in countless hours this past winter planning our 2020 events only to postpone or cancel nearly every activity this year, including Skaggs Bash, our largest annual fundraiser.” While Skaggs Bash had to be canceled, the need for money raised during that event remains high. This year, Skaggs Foundation is on track to impact more than 46,000 lives. Branson’s 12 Days of Christmas is an opportunity for the community to get involved, purchase unique gifts just in time for the holiday season and support an amazing cause – Skaggs Foundation.The online auction will be available online starting Nov. 30 at SkaggsFoundation.org.
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Mayor’s Moment: An update from Branson Mayor Edd Akers First Amendment to the United States Constitution Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Dear Branson Community, As I was doing a little historical reading, I found President Eisenhower’s 1957 Thanksgiving Proclamation that I believe is very fitting this year: “At the autumnal season of the year our hearts move us to follow the wise and reverent custom, inaugurated by our Pilgrim Fathers…, of setting aside one special day for expressions of gratitude to a merciful Providence for the blessings bestowed upon us. It behooves
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us to dwell upon the deep religious convictions of those
who formed our Nation out of a wilderness, and to recall that our leaders throughout the succeeding generations have relied upon Almighty God for vision and strength of purpose…in accordance with our hallowed custom, foregather in our respective places of worship or in our homes and offer up prayers of thanks for our manifold blessings. Let the happiness which stems from family reunions on Thanksgiving Day be tempered with compassion and inspired by an
active concern for those less fortunate in our own country and in other lands; and let us ask God’s continuing help and guidance in our conduct, both as individuals and as a Nation.” Karen and I hope all of you had a very safe, blessed, and enjoyable Thanksgiving. We hope you had the opportunity to safely meet with friends and family and have a little bit of rest and relaxation. Thank you for letting me serve you. Mayor Edd Akers
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Branson’s Christmas Wonderland: A dazzling holiday celebration Branson is sometimes known by four simple words, Family, Faith, Flag, and Fun! And, you’ll find every bit of that, and so much more at King’s Castle Theatre in their dazzling holiday production, Branson’s Christmas Wonderland. No yuletide trip to Branson would be complete without seeing Branson’s Christmas Wonderland, one of Branson’s largest holiday productions. A sparkling cast of singers and dancers takes you on an unforgettable and magical sleigh ride to a grand Christmas extravaganza. Christmas Wonderland rings in the spirit of the Christmas season with high-energy dance, elaborate costumes, beautiful scenery, gorgeous production numbers and the highest-kicking chorus girls this side of the North Pole!
“Basically, it is two hours of nonstop feel-good Christmas singing and dancing”. Says Jacqui Bell, King’s Castle Theatre General Manager and Show Director. “You’ll see, we’ve pretty much covered every single Christmas song you ever wished to hear. Some you may not have heard. We’ve got a phenomenal cast of singers and dancers, beautiful costumes and sets, and a singing and dancing Santa. Our Santa just isn’t any ‘ol Santa Claus. He’s an all-singing and all-dancing and quite entertaining Santa Claus. We have dancing elves, penguins, and tapping tap dancers. I mean everything.” Branson’s Christmas Wonderland is produced specifically for the Branson holiday season, and rehearsals begin about a month be-
fore, which can prove to be challenge during the very busy month of October. Rehearsals are worked around the fourteen weekly performances of the other shows in the regular season line-up. Bell said what helps when scheduling rehearsals is that many cast members are also members of the other King’s Castle Theatre productions. “We do have a few new members, because we have more cast in the Christmas show than we do in the other shows. We go all out for Christmas, so we had to hire a few new people,” Bell tells us. “But the majority of the cast that we have all year and then we flip over into the Christmas one. So, we keep everybody on board all year. We don’t want to let them go, they’re too good.”
After eight months of doing the same show, the cast and crew look forward to doing the Christmas show. “Luckily we don’t have any ‘Bah! Humbugs!’ or Grinches in this company.” Bell says, “That’s not allowed. Everyone’s quite happy to start singing Jingle Bells
on November 1st, so that’s good. That’s a good thing and clearly the public is ready for it, too, because they’re coming.” With all that is going on in the world Bell told us the performers, as well as everyone else at the theSEE WONDERLAND, PAGE 8
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ing every day, because you never know when it’s going to stop. Who knows what’s going to happen? We’re taking every day as it comes and making the most of it and trying to spread some Christmas cheer.” “Christmas Wonderland is just pure, nostalgic Christmas fun. We’re getting rave reviews. People are loving it. I think it gets better every year. Every year we
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Annual Santa’s Gift House designed for young shoppers By KD Michaels, Staff Writer A local service organization is providing a special Christmas opportunity for children in our community. The Junior Auxiliary of Taney County is holding the 11th annual Santa’s Gift House on December 5. Designed for those in pre-K through fourth grade, Santa’s Gift House offers youngsters a unique and affordable way to shop for gifts for family and loved ones. Children select from a variety of gift items— many handmade by Junior Auxiliary members and friends. The young shoppers browse through gifts including Christmas scenes, ornaments, candy jars, crocheted animals, a variety of decorative items and much more to make their selections. Each child may choose up to
four gifts, at only 50 cents apiece. Children are assisted with their shopping and wrapping by Junior Auxiliary elves. Money raised from Santa’s Gift House goes back into the project budget for the following year, used to purchase gift bags, tissue paper and other needed items, generally at after-Christmas clearance prices. “We want the kids to have the opportunity to pick out gifts on their own and learn the joy of giving,” explained Sheryl Schiller, co-chair of Santa’s Gift House. “This is one of our favorite events as we see the children’s faces light up when they pick out their gifts.” Junior Auxiliary, according to Schiller, is “more than a nonprofit organization. It’s a group of women united by a single cause and
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Giving Tuesday Event at Faith Community Health Clinic By KD Michaels, Staff Writer Faith Community Health Clinic will host a special charity event on December 1. Widely known as Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday following
Thanksgiving is recognized as the official kickoff of the holiday giving season. The day is designed to encourage individuals to find ways to help their communities by supporting various charities, nonprofit
organizations and causes. Faith Community Health Clinic’s event will include a local blood drive, a toy drive, and lots of holiday fun. The blood drive will support the
Community Blood Center of the Ozarks, the exclusive provider of blood to all hospitals throughout the region. All eligible donors are encouraged to Give the Gift of Life by donating at this blood drive. To maintain the health and safety of all, donors will be required to wear a face mask as well as have their temperature taken prior to donating. Donors are also asked to preregister for an appointment time to assist with social distancing guidelines. To preregister, visit www. cbc.org/donate-blood. All donors will receive a T-shirt and a chance to win a 2020 Nissan, courtesy of Youngblood Auto Group. In addition to the blood drive, Faith Community Health Clinic will also hold a toy drive on the same date, collecting new, unwrapped toys for children of all ages. Toys will be given to the Salvation Army for their annual holiday assistance programs, including the toy store, where parents of deserving children can “shop” for gifts for their young ones. “During this time of health, economic and unemployment uncertainty, we must join together and seek opportunities to support one another,” explained Michelle Dean, Director of Charitable Giving for Faith Community Health Clinic. “Even as so many face financial concerns, generosity is not about the size of the gift. Every act of kindness is not only a beacon of hope, it can make a life-changing difference.”
Faith Community Health Clinic is, itself, a charitable organization, providing affordable health care to the uninsured in our area. The unique facility has provided health care to more than 6,000 individuals in Taney and Stone counties in its ten years in operation. Faith Community Health Clinic’s Giving Tuesday celebration will be held from 9 am to 4 pm on Tuesday, December 1, in the clinic parking lot at 610 South 6th Street in Branson. The festivities will include Christmas carolers and an appearance by Santa Claus, who will, himself, donate blood at 11:30 am. Faith Community Health Clinic encourages everyone to join them on Giviing Tuesday, and consider giving “The Gift of Life” by donating blood and “The Gift of Joy” by donating a new toy to help someone in need.
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Jerry Seinfeld digs into 45 years of his jokes for new book
FILE - This July 17, 2019 file photo shows Jerry Seinfeld at the “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee,” photo call in Beverly Hills, Calif. In Seinfeld’s new book, “Is This Anything?” Seinfeld reveals a timeline of jokes he’s written over the past 45 years, showing how a 21-year-old kid from New York’s Long Island evolved into arguably one of the greatest stand-up comics of his time. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
By John Rogers LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forget the high-performance sports cars, the luxury Rolls-Royces and all those other classic automobiles in which Jerry Seinfeld ushers his fellow comics to the diner on television’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” The most valuable things Seinfeld owns are the thousands of pieces of paper — yellow, scribbled over, sometimes crumpled — that for years he’s been cramming into those brown accordion folders that were once a staple of storage until something better came along called the laptop computer. They contain the jokes Seinfeld has been writing and telling since that first day he walked into a New York nightclub as a 21-year-old wannabe comic who accepted free hamburgers in lieu of a paycheck. They continue right up to the present-day musings of a 66-year-old man wondering how the world keeps getting more crowd-
ed when he doesn’t see any more cemeteries being built. “Flights, restaurants, theater shows sell out all the time. Cemetery? Anyone croaks, send them in. We just had an opening. What happened? Somebody came back to life and walked out. You’re very lucky.” He’s compiled them all in a new book, “Is This Anything?,” the title taken from the question every comic asks every other comic when he or she is about to try out new material. Assembled in chronological order, they provide not just a trove of laugh-out-loud one-liners but also a timeline, beginning with a kid commuting from his parents’ home on Long Island to New York City to try to make strangers laugh. It continues through a career during which Seinfeld became arguably the greatest stand-up comic of his era and the pivotal figure of the funniest TV sitcom of its time. Still, why did he save every joke
of his career? Or at least every one that got a laugh? “A lot of people ask me that question and I always say I don’t know why I saved anything else,” he replies with a chuckle in a phone interview. Then he adds more seriously, “This is the most valuable thing I have.” Hunkered down in the family home with his wife and their three children in East Hampton, New York, he is continuing to add to those folders. He’s also working on another project that for the moment he isn’t discussing except to say it involves the people with whom he made the hit 2007 animated comedy film “Bee Movie.” Even quarantined from the coronavirus, Seinfeld says he finds no shortage of new material. “A lot of material just comes out of being constantly irritated by someSEE SEINFELD, PAGE 15
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thing else, and that seems to go on endlessly,” he says, especially when staying home with four other people. “It’s usually one good fight per day, I would say, is our basic routine. Two meals and one good fight.” Still, unlike his bachelor days in Manhattan, being a family man puts a limit on just how much irritation he can vent. “When I lived alone when I was single, I would fill up an entire house with complaints, but now I have to share it,” he jokes. “I’m on a complaint diet.” When the pandemic finally ends, he’s looking forward to going back out on the road, rescheduling the stand-up gigs he had to cancel. But don’t look for him to fill them with coronavirus jokes, although several good ones fill the last chapter of “Is This Anything?” “I think people are going to be so sick of it that they’re going to move
on and want us to talk about other things,” he says of that and politics, although he admits he’s been consumed by both during the months stuck at home. Still, he’s never been much for political jokes, saying that, one, he’s not good at them and two, they don’t hold up over time. “It’s like politics ages and spoils very quickly,” he continues. “But a great piece of stand-up can live a long life.” One other thing he’ll be doing is heading back to his second home in his beloved Manhattan and dropping by the diners and comedy clubs again. “That’s kind of my New York lifestyle, diners and comedy clubs. “Like on the TV series,” he adds of the character he portrayed on “Seinfeld” from 1989 to 1998. “Funny thing is,” he continues, during the TV series “I never went to diners, really, and had coffee in those days. And now I do. I’m living the life of the character on the show.”
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A peek inside the USPS’s Operation Santa program
Filmmaker Dana Nachman wanted to make a documentary about the United States Postal Service’s Operation Santa program for years, but it never seemed like the right time. Then in 2018 she got up some courage and decided to cold email the USPS press office. They responded immediately and agreed to give her and a film crew unprecedented access to the inner workings of this charitable program. But there was one big rule: Don’t ruin Christmas for kids. Every year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa go through the USPS system, asking for everything from toys to food. The program, which has been running in some form for over 107 years, takes letters from kids in need, matches them up with donors and helps make Christmas wishes come true. “Dear Santa,” out Dec. 4 from IFC Films, takes viewers inside the program showing the kids writing the letters, the postal workers who sort and categorize them (Santa’s helpers) and the adoptees who go out and
purchase the gifts they ask for. “I think a lot of people don’t know it exists,” Nachman said. “I didn’t!” She and her team began filming last year and had only the couple of weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas to shoot. They had a couple of parameters: She wanted a diversity of locations (cosmopolitan, rural and everything in between) and to focus on what the postal service calls “special requests,” which could be anything from heat to a medical procedure. In other words, they’re wishes that don’t necessarily fit in a box. “I wasn’t so much interested in the kids asking for toys and iPhones and, believe me, there are a lot,” Nachman said. “We could have done an entire film on people who just wanted food or mattresses.” With Santa’s helpers knowing what they were looking for, when a special request came through that they thought might work, they would send it off to Nachman
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who would peruse and consider. Sometimes there were a few, sometimes 20, sometimes 50. To protect the privacy of the families, the postal service had to act
as liaison at first. If Nachman liked a letter, the USPS would send an express mail letter to the parents essentially saying if you’re interested in participating in this movie, here’s the filmmaker’s email and phone number. Then, the waiting game began.
“We just waited by the phone,” Nachman said. “It was very stressful. Time was ticking.” They also needed the permission of the adopter to make a per-
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fect match. But calls started coming in and eventually they wound up with more than they could use. “We wanted to make sure that the film tonally was a shot of poi-
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Champion Ken Jennings will be first interim ‘Jeopardy!’ host
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By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — “Jeopardy!” record-holder Ken Jennings will be the first in a series of interim hosts replacing Alex Trebek when the show resumes production next Monday. Producers announced Monday that Jennings, who won 74 games in a row and claimed the show’s “Greatest of All Time” title in a competition last year, will host episodes that air in January. A long-term host to replace Trebek, who died of cancer on Nov. 8, will be named later. “By bringing in familiar guest hosts for the foreseeable future,
our goal is to create a sense of community and continuity for our viewers,” the show’s executive producer, Mike Richards, said. The show is in its 37th year of syndication. It is still airing shows that Trebek filmed before his death. Art Fleming hosted earlier editions of the game show, including the original “Jeopardy!” that debuted in 1964 on NBC and aired for a decade. Richards said “Jeopardy!” will air repeat episodes for the holiday weeks beginning Dec. 21 and 28, meaning Trebek’s final week of shows will air starting Monday, Jan. 4. Jennings’ episodes begin on Jan. 11.
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She hopes the film will both help spread the word about the program and inspire people to adopt a letter. “Once you read them, you won’t be able to not do it,” she said. Operation Santa is forging ahead this year even with the pandemic and for the first time it’s national and online. Let-
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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows: ABC’s “This Week” — Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; William McRaven, retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
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Brief buzz: Danish Mayfly named 2021 insect of the year BERLIN (AP) — The Danish Mayfly was selected Friday by an international group of entomologists and others as the Insect of the Year for 2021, but it won’t have long to celebrate its 15 minutes of fame. The insect, whose scientific name is Ephemera danica, only
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research institutions and conservation organizations from Germany, Austria and Switzerland that made the choice. Mayflies have existed for about 355 million years and today some 140 species live in Central Europe, the commission said. Despite their fleeting time on
earth in their final form, their developmental cycle is quite long. Female mayflies zigzag over water between May and September, laying thousands of eggs that then sink. Larvae hatch within a few days, and eventually develop gills. Buried in riverbeds, they take between one to three years to develop. “Shortly before the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life, a layer of air forms between the old and new skin of the adult larvae,” said Schmitt, who is also director of the Senckenberg German En-
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50-something Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr. hungry to fight again
By Greg Beacham LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson stepped onto a spotlighted stage Friday and weighed in at 220 pounds, ripping off his shirt to reveal a muscled torso that could belong to an athlete of half his 54 years. The former heavyweight champion moved into a COVID-protective glass box and went nose-to-nose with Roy Jones Jr., once the most talented fighter in the world. Jones’ 210-pound frame was slightly less toned, but still clearly in better condition than most of his fellow 51-year-olds. These two boxing greats are older, calmer men now, but they’re returning to the ring Saturday night intending to recapture a moment of their brilliant past — and they’ve both worked very hard to make sure they won’t be embarrassed in this extraordinary boxing exhibition. “This is the fun part,” said Tyson, who will fight for the first time in 15 years. “Everything else to get here was hell.” Their fight at Staples Center is an eight-round sparring session of sorts. It will have two-minute rounds, no official judging and limited violence, although the limit depends on whether you’re asking the California State Athletic Commission or the fighters, who both intend to let their hands go. “Maybe I don’t know how to go easy,” Tyson said. “I don’t know. I don’t want to say the wrong thing. I don’t want the commission mad at me.” But for Tyson and Jones, this unique pay-per-view show is less of a sporting event and more of a chance for two transcendent athletes to prove age is a number — and aging is a choice. “I don’t look at life as age,” Tyson said. “I look at life as energy. You don’t bring your age to the table. You bring your energy to the table. You don’t go meet people: ‘Hey, I’m Bob. I’m 59.’ You don’t do that.” Tyson still seems surprised by the wave of events that carried him back
to the ring. He admits the younger Tyson never would have believed he would be a middle-aged husband and father who needed to lose 100 pounds two years ago, because that headstrong kid from Brooklyn had never thought that far ahead. “I didn’t even think I would live this long,” he said. “I was just so intense, and just took myself so serious.” Tyson got back into shape at the urging of his wife, who got him to start doing 15 minutes a day on the treadmill. The 15 minutes turned into two hours, and then expanded to biking, running and eventually punching, along with the adoption of a vegan diet. “Never eat anything,” he said with a laugh. “Just starve and exercise.” The momentum started when he posted video of a training session on social media early in the coronavirus pandemic, and his crisp, powerful punches led to millions of impressions and a subsequent stream of increasingly lucrative comeback offers, along with the chance to raise money for charities. “This is a part of my life that I had pretty much thrown away,” Tyson said. “My last fight, I didn’t have any interest in doing it. I’m interested in doing it now.” Tyson is referring to his loss to journeyman Kevin McBride in 2005, when he finally wrapped up his singular career in ugly fashion. He became the heavyweight champion at 20 and reigned over the division for five years, but his epic downfall soured him on the sport. “I want to do it now,” Tyson said. “Most of the time I was obligated to do it from a contract perspective: ‘If you don’t do this, we’ll take everything you have, and you’ll be back in Brownsville.’ They were blackmailing me. It’s a different perspective now.” While Tyson became an international icon for his brutish, dangerous image and numerous misbehaviors, Jones was widely revered SEE FIGHT, PAGE 23
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as perhaps the most skilled boxer of his generation. Jones was a preternaturally gifted athlete who dominated his weight classes while still pursuing his passion for basketball. Nate Robinson was a rookie guard for the Knicks in 2005 when Jones participated in a full practice with the team.
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out the 2010s, but thought he was finally retired two years ago. When he got an offer to be the opponent in Tyson’s comeback, Jones couldn’t resist the chance to fight a legend he never got to meet during a career spent mostly at light heavyweight. So Jones embarked on his own
comeback training regimen. “It’s been the craziest thing you ever could have imagined,” Jones said. “I can’t believe I’m able to maintain my speed at 51 years old. I’m still faster than 95% of the boxing world, and it shocks me. The aches and pains are there because you’re 50, and they’re going to be there no matter what you do. You just have to have a mental
strength to overcome an adversity.” Tyson and Jones are returning to a new world of boxing fandom and consumption. This show is being promoted by Triller, a video-making app and social media platform, with a fightnight show featuring performances by several rappers, a surprisingly solid undercard and a co-main event pitting Robinson in his professional boxing
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believe I’m a part of it.” Neither Tyson nor Jones is likely done with boxing after this show. Jones said he hopes to fight mixed martial arts legend Anderson Silva next “if this one goes well,” while Tyson will go wherever this strange trip takes him next.
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Earlier this month, the group made their first flight to Macon to pick up Reid’s six dogs and deliver pet food and supplies. The shorter travel time by air can relieve some travel stress for dogs like Sky, who has anxiety. The foundation’s executive director, Dawn Wallace, served in the Air Force and spent nearly 12 years at Robins Air Force Base south of Macon. She hopes to continue rescuing animals from the South. “I know of so many selfless and dedicated people in this area of Georgia who are helping to save and rescue animal lives,” Williams wrote in an email. “Yet there is still such a prevalent need for continued relief to help reduce the number of homeless pets and save the lives of highly adoptable dogs.”
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the foundation has placed nearly 2,500 dogs in new homes. While looking for adoptable dogs, the foundation discovered many rural shelters are struggling in the pandemic as facilities closed and more families turned in their animals due to financial strain. But professionals working from home near Washington, D.C. are more amenable to taking on a new pet and are returning them at a lower rate than in previous years. “The northern Virginia-D.C. area is actually having a hard time keeping up with the demand for rescue dogs,” Williams said. Of 360 dogs rescued from Georgia this year by the group, about 200 traveled by transport vans from Albany in southwest Georgia.
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two men put together. But they discovered no clues about who might have driven it into the ground among the undulating red rocks or why. “This thing is not from another world,” said Lt. Nick Street of the Utah Highway Patrol, part of the Department of Public Safety. Still, it’s clear that it took some planning and work to construct the 10- to 12-foot monolith and embed it in the rock. The exact location is so remote that officials are not revealing it publicly, worried that people might get lost or stranded trying to find it and need to be rescued. The monolith evokes the one that appears in the Stanley Kubrick movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Because it’s on federal
public land, it’s illegal to place art objects without authorization. Bureau of Land Management officials are investigating how long it’s been there, who might have created it and whether to remove it.
(Utah Dept. of Public Safety via AP)
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Beautiful Thanksgiving Day, rain on Sunday By Daryl Weather, Weather Forecaster I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving and got to eat tons of food so each of us will have to spend 6 months working the extra weight off!!
So let’s jump into the weather for the next few days. A cold front that moved through the area last night has brought some light rain showers to parts of the Ozarks this morning. These showers will move out later today
leaving us with mostly cloudy skies. We will feel the brunt of the cold front on Monday with highs only in the mid 30s and overnight in the low 20s. Tuesday (first day of December), Wednesday and Thursday all
look cool with highs in the mid 40s and cold overnights in the 20s. We sure went into Christmas temps pretty quick after Thanksgiving!! I’ll see you all again in our Wednesday edition. Until then, stay safe friends!
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526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle 1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink 1830 November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia’s rule in Poland begins. 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye 1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his handcranked phonograph for the first time 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii 1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. 1915 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California. 1916 US declares martial law
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1890 1st US Army - US Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point 1987 Joe Montana of SF 49ers completes NFL record of 22 consecutive passes 1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
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