| Former Augusta resident drowns in Colorado
In a frantic attempt to rescue her two dogs, Laura Mae Wallace, 19, fell through the thin ice of a golf pond in Commerce City, Colo., on Sunday morning and drowned in the icy waters. That the former Lyndhurst resident died trying to save her pets didn't surprise the girl's grandmother, Judy Cox. .
Stargazer turned astronaut credits the MLK dream
According to Webster's Dictionary, a dream is a "series of thoughts, images or emotions occurring during sleep." Nowadays, when we speak of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality, it seems like one of those gauzy images that have little to do with our waking life. But King's dream wasn't an illusive fantasy to Dr. Mae Jemison. It was a call to action. .
Meet the more gentle Jack Morris
Baseball fans got a chance to see the kinder, gentler side of hard-nosed World Series MVP Jack Morris on Tuesday night when he spoke at the Canaries Hot Stove Banquet at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
The 18-year major league pitching veteran and three-time World Series champion related a moving story about his third-grade teacher, who let the kids watch the Twins play in a 1965 World Series game during school hours.
After that game, Morris told her that one day he too was going to play for the Twins in a World Series. "She patted me on the back and told me to hold on to my dreams," he said.
When Morris actually accomplished the task and had retired, he looked up his former teacher, took her out to lunch, and told her how much she had inspired him.
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