Team Gourmet cooks for RAGBRAI riders at host families
Wayne Santi of Antioch Illinois leads Team Gourmet a catering group on the RAGBRAI route they barter dinners for showers and kitchen access. They travel with banquet gear and serve lavish meals like octopus braised lamb and peach flambe to riders along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ine Gazette Est Union
Fran Bowden
Team Gourmet
Wayne Santi
Antioch
Ill
Santi
Illinois
Ragbrai
Ann van Wig
Hartsburg
Fran
Gay Bowden
West Union
Food Network
RAGBRAI Bus Drivers Keep Teams Rolling on Old Rigs
Drivers are scarce as teams convert aging buses into RVs with showers toilets and bunks. Some teams recruit through web ads while personnel like Terri Coughlin and Rosie Laubach overlook routes camp spots and water runs. The article notes drivers often work without commercial licenses and recounts anecdotes from Ottumwa and Sigourney teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ragbrai
Jones
Pam Ward
Ottumwa Transit Authority
Terri Coughlin
Ken Stubbe
Prescott Valley
Ariz
McCartney Honors Bee Gee With Honorary Diploma
Sir Paul McCartney awarded Robin Gibb a rock n roll diploma at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts in Liverpool. The former Beatle presented the honorary companionship at Philharmonic Hall after opening the institute in 1996 on the grounds of his old school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paul McCartney
Robin Gibb
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
Bee Gee
Philharmonic Hall
Liverpool
England
McCartney
New York
School of Performing Arts
Jimi Hendrix faked homosexuality to exit Army in 1962
The biography Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R Cross reveals Hendrix used a gay cover to avoid Vietnam and was discharged from the 101st Airborne in 1962. Medical records show no ankle injury and detail spring 1962 sessions with a Fort Campbell psychiatrist as he confronted love, addiction, and his discharge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Jimi Hendrix
Vietnam
101St Airborne
Woodstock
Hendrix
Charles R. Cross
Fort Campbell
Cross
Deaths in Albany Minn. Man Charles Young 110
Charles Young aged 110 of Albany Minnesota died Wednesday. He was believed to be the fourth-oldest man in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Charles Young
Albany, Minn
United States
Birthday tributes for actors and artists listed
The item lists well known figures with birthdays including Edd Byrnes, Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Anka, Jean Reno, Otis Taylor, Delta Burke, Kate Dich, Laurence Fishburne, and others. It notes ages or notations such as Fishburne at 64 and includes stray characters. The piece reads like a light birthday roll call from a newspaper page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edd ‘‘Kookie
Byrnes
Peter Bogdanovich
Paul Anka
Jean Reno
Otis Taylor
Delta Burke
Cimcdaor Canmuritar
Kate Dich
Laurence Fishburne
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Phil Buschmann
Cyren
David.dewitte
Gazettecommunications.com
Fayette
Belo Ene
Kia
Iter
Garnaville
Clayton
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Eric York
Newton
Norman Brooks
Crawfordsville
North Fayette High School
Brooks
York
Lisa Kudrow
Dwayne O'Brien
Little Texas
Vivica A. Fox
Christopher Nolan
Tom Greenaday
Hilary Swank
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