Teen rides 1100 miles with The Spokesmen on Florida to Indiana journey
Tom Clark, 13, rode 1100 miles with the Spokesmen youth group from Cocoa Beach Florida to Shelbyville Indiana. He trained up to 85 miles daily, bought a $150 Sekine bike, and the total trip cost $160 covering travel meals and uniforms. The group slept at churches and was organized four years ago by an Indiana minister's son to use bikes to connect youth with the church.
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Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Tom Clark
Marvin Clark
McKinley St
Cocoa Beach
Fla
Shelbyville
Ind
Clark
Pennsylvania
Rural Health Associates brings first rural care waves to Maine
In western Maine the Rural Health Associates program provides three clinics serving about 30 000 people with free care for roughly 20 percent who live in poverty and low cost care for others. The $1 million federal grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity funds the independent doctors replacement by clinics and group medicine. The program aims to deliver comprehensive health care to a rural population and survived federal cutbacks by another grant. Families like the Hinkleys benefit with free or affordable care and substantial savings on routine visits and procedures, improving nutrition and health for locals such as Grace and Ernest Lowell and their seven children.
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Farmington
Maine
Office of Economic Opportunity
Franklin County
Oko
Delvin Hinkley
Strong
Mrs. Hinkley
RHA
Hinkley
Nicholas Hinkley
Hinkleys
Grace
Ernest Lowell
Ernest
Farmington Shoe Co
Lowell
Lee
Dan Onion
New England
Onion
David Dixon
Dixon
California governor may see $60,000 pay rise in new plan
A legislative proposal would raise the governor's salary to $60,000 annually, with top state officials averaging an $8,000 raise. If approved, increases would take effect in January, the first bumps since 1971, and would lift salaries about five percent overall.
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Sacramento
Calif
California
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