Children find therapy for cancer on ski slopes
Mount Airy's Bob Bingaman organized the 13th annual Family Ski Weekend with NIH Ski Club and Special Love at Canaan Valley Resort West Virginia. About 250 Special Love attendees and 40 NIH Ski Club volunteers support children with cancer through skiing and equipment provision. The event aims to boost confidence and morale as children learn to ski despite treatment fatigue. A benefit dance raised 7000 dollars for the February trip, with a November auction from local ski shops.
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National Institutes of Health
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Service to Mankind Award Goes to Michael Stockman
Michael Stockman a Frederick EMS leader received the Service to Mankind Award from the Freder ick Noon Sertoma Club for community and church service. He is an assistant nursing professor at Frederick Community College and founding EMS program manager. He volunteers as an EMT with Junior Fire Co and CPR First Aid instructor with the Red Cross. He serves as lay leader and Sunday school superintendent at his church and coordinates hospital nursing home and home visits offering free care and screenings. He chairs church missions outreach and runs programs at Citizens Nursing Home and Soup Kitchen plus Christmas family adoption and shelter activities. He lives near Frederick with wife Teresa and daughters Sara and Emily.
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Frederick Community College
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Juggler Gleich Teaches Confidence and Circus Skills
Frostburg based master in health and physical education runs a workshop teaching juggling unicycling and spinning plates to help diverse students overcome clumsiness. Gleich promotes trying learning from mistakes and uses demonstrations to build confidence.
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Jim Gleich
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Frostburg State University
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IBM
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Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus
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New York
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New software enables e mail chats with Mir astronauts
Annapolis AP reports Naval Academy engineer Bob Bruninga created software enabling people within 2000 miles of Mir to send e mail via the station's amateur radio system. The plan lets teachers use it to spark science interest, with a live map showing sender locations.
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Missing Yo Yo the Trumpeter Swan Drifts Near Lakes Cove
A 10 month old trumpeter swan named Yo Yo is missing from Dorchester County Maryland after two weeks away from her home at Environmental Studies at Airlie Virginia. Biologist Gavin Shire and a light aircraft had guided her group to Lakes Cove, with officials noting she may simply be exploring nearby lakes.
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Virginia
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Warrenton
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