8:30 a.m. HAGERSTOWN, MD. – JANET HUCKABEE-SKEET SHOOT – Coffee and skeet shoot with Janet Huckabee, wife of presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Location: North American Rod and Gun Club, 12108 Belvedere Road, Hagerstown.
Sounds like an event that would take place in the South, but it’s in Maryland.
Texans, thank you for being a part of the e-Vote.
Below are the unofficial vote counts for the new general-issue Texas license plate, which will begin production in January, 2009.
We are analyzing and reviewing the votes to make sure there are no anomalies. By the end of this week, we will announce the top vote-getter.
That design will then go on to the Transportation Commission, which, by law, must officially approve the general-issue license plate.
One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge. I was maybe 1 and a half years old. Someone hadgiven me a little ‘tea set’ as a gift and it was one of my favorite toys. Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news and my brother was playing nearby in the living room when I brought Daddy a little cup of ‘tea’, which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Mom came home. My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was ‘just the cutest thing!!’ My Mom waited, and sure enough, here I come down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up, then says, ‘Did it ever occur to you that the only place that baby can reach to get water is the toilet??’
[Thanks, James!]
DAVIE, Fla. – Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony. But less than an hour after she and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband’s arms during a Greek song that means “Love Me.”
At 36, Sjostrom was dead from heart disease.
The wedding had became a project at Davie Elementary School, where Sjostrom taught first grade. Fellow teachers provided the wedding gown, the flowers and decorations. One of them, an ordained minister, performed the ceremony.
“It was perfect for her,” said Dominic Church, the minister friend.
Sjostrom carried blue and white flowers during the ceremony — the colors of the Greek flag — as she exchanged vows with Efkarpides, a 43-year-old carpenter and Navy veteran. They had met three years to the day before the Jan. 19 wedding.
During the couple’s first dance, Sjostrom complained of being lightheaded. Efkarpides thought his wife, a diabetic, needed sugar, but she collapsed.
Wedding guests, paramedics and doctors at a nearby hospital were unable to revive her.
She had a previous cardiac episode in her 20s and was a poster child — literally — for juvenile diabetes, relatives and friends said. Efkarpides recalled seeing the poster featuring her on New York subways.
He consoles himself by reading a list of “101 Reasons Why I Love You” that Sjostrom gave him their first Christmas together. “Number 1. You make me smile.”
No. 98 is especially difficult: “You’re the one I want to grow old with.”