Month: August 2012

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Bob Grandinetti, board president of Ocean Towers Condominiums and one of the key organizers of demonstrations against the RV park, told Shore News that when, and if, RVs set up camp on the beach, they will be met with some demonstrators who are on call to protest their arrival.  

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- "In seconds my skin was a bright shade of pink, the first layer of my epidermis a distant memory as it disappeared down the drain. The initial sting of the ice had given way to an overall numbness, so when it was replaced with simply freezing water, I hardly noticed," Sartwell wrote in the Gloucester Times. "However, I wasn’t prepared for the blast of volcanic molten lava that suddenly emanated from the same shower head. This water was now so hot it started to melt the metal drain hole." 

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Ground was broken this summer at the 1,019-site, full-service resort located east of Los Angeles, close to Palm Springs. Completion of the $200,000 investment is scheduled for October, when the resort’s peak season begins. Pickleball is a racquet sport that encompasses elements of tennis, badminton and table tennis but is played on a court one-third the size of a tennis court.

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Jim Fassel, president, general manager and head football coach for the Las Vegas Locomotives, loves the outdoors and touring the country in a 42-foot 2010 Fleetwood Discovery Diesel Class A motorhome purchased from Findlay RV, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. 

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Firefighters had to rescue John Boggs from the RV because belongings inside the RV prevented him from escaping on his own, fire officials said noting the property also served as fuel for the fire. Officials also observed modified electrical wiring in the RV, the Visalia Times reported. 

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Coyote Mud Bogs will offer families and young people a motocross track, a RV park that will hold about 120 people, an ATV park, camping grounds, nature trails, a 5-acre mud pit, and an 18,000- to 20,000-seat amphitheater for concerts and other special events, the Daily Commercial noted.

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- A chemical odor at Heflin Park Campground led to the arrest of two people for drug violations. An 8-year-old girl who was present now is in the care of a family member, the Republic reported. 

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- Police said 23-year-old Jamie Harris was driving a four-wheeler through the campground at Brainerd International Raceway Wednesday night when he was struck by lightening, the Brainerd Dispatch reported. 

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- The travel industry is rated by consumers in a new Gallup poll as in the Top 10 of 25 business sectors, with a 40 percent positive rating and a 21 percent negative rating, the American Recreation Coalition reported today. Another Gallup study reports that a majority of Americans are overweight or obese in all 50 states, "We just must get people outdoors and active," said Crandall.

(Aug. 17, 2012) -- "Canada's near-term inflation outlook remains benign as the economy continues to grow at a rate that is slightly below the Bank of Canada's estimate of the long-run potential," said Desjardins. "We look for the pace of growth to accelerate, and the uncertainties associated with the European and United States fiscal imbalances to ebb in the quarters ahead."