Month: February 2014

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Up to 15,000 Unlock Australia members are expected to descend on Broadmeadow’s District Park on Sunday to show their dismay at the closures of national parks around the country.

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(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Four young people who had been camping on Bear Island in Canada in a snowstorm were helped ashore by the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Westport.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Workers brave the cold and snow to build the steel frame of the new Camping World recreational vehicle store in Rossford. The 30,000-square-foot store is to open in late spring.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Sheriff's deputies found five pipe bombs and a loaded revolver early Monday in recreational vehicle parked in Moss Landing and arrested a convicted felon.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Louisiana State Department of Natural Resources' Atchafalaya Basin Program officials recently announced the completion of a project to locate and mark 30 primitive camping sites in the Atchafalaya Basin on state-owned property for use by the public and nature enthusiasts alike.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- Campers across the highway from SARA Park in Arizona have been waiting for the Western Pyrotechnics Association Winter Blast show for days.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- The northern Indiana museum dedicated to the history of the recreational vehicle continues to see improving finances a couple years after it faced possible closure.

(Feb. 17, 2014) -- The event raised about $700,000, mostly for the hospital foundation, but also for the Martin's Super Market's Foundation. When auctioneer Neil Saffer asked for donations. Pete Liegl, gave $200,000 and dozens of others gave amounts ranging up to $10,000, the Elkhart Truth noted.

Pete Liegl, founder of Elkhart, Ind.-based Forest River Inc., donated $200,000 to a charity benefiting a local hospital at a recent fundraising event. The Elkhart Truth reported that Leigl was among numerous benefactors that generated an estimated $700,000 Friday (Feb. 14) with half of the money going to the Elkhart General Hospital Foundation and half [...]