Appalachian Trail thru-hiker raises money for polio eradication
HOT SPRINGS - A Pennsylvania man is hiking the Appalachian Trail to raise money to eradicate polio.
Owen P. Standley, 34, is thru-hiking the trail on behalf of Rotary International. His goal is to raise $100,000, and he had raised more than $39,600 when he stopped in Hot Springs on March 25 while passing through.
The trail begins in Springer Mountain, Georgia, and ends in Maine, with Pennsylvania serving as the halfway point, putting Standley on a pace to meet his fundraising goal.
Standley, originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, began his trip March 9 and said he planned to hike the 2,190-mile trail in 100 days. He said Rotary Club of Madison County members had been following his progress since he began his trip.
Appalachian Trail thru-hiker raises money for polio eradication
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UW-Madison administrators and the universityâs student council are clashing over how to help students struggling because of the pandemic, with the council looking to put more money toward student rent payments using a strategy UW-Madison said is illegal, and the university taking an approach student government calls the bare minimum.
Itâs the latest standoff between the two sides and characteristic of the more combative stance student government has embraced in a school year that has left many students emotionally, financially or mentally exhausted.
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âIf Iâm being honest with you, I didnât think things would be this tense when I started,â said Matthew Mitnick, who was elected chairperson of the Associated Students of Madison last September. âBut weâre not a mouthpiece for the administration. Weâre here to represent students and focus on who is being left out and who doesnât have a seat at the ta
The end of 2020 couldnât get here fast enough for many. Itâs been the year of the toilet paper shortage, face masks, quarantines, job losses and political strife. It will be remembered as the Presidential election year when a pandemic altered life for people across the globe.
Coronavirus affected life in Madison County, too. And there were numerous COVID-19 stories on the front page of The Madison County Journal in 2020, but there was plenty of local news not related to the virus this year.
Here is a look back at front-page news in The Journal in 2020:
JANUARY
â¢Madison County commissioners voted 5-0 to include a referendum on the 2020 General Election ballot to allow voters to decide on whether to give senior citizens a break on their property tax bills.
Roy Gandy stood on Rotary ramp number 800 Saturday remembering ramp number one.
The first recipient had suffered from polio and had a terrible time trying to get in and out of his home. Gandy and fellow Rotarians were there to install an air conditioner for the Madison County man, but it was obvious, he needed a ramp.
âHe was a good guy, but he was crawling in and out of his house,â said Gandy. âThat ramp was our first one, a 24-footer. It took us most of the day to do it.â
That was 1995. And over the next quarter of a century, the Rotary Club of Madison County has spread thousands of feet of ramps across homes in Madison County and beyond, helping improve the lives of one family after another.
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