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The Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1920, edition of The Cobb County Times reported that the Marietta Womanâs Club planned to have a Community Christmas Tree in Glover Park on Marietta Square the Thursday before Christmas. The Club also asked for contributions of one pound of fruits or confectionaries to help brighten the home of the less fortunate on Christmas morning.
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The Friday, Dec. 17, 1920, edition of The Marietta Journal reported that in response to a U.S. revenue officerâs telegram the Tuesday before, Marietta Policeman Goodson and Deputy Sheriff Sanders met the Louisville & Nashville train from Blue Ridge and arrested Carter Hendrix, who was carrying two and a half gallons of whiskey in his suitcase.
Washington State’s first season under head coach Nick Rolovich has been anything but normal.
Since the time Rolovich was hired in January, the Cougs have had spring football canceled, the regular season canceled and then un-canceled, a game canceled while they were traveling to it, and another game canceled while they were warming up.
It’s been a long a strange road for the Cougars this season and it (hopefully) continues this Saturday against Utah. And, according to Rolovich, that road likely ends this Saturday in Salt Lake City too.
A win would take the team to 2-2, meeting the Pac-12’s requirement of being at or above .500 to qualify for a bowl game. But even if they’re offered a spot in a bowl, Rolovich says the Cougs are unlikely to accept.
For the first time since 2014, however, a bowl game won’t be the destination.
The Cougars were already facing long odds when it came to the convoluted 2020 bowl season, needing to beat Utah on the road Saturday to merely qualify for the college football postseason with the Pac-12-mandated .500 record. With only four bowls in play for the conference, WSU would also need luck. Some combination of USC, Washington, Oregon, Stanford and Colorado would probably have to opt out for the 2-2 Cougars to nab a backdoor invite.
It won’t come down to that for the Cougars. Even if everything aligned for WSU, first-year coach Nick Rolovich confirmed the next time his team would be playing competitive football after Saturday’s game at Rice Eccles-Stadium in Salt Lake City (10:30 a.m., FS1) will be on Sept. 4, 2021, in Pullman against Utah State.
Minnesota-based Värde Partners founder easing out of globe-spanning firm Neal St. Anthony, Star Tribune
George Hicks, one of three former Cargill financial executives who launched Värde Partners in 1993, next year will be the last to phase out of managing the Minneapolis-based investment firm.
A lawyer by training, Hicks is the antithesis of the go-go stereotype of a hedge-fund jockey. He is thoughtful, methodical and careful with his words. We re a registered investment adviser and our funds are private, said Hicks, 67. Our goal is to top equity-like returns of 8 percent to 9 percent with good downside protection. A bad deal is break-even. We fall into clients alternative-investment bucket, along with private equity and venture capital.
town. those twisters killed 160 people in 2011. feature tornado safe rooms which can house not only the school s entire student population but also more than a thousand additional people. an ohio man proved you are never too old to fight back. 90-year-old george hicks chased off an armed robber at the laundromat that he owns. hicks saed money then shoved him. that s when he grabbed his own gun. did he take any money? no. no. when he saw me, i jumped up and went for my gun. when i went for my gun, i said i will blow your [bleep] brains out and he was gone. that s a tough old man, isn t it? the suspect has not yet been caught. hicks says hes started keeping a gun after being robbed and beat up at his laundromat in 2010. how terrible. now, have you ever wondered what your dog is thinking? researchers are working on a new device that will make it