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Thu Feb 11 2021 | Brian Simpkins | College
What does it take to be a pioneer? Trials, sacrifice and sheer determination qualify as necessary traits. Your environment can help shape you to adapt and react.
A barrier-breaking, record-setting goalie from Hempstead (N.Y.) knew what it took to uplift his community and family legacy forever. Charles “Chuck” Sherwood Jr. embraced new environments as the grandson of Jamaican immigrants and relocated from Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood at 8 years old.
Blaxers Blog and US Lacrosse Magazine are proud to share Part 1 of his story. Come back next Thursday for Part 2.
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few days before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, Chuck Sherwood began his half-mile commute home from baseball practice at Hempstead High School and heard a crowd roaring from the football field. Sherwood was accustomed to playing in 30-degree weather as a youth baseball player, but this balmy, 50-degree day felt special.
New Kildare drama series on Maynooth family set to start on podcast on February 21
Based on Maynooth family living through War of Independence and start of Civil War period
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A special Kildare theatre project, “Fractured,” is being released on podcast on February 21.
Down at Heel Productions has battled Covid restrictions since early last year to produce the drama series.
Having had to abandon its initial plans for live stagings, it managed to record and edit eleven episodes of “Fractured - A Family, A Nation, A Dream,” before lockdown.
It will start releasing them, as podcasts, on February 21 to coincide with the Maynooth ambush.
January 14, 2021 12:00 pm
High genetic merit heifers on 800g of a skim-based calf milk per day. Image source: Bonanza Calf Nutrition
Heifer replacements at a Co. Offaly farm are meeting rumen transition and development targets with a 63-day feed plan.
Joe Bergin, of Conroy Agri, and Joe Murphy, of Bonanza Calf Nutrition, worked with the Cashen family to get the best calf performance from feeding milk replacer from a computer feeder.
John and Eamon Cashen and their wives, Sinead and Nuala, milk 134 cows at Carrig, near Birr. They have scaled up since 2014 when they were milking 27 cows. In 2019 the herd yielded an annual average of 520kg milk solids per cow from 1.2t of concentrates.
Christmas comes early for heroic Offaly as they reach Leinster Final
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CHRISTMAS came early for a heroic Offaly when they booked a place in the Leinster Minor Football Championship final with a superb win over Kildare in Newbridge today.
Offaly 2-10
Kildare 2-7
Playing with tremendous heart and character, it was Offaly s best win at this level in years. They had to work so hard for the result but they answered everything that Kildare threw at them and there was absolutely no disputing the merit of the win.
Only three points separated the sides at the end of an engrossing high intensity game of football but Offaly were definitely the better team and could have won with more comfort. They ended up hanging on a bit and were relieved to hear the final whistle but they still closed out the deal with a degree of comfort.