The Lessons Learned from Tyler, Texas Winter Storm
The prolonged freezing temperatures led to an inoperable generator at the Lake Palestine Raw Water Pump Station, which caused the treatment plant to go offline. A boil water notice was in place for a week. by Zak Wellerman,m Tyler Morning Telegraph, Texas / April 20, 2021 Jose Nives tries to shovel his way out after getting stuck in the middle of the street. A winter storm that brought snow, ice, and plunging temperatures across Central Texas shut down roads and caused the electrical grid to shut down, leaving thousands of people without power. TNS
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Ack Ack is too good in Americaâs richest race of 1971, the $175,000 Hollywood Gold Cup. Photo: Keeneland Library
His name is all but forgotten, marginalized after half a century’s worth of racing lore. The most important people in his life are long dead. Painting him with the colors of the modern Thoroughbred palette is impossible. He was a freak, a dinosaur, the kind of creature that flew through children’s dreams, and for a glorious seven months of 1971, he was almost too good to be true.
His name was Ack Ack.
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Pierre Peb Bellocq at Keeneland, where much of his work has been displayed
Renowned Eclipse Award-winning cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq and the late Eclipse Award-winning writer William Leggett have been selected to the National Museum of Racing s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor.
Bellocq, 94, was born in France in 1926. At age 19, the French racing journal France Courses gave him national exposure by publishing one of his cartoons of a jockey. Bellocq signed the drawing as “Peb,” a signature that became his lifelong moniker.
By 1954, Bellocq s work had achieved international acclaim and he was contracted by Laurel Park owner John D. Schapiro to do drawings for the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes. Bellocq decided to relocate to the United States and in 1955 accepted an offer to work as the staff cartoonist for the Morning Telegraph and its sister paper, the Daily Racing Form, a job he held until December 2008. Early in this care