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KALAMAZOO, Mich. It all started with the keys. Music is my life. It still is and it was when I was a kid, says
Bertha Barbee-McNeal, co-founder of legendary Motown group The Velvelettes. At 9 years old, she remembers, I would sit on my curb (in Flint, Michigan), and I would listen to this gal play the piano. My parents let me take lessons, and I would walk four of five blocks every day … I don t think I missed a lesson until I was 22.
That passion for piano is what led Barbee-McNeal to Kalamazoo in the early 1960s. She was already an accomplished classical pianist when an organist from her father s church recommended she pursue a music degree at his alma mater Western Michigan University.
Paedophile from Kings Hill who bragged about his abuse of two children on internet forums jailed for nine years
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Updated: 20:00, 25 January 2021
A vile sex predator who preyed on two youngsters has been sent to the prison with the words of a mother ringing in his ear: I can t forgive you. she was so little.
Robert Bullock made the victims relive their nightmare by making them give evidence at his trial after he denied the offences.
Robert Bullock, of Kings Hill, who was jailed for nine years and four months after being convicted of sex offences against children. Picture: Kent Police
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Zanai Jones, who has already signed her scholarship letter to Big East power Villanova, returns for her final season at Hudson Catholic
The Hudson Catholic High School girls’ basketball team had a fantastic season a year ago, but then suffered a tough loss to Bayonne in the Hudson County Tournament championship game.
“It stings for a while,” said Hudson Catholic head coach
Pete Vincent. “It’s a feeling that is not fun. As a coach and our staff, we immediately embraced it. We now have to find a way to use it to our advantage. It’s definitely not what we wanted. We had two seniors and that’s what hurts me the most is that we lost for them.”
Turkey farmer Paul Hogan with his traditional free-range woodland bronze turkeys. \ Philip Doyle
Regardless of how you’re celebrating the holidays this year, there are some Christmas dinner elements which can’t be ignored. Sure, if your cousin Susie can’t make it home, no one needs to make her favourite Brussels sprouts. But you wouldn’t dream of skimping on the piece de resistance for every Christmas dinner: the succulent turkey, or - equally important - a luscious Christmas dessert.
However many you plan to feed this season, Dunnes Stores Simply Better have you covered for all your festive favourites. Hogan’s Farm and Le Patissier are two fantastic Irish businesses supplying the Simply Better range with premium quality, hassle-free solutions for holiday feasts.