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Quite a Challenge: Collectors of coin tokens hope efforts land them a Guinness world record
Maine Troop Greeters & Museum cares for over 6,000 challenge coins including six with a Fort Lee connection. Three Bros. Distillery owner has 50+.
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DISPUTANTA - Have you ever heard of challenge coins? Maybe you or someone you know has earned one in recognition of extraordinary service.
During a follow-up story interview with Three Brothers Distillery co-owner David Reavis, a shadow box display behind the bar caught my attention.
Reavis, who is a retired Navy Submarine Electronics Technician, proudly displays his challenge coin collection.
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Total passenger numbers at Brisbane Airport (BNE) for calendar year 2020 were just over 8 million, a 26-year low and down 66% on 2019.
International traveller numbers decreased by nearly 5 million to 1.4 million passengers for the calendar year, resulting in a 78 per cent decrease on 2019. More than one million of these arrived in the first two months of the year.
Domestic passenger numbers were 6.7 million, a reduction of 62.5% or close to 11.1 million fewer passengers than 2019.
In total, BNE recorded 8.1m passengers for calendar year 2020, 66.6% down or 16.1m fewer passengers than 2019.
Gert-Jan de Graaff, Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) Chief Executive Officer, said COVID had impacted many sectors, but none more so than aviation.
When lockdown version two arrived in September, Tiernan s return to work looked impossible. Case numbers were soaring around Ireland. So we weighed up our options and agreed to head back to New Zealand. On October 5, I was the first cab off the rank to book on New Zealand s new MIQ allocation system - booking through a back end link a couple of minutes after 8am NZST, before they had a chance to update the homepage. I had also sent off a Critical Purpose Visa for Tiernan that came back swiftly with authorisation to travel. I thought I was so prepared, but nothing would prepare me for trying to fly to a country only accessible by a minimum of two international transfers.