FORESTÂ â After a decade of needing to build living quarters for volunteer firefighters and EMTs at the nonprofit Forest Volunteer Fire Department, a generous community has rallied to bring the project to fruition.
It all started last January with a blood sugar check at the station on Thomas Jefferson Road, said Steve Coleman, a longtime EMT in Campbell County and a member of the Forest Volunteer Fire Department board of directors.
Bedford County resident Terry Dobyns contacted Coleman, a friend of his, asking if Coleman could check his blood sugar. Coleman agreed, and invited Dobyns to the Forest Volunteer Fire Department. After checking Dobynsâs blood sugar, Coleman offered to give Dobyns a tour of the station.
Decent Pizza Co. will serve Detroit-style deep dish pies on sourdough crusts. Courtesy Blue Star Group
The Ivywild School unveils its full ânew marketplaceâ April 2, to include the reopening of The Principalâs Office (craft cocktails and coffee; with an updated menu) and the introduction of four new food vendors: Ivywild Kitchen (burgers, wings and more, plus breakfast items eventually), Decent Pizza Co. (Detroit-style deep dish, using same dough as parent company Blue Star Groupâs Stellina Pizza concept), Lazo Empanadas (served by Blue Star Group via a Denver company s products); and Salad or Bust (a Springs food truck, expanded, and already open noon to 8 p.m., daily).Â
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Growing up in Proctor: The Night Skylab Fell on Roy Palmer’s Place
By Gary Eller - | Mar 3, 2021
In May 1973, amid much public hoopla, NASA put the huge Skylab satellite into orbit. It remains the only U.S.-only space station ever put into orbit. Skylab suffered damage during launch which required later attempts at repair, accompanied by more hoopla. Unfortunately, models predicting a nine-year lifetime for Skylab were short by several years, and by early 1979 it was clear that Skylab would fall to earth sometime in the summer or fall of that year. NASA budget limitations led to the omission of adequate controls for the descent, so nobody knew where on Earth it would land. Since Skylab was so massive (dimensions 36x56x82 feet and 170,000 pounds), a lot of damage would have occurred if it were to hit a populated area. Concerns were further heightened by the fact that in January 1978 a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, crashed in the Great Slave Lake area of northern C