Christopher Gaston is pictured at Coggin Park Thursday morning continuing to prepare for his Pacific Crest Trail hike. [Photo by Derrick Stuckly]Those driving on Austin Avenue over the past few months may have noticed a man with a large backpack walking up and down the road. That man, 43-year-old Brownwood resident Christopher Gaston, will soon begin a 2,653-mile trek from Canada to Mexico along the Pacific Crest Trail.
“I’m just doing it to do it,” Gaston said. “I saw a documentary on it about 3-4 years ago called Six Million Steps. The documentary basically covered one season’s hike. It had several people that were there at the beginning and at different stages. You got to see the different perspectives of a lot of different people throughout their trail experience. After I saw that I thought that was something I wanted to do at some point.”
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Proponents of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel have never concerned themselves with their own internal logic (e.g., U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar supporting BDS and then decrying sanctions, like ones being considered against Turkey at the time, as ill-considered, incoherent and counterproductive ), and the latest lament from the Pillsbury family is no different. ( Why we must boycott Pillsbury, Opinion Exchange, April 29.) Here, the Pillsburys cite a single industrial park in Atarot as grounds for a worldwide boycott against Pillsbury, which is owned by General Mills. Never mind that Atarot was originally an Israeli moshav destroyed by Jordan in 1948. Never mind that General Mills has production facilities across the entire planet. And certainly neve
Marissa Callaghan (Photo by William Cherry/Presseye)
Northern Ireland women’s football team captain Marissa Callaghan has played with Cliftonville Ladies since 2005, winning a Women’s Irish Cup with the north Belfast club in 2015.
Capped 62 times for Northern Ireland to date, scoring six goals, she represented her country at Under-15, U17 and U19 level before making the step up to the seniors just over a decade ago.
Under Marissa, the team are headed to the Women’s Euro 2022 play-offs in April, but she admits one of her career highlights was her first game as captain, picking up two goals at Solitude in front of a home crowd.