Nevada County welcomes new year baby one day late, and a week early
By Rebecca O Neil | Staff Writer
Grace Nelson entered labor on New Year’s Day, but Nevada County’s first baby did not arrive until Jan. 2.
Grace and her husband Daniel Nelson welcomed their third child John Benjamin Nelson, 9 pounds, 1 ounce on Saturday at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.
Grace Nelson said after a year like 2020, she hopes her baby’s birth a week earlier than scheduled serves the community as “a triumph of optimism over fear.”
John Benjamin Nelson, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital’s first baby of 2021, was born at 5 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 2.
A Modern-Day Da Vinci: Art Thompson Fabricates Dreams Into Reality
Along with more than 3 billion spectators, Art Thompson’s anxiety grew as he intensely watched monitors in a packed control room in New Mexico. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner was about to leap from a capsule, 128,560 feet (24.5 miles) above the earth’s surface. On Oct. 14, 2012, 50 seconds after stepping off the capsule ledge, Baumgartner broke the sound barrier, reaching speeds of 843.6 miles per hour (Mach 1.25, or 1.25 times the speed of sound). He broke the record for the highest freefall, largest manned balloon (at 30 million cubic feet), and highest balloon flight that Col. Joe Kittinger set on Aug. 16, 1960.
2021-01-02 07:05:33 GMT2021-01-02 15:05:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Julia Pierrepont III
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) As the latest and hopefully one of the last casualties of the pandemic have kept America in lockdown, a day that would normally see hundreds of thousands of eager spectators lining Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena to see the much-anticipated Rose Parade, its world-famous floral floats and marching bands, instead had to make do with a scaled-down, yet still uplifting virtual, televised version. We all know what the Rose Parade means to us here in Pasadena, as well as to New Year celebrations around the world, Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek told press. To know that we won t get to experience this great tradition on Jan. 1, 2021 is extremely disappointing. However, we also know that we must act responsibly to protect our community in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Man robbed home of sleeping family in north Stockton [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
Police are looking for a man whom they say burglarized a north Stockton home over the weekend while the family was asleep.
The suspect broke into the residence located near Pacific Avenue and the Calaveras Riverbetween 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. on Sunday, Stockton police said in a department Facebook post. He stoles stole purses, credit cards, gifts cards and other personal identifying information.
After fleeing the home, police say the suspect was captured on video surveillance cameras leaving on a bicycle pulling a red and brown Radio Flyer wagon that he had also stolen from the residence. He was last seen traveling away from the victims’ home on Pacific Avenue, police said.
Effingham, IL / Effingham Radio
Dec 20, 2020 8:50 AM
Chicago, IL -(Mattoon Radio)- The holidays will be a little brighter this year for 450 children in the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services thanks to a generous donation from The Toy Foundation and Radio Flyer.
This week Radio Flyer’s iconic red wagons, tricycles, balance bikes and ride-ons will be delivered to families in Cook County; Coles, Macon, McLean and Sangamon counties in the central region; and Effingham, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Massac, Richland, Saline, St. Clair and Williamson counties in the southern region just in time for holiday celebrations.