Ryan Baker strolls past the Dairy Queen. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS
Dave Frederick April 27, 2021
Rude is wrong - Fans are back in the stands and so are some boneheaded boys who sit in the student section, and insult and ridicule players from the other team. That is the moment when peer pressure should take over and friends give the person a heads-up that he is making everyone look bad. I’m not just being a “fuddy duddy buddy” sideline gramps guy with sound waves bouncing off my big head. Rude is just wrong at a high school sports event, and those stupendous students should be kicked out, sent to a penalty box or, worse, a Jack in the Box.
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Writer and essayist Talia Marshall. This Summer my reading is not really for pleasure. Although, I recently stayed in an amazing bach in Aotea where Te Rauparaha had fought against Northern invaders before making his way south from Kawhia on his Musket War heke.
Alexander Turnbull Library
Te Rauparaha. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The caretaker of the bach said Te Rauparaha is known as a terrorist in these parts as he eyed the old pā to my left. I am meant to be reviewing Te Rauparaha’s son Tamihana’s slickly produced version of his life,
A Record Of The Life Of The Great Te Rauparaha (AUP, edited by another descendant, Ross Calman).
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Reagan Ciabattoni
Rock it old school back to 1960: “She’s a mean motor scooter and a bad go-getter.” That describes Reagan when the ball is dropped between the lines, but otherwise she is just the nicest kid. Just don’t cross sticks with her. Reagan was named the 2020 Player of the Year in Delaware Division I field hockey, helping Cape to its ninth state title in the last 10 years. A cage fighter with a mask, Reagan plays defense when the other team gets a corner and charges the ball with no regard for life or limb, for herself or the shooter. And on offensive corners, her high-ball hitting and backhand slapping are legendary. Her goals are always heard before seen, like thunder and lightning. Reagan joins Jacki Coveleski, Tiara Duffy, Tess Bernheimer, Alia Marshall and Cami Smith as Vikings who’ve earned Player of the Year. Reagan will play club ball this winter and in the spring help out the girls’ track team.
WeTheBleeple 4.2.1.1
My goodness your posting is a repetitive bore. How many Biden fans are here? It s as painful as those vague and earnest twats who approach me at parties to inform me climate change is real.
Here s a challenge, find something positive to think about, every day. Rant for the rest of it if you must but just try get a grip.
Adrian Thornton 4.2.1.1.1
Well if I am a twat and a bore for ranting about liberalism, an ideology that Biden is the figurehead of and Ardern governs with in New Zealand then so be it.
I guess it s everyday when I ride or drive to work and see all the fellow citizens living in their vehicles, see all the motels booked out with fellow citizens and their children who also have no home…talk to my own children who are keep poor from paying outrageous rents and crippling student debts…or after spending quite a period of time in the local hospital last year and seeing that is crumbling and unkept lik