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The Waynedale Community Improvement Team has organized a free community event for December 10th from 4 PM to 6 PM.
Activities include a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus, a trolley tour of Waynedale, and caroling by the choirs of Wayne High School and Bishop Luers High School.
Free refreshments including hot chocolate, hot cider, coffee and cookies will be available.
You are invited to bring a personal ornament to hang on the Christmas tree.
This year's edition of the Galloping Gobbler 4 Miler in Fort Wayne was notable for two milestones.
The first is that this year the race topped 3,000 finishers. Last year, as ranked by RunningUSA, the race was the 25th largest 4 mile race in the United States. Expect it to move up the size rankings when the 2011 statistics are compiled and released in 2012.
The second milestone is also a milestone in the lives of two Fort Wayne young people. Aaron Moyer proposed to Rachel Marley as she crossed the finish line on Leesburg Road by Lansing Street next to the University of Saint Francis campus.
She ran, he proposed, she accepted.
The engagement represents a first for the Galloping Gobbler.
Congratulations to Ms. Marley and Mr. Moyer as they plan their future together.
Those interested in the finisher's list and times may access the first iteration of the 2011 Galloping Gobbler results by clicking here. (Some minor changes in the results may occur before the results are made permanent).
A large array of photographs of the 2011 race - over 1400 images - were taken by INMediaSource and may be here, here, and here.
Photo credit: Mitch Harper
Fort Wayne is home to a sizeable Burmese population and it is important to keep in mind that among the residents here there is a great diversity of ethnicity.
A recent Wall Street Journal article on Secretary of State Clinton's upcoming visit to Myanmar was accompanied by a map illustrating the general location of the ethnic populations in Burma - what the WSJ termed "the ethnic mosaic."
Map credit: Published in the Wall Street Journal and credited to "Burma:Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity" by Martin Smith.
Just when you thought you had nothing to worry about comes reports that the Center for Communicable Disease Control now believes that human to human contact was responsible for infection with a novel flu strain - previously indentified in Indiana, Maine and Pennsylvania.
The Indiana, Maine and Pennsylvania cases were thought to be acquired from contact with swine.
From Bloomberg News:
A new swine-flu variant infected three children in Iowa, spurring a search for more cases that may signal whether the virus is spreading easily among people.
The cases occurred over the past three weeks, causing a “mild” respiratory illness with fever, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report today. All three children were in contact with one another, and none had a known recent exposure to pigs, the Atlanta-based agency said.
No more infections with the virus, dubbed S-OtrH3N2, have been found among Iowans and there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission, the CDC said. Surveillance is ongoing, it said. Iowa is the biggest U.S. hog-raising state. Scientists around the world are searching for novel flu viruses to get a jump on ones with pandemic potential.
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At least seven other people have been infected with the new swine-flu variant this year -- with three cases in Pennsylvania, two in Maine and two in Indiana, the CDC said.
The latest CDC report may be read here.
From the CDC report:
The 2011--12 seasonal influenza vaccine is expected to provide limited protection from this virus for adults but none for young children. Enhanced surveillance, including surveillance for ILI and diagnostic testing of respiratory specimens, is being conducted in Iowa and surrounding states as part of the ongoing investigation of these cases.
Photo credit: Jim Champion - Wikipedia Commons
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