Image:  Olympics Logo by Claire Benoit, Illustrator 27th July 2011 All the Building Works Completed, a Full Year in Advance “Within Budget”, David Cameron said And yet,  I seem to remember a furore at the beginning, in the first year after London was picked to host the 2012 Olympics, when the budget had to be […]

Whew! All of the members of Friends of the Park who love Veterans Park are going to be mighty busy this October with our Maintenance Day at the Playground, our monthly meeting, Chili’s day for Friends of the Park and the Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend Fundraiser. Every year we celebrate the “birthday” of […]

  Recently, my husband and I went out to a local Steak ‘n Shake restaurant for dinner after going to a movie. When we arrived there were several other patrons already seated, including a group of several adults with two children that looked to be about three or four-years-old. Not long after being seated we had […]

The Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard In June of 1991, eleven year old Jaycee Lee Dugard was walking to her bus stop to catch the bus for school. She never made it to school that day because a sex offender and his wife pulled over, tazed Jaycee, and pulled her into their car. That was […]