The motivation is not the Guinness record. The record we really want to beat is the $200,000 we raised last time.

Playing sports can be fun and therapeutic. We want to help kids get their minds off problems and get solid soccer tips.

This entire trailer was gone. They found it about 15 hours later dumped along the side of the road. We got the truck and trailer back, but our Yard-Man mowers, all of our personal stuff and about $7,000 worth of T-shirts were stolen.

I was taught, like I'm trying to teach my kids, to pick up after yourself. If you use something put it away when you're done. Those lessons never stuck when I was a kid. My parents tried to beat it into my head. Somewhere through that process I developed a passion for the environment.

We applaud the farmer who did the right thing by turning over the sick cow in question to a veterinarian for testing.

It is thoroughly irresponsible to promote the use of nuclear power when there is still no technically feasible means of assuring that long-lived radioactive wastes can be isolated from the environment. Further, this will do nothing to solve the current predicament we have with rising electricity costs.