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Annual Evansburg Car Rally Held This SaturdayGraterford
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The Evansburg Car and Motor Rally is back again to rev people up in support of the Winchester and District Memorial Hospital Foundation. The second annual event on Saturday, June 23 have teams driving through the hospital's broad, rural catchment area, using a list of clues and landmarks to guide them through the route. Along the way, teams will have to make several pit stops to complete physical and mental challenges to collect points. The goal is to get back with the most points and in the best time - all while following the rules of the road. Each team collects pledges before the event in an effort to raise money for the hospital. The event is hosted by the hospital foundation and Senators defenseman Matt Holland, who grew up in the area. Last year he ran one of the pit stops, where teams had to take shots on him and team mate Jonathan Winsten. This year, he was raffled off as an "early bird prize" to the team who had raised the most money by a certain date. That team will get to ride with him in his car along the rally route. "It's a pretty neat one-on-one time with him," said foundation fundraising associate Janet Winden. With or without him along for the ride, Winden said the
day's sure to be a blast. "It's kind of a fun way to spend an afternoon, you're with family and friends in your car and it's for a good cause," she said.The money is undesignated, which means it's not given towards any particular program or equipment fund at the hospital. Instead it is flex-ible money the hospital can use immediately for anything it needs. Winden said that's an important part of keeping the hospital running as well as possible. "It really
does help our hospital meet its annual needs. That's really special," she said. "The designated pools (for cancer programs or equipment) can get too big for the needs, because we're a rural hospital. So if we have too much money in one fund the hospital can't do its job as best as it needs to." Last year's inaugural rally had 26 cars registered, with about 150 people participating in total. The rally route meandered through the northern part of the hospital's catchment area, from Greely and Osgoode all the way to Embrun and Chesterville before it arrived back in Winchester. The event raised $57,000 last year, and this year the foundation hopes to hit $100,000. This year's route is still a secret, because teams have to figure it out using landmarks and clues set by the organizers. Community engagement manager Emily Lerner said the best part of the day is hearing enthusiastic drivers recounting everything they experienced."The one thing that's always really cool is partici-pants say they see things in their communities that they've never seen before, or see them differently," she said. "They don't usually notice or have time to see them."The rally will start at the Winchester Hospital at 10 a.m. with late registrations, and
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It’s the way it was ... and the way it still is.
We found beauty, bliss, purple sand, and good
vibrations along the old Hippie Highway of
Northern California.
Out along California’s northern coast, where
the continent begins, there’s an almost-too-
beautiful stretch near San Francisco where
time just seems to stop. Locals you meet in
coffee shops (which usually double as gas sta-
tions or general stores or all three) will tell
you that an energy runs through this part of
the world. It’s easy to roll your eyes, to dismiss
such talk as so much crunchy California New
Ageism. But if you’ve traveled enough, you
know that there are points on the globe where
the energy is different, special. There’s some-
thing undeniable that grabs you.
Like it grabbed the six college kids I met one
afternoon at Pfeiffer Beach, a local secret of a
spot in Big Sur. They were from Minnesota.
The kind of kids you want your own kid to
grow up to be. When I met them, it was like
a half-dozen golden retrievers had accosted
me. They were all shaggy and full of youth
and Midwestern yearning and curiosity—and
they still addressed people as “sir.” They’d just
finished classes, and before starting their
summer jobs they had commandeered one
of their parent’s Windstars (the one with the
NPR bumper sticker I’d seen in the parking
lot) and driven two days straight to get here.
They knew about this place from the Beach
Boys’ 1973 song cycle “California Saga,” which
features Mike Love reading from the poem
“The Beaks of Eagles,” Robinson Jeffers’s ode
to Big Sur. And now they needed to see it for
themselves. To touch it.
“Excuse me, sir,” one of them asked me as my
gal and I walked near the water’s edge. “Do
you know where the purple sand is?”
Ah, yes, the purple sand. There’s a bit of beach
around the bend that not many people know
about, where the sand is eggplant purple. If
you see it at dusk, with the tide coming up and
the low-angle sunlight casting long shadows,
it’s…well, better that you see it than let me
try to describe it. So I pointed the kids in the
right direction and they ambled off, bursting
with life and happiness.
Now I’m no geologist, nor a psychic—unlike
the lady I met out here, dressed all in purple,
who advertised herself as a “reader of vibes,
vibrations and listener of the music your
body and mind compose”—but I do consider
myself a pretty observant traveler.And while
I can’t prove it, I would bet the purple sand
runs beneath the whole stretch of California
coast you might call the Hippie Trail, from
Big Sur up to Bodega Bay. Perhaps it’s the
source of the unseen energy that fuels the
bodies and souls of the people who live here.
It’s certainly a major part of what attracted so
many beatniks and hippies to the area in the
late fifties and sixties (remember the Esalen
Institute in Big Sur, ground zero for the so-
called human potential movement?) and has
The sun, the sky, the
water, and the earth
all come together
continued to lure all kinds of environmental-
ists, devotees of Eastern religions, slow-food
disciples, surfers, and other free spirits. The
rest of the world may have heave-ho’d the
values of the Age of Aquarius for the Age
of Acquisitiveness a long time ago, but that
never happened here, despite the inevitable
influx of money and gentrification. There’s a
certain trueness to everything you see and
everyone you meet. If anything, this area will
always be about what one might call the Age
of the Authentic.
Spend time on this coast and you feel again
what matters—the beauty in the way the sun,
the sky, the water, and the earth all come
together, untainted by snobs or aesthetes.
Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy sensory pleasures
as much as the next guy. Before heading out
here, I spent several nights in San Francisco
and indulged at more than a few restaurants,
laid my head on some triple-digit-thread-count
pillowcases. But maybe that’s why so many
people are drawn here, feel the need to make
the journey (go ahead, call it a pilgrimage).
Maybe they, like me, are searching for a hit
of something genuine in a world that seems
to have spun a bit too much off-kilter. Maybe
we’re all looking to get in touch with the old
sod again and feel the (purple) sand beneath
our toes.Europeans you meet on holiday here often
compare the landscape to Cinque Terre on
the Italian Riviera or the rugged coast of
southwestern France, near Biarritz and Saint-
Jean-de-Luz. But with a difference. As one
Italian told me, “This land is what we used
to have. No development. No crowds.” Then he
paused. “Do you think you can hold on to it?”
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One Metro train slammed into the
back of another on the Red Line
at the height of the evening rush
yesterday, killing at least six and
injuring 70 others in the deadliest
accident in Metrorail’s 33-year-
history.
Metro officials expected the death toll
to rise to at least nine.
The impact of the crash was so
powerful that the trailing train was
left atop the first train. Witnesses told
stories of rescues and people helping
others amid the chaos. Firefighters had
to use heavy rescue equipment to cut
open the cars to reach people trapped
inside, and D.C. Mayor Adrian M.
Fenty (D) said fire officials were still
going through the trains last night to
make sure they had recovered all the
bodies.
One of the dead was Martin Johnson,
42, of Springfield, the operator of
the train that rear-ended another
stopped in front of it just outside
the Fort Totten station in Northeast
Washington, Metro officials said.
No one answered the phone last night
at Johnson’s home.
Metro and rescue officials gave no
details about the operator or the other
fatalities. The crash occurred just after
5 p.m., and traffic on the train lines and
highways was severely affected.
Metro, like all transit agencies, is
supposed to have numerous safety
systems in place to prevent crashes,
and i t was not
clear what caused
yesterday’s accident.
T h e N a t i o n a l
Transportation Safety
Board is investigating
the crash and has assigned
a railroad investigator
and two specialists from
its office of transportation
disaster assistance. The Metro
board is scheduled to hold a
special meeting at 2 p.m. today.
Although the investigation is
just beginning, certain systems
are designed to prevent an accident
like yesterday’s. During morning and
afternoon rush hours, all trains except
longer eight-car trains typically
operate in automatic mode, meaning
their movements are controlled by
computerized systems and the central
Operations Control Center.
Both t ra ins in
yesterday’s crash
were six-car trains.
B u t o f f i c i a l s
wo u l d not say
whether the trains were
in automat ic mode
or being operated
manually.
Investigators will probably
focus on a possible failure of
Metro’s computerized signal
system, which is designed to
prevent trains from coming
close enough to collide, as well as
operator error, according to aformer
Metro officials. A Metro source said
Johnson was relatively inexperienced,
ranking 18th from the bottom on the
seniority list of 523 train operators.
He had been a Metro employee since
January 2007, officials said. Train
operators must first operate a bus for a
year before they can apply to operate
the train. They then receive about 12
weeks of training. The computerized
system should work whether trains
are being operated manually or by
computer.
But even if the signal system failed to
stop the train, the operator should have
intervened and applied emergency
brakes, safety experts familiar
with Metro’s operations say. The
position of the second train after
the crash – the fact that its first
car came to rest atop the other
train – indicates that the
second train was traveling
at high speed. In the section
of track where the accident occurred,
the maximum speed is supposed to be
58 mph. Metro officials would not say
how fast the trains were going because
of the ongoing NTSB investigation.
There was no maintenance work
scheduled in the relatively long, flat
section of track between the stations.
For many weeks, trains were slowed
because of a weakness in the track bed DC-295
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THE IMPACT: Train Strikes Another, Scores Are Injured, Commute Is Stalled
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Rescue personnel respond to the scene of the Metrorail crash.
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Washington DC Newspaper
One Metro train slammed into the
back of another on the Red Line
at the height of the evening rush
yesterday, killing at least six and
injuring 70 others in the deadliest
accident in Metrorail’s 33-year-
history.
Metro officials expected the death toll
to rise to at least nine.
The impact of the crash was so
powerful that the trailing train was
left atop the first train. Witnesses told
stories of rescues and people helping
others amid the chaos. Firefighters had
to use heavy rescue equipment to cut
open the cars to reach people trapped
inside, and D.C. Mayor Adrian M.
Fenty (D) said fire officials were still
going through the trains last night to
make sure they had recovered all the
bodies.
One of the dead was Martin Johnson,
42, of Springfield, the operator of
the train that rear-ended another
stopped in front of it just outside
the Fort Totten station in Northeast
Washington, Metro officials said.
No one answered the phone last night
at Johnson’s home.
Metro and rescue officials gave no
details about the operator or the other
fatalities. The crash occurred just after
5 p.m., and traffic on the train lines and
highways was severely affected.
Metro, like all transit agencies, is
supposed to have numerous safety
systems in place to prevent crashes,
and i t was not
clear what caused
yesterday’s accident.
T h e N a t i o n a l
Transportation Safety
Board is investigating
the crash and has assigned
a railroad investigator
and two specialists from
its office of transportation
disaster assistance. The Metro
board is scheduled to hold a
special meeting at 2 p.m. today.
Although the investigation is
just beginning, certain systems
are designed to prevent an accident
like yesterday’s. During morning and
afternoon rush hours, all trains except
longer eight-car trains typically
operate in automatic mode, meaning
their movements are controlled by
computerized systems and the central
Operations Control Center.
Both t ra ins in
yesterday’s crash
were six-car trains.
B u t o f f i c i a l s
wo u l d not say
whether the trains were
in automat ic mode
or being operated
manually.
Investigators will probably
focus on a possible failure of
Metro’s computerized signal
system, which is designed to
prevent trains from coming
close enough to collide, as well as
operator error, according to aformer
Metro officials. A Metro source said
Johnson was relatively inexperienced,
ranking 18th from the bottom on the
seniority list of 523 train operators.
He had been a Metro employee since
January 2007, officials said. Train
operators must first operate a bus for a
year before they can apply to operate
the train. They then receive about 12
weeks of training. The computerized
system should work whether trains
are being operated manually or by
computer.
But even if the signal system failed to
stop the train, the operator should have
intervened and applied emergency
brakes, safety experts familiar
with Metro’s operations say. The
position of the second train after
the crash – the fact that its first
car came to rest atop the other
train – indicates that the
second train was traveling
at high speed. In the section
of track where the accident occurred,
the maximum speed is supposed to be
58 mph. Metro officials would not say
how fast the trains were going because
of the ongoing NTSB investigation.
There was no maintenance work
scheduled in the relatively long, flat
section of track between the stations.
For many weeks, trains were slowed
because of a weakness in the track bed DC-295
MD-212
MD-212
MD-650
MD-650
MD-650
MD-
193
MD-193
MD-
410
MD-4
10
MD-410
MD-500
MD-787
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MD-391
MD-390
MD-208
MD-201
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Metro Train Crash in Washington DC
THE IMPACT: Train Strikes Another, Scores Are Injured, Commute Is Stalled
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To Glenmont
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Rescue personnel respond to the scene of the Metrorail crash.
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