Tuesday, November 30, 2010
ODDLY ENOUGH
Boy’s savings to help rebuild burned fire station in W.Va.
CHARLESTON, W.Va.
A 5-year-old West Virginia boy has donated his life savings — nearly $46 in change — to help rebuild a volunteer fire station that burned down in an Oct. 1 electrical fire.
The Charleston Gazette reported Saturday that Joshua Shaffer donated $45.85 from his piggy bank to help rebuild the main station of the Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department north of Charleston.
Tom Miller, with the fire department’s board of directors, says the donation underscores community support for rebuilding. He says West Virginia schoolchildren have raised more than $5,000 already.
The fire department’s insurance covered only about half of the $2 million in damage. Firefighters have been running borrowed firetrucks on emergency calls from a nearby auto shop.
Elderly man is accused of whacking deputy with cane
CALLAWAY, Fla.
Authorities say an irate 84-year-old man hit a deputy in the stomach with his cane when the officer warned him to leave a clinic where he had been cursing at an office manager.
The News Herald newspaper reports that the northwest Florida man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.
Bay County deputies were called to Callaway Clinic on Wednesday because the man was yelling and cursing at an office manager.
According to a police report, the office manager asked authorities to remove the man from the clinic. Once outside, the man’s rant grew louder. When the deputy warned the man he would be arrested if he didn’t leave, the man reportedly hit the officer in the stomach with his cane. Deputies say the man also hit the officer in the leg as he was being handcuffed.
Michigan grandmother, 76, hunts, bags a 5-point buck
PORT HURON, Mich.
Bea Leach has no idea why she enjoys deer hunting, but at 76 years old, the Macomb County grandmother always is ready for firearms season.
Leach tells the Times Herald in Port Huron that on opening day she took her second deer — a five-point buck.
The Richmond resident said that as a child she watched her father take target practice.
Leach hunts from a shack at the rear of her property about 35 miles northeast of Detroit. She took her deer about 15 minutes after her son shot an eight-point buck Nov. 15. Her 14-year-old grandson also took a deer this year.
Zachary Leach said it’s “cool” that his grandmother hunts because “you don’t really hear or see any grandmas that are 76 and still shooting deer.”
Associated Press