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Bigfoot believers gather in Wash. state

YAKIMA, Wash.

Bigfoot believers are gathering this weekend in Washington state.

The Yakima Valley Museum is hosting a Bigfoot Round-Up.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the event will honor Yakima’s own Bob Gimlin and the late Roger Patterson, who filmed what they say was a Bigfoot encounter in 1967 in Northern California.

The well-known footage since has been debated and scrutinized, with some calling the filmmakers Bigfoot research pioneers and other saying the video shows a man in an ape suit.

The event is planned in conjunction with the museum exhibit “Sasquatch Revealed.” It includes lectures and a banquet to honor Gimlin and Patterson.

‘7th Heaven’ actress Sarah Goldberg dies

CHICAGO

Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series “7th Heaven” and the film “Jurassic Park III,” has died. She was 40.

Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes Sept. 27 at her family’s cabin in Wisconsin, her mother. Judy Goldberg, told the Chicago Sun-Times. She said a heart ailment is suspected, although an autopsy failed to determine the exact cause of death.

“She went to sleep and didn’t wake up,” she said.

Goldberg’s entertainment career started as a bumblebee in a Chicago City Ballet production of “Cinderella,” her mother said, and gained momentum when she was asked to be an extra on the Julia Roberts movie “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” She got the role because her mother co-owned a company providing table linens for a set. A film staffer saw her helping arrange tablecloths and asked her to be in a scene, her mother said.

Goldberg went on to appear in television series including “90210,” “Judging Amy,” “The Beast” and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

In “7th Heaven” she played Jewish medical student Sarah Glass Camden, who fell in love with the son of a Christian pastor.

The actress sometimes was credited under the stage name Sarah Danielle Madison.

Associated Press