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Bay Area Reporter :: Leigh Pankonin, known as Sister Phatima Rude, dies

Leigh Pankonin, best known as Phatima Rude, aka Sister Phatima la Dyke Van Dick/Sister Hateful Sow of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc., died May 18 while sleeping in their Portland, Oregon apartment. They were 55. Phatima also performed as reTarded Panda and Taffi 3.14, according to the Sister Kitty Catalyst, the former mistress of archives who wrote an obituary. Born in 1966, they grew up in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, a small city in the mid-western part of the state. Their mom, Cleo Rude, worked at a state mental hospital, so they grew up at the institution and studied the people there later using them as the basis for drag characters. Phatima treasured Cleo Rude, saying she had a wicked sense of humor and swore like a sailor. By the late 1980s the two moved to San Francisco and Phatima was introduced to the art of drag in 1989, by drag mother MichaelAngelo. Phatima said, "Once you do drag it's in your blood ... It became my medium, and my dialect, for what I wanted to convey, or make others think about, or entice, or repulse."

78,800 Feet Fall: In 1966, a Pilot Fell Out of His SR-71 Blackbird

Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver became the man who quite literally fell to earth from an altitude of 78,800 feet.

Pete H. Weaver Jr. 1948-2021 | News, Sports, Jobs

MIDDLEFIELD — Pete H. “Skip” Weaver Jr., 73, died Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at home. He was born March 3, 1948, in Middlefield, the son of Peter H. and Emma Miller Weaver. He was retired from Johnson Rubber and Gold Key Processing and was a member of the Old Order Amish Church. Survivors include his wife, Emma J. Byler Weaver; children, Martha Weaver, John Weaver, Bill Weaver and Susan Slabaugh; brothers, John Weaver and Jim Weaver; 23 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren. Pete was preceded in death by one great-grandchild, four brothers and two sisters. Services will be 9:30 a.m. Saturday at 16342-A Hosmer Road, Middlefield. Calling hours will be anytime until the services at 16330 Hosmer Road, Middlefield.

Overdrive's Music to Truck By returns, featuring Tony Justice's new album

Trucker-songwriter Tony Justice will be in studio Friday, April 16, with Overdrive's Music to Truck By radio host 'Big Al' Weekley to debut his new "18 Gears to Life" record on its release date. Overdrive’s two-hour music broadcast, following a trial of four weekly shows in March, will resume on a regular basis Friday morning, announced Overdrive and The Bluegrass Jamboree network. This week’s show will feature none other than trucker-songwriter Tony Justice in-studio with the show's host, highlighting tracks from his first record in four years, "18 Gears to Life," debuting the same day. The program, “ Overdrive’s Music to Truck By: Today’s tunes from the men and women behind the wheel,” is hosted by Big Al Weekley, a working trucker and long-time DJ for trucking and bluegrass music. It features music by and about truckers, as well as other country and bluegrass music.

One Pilot Fell 80,000 Feet From an SR-71 Blackbird (Yes, Really)

New super-heavy-haul 19-axle expandable trailer

New 19-axle super-heavy-haul trailer Within the HighwayMAX family of Faymonville trailers is the new Dolly&Booster, an extendable super-heavy-haul unit composed of nine hydraulically-steered pendle-axles, a three-axle jeep dolly and a three-axle nitro booster. This “King of the Highway,” the company said, can save time and money with quick and easy assembly and disassembly, and is new to the North American market from the Belgian manufacturer.  Including the truck, the HighwayMax Dolly&Booster creates a 19-axle combination and achieves a payload capacity of about 240,000 lbs. at 20,000 lbs. per axle. Besides fast mobilization, customers can benefit from flexible use, Faymonville said, as the jeep dolly and booster are detachable, and can be loaded on the trailer for empty runs minus expensive and time-consuming permits. The truck and trailer combination length is less than 110 feet and the loading platform can be extended up to 82 feet. The spacing between axle tridems is adaptable to 14, 16, 18 and 20 feet. 

Bluegrass Jamboree streaming 'Overdrive's Music to Truck By'

The special 4 part series, beginning March 5, features music of working truckers, classic country and bluegrass music, and more 10 a.m. Eastern to noon.

Bluegrass Jamboree to stream 'Overdrive's Music to Truck By'

GED Integrated Solutions Acquires Norfield Inc.

GED Integrated Solutions Inc., a portfolio company of The Beekman Group, has acquired Norfield Inc., a California-based provider of automation equipment, parts and services to the residential and commercial door manufacturing market. 

Burnet Masonic lodge searching for 'missing' Masters

DailyTrib.com Support Community Press You can show your support of a vibrant and healthy free press by becoming a voluntary subscriber. Subscribe Now Jim Barho, a member of Masonic Valley Lodge No. 175 in Burnet, hopes residents can help the lodge find photos of 14 past Masters of the lodge for the facility’s wall. Staff photo by Daniel Clifton Members of Valley Lodge No. 175 in Burnet hope the public can help them locate some missing Masons. Actually, they’re looking for photos of 14 past Masters to complete a wall of pictures.  “We’ve been working on this project for about a year now, and we have photos for almost all our past Masters, but we’re missing some,” said lodge member Jim Barho. “We’ve just about done everything we can to find photos, so now we’re asking the public if they can help us.”