Dorothy Hoffner, the 104-year-old Chicago woman who recently skydived, has passed away. She may secure a place in the Guinness World Records as the oldest person to ever skydive. Hoffner was found lifeless on Monday morning at a senior living community. Her friend, Joe Conant, described her as an energetic and mentally sharp person. Hoffner made her second skydive at the age of 104 simply because she enjoyed the thrill. Conant is now working on getting her certified as the world s oldest skydiver posthumously.
The Iowa Women’s Foundation announced its 2024 Core Grant recipients at the 27th Annual Luncheon in Coralville on October 4.The event included a powerful yet r
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Understand, the movement is not over. and we must, we must recommit ourselves to what that was about. which again was a fight for freedom, for equality, for justice, for all people. and when i think about, you know, the ingredients of what happened that made that day so historic, i mean, you think about and a philip randolph and king and luis and dorothy there was, for example, a merging of the fight for economic justice and civil rights and equality. there was multi cultural involvement. people understanding that of all races and backgrounds are from all regions of the country. being there again and understand it were all in it together. you think about it in terms of folks like our dear and, may god rest his soul, terry
The Wiz tours the U.S. starting this fall in Baltimore and will land on Broadway in 2024. Nichelle Lewis joins a cast that includes Wayne Brady and Alan Mingo Jr.
On the scale. he weighs 220 pounds going into the competition. defending champion female, under 120 pounds. a little different there, but the females still eat a lot of hot dogs as well. 48.5 is what mickey soto was able to put away last year and she s won the contest nine out of the last ten years, missing only one competition and that s the year that she had her son max, by the way. he ll be along for this year s competition. weather is a major player in how they perform. some of the athletes talking about how they use weather to strategize in the eating competitions. one time i did a hard boiled egg eating contest and torrential downpour, and i still made a world record. epic biblical proportion. hard boiled eggs did not dissolve in the rain. i can only imagine if it had been hot dogs. we had a hurricane blow in, it was blowing the drumsticks which were just spinning in the wind, like dorothy and the