James Robert Macy passed away peacefully Sunday morning, Oct. 8, at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. James was born in Kansas City, Mo., on Nov. 25, 1950. He moved around as a kid because of his father’s job at Amoco Refineries. As a teen, he worked summer jobs in Oak Bluffs at Reliable Market and the Strand […]
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Carissa Moore secured a special place in sports history with her capture of the Olympics first women’s surfing gold medal. Her feat came as no surprise to Jim Kempton, president of the California Surf Museum in Oceanside.
“There couldn’t be a more perfect person to take the stand for the United States and Hawaii,” her home state, says the former editor-in-chief of Surfer magazine, who is a friend of Carissa and her father.
In addition to being recognized as the best woman surfer, Kempton says, “she is the epitome of the aloha spirit and what the Olympics stand for.”
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Veterans for Peace 34th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration: at 8 p.m. Saturday virtually, performers in person and also via a recorded webinar platform. Tickets can be purchased at Veterans for Peace website: http://www.vfpgainesville.org/ or at https://bit.ly/33OZ21v/Performances include Cherokee Peace Chant, John Chambers, Lauren Robinson, Bob McPeek, Faye Baird, Bill Hutchinson & Jennifer Johnson, David Beede, Nancy Luca, Cathy DeWitt & Janet Rucker, Mark Billman, Ron Thomas, and Other Voices, along with readings by our Peace Poetry Contest winners. Peace Helmet winners will be announced.