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Former News-Tribune fishing columnist dies
PALM COAST -- Frank Bolin, 52, a former area resident, charter captain and longtime fishing columnist for The Flagler-Palm Coast News-Tribune, died Monday at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter following a nine-month battle with cancer.Bolin was born in Jacksonville, grew up in Northeast Florida and wrote a fishing column for The News-Tribune throughout the 1980s and '90s.
Carl Laundrie, Flagler County spokesman and former bureau chief for The News-Tribune, remembered Bolin as an excellent fishing reporter.
"He knew Flagler County forwards and backwards," Laundrie said. "He was a good writer and active in all aspects of sports fishing."
After leaving the area, Bolin joined Florida Sportsman magazine in Stuart as an associate editor in 2000.
"Frank's talents showed at every turn in his many articles, photography and editing," said Karl Wickstrom, founder of Florida Sportsman magazine.
NL sailor to be buried with full military honours
A Halifax-based sailor who died accidentally in the Bahamas will be buried in Newfoundland next week with full military honours.Leading Seaman Travis Pyes remains were flown Friday to the St. Johns Airport.
His funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday in St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church in St. Johns. Burial will be in the Field of Honour at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
The 22-year-old died early Nov. 3 after being pulled from Nassau Harbour while his Halifax-based ship, HMCS St. Johns, was visiting the Bahamian capital. He was on shore leave when he fell from a jetty that caters to cruise ship passengers and visiting naval personnel.
Leading Seaman Pye was from the tiny southeastern Labrador community of St. Lewis.
The single man was a marine engineering mechanic aboard the frigate.
Will Grand Bahama get the jewels this year?
BACK DROP Joe's Generals' Willard Gardiner gets a pitch in the back, from Grand Bahama's Chance's Panthers' pitcher Desmond "Big Country" Dean, which not only resulted in him hitting the ground, but a free pass to first base. Panthers' catcher Angelo "Slugger" Lockhart looks on in shock.
Opening day of The Bahamas Softball Federation (BSF) Round robin in Grand Bahama was a difficult one for the local ladies team.
The Triple Play Pearls had a defeating performance but, throughout the weekend tournament at St. Paul's College Field their performance improved tremendously.
The men's team, Chances Panthers opened the tournament with a 10 - 6 win over the Truckers out of New Providence.
For the ladies fast pitch team, the Grand Bahama Amateur Softball Associa-tion (GBASA) champions, the Triple Play Pearls secured their spot during the final day of play Sunday afternoon.
Jeff Haney on blackjack card counters' cat-and-mouse game with the casinos
The most revealing scene in the documentary "The Hot Shoe" illustrates the vast philosophical divide between card counters and those in the casino industry trying to stop them.An executive with a company that uses computer technology to identify counters maintains that skilled players should not be allowed to win money at blackjack.
Why? Well, because the casinos have bills to pay: utilities, payroll, taxes.
To the interviewer, of course, the executive might as well be a visitor from another solar system with that kind of attitude. It's fascinating to watch him struggle and stammer to come up with a logical reply to someone he considers such an oddball.
It's just one compelling moment in "The Hot Shoe," which chronicles the history, science and sometimes hard reality of blackjack card counting.
GBPA giving back?
I have to take issues with your recent editorial, 'GBPA giving back.' It suggests that we should be grateful for the Port donating six acres of land to the government for the construction of a new police and fire station. Heavens above! This is what the Port Authority is supposed to do if it is to be true to its mandate from the Hawksbill Creek Agreement to 'plan and layout' the Port area!You are right that Sir Charles Hayward made an investment of 25 percent in the Port Authority. But, often forgotten, so did the Allen Group, bankers from New York. They too made an investment of 25 percent in the Port Authority, introduced Syntex to Freeport and bankrolled the Freeport venture at the time.
And I certainly do not think you are right to say that the last 30 or so years have been Freeport's most 'productive' years.
Even If Your Curves Have Curves, Skinny Jeans Will Fit -- No Ifs, Ands or Butts About It
For those who are, oh, say, older than 14, the quest for the perfect pair of jeans can be downright painful. So many zippers that refuse to close, cloth caught "where the sun don't shine," and other woes have plagued older, curvy women since the dawn of denim. But now those days are over..