| Stranded senior lit fires, ate mints, never lost hope
The 68-year-old Gimli woman spent four nights trapped in her car after a wrong turn left her stranded at an old farmyard near St. Jean Baptiste. She'd been trying to reach her brother's house. From late Sunday night until she was discovered Thursday morning, the enterprising senior kept trying to find ways to summon help. "You're stuck there. You can spend two hours feeling sorry for yourself or you can spend two hours trying to help yourself," she said Friday, curled up at her son's Winnipeg home. "You've got a choice. I wasn't going to just give up." When Muller realized her car was stuck in the snow, she tried to walk for help. Her arthritis forced her to turn back. She got back into her 1992 Mercury Topaz and surveyed the situation. .
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire Introduces Tonik
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Comprising almost 17 million Americans, young adults between the ages of 19 and 34 have one major thing in common when it comes to their health care -- they typically choose to go without health insurance. To help address this issue, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire, the state's largest health benefits provider, has introduced "Tonik" a unique health insurance option for New Hampshire's "young invincibles," those who have disposable income, but no health insurance. "Tonik is an important product that allows this growing demographic to purchase coverage on their own terms," said Lisa M. Guertin, president, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in New Hampshire. "Our company asked young people what they were looking for in a health plan, and we listened.
Beitlich Touts Health Care Plan to State Senate Committee
The leader of the Wisconsin Farmers Union says the state government is doing great work when it comes to reforming health care. At a public hearing in Eau Claire on Thursday, WFU President Sue Beitlich told the State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services that she 'is encouraging to know that legislators see our needs and are working to create change in this vital area.'
In particular, Beitlich says her group favors State Senator Mark Miller's Wisconsin Health Security Act--which she feels is the most comprehensive proposal, specifically in its potential to help family farmers, small business owners, and employers and their employees.
"In Wisconsin in 2005 there were an estimated 500,000 adults without health insurance--a conservative estimate that is growing--and the number of children without insurance grew from 91,000 to 110,000 in 2005," Beitlich told the panel.
Yearly auto policy tempting
If you like to budget your expense a year at a time, you might want to look for an auto insurance company that offers 12-month policies in addition to the standard six-month agreements. Farmers Insurance Group began offering annual policies in Indiana on Feb. 26. The Los Angeles-based insurance company considers the new option a win for customers who like to budget their money and a win for agents who like to cut down on paperwork. Brian Fitzpatrick, Farmers Insurance Group's executive director in Indiana, allowed that when customers sign policies for twice as long, it's one fewer time each year they might be tempted to shop around for better rates. Farmers insures about 130,000 cars in Indiana. Fitzpatrick said some of those customers requested 12-month policies.
Soapbox racers combine flash, fundamentals in derby
When Katie Kimes helped design her white soapbox racer for Sunday's first Westlake Village Soap Box Derby, the 9-year-old said there was one very important design feature to consider. "We mostly were focusing on the brakes working correctly," said the Westlake Village resident. .
Public not informed of Greenville topics
Leiker said Friday he accepts responsibility for any potential errors in the meeting notices and said they will be more detailed in the future. Leiker said the town will address the issue at its April 9 meeting. The P-C learned from a town resident that the Town Board pay issue would be addressed Wednesday. The resident said he received materials distributed as part of a local political campaign. Ed Lowe can be reached at 920-993-1000, ext. 293, or elowe@postcrescent.com.
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Major Iowans: Before Johnson — Fleck won US Open
This article was first published April 2, 1972 when Jack Fleck was inducted into The Register's sports hall of fame. Fleck, of Davenport, was the only native Iowan before Johnson to win a major golf championship.
BY MAURY WHITE
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
There have been large bombs exploded that caused less commotion than the news, frantically flashed out of San Francisco on June 18, 1955, that Jack Fleck had tied Ben Hogan for the U.S. Open title.
Hogan didn't take explanation at all. The dominant figure in professional golf, the Wee Iceman had claimed four of the previous seven Opens and might have had more if he hadn't been slowed by a near-fatal car crash in 1949.
The truth of it was, Bantam Ben was in fairly early on that memorable Saturday with a par 70 over the Olympic Country Club for a 287 and more than a few congratulated him for an unprecedented fifth title.
Shaq expected to miss Tuesday's game
According to the Miami Herald, O'Neal is expected to miss the game so he can attend his grandfather's funeral in New Jersey, but the team is hoping he can return for Wednesday's home game against Washington. The Heat hold a 2 1/2 game lead on the second-place Wizards in the Southeast Division. The newspaper also reports the Heat could be without forwards James Posey and Udonis Haslem, and guard Gary Payton for Tuesday's game. Posey was arrested Monday on a DUI charge, while Haslem suffered a groin injury in Sunday's overtime loss to the Bobcats. Payton is slowed by calf and groin injuries. Posey and Florida Panthers goaltender Ed Belfour reportedly posted bond Monday after both were arrested. The Herald reports Belfour, who was stunned by a Taser, was charged wtih disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest, while Posey was charged with DUI.
New Health Plan Targets Adults Under 35
Mar. 20--NORTH HAVEN -- Aiming to increase young adults' access to health care, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has introduced an insurance plan geared toward people ages 19 to 34. The health plan, called Tonik, is designed for a demographic Anthem calls "young invincibles," or young adults who have disposable income but no health insurance coverage, according to company officials. "Many young adults lose insurance under their parents' coverage when they graduate from college, leaving them uninsured until they find a job," David R. Fusco, president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut, said in a written statement. "Once they find employment, they may have to wait several months to be eligible for health insurance benefits, if their employer provides health insurance." Others feel "young, healthy and invincible" and don't realize what a serious illness or accident could cost them if they are uninsured, he said.
Market spasms fail to deter investors
LONDON (Reuters) - A month of sharp volatility on global financial markets has failed to put a major dent in leading investors' confidence, leaving them roughly positioned where they were when it began, Reuters polls showed on Friday. Surveys of 44 investment firms in the United States, Japan, continental Europe and Britain showed them ending March with an average of 60.8 percent stocks in their portfolios, barely changed from the 60.7 percent at the end of February. The steady nature of the findings comes despite a wave of risk aversion on financial markets that saw MSCI's main world stock index (.MSCIWD: Quote, Profile, Research) tumble as much as 6.5 percent and volatility soar. It implies that major investors have kept their nerve during the period and do not view it as having been a major sea change that required them to adjust their long-term outlooks.
Goodwill names new board members
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia and the CSRA announces the following new board members: Catherine Boardman, community leader; Joseph D. Greene, professor at Augusta State University; Ecleamus L. Ricks, administrator with the Macon-Bibb County Health Department; Anne V. Gormly, president and dean of faculties at Georgia College & State University; and Chuck J. Smith IV, retired from the Chuck Smith Organization. Security Bank of Bibb has new president Daniel M. Forrester has been elected president of Security Bank of Bibb County and elected a member of the board of directors. Forrester began his banking career in 1968 with Citizens and Southern National Bank. He started at Security Bank in 2000, becoming head of commercial lending and chief operating officer in Bibb County.
People on the Move
J.D. Olitzky and Chris Clanton, physics, received the "Best Undergraduate Research Presentation" award at the Society of Physics Students Zone 6 Meeting. Their project was titled "Development of Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy." The team competed against 40 other research projects and won the R.S. Jin Award Certificate of Excellence.Stephanie Wideman, forensics, had her persuasive speech published in the journal "Winning Orations." The speech was titled "Planning for Peak Oil: Legislation and Conservation," which she presented at the 2006 Interstate Oratorical Association National Championship.Kathy Boulanger, child development center, was awarded a Math/Science Classroom Minigrant by the Early Learning Coalition of Escambia County. The funds will be used to purchase materials for hands-on learning activities.Ann Dziadon, Bob Shaw and King Walker, enrollment services, presented at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual meeting in Little Rock, Ark.George Ellenberg, college of arts and sciences, received the 2006 Anne B.
For the Derby, Pletcher uses Circular reasoning
Trainer Michael Matz, ignoring the evidence compiled over time that provides the foundation of conventional wisdom, ran Barbaro in the Kentucky Derby last year off a five-week layoff and won the race with a horse whose fight for life after a catastrophic injury suffered in the Preakness would win a legion of supportive fans and overshadow the remainder of the racing year.
If Matz and Barbaro dealt a blow to the conventional wisdom a year ago, Todd Pletcher will have completed the demolition of that and another long-embraced handicapping precept should Circular Quay win this year's Kentucky Derby.
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A healthy high-risk pool
RALEIGH - The General Assembly is finally working on a serious proposal to make health insurance more affordable. State Rep. Verla Insko's health insurance high-risk pool bill has already passed two House committees. The debate offered a preview of what's ahead for the state's first significant health reform in years.Some people, because they have a serious health condition such as multiple sclerosis, are quoted $1,000 to $2,000 a month premiums when they try to buy insurance. A high-risk pool for health coverage -- like the high-risk insurance pool for automobile insurance -- puts people with serious health problems (or risks) into a pool where they pay still-high but more affordable premiums for decent coverage.Even though people in the pool pay a higher premium than those without serious health problems, it still costs more to insure them than the premiums collected to cover medical costs, because people in the pool are so sick.
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