Archive for August, 2005

>A fiery beginning to a vacation to the Peterborough area to visit family has left Wilfred Morgan and his wife Doris with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Just before reaching Quebec City in July, heading here from their hometown of Conception Harbour, Newfoundland, Mr. Morgan’s motor home burst into flames.

The 75-year-old jumped from the blazing vehicle and rescued his wife through the motor home’s side door.

“There was nothing we could do about it,” says Mr. Morgan from his son’s home in Omemee.

“We lost everything.” Full Story…

>Matralle Morton of Jacksonville, Texas, is 65 years old and 5 foot 4. She’s a gentle person, a grandmother of six. Never in her most fervid thoughts did Morton ever imagine that some day she’d have to choke a threatening man.

But Morton did just that the other day — reached around with her left arm from the back seat of her husband’s extended-cab truck and yanked the neck of a man who while fleeing police had jumped in her pickup and was trying to drive off with her and two companions, also in their 60s. Full Story…

>As the Family Motor Coach Association’s national rally winds down and the thousands of motor coaches that have called Minot home for the past week pull out of town, one chapter within the FMCA will be just settling in.

Sixteen RVers who are part of the FMCA Chapter: Habitat for Humanity along with the National Director of the chapter, Lynn Laymon, and his wife and President of the FMCA chapter Linda Walden, will assist the Minot Habitat for Humanity affiliate with the building of a home in northwest Minot.

When the motor coach owners visit a town for a rally or a national convention they often assist the local affiliates for two weeks with whatever phase of construction they happen to be in. Full Story…