Archive for November, 2006
>Workers are removing thousands of fallen trees from Mississippi’s Buccaneer State Park in the first phase of a $14 million restoration project.
Buccaneer, one of the most visited among the state’s 24 parks, was obliterated by Hurricane Katrina.
Named for the pirates who used the area as a retreat in the 1700s, Buccaneer featured acres of campgrounds and outdoor recreation, including a Frisbee golf course and a five-acre water park, Buccaneer Bay.
The park restoration is planned in three phases and rebuilding the campground, bathrooms and pavilions is the state’s first objective. Full Story…
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>Alice Mitchell and her late husband had spent more than three months a year traveling the country in their recreational vehicle, using a Dish Network receiver to view local broadcasts from Denver and Los Angeles.
Earlier this month, Mitchell, who lives in Monroe, Wash., 35 miles northeast of Seattle, received a letter from Dish Network, telling her that she wouldn’t receive those channels after Dec. 1.
Mitchell, 65, has been eligible to receive distant-network signals for RV travel because her local satellite signal dies once she leaves the area.
“They said our RV waivers are no good anymore,” Mitchell said in a phone interview.
Mitchell is one of 900,000 Dish home, business and RV customers losing out- of-area network channels, following a U.S. district court ruling in October against Douglas County-based EchoStar Communications Corp., which provides Dish service. Full Story…
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>A Montgomery County, Texas man is being hailed a hero after braving flames to save his wife.
The story begins at the Castaway RV Park and Resort in Wallis just off Longstreet in Montgomery County.
Gracie Clark, 72, told officials she and her husband Leon, 86 woke up Tuesday at 6:45 a.m. to find they had no power in their motor home.
Mrs. Clark said she stayed inside her home while her husband Leon went outside to check the breakers.
While Mr. Clark was checking out things outside, inside the home Mrs. Clark saw fire coming from the overhead AC unit.That’s when, officials said, the home burst into flames. Full Story…
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