Stamford’s Richard Brewster will be filled with pride as he watches the England players supporting the charity he set up with fellow colleague Marc Jackson and pupils by wearing special wristbands.

Mr Brewster set up the Supporting Our Troops charity with pupils at Stamford School and Falklands veteran Mr Jackson, because of the school’s strong links with the armed forces.

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Morrow — Enjoying traditional Irish music Saturday night will be more than music to the ears — it also will help in finding a cure for blood cancers.

Local band The Real McCoys will be performing a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Benefit Concert in honor of Hannah Rumping, 2, of Kings Mills, who was diagnosed with leukemia in February.

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A tribune banner for Eric Medlen, the 2005 Northwest Nationals Funny Car champion who died in March from injuries suffered in a testing accident earlier that week, was available all weekend for racing fans to sign.

Drivers for John Force Racing – Force himself, Ashley Force and Robert Hight – have remembered their fallen teammate by wearing a rubber wristband made by Brittany and Courtney Force, John’s daughters.“I wear it all the time,” Ashley Force said. “When I leave mine at home, I send someone to go get it.

“We know he’s watching over us. It just shows how many people adored him.”

Top Fuel drivers J.R. Todd and Brandon Bernstein, two of Medlen’s closest friends on the tour, also wear wristbands that bear his name.

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The cause of Medlen’s death was determined to be severe head shake. In the months since the accident, his father, John Medlen, has studied safety innovation for Funny Car drivers. One of the inventions for the racers is wearing earplugs that measure the G-force changes during a run.

She works in a world where skirts and shorts are part of the uniform, where sleeves are optional, and where it’s nothing to spend six hours in the sun. But it still bothers Kailin Downs to hear her colleagues talking about their tans.”I’m not passing around the bottle,” the Duramed Futures Tour rookie said Tuesday, “but I say things when people make
comments about not wearing sunscreen, or that they want to tan, or whatever.”

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After sitting in the cloudless sun with his friends, hawking homemade pie and turkey sandwiches to passing cyclists Wednesday, John Ibeling missed Lance Armstrong’s blink-of-an-eye passing.

“Where is he?” asked Ibeling as Armstrong faded quickly into a mass of cyclists.

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