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Lovely milkweed seeds float away from Smiths Falls after learning that the townships water supply is contaminated again..."We are pulling up stakes and headed for clean swamp water!"
Vicenza community members participate in the Family Float Nite held at the Villaggio pool Aug. 11.
Many children and adults enjoyed the last family night at the facility.
After Aug. 22 the Villaggio pool will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It is closed on Wednesday for maintenance and it will be closed for the season on Sept. 4.
For more information call 634-6536 or visit www.vicenzaMWR.com
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.
Photo by Laura Kreider, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs Office
Vicenza community members participate in the Family Float Nite held at the Villaggio pool Aug. 11.
Many children and adults enjoyed the last family night at the facility.
After Aug. 22 the Villaggio pool will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It is closed on Wednesday for maintenance and it will be closed for the season on Sept. 4.
For more information call 634-6536 or visit www.vicenzaMWR.com
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.
Photo by Laura Kreider, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs Office
Vicenza community members participate in the Family Float Nite held at the Villaggio pool Aug. 11.
Many children and adults enjoyed the last family night at the facility.
After Aug. 22 the Villaggio pool will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It is closed on Wednesday for maintenance and it will be closed for the season on Sept. 4.
For more information call 634-6536 or visit www.vicenzaMWR.com
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.
Photo by Laura Kreider, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs Office
9/01/2019 The parade float for the Festa di Santa Rosalia in Bensonhurst. Sony a7. 7Artisans 35mm 1:2.0.
Vicenza community members participate in the Family Float Nite held at the Villaggio pool Aug. 11.
Many children and adults enjoyed the last family night at the facility.
After Aug. 22 the Villaggio pool will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It is closed on Wednesday for maintenance and it will be closed for the season on Sept. 4.
For more information call 634-6536 or visit www.vicenzaMWR.com
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.
Photo by Laura Kreider, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs Office
Vicenza community members participate in the Family Float Nite held at the Villaggio pool Aug. 11.
Many children and adults enjoyed the last family night at the facility.
After Aug. 22 the Villaggio pool will be open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It is closed on Wednesday for maintenance and it will be closed for the season on Sept. 4.
For more information call 634-6536 or visit www.vicenzaMWR.com
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil or www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza.
Photo by Laura Kreider, USAG Vicenza Public Affairs Office
After our big rains the last few days there was runoff water streaming in the alley behind our house ... collecting in a pool at the bottom of the hill - then on into the drainage opening. Zach made a boat -- from a paper plate - stapled - with a drinking straw mast and paper towel sail ... and off he went ... sailing. ;-)
He made "adjustments" ... tearing the sides down lower ... ripping the sail off when it toppled over and got too soggy to stay upright . Just about the time he was satisfied and it actually began to float, the stream slowed to a trickle. So he contented himself with finding other, smaller things that would float ... leaves, roly-polys, etc.
His last boat-building efforts were with popsicle box and sticks!
A specimen of float copper on exhibit in the Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Wrangell, Alaska, November 11, 2009 - Anan Creek is the second most heavily visited bear viewing site in southeast Alaska. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act project being undertaken here replaces the float system that supports the living quarters for employees who provide visitor services to the viewing site. In this photo employees tow the new float with building atop to the Wrangell harbor, where the contractor will finish the project.
My girlfriend's family had a crab feast up in PA at the end of September and her little cousin insisted on being in the pool despite the cold and rain. Clearly the weather wasn't getting in the way of his fun.
Float trip at Ho Hum....it was a great time...if you want to get healthy, have energy to spare, and you need to make some extra cash check out these websites: www.myvemma.com/maximum_health
Float trip at Ho Hum....it was a great time...if you want to get healthy, have energy to spare, and you need to make some extra cash check out these websites: www.myvemma.com/maximum_health
Float trip at Ho Hum....it was a great time...if you want to get healthy, have energy to spare, and you need to make some extra cash check out these websites: www.myvemma.com/maximum_health
Float trip at Ho Hum....it was a great time...if you want to get healthy, have energy to spare, and you need to make some extra cash check out these websites: www.myvemma.com/maximum_health
This huge Japanese glass ball came ashore at a surfing spot called Rocket Reef which is located about a mile towards the Pacific Missile Range Facility from Queen's Pond, Polihale beach or Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.
The surf was big, ugly and the wind howling onshore. Perfect conditions to find a once-in-a-lifetime treasure.
The circumference measures 48 inches.
Float trip at Ho Hum....it was a great time...if you want to get healthy, have energy to spare, and you need to make some extra cash check out these websites: www.myvemma.com/maximum_health
At the Royal Princess Float Out, Victoria Nash, Madrina of Royal Princess cuts the ribbon that smashes the champagne bottle signifying the beginning of the water enterting the dock. With her is Carlo Demarco, Fincantieri Shipyard Director.
I took my two boys for their swimming lesson, normally Grandad takes them but he was not feeling up to it. I really enjoyed it apart from the Slush Puppy that gave me a cold lump like a dagger stuck in my back travelling down :(
Souvenir fishing float.
Messing about with off-camera flash. Having bought some wireless triggers I thought I'd have a go as it's chucking it down outside and rather windy.
The start of the Penticton lazy river channel. The water was fast so it took us about 2 hours to float to the last pull-out at Skaha Lake.
It was so much fun, we had lunch and then rafted it again!
You are free to use this photo under its Creative Commons license. For the attribution, please link back to either my online learning website DIY Genius or my tour website Spirit Quest Adventures.
Big Sky Montana, Summit Hotel
In 1968 Chet Huntley floated the idea that he would build a resort in his home state Montana. Huntley's NBC news partner David Brinkley said Huntley had an almost mystical love for his native Montana. That year Chet Huntley and his wife Tippy, vacationed at Jim and Patty Goodrich's 320 Guest Ranch near Lone Mountain. Lone Mountain made a big impression. Huntley asked the Goodriches to keep an eye out for some land he could buy. Huntley's earliest plan was to build a dude ranch which could be used as a tax shelter for investors. The Goodriches sent Huntley a flyer on Sam Smeding's Lone Mountain Dude Ranch. Huntley's investor friend was Ed Homer, an executive with Chrysler Realty, a wholly owned subsidiary of the number 3 auto maker Chrysler Corp. Chrysler Realty Corp. was founded in 1967 as an off shoot from owning so many warehouses office buildings, and dealer buildings. Homer bought in to the idea but with bigger plans - he hired a ski consultant to study the idea of a ski resort. The ski area consultant was Kingsbury Pitcher, from Santa Fe, NM. Pitcher was a former ski insturctor, rancher and a graduate of Stanford Univery in economics. Pitcher was an advisor for the developers of Snowmass at Aspen, Sun Valley, Idaho and Jay Peak, VT. He developed the Sierra Blanca ski resort near Ruidoso for Robert O. Anderson. A one day consultant in 1970 was three-time Olympic gold medalist Jean-Claude Killy who heli-skied in perfect powder on the run now known as Ambush. Killy told Huntley and Pitcher conditions were "magnifique". A feasibility study was made by David J. Flood of Manduco Corp. The consultants recommendation was to build two villages - one at the base of Lone Mountain, the other in an open meadow three miles from U.S. 191. Huntley and Homer moved quickly.
Lone Mountain Ranch consisted of the Emmett Crail Cattle Ranch and later the B-K Ranch which was owned by Jack M. Hume in the 50's and 60's. Hume was the early owner and manufacturer of Sun Rite products. Sam S. Smeding bought the cattle ranch from Hume in 1962. He sold the 1,880 acres in the Gallatin River Canyon for $350,000 to Chrysler Realty. Smeding's Lone Mountain ranch land was primarily used for the Arnold Palmer and Francis Duane designed golf course. Palmer was age 41 when he designed the $500,000 golf course. Palmer teamed with Francis Duane and they also designed the Bay Course at Kapalua, Hawaii in 1974.
The land for Mountain Village would be secured from Burlington Northern in a land swap. The term "Big Sky" was used by the state of Montana as a marketing adjective for the entire state. Chet Huntley made a visit to Helena to ask the Governor Forest Anderson of Montana for permission to use "Big Sky" for the resort's name which was enthusiastically granted. The $1.1 million 9-mile road from US 191 was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and Gallatin and Madison Counties.
In 1969 Chrysler hired Gustav "Gus" Raaum, who helped develop Teton Village in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to be president and chief executive of Big Sky - calling it an opportunity to start from scratch. Raaum, during his younger days, was a Norwegian Ski Jumping champion.
Chet Huntley's title was Chairman of the Board of Big Sky but also the celebrity fronting for the five corporations that owned the resort - Chrysler Realty Corp., Continental Oil (Conoco), Burlington Northern Railroad, Montana Power Co. and Northwest Orient Airlines pooled about $20 million to build the world class resort from scratch. Chet Huntley would own about 1% of the stock but as chairman of the board he had enormous influence. Huntley incurred the rath of environmental groups and many Montanans fought the development tooth and nail. Big Sky managed to open a year behind schedule in March 1974.
Huntley died of lung cancer at age 62 three days before the grand opening ceremonies. Tippy Huntley took over Chet’s marketing role. Owner Chrysler Realty decided to divest its real estate development assets and sold to Boyne USA Resorts in 1976 for $7.5 million the 204-room Huntley Lodge, 4 lifts, a shopping and convention center, and a golf course located on 2,500 acres. Everett Kircher said he had a romance with Lone Mountain after skiing it. He stated Big Sky with its 2,700 skiable vertical drop is the finest ski terrain in the country. Kircher, the sole owner of Boyne Mountain in Michigan, was well known for adapting new methods of ski instruction, and innovations in artificial snow and grooming equipment.
Gustav Raaum said the deal split Big Sky ownership in two, with Boyne Mountain/Kircher taking over the former Big Sky of Montana Inc. and a new company named Big Sky of Montana Realty Inc., who kept ownership of remaining acres and unsold condominiums. On Aug 13, 1977 Big Sky of Montana Realty auctioned off 149 condominiums raising $4.1 million to which paid off the $2.3 million in construction loans owed to First National Bank of Bozeman and Security Trust Bank of Billings. Nationally recognized Kennedy, Kenison and Wison were the auctioneers. Montana Governor Thomas Judge bought a condo for $21,000. Raaum departed Big Sky in 1977 to start an investment company in Seattle known as Hill-Raaum-Pietromonaco.
By 1999 Big Sky was averaging 300,000 skier days per year and by 2018 skier days were 500,000.
In 1999 the 10-story Summit Hotel opened, it was the largest single development undertaken in Big Sky since the resort's inception in 1974. The $45 million luxury condominium hotel has 106 units with capability of locking off to 222 hotel rooms. Some said you could ski right out your hotel window. Stephen Kircher, the project coordinator and vice president of Boyne USA said within 300 feet of the hotel's entrance are 3 high capacity lifts. The Summit included 8 two story, $1.5 million penthouses. Condo prices started at $290,000 or $337 per square foot for an 857-square-foot condo. In August 2009 the Summit hosted President Obama and family.
The Kircher family continues to operate Big Sky. Many of the college-age folks who served as bellman and bartenders in the late 70s and early 80s now serve in leadership roles at Big Sky Resort. They’ve seen Big Sky Resort grow and evolve and have played an integral part in making it happen. Now there are a combination of 21 different hotels and outside condo options. Named after Everett Kircher, the founder of Boyne USA is Everett 8800, a restaurant located at the top of Andesite Mountain (elevation 8,800 ft) and accessable only by the Ramcharger chair lift.
In 2016 Big Sky Resort' parent company, family owned Boyne Resorts, unveiled Big Sky 2025, a plan to invest $150-million dollars in mostly on-mountain improvements over the next 10 years, but the plan is already underway. This summer, the resort installed two brand new chairlifts – one of them state-of-the art. Powder Seeker, the high-speed, six-seat chairlift with heated seats, head rests and blue bubble covers, is not only the most technologically-advanced chairlift installed this year in the country, but it’s also the highest bubble chairlift in North America with the top terminal sitting at 9,812 feet.
The plan also calls for 12 upgraded or new chairlifts, including a 10-person gondola, new on-mountain restaurants, a high-alpine zip line, a new hotel, new restaurants and retail shops, a new gondola and night skiing. Also renovations of the Summit Hotel and Huntley Lodge is planned.
compiled by Dick Johnson
October 2019