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Daroga State Park is located along the Columbia River (Lake Entiat), in north central Washington State.
Tom Stevens
Kamerin 20
Kyler 16
Jeffery 10
Point N’ Thyme Farm
pntntyme@yahoo.com
Jordan, NY 13080
631-766-9508
Foxglove Farm
Aquebogue, NY
L.I. Scapegoats
Maribeth Andersen
631.255.3161
Foxglve10@gmail.com
Martha Adams
madaafool@hotmail.com
Shannon
Vice President of Ney York state Dairy Goat Breeders Association
Certified milk tester for NYS
Show chairman for NYSDGBA
Registered operating room nurse for Syracuse Ortho Specialists SOS
Judged the youth 4-H fitting and showmanship class @ NYS Fair
Won her first goat at 8 by writing a 300 word essay on how she would care for it.
“I remember being in the car and getting butterflies when I saw the fairgrounds exit.” First started to really talk to Tom in their early 20s, they had started to date long distance while she was in nursing school in AZ. When Tom had his accident they began to speak more and more. She came up to help take care of him after one of his surgeries to rebuild his ears. She stayed at his families house for a week after the surgery to take care of him. That was a defining moment in their relationship. After she graduated she moved to Syracuse. Her and Tom bought his parents farm, the same house she had stayed to take care of him. They still live there to this day.
“All the goats have their own personalities, some I hate and some I love. I can just look at them and tell if something is wrong.”
“Favorite thing at the fair is walking around, people watching, there is always something new to see.”
“The worst part of the fair is leaving, and saying good-buy to the whole goat barn family until next year.
Tom
Prison guard at a maximum security facility for NYS Auburn
He does all of our hay yearly, cut, bail, stacking
He does a lot of the milking and chores in the am
Fixing all the things that break, builds things
Volunteer firefighter – burned over 28% over body, 22 surgeries
First remembers Shannon walking in the goat barn when he was 11 or 12.
Hates goats
“The best part of the fair is going home.”
“The best part really is that it’s like a family reunion with our goat family, some of us come from Texas, Arkansas, South Carolina. We all grew up together. We were in each other’s weddings. This is a home for all of us.”
Kamerin 20
Works at Barber Welding as a welder fabricator
Was the first in the family to get a Lamancha goat, it’s name is Eve and it’s five years old.
The fair is his vacation of choice
Girlfriend breeds Huskies and Great Pyrenees
Plans to go work in North Carolina fabricating and welding oil platforms
“my favorite part of the fair is sitting outside the goat barn with the rest of the goat family and watching people pass by as we do our pranks.”
Kyler 16
Track, cross-country, basketball, lifeguard. Works at an apple orchard working in the store front. Taking college courses, is on her high-school honor roll.
Enjoys jumping horses
“My favorite part of the fair is hanging out with my friends.”
Might raise goats when she is older, but would rather raise horses
“I love the goat family here because they are crazy—fun.”
Jeffery 10
Is a quarterback on his football team, also plays lacrosse, wrestling and basketball. But does not want to play baseball again.
His girlfriend is Piper Mcallister, age 10, they met when they first met when they were 4 in the goat barn. Both of their families show goats each year at the fair.
“My favorite part of the fair is the roller-coasters”
Does not want to raise goats when he grows up
Favorite part about being at the goat barn is pranking people
Pranks include:
Gluing money to the ground, putting someone in a large stuffed prize and scaring people, putting someone in a large box or can and, with a cell phone, telling them which way to walk to scare people, using a fake spider or a snake on a piece of fishing string to pull or drop in front of people.
Goats
Peppermint
Dairy Goats
Milk to feed baby goats
Must pasteurize milk to stop to spread of CAE Caprine Arthritic Encephalitis. AIDS like virus for goats that is spread though bodily fluids.
Breads Lamancha and Alpine dairy goats
They use also raise and show draft horses
Brittany Smith
Met the Stevens 10 years ago at the fair. Started coming to the fair each year with extend family, who also show goats. Started watching/ babysitting all the kids in the barn during the fair while the parents handled the show.
Works at Wellfleet as an account manager – company provides student health care to universities/ colleges.
The Georgia State Railroad Museum is the largest, oldest existing nineteenth-century railroad shop complex in the United States. A National Historic Landmark site, construction began in 1850. The shops were closed after the Southern Railway took control of the Central of Georgia in 1962.
Manufacturer: Airbus
Model: A340-541
Aircraft type: A330/A340
Construction number: 1102
Year built: 2010
Owner: State of Kuwait
Operator: Kuwait Airways
Former registrations: F-WKJi (Airbus - cabin outfitting)
Status: Active
Remarks: Final Airbus A340 to make its first flight
Colorado State University students and alumni paint The A on the foothills overlooking Fort Collins. August 28, 2021
Riyadh, Elf-One, AWACS, Aug-Nov 1981
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In May 1981, I re-enlisted in the Air National Guard at the completion of my first 4 year hitch. I had made E-5, Staff Sergeant, and was enjoying my time in the service. Our unit had gone to Korea for a Team Spirit exercise in the spring and Pusan had been a lot of fun.
I was working as a security guard and going to Sac State. When the Air Guard asked me if I would like to spend a couple fo months in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in August, I jumped at the chance to travel again. My aunt Clyda had been working as a nurse at King Faisal Hospital in Riyadh for several years and liked it (and the money she was making) well enough to stay there.
So, some time in August 1981 (don't remember exact dates) I boarded a flight for Oklahoma City, site of Tinker AFB, the headquarters of the 552nd AWACS Wing as well as the 3rd Combat Comm Group, a regular Air Force equivalent to my own ANG 162nd Combat Comm Group. I was on loan to the 3rd Herd for my stay in Saudi.
After a day or two at Tinker, we flew via C-141 to Rhein Main AFB in Frankfurt, Germany,refueled and from there continued on to Riyadh. Like Rhein Main, the air base at Riyadh shared runways with the commercial airport.
We were supporting Exercise Elf One, which was playing I Spy on the Iran-Iraq War. The Saudis had asked the US to fly AWACS radar planes and have radar ships in the Gulf to watch the Iranians, in case they decided to attack Saudi Arabia, which was suporting the Iraqis in the war. I don't think the Iranians ever did attack the Saudis, but they did bomb Kuwait one day when we were there. After that, I think the Kuwaits asked that we warn them if any Iranian planes came their way. We had picked up the Iranian planes going to and from Kuwait, but had no agreement to inform them before that.
In those days, the Iranians were flying US made F4s and F14s, while the Iraqis had Soviet MiGs and French Mirages. We didn't know it at the time, but the Iranians were getting parts for their planes under the Iran-Contra deal.
There are western compounds in Riyadh, where the normal Saudi rules are relaxed. The US Army had a training mission, and companies such as Lockheed and British Aircraft also had compounds. Alcohol was strictly forbidden under Saudi Sharia law, but the western compounds would brew jungle juice and serve it at parties, with the Saudis turning a blind eye, as they needed the Americans, Brits and others to keep things working. I saw the aftereffects of bathtub grapefruit wine on some of the guys and decided I could wait until I got back to Germany and have some decent German beer.
Our compound or Elf One was the ai Yamama Hotel on Airport Road between downtown and the airport (duh!!!). It was a regular hotel, but had been taken over by USAF for the Elf One people. The regular staff managed it, and we ate breakfast and dinner in the hotel dining room for free. After a while, the same 6 or 7 items for dinner did get old, and we would sometimes eat at other restaurants in town, but Riyadh is not known for its swinging night life.
I was one of two Teletype techs in Riyadh while I was there. We also had crypto, sattelite radio, HF radio, ground power, HVAC maint people, who hung out in our shop van near the flight line on base, as well as a bunch of radio and Teletype operators who did the work of running the gear. The maint people mainly hung out, repaired problems, and did periodic maintenance on the equipment. That explains the photos of us hanging out in the shop van, reading, napping, playing cards and generally goofing off.
The aircraft maint people worked elsewhere.
USAF had KC-135 tankers and E3 AWACS planes in Riyadh for Elf One. An E3 was in the air at all times, flying in 12 hour shifts. We could, if we wanted to, go on "morale flights" on the AWACS, but I never did as sitting in a plane for 12 hours with nothing to do sounded slightly less appealing than sitting in the shop van for 12 hours with nothing to do.
We could also, take morale flights on the KC-135s when they went up to refuel the AWACS every afternoon. They left about the same time every day, taking off southbound over downtown Riyadh and our hotel and you could always tell the 135 by the distinctive sound of its water injection turbojets as it flew over.
I went up on two morale flights on KC-135s and on the first one I remarked to the pilot that I would love to take photos of the refueling. He was cool with it, so the second time I went up, I brought my camera and asked permision from the pilot on that trip. He didn't care, although I think the Saudis did not want people taking arial photos of the country. Oh well. This was 35 years ago and all of the air crews on these planes are out of the service or retired by now.
I have to say that the midair refueling of the AWACS as seen from next to the boom operator on the KC-135 is one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed. Boom operators joke that they have 3 college graduates fly them around so they can pass gas, and USAF does midair refueling dozens of times a day all over the world, but it is remarkable to see two planes flying close together, connected by a refueling boom.
My TDY was originally for 2 months, but with no job to return to and having missed the Fall 1981 semester at Sac State, I extended it for another month.
In 1981, Riyadh had a rail connection to the Gulf at Damman with a daily passenger train, and freight service. I saw the passenger train at Riyadh, but did not feel comfortable taking out my camera to get any photos. It had a GP38 (IIRC) pulling new stainless steel cars that had been made in Europe. I've heard that one of the Twin/Nebraske Zephyr sets wound up in Saudi Arabia (the other is at Illinois Railway Museum), but I saw no sign of it and I did not try to take a ride on the railway as we only had one day off a week and a round trip required an overnight stay. I did get a few photos another day when I found the yard and shop. One is posted here, and when I find the others, I will post them. The Saudis had some F7s and I saw a couple of those as well as what I think is a GL8, an EMD export model.
I tried to meet Aunt Clyda during the whole time I was there, but she could not get into the al Yamama and I could not get into her nurse's quarters, and,as I said, there were not a lot of places to meet in downtown Riyadh. I knew she worked at the hospital's blood bank and we could give blood there, so toward the end of my stay, I joined the guys donating blood and at least was able to say hi to Clyda for a few minutes.
The weather was very hot when we got there, dry heat, of course, but by November, things had cooled off and we even had a bit of rain before I left in mid-November.
I planned to stop off in Europe and travel around for a month before returning to the US, so I mailed most of my stuff home before I left and when our plane got to Rhein Main, I joined the crowd heading to the bar for a beer, then went to the base hotel for the night.
The next morning was rainy and green and rain and green never looked so good!
Notes: Photo by Thomas W. Benson
Preferred Citation: Thomas W. Benson Political Protest Collection, Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Eberly Family Special Collections Library, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University.
Repository: Penn State Special Collections, University Park, PA, USA.
California Community College State Wrestling Championship 3rd Place Matches. Photos by John Sachs www.tech-fall.com
Delaware State Police
Ford Crown Victoria
Picture Date: 05/12/2011
A clean DSP Ford Crown Victoria sits parked.
Delaware State Police
Two Ford Crown Victoria's
Picture Date: 09/04/2009
Two Delaware State Troopers meet in the center of I-95.
Delaware State Police
Ford Crown Victoria
Picture Date: 02/23/2012
Delaware State Troopers target aggressive drivers on I-95. Further up you can also see a DSP Dodge Charger sitting in the crossover.
Delaware State Police
Ford Crown Victoria
Picture Date: 07/12/2010
A Delaware State Trooper sits in the median of Bay Road, enforcing the slower speed limit through a construction zone.
Head SRJC swim coach Jill McCormick poses with members of her 2008 state champion women's swim team. From left, Heather Cramer, Mandy King, Allie King, Tiana Singley and Kelly McNeil.
Strobist: Subjects are lit from both sides with two Nikon SB-28s located at camera left and camera right, roughly five feet from the subjects. Both are set at 1/4 power, zoomed to 35mm and modified with two cheap shoot-through umbrellas.