While Bogard’s physical exploits are greater than the adventures of many his age, he has a lot of company among 43- to 61-year-old baby boomers — the fastest-growing segment of the health-conscious crowd. Fitness experts say more boomers are realizing they need a regimen of cardio, strength, flexibility and balance training to enjoy a long, [...]
People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
Three months earlier, Weslee Price Wootten had sent the Western Union cablegram that would change her life: Darling, I will marry you. All my love.
Noel D’Audney enlisted in 1939, an Auckland University student who [...]
A time for worship is also a time for baked treats.
At least that’s how Chris Bonn, of Redlands, sees it.
Each Sunday he brings sweets such as berry cobbler, banana cake and chocolate-chip cookies for his church group for couples at Pathway Church in Redlands.
“It’s kind of nice to get into the church group, as you’re [...]
The Quad-City region graduates nearly 48,000 high school and college students each year — enough to help fill the area’s future work force needs, according to a study released Monday by the Illinois Quad-City Chamber of Commerce.
The first-ever Quad-Cities Graduate Inventory determined that 47,700 graduates are being produced annually within a 90-mile radius, which is [...]
But is it too good to be true? Everything in life has a cost, even if it’s not immediately obvious. KiwiSaver may be lucrative for many people but that doesn’t mean it’s good for New Zealand as a whole.
The total cost of KiwiSaver’s subsidies will soon reach $2 billion a year, and that is probably [...]
There are some who will say it sounded like a good idea at the time. They would be wrong.
Back when Dallas and Phoenix decided the only way to counter the Lakers’ larcenous deal with the Grizzlies was to tear their teams apart midstream and start over, many NBA pundits agreed with their strategies. The Suns [...]
Retirement village developer Vision Senior Living has begun construction at the former rugby league ground at Carlaw Park in Parnell, Auckland, where 300-400 people will live once the $120 million project is complete.
Vision founder Peter Bourke said demand remained strong in the retirement market despite the housing downturn.
“[Parnell] is not on the market and it’s [...]
Skelt was yesterday named as the Southland Hawke Cup head coach for the 2008-09 season, replacing Kevin Cooper, who will remain with the association as a professional junior coach and groundsman.
Skelt has a long history in coaching, which included him leading the Southland development rugby team to a national title in 2003.
That success resulted in [...]
The ICL is not recognised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) or the International Cricket Council (ICC).
English authorities had warned that %26quot;no-objection certificates%26quot;, required by overseas players from their home boards before they could play in county cricket, were unlikely to be issued to anyone who had taken part in the [...]
A survey of Australias cricketers has revealed almost half would consider an early retirement from international cricket to play in cashed-up Twenty20 leagues in India.
The survey, commissioned by the Australian Cricketers Association, revealed 47 per cent of players contracted to Cricket Australia (CA) said they would consider early retirement, along with 49 per cent of [...]
