On Monday evening May 10, something new and terrific happened in Bonsack Elementary that will also be a huge boost to reading in Botetourt County schools. Three were targeted, Colonial Elementary, Cloverdale Elementary and Troutville Elementary Schools will all be served by the new Ruritan Club initiative called "RULLYK," which stands fo Ruritan Unrestricted Library Loan for Young Kids. Former Blue Ridge School Board rep Jim Ruhland, also a Ruritan member said, "My wife, Sherry, and I are co-chairs of this Ruritan project. Bob Kilpatrick is our club president.
Any student of leadership knows there's nothing like a crisis to serve as a catalyst. It's during those times when things that seemed impossible suddenly get done. We have big woes but we also have the brain trust and grit to roll up our sleeves and try to help fix what ails her. Seems like just yesterday GM exec Bob Lutz was seen bustin a move with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the front row of a giddy crowd at GM's Style Event during last year's Detroit auto show as singer Mary J. Blige belted out a tune and shiny GM vehicles were wheeled on stage with dancers and even Kid Rock in tow. Carol Cain is host of "Michigan Matters" at 11 a.m. Sundays on WWJ-TV (CBS Detroit) and a columnist at Detroit Free Press. She moderates the Michigan Chronicle's laud-ed "Pancakes and Politics" events. She ...
In December, more than 1,000 Miamis-burg residents enjoyed a pancake breakfast. More recently, the profits from the Rotary Pancake Day were distributed to local organizations. The Rotary Pancake Day reached a sort of milestone, too: it celebrated its 50th anniversary.
...Bob Kilpatrick, a Rotary member, provides the coffee. DeYoung sai...
TO: That's why the new generation is so hot on rally, because a lot of them are like dial. They've seen ' stock car racing and they think, That's foolish, and they've seen drag racing and they think, That's foolish, but this [rally] is completely wacky. It's got to be over time. There have to be failures. Part of the problem we have in our society, I think, is there aren't enough failures. If you went for your driving test in Europe, you'd fail the first time. With our system, if you don't do it exactly right, you spin out immediately and hit the bank. Then you're, like, All right, I'll learn, I'll listen. TO: The satisfaction of seeing you come from where you were to where you are now. I love being outside. I love driving cars. This is my passion. I don't do anything for money. You hav...
...BOB KILPATRICK: Though my dad has been road racing all of my life...
While Chrysler's hope lies in partnering with an outside entity, GM's is with an internal project - ironically, an electric car. The documentary Who lulled the Elee-trie Car? detailed GM's launch, and then infamous discontinuation, of the first widely used electric vehicle, the GM EVl . That car was created because California mandated it; it was subsequendy killed by pressure from oil companies and the Bush administration. Now GM is hoping to stake its future on a new electric vehicle, the Chevy Volt, which will be available in 2010. Members of the auto industry task force took demo models out for a spin during their visit to Detroit. Is there any good news? Recendy Fiat has offered to take a 35 percent share in Chrysler. Fiat would get access to U.S.-based manufacturing and markets, wh...
It's kind of a pro wrestling aesthetic," [Jeff Kilpatrick] says of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society's (PCS) almost-weekly competitive Pictionary throwdown at Bob and Barbara's Lounge. "It's really the only opportunity artists get to bully other people. "We even have to give handicap rules so we don't just run the board all the way through," Kilpatrick says. "We have to say that once everybody on our team draws, we have to switch over and give somebody else a chance." "When you combine booze and board games, people get so competitive," says Kilpatrick. "People get mad. Some people don't even know we're cartoonists. They come out, they're like, 'You guys are really good artists!' They think we've just met each other."
They used to cruise 8th Street all weekend long. It was like Shelburne Road. They'd just come and go all night, and at the end of 8th Street there was a McDonald's, so they'd all wind up there sooner or later. I was too young to be cruising with them. They didn't want a kid hanging around. JH: That's why I have a sedan. My kids were young at the time, and [the hotrod groups] used to have rod runs. I always wanted a coupe, but I knew if I bought a coupe I couldn't take but more than one other person with me. So I bought the sedan and the whole family went. I always planned, when the kids were grown up, that I'd sell the sedan and get my coupe. But, jeez, this is one of the kids now. So I can't do that. JH: The car show is at the Essex Junction fairgrounds. There'll be probably 1500 cars ...
...BY BOB KILPATRICK. A daily dose of everything auto. A funny thing ha...
JB: Quality. Our quality is equal to, or better than, Toyota or Honda. There were eras where we didn't do as well as we should have, but we've certainly surpassed that now. We have more to offer, we really do. Buying foreign, even if it's built over here, the components come from overseas. With the economy struggling, people don't realize that 80 percent of the content comes from overseas, which is jobs. They're glued together here, but these big companies take their profits and they bring them back overseas. People do not understand that. They want the economy to flourish, but they don't want to participate. SB: I think that we're pretty competitive with our price. People think that because we are small we can't compete with big places on pricing. We've been around so long, we don't ha...
...BOB KILPATRICK: How long has EJ Barrette been In business?. JON B...
EP: My understanding is they get a better rating on their overall environmental impact that way. Well, oil is oil and metal is metal, and it's just not good in the long run for the car. Can you do that when the car has 30,000 miles on it? Sure you can. Can you do it when the car has 130,000 miles? It's probably not a good idea. My opinion is that this actually has a negative effect [on the environment] when a perfectly good car blows up because you didn't change the oil often enough. Now they've got to build another car. You basically just lost thousands of dollars because you didn't spend $30 or $40 on an oil change. Other people arc, like, "Argh, I'm 10 miles over my oil change! I've got to get it done!" That's way better than neglecting it. When I was a kid, you couldn't drive five m...
...BOB KILPATRICK: What should people be doing to take care of their...
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