Monthly Archives: August 2012

Animator Walter Lantz is famous for his Woody Woodpecker cartoons. When movie director George Pal came to the United States from his native Hungary, Mr. Lantz helped him to become a citizen of the United States. Mr. Pal paid tribute … Continue reading →

Neil Kirk, age 33, is a big-time fan of the St. Johnstone Soccer Club (the Saints), and when he got married to Nikki in August 2012 he named the tables at the wedding reception held at Oran Mor in Glasgow, … Continue reading →

A sample:  Some Olympic athletes have sold the gold medals they won—for good reasons. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the first year that Ukraine participated in the Olympics as an independent country, Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine won a gold … Continue reading →

On 16 August 2012, Giovanna Demonte, age 36, crashed her car on I-10, just past the Mississippi side of the Louisiana-Mississippi line. In the back seat was her sister, Felicidad Demonte, age 39, who uses a wheelchair. The car caught … Continue reading →

On 13 August 2012, Ray Leuthauser was driving home from work. A woman in the car ahead of him turned onto the entrance ramp for westbound I-44 from Murdoch Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. An envelope on the car flew … Continue reading →

In August 2012 in Pierre, South Dakota, Jennifer Youngberg needed to punish her children: eight-year-old Sydney and 10-year-old Rylee Youngberg. Jennifer said, “Being that it’s summer, the kids were out of school and I had taken them to the city pool … Continue reading →

On 1 August 2012 at a McDonald’s in Mt. Druitt, New South Wales, Australia, manager James Hacker, age 21, became a hero when he saved the life of a choking baby girl. Mr. Hacker said about the baby girl’s parents, … Continue reading →

On 17 March 2011, a registered sex offender tried to abduct a young female at the Avalon Metro Green Line Station in South Los Angeles, California. Metro Green Line passengers stopped the abduction by fighting the would-be abductor, who was … Continue reading →

Sherry Shaw
of Cleveland, Ohio, often drives to Athens, Ohio, because she carts her sons back and forth to school. (Athens, Ohio, is home to Ohio University.) In August 2012, she was moving a son from one apartment to another, a … Continue reading →

Before attending the 2012 Olympics in London, Zofia Noceti-Klepacka of Poland announced that if she won a medal she would sell it for a worthy cause. She did win a medal: the bronze in the women’s RS-X, which involves windsurfing … Continue reading →