| Local Beat 9/2/07
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Wheeler's senior golf quartet are tops on the links, in the classroom
UNION TWP. | The word perfection has many definitions and comes in many forms. To be perfect in the classroom is to never miss a question. To be perfect on the golf course is to never miss a putt.While the senior members of the Wheeler girls golf team might not be perfect, they certainly strive to be, and they are pretty darn close.Not only do Vanessa Ryan, Jessica Marek, Taylor Ruby and Christine Deek thrive on the links, the four players are amongst the top scholars in their senior class, with three of them ranking in the top four."They are all kind of perfectionists," Wheeler coach Mike Lyons said. "But sometimes in golf you can't be a perfectionist, you can't dwell on the bad shot."Perfectionists will leave the classroom after a test, grab the nearest textbook, hoping to see that they got all of the answers right.Perfectionists will walk off the golf course, immediately jump on to the team bus, grab the nearest textbook, hoping to gain more knowledge."It's nice to have a team that is academically strong, so we always have a support system," Ruby said.
Katrina anniversary brings out anger, mourning
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside. Hurricane Katrina made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. Aug. 29, 2005, as a strong Category 3 hurricane that flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. .
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