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CARnival, a benefit for Meals on Wheels, will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Arbor Acres. There will be bearded ladies, Siamese twins, jugglers and a band. For more information, e-mail woestj@earthlink.net. Piedmont planning group to hold byways workshop The Piedmont Triad Rural Planning Organization will have a workshop on scenic byways from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Davidson County commissioners' meeting room. Jesse Day, a regional planner with the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments, will lead the workshop. For more information, call 249-7256. University Women group will meet Thursday The local chapter of the American Association of University Women will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Polo Park Recreation Center. Dr.
Seeking solutions: New buses may help city's struggling transit ...
Public transit is Lynchburg is struggling with deficits and bus-maintenance problems that often leave paying customers without a reliable way to get to work or to the doctor. But there may be several solutions, both long-term and short-term, that could strengthen a system that many of the city's working poor depend upon. Over the past several weeks, The News & Advance spent more than 20 hours riding nearly every Greater Lynchburg Transit Company bus route, and has interviewed numerous riders. The newspaper also reviewed hundreds of documents detailing maintenance work and costs after filing a Freedom of Information request. Those interviews and documents show that the GLTC faces severe maintenance issues and growing costs to provide service, including rising fuel prices.
Getting back to basics
His career as a professional hockey player had stalled and Duncan Milroy knew he had to do something to jump start it again. So when Hamilton Bulldogs head coach Don Lever suggested to him at the end of last year that the best thing he could do to impress the Montreal Canadiens was to start by getting in the best shape of his life, Milroy took the message to heart. The 23-year-old Edmonton native spent two months this summer in St. Louis working with the Blues strength and conditioning coach Nelson Ayotte. His weight is down about eight pounds but Milroy has added muscle and reduced his body fat by about 4 per cent. The new, svelte, Duncan Milroy says he feels better both as a person and as a hockey player. "That's the reason he got in a game in Montreal during training camp," said Lever, who feels that Milroy has to continue to build on his apparent new commitment to his career.
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