Lincoln Middle School will be the setting of a mighty gathering Saturday.
Lincoln Memorial High alumni will honor six distinguished former Trojans, who have earned a place in various halls of fame and will be duly honored for their accomplishments.
They are:
Raymond Bellamy -- University of Miami Hall of Fame.
Waite Bellamy -- National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Marvin Clemons -- Eckerd College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Henry Lawrence -- Florida Sports Hall of Fame.
Neil "Chip" Nelson -- National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Eddie Shannon -- Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
The fun begins at 5 p.m. at the Lincoln Middle cafeteria.
Tickets are $5.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Marty the Marauder wants your vote!
Vote for Marty the Marauder!MiLB.com, minor league baseball’s website, is holding Mascot Mania for fans to vote for their favorite minor league mascot.
For us there is only one — Marty the Marauder.
He’s in the South region against the likes of Conrad the Crawdad (Hickory, N.C., Crawdads.), Gnate the Gnat (Savannah, Ga., Sand Gnats) and Tennessee Tex (Greenville, Tenn., Astros).
Bet none of them can bust a move like Marty the Marauder.
Round 1’s voting deadline is May 29 with the final round June 15-18.
Visit http://www.milb.com/milb/fans/mascot_mania/y2012/index.jsp.
Vote early. Vote often.
Amvets Post 301’s new officers are commander Stacy Rhodes, first vice-commander Dave Wilson, second vice-commander Darren Miller, finance officer Gil Craig and trustees Ron Richardson, Marty Cucura and Dan Bannister.
Manatee High senior McKinna Anderson received a nice early graduation present.Mark and Joanie’s daughter made the University of SouthFlorida’s cheerleading team.
McKinna was undaunted by some considerable odds, competing against USF squad members, USF students and transfers, as well as other incoming freshmen, too.
Guess we know where Team Anderson will be spending a lot of Saturday nights the next four football seasons.
Sunday’s visit to Sarasota National Cemetery will be moving for WCTQ’s Maverick Johnson. He’s master of ceremonies for the Memorial Day service at the cemetery — the first since the passing of his father, Denis Cooper, who is also buried there. A Marine helicopter crew chief in Vietnam, Cooper died last July.
Read more Friday in Vin's People on Bradenton.com.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Once was an easier way to build a ballfield
The fuss over how to get ballfields for North River American Little League is never ending.You've got the City of Palmetto.
You've got the Manatee County Commission.
You've got the lawyers.
Aaah, yes.
If only things were as uncomplicated as they were when folks on Anna Maria Island rallied to build their Little League field out of bricks, concrete, steel and community teamwork.
It was back in the 1950s and the field was adjacent to AMI's original school, now the Anna Maria Island Community Center.
With the blessing of J. Hartley Blackburn, then superintendent of schools, people got to work building a ballpark for the kids.
According to the Herald archives of the late Tony Conboy, numerous AMI families pitched in and made a regular party of the fundraising and heavy lifting to bring the project to completion.
The Van Ostenbridges and Hutchinsons were but a few of them.
Ben Scanio Sr. contributed $5,000 -- a fortune back in those days -- and his "scrounging" ability to boot.
He managed to get hold of the steel from the Ringling Brothers Circus. The railings were fashioned out of the bars from lion cages. The towering poles that formed the backstop were from the circus big top.
Scanio loved telling folks how those poles, beams and bars had been all around the world before settling in Anna Maria.
Among those who also worked on the ballfield were major leaguers Warren Spahn and Fred Hutchinson on the heavy equipment.
The fruit of everyone's labor was Scanio-Hutchinson Field.
It was a memorial to Ben's son and namesake, who died in an auto accident, and to Hutchinson, the former Detroit Tiger pitcher and Cincinnati Reds manager who died in 1964 at the age of 45 from lung cancer.
The ballfield, modernized since then, is still there, a testament to how things got done in much simpler times.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Kirby Stewart's Memorial Day tribute
Many will be our Memorial Day events.
A parade in Lakewood Ranch.
A ceremony at Sarasota National Cemetery honoring Patrick Lay, killed in Afghanistan last August.
A procession to the gravesite of one of Bradenton's beloved sons: Kirby Stewart.
On May 28 American Legion Kirby Stewart Post 24's Honor Guard and Legion Riders as well as other Legion organizations will conduct a procession to a memorial service at Stewart's gravesite in Fogartyville Cemetery.
They will pay homage to a man who is a Bradenton legend and was cheated by fate of becoming a national hero.
Stewart, a second lieutenant, was killed October 1918 in France during World War I, leading an attack against a German position.
Instead, another man under his command, Cpl. Alvin York, took that handful of soldiers to victory against staggering odds, capturing more than 100 German officers and soldiers.
Stewart, 27, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and received a big funeral attended by hundreds if not thousands in 1921.
York, 30, received a Medal of Honor and joined the pantheon of America’s war heroes.
Devout and modest, York spurned many endorsement opportunities, but used his renown and the proceeds from his biography and the 1941 movie “Sergeant York” — Gary Cooper played York and won an Oscar for Best Actor — to start schools for poor Tennessee mountain children like himself.
York died in 1964 at the age of 76 and is buried in Pall Mall, Tenn.
At Post 24's 90th anniversary three years ago, commandant Len Sirotzki said, "Most people don’t know or understand that had Kirby not been killed, there never would’ve been a Sgt. York story."
A parade in Lakewood Ranch.
A ceremony at Sarasota National Cemetery honoring Patrick Lay, killed in Afghanistan last August.
A procession to the gravesite of one of Bradenton's beloved sons: Kirby Stewart.
On May 28 American Legion Kirby Stewart Post 24's Honor Guard and Legion Riders as well as other Legion organizations will conduct a procession to a memorial service at Stewart's gravesite in Fogartyville Cemetery.
They will pay homage to a man who is a Bradenton legend and was cheated by fate of becoming a national hero.
Stewart, a second lieutenant, was killed October 1918 in France during World War I, leading an attack against a German position.
Instead, another man under his command, Cpl. Alvin York, took that handful of soldiers to victory against staggering odds, capturing more than 100 German officers and soldiers.
Stewart, 27, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and received a big funeral attended by hundreds if not thousands in 1921.
York, 30, received a Medal of Honor and joined the pantheon of America’s war heroes.
Devout and modest, York spurned many endorsement opportunities, but used his renown and the proceeds from his biography and the 1941 movie “Sergeant York” — Gary Cooper played York and won an Oscar for Best Actor — to start schools for poor Tennessee mountain children like himself.
York died in 1964 at the age of 76 and is buried in Pall Mall, Tenn.
At Post 24's 90th anniversary three years ago, commandant Len Sirotzki said, "Most people don’t know or understand that had Kirby not been killed, there never would’ve been a Sgt. York story."
Friday, May 18, 2012
Ballfields way overdue for North River
The first pitch was a half-hour away the other evening and the ballplayers were awestruck.
The North River American Little League Marauders, all 8-10-year-olds, could not believe their eyes when they saw the ballfields at Lakewood Ranch Park the other evening.
"A couple of kids said, ‘Coach, look at the grass on the infields. Look at the bullpens. Look at the dugouts,’" Derek Goforth recalled. "Then they said, ‘How come we don’t have nice fields like this?’"
That must’ve killed Goforth, who’s also the Little League president.
It’s a tough question without an easy answer.
Not one Goforth can say to young ears.
Read more Sunday in Mannix About Manatee on Bradenton.com.
The North River American Little League Marauders, all 8-10-year-olds, could not believe their eyes when they saw the ballfields at Lakewood Ranch Park the other evening.
"A couple of kids said, ‘Coach, look at the grass on the infields. Look at the bullpens. Look at the dugouts,’" Derek Goforth recalled. "Then they said, ‘How come we don’t have nice fields like this?’"
That must’ve killed Goforth, who’s also the Little League president.
It’s a tough question without an easy answer.
Not one Goforth can say to young ears.
Read more Sunday in Mannix About Manatee on Bradenton.com.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Delaney among select Army honorees
Bob Delaney will be in good company May 23. The Lakewood Ranch resident and former NBA referee is among the Outstanding Civilian Service Award Repients being honored by the Army in Arlington, Va. Two others are New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin and Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh. Delaney has done extensive work with troops on post traumatic stress disorder.Grandma Joan Shirey wants to brag about granddaugher Elizabeth Shirey, a new Braden River High National Honor Society inductee and varsity soccer flash.
Palmetto High’s new Dazzlers Dance Team includes captains Kalisha Clemons, Jakaiya Johnson, Chelsea Miller, Lindsey Rushnell and Cheyenne Thurman as well as Shaquira Anderson, Erykah Bazan, Brooke Bentley, Brittany Bhooshan, Krysten Bhooshan, Terri Chism, Victoria Freymann, Shira Greene, Jataria Moore, Amber Perry, Jasmin Perry, Taicha Parillo, Hayley Safko, Ayriell Sanders, Brittany “Jenday” Smith, Jaclyn Stocksdale and Annaliese Winston. The coaches are Tafara Callaway and Shea Whidden.
Deputy Chief Robert Permane retired after 30 years with Cedar Hammock Fire Rescue.
Read more Friday in Vin's People on Bradenton.com.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Bash set for Lincoln High hall of famers
Lincoln Memorial High School alumni will be strutting their stuff a week from Saturday.
They’re hosting a celebration to honor the accomplishments of six distinguished former Trojans, now in various athletic halls of fame.
They are:
Raymond Bellamy — University of Miami Hall of Fame.
Waite Bellamy — National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Marvin Clemons — Eckerd College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Henry Lawrence — Florida Sports Hall of Fame.
Neil "Chip" Nelson — National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Eddie Shannon — Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
The bash is at 5 p.m. May 26 in Lincoln Middle's cafeteria.
Admission is $5.
They’re hosting a celebration to honor the accomplishments of six distinguished former Trojans, now in various athletic halls of fame.
They are:
Raymond Bellamy — University of Miami Hall of Fame.
Waite Bellamy — National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Marvin Clemons — Eckerd College Basketball Hall of Fame.
Henry Lawrence — Florida Sports Hall of Fame.
Neil "Chip" Nelson — National Negro High School Basketball Hall of Fame.
Eddie Shannon — Florida High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
The bash is at 5 p.m. May 26 in Lincoln Middle's cafeteria.
Admission is $5.
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