This morning was a little warmer at -12C. It was 6:45 am and I was waiting for the Olympic torch to run through my town, Georgetown. I never had an opportunity to witness this before. I was not going to miss this one. The streets were lined with people, cameras were ready, children on Dad's shoulders, all waiting to see this historic event. There was a procession of vehicles before the torch bearer. The local police, RCMP, Olympic security all there to ensure everyone kept put of the way of the coming vehicles. Next came two Sponsor Coke trucks all decked out with music ...
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Our 13 year old son Zach got to carry the Olympic torch Tuesday evening here in Truro nova scotia Canada. He got to wear a silver medal from a fellow torchbearer from the 1976 Olympics. What a boost to his confidence. Quite an experience of a lifetime. Would have liked to buy a torch for him but 400 is a lot of money before Christmas. Thanks. John Johnson and Maureen Leblanc Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry
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Bloomberg: The Olympic Flame returns to Canada today from Greece after an almost 22-year absence to begin a 106-day torch relay across the world’s second-largest country. A Canadian Forces CC-150 Polaris transport aircraft carrying the flame in a miners’ lamp is scheduled to touch down about 7:15 a.m. local time (10:15 a.m. New York time) in Victoria, British Columbia’s capital city, according to Winter Olympics organizers. Later, representatives of Canada’s aboriginal peoples will transport the flame by canoe before bringing it to the steps of the provincial legislature and the first leg of the 45,000- kilometer (27,968-mile) journey by land, water and air. The ...
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LADYSMITH, B.C. — Hundreds of children and adults dressed as ghouls, goblins, anteaters and coal miners, all lit by a Halloween full moon, greeted Olympic torchbearers in this Vancouver Island... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Niemat Ahmadi is from in Kebkabiya, North Darfur, Sudan. Ahmadi has testified that Janjaweed ... where she is an activist with the Save Darfur Coalition working on behalf of Darfurian ...
Speakers at the Sudanese Embassy were Motasim Adem of the Darfur People’s Association of New York, Darfurian Niemat Ahmadi, and Hilary Shelton of the NAACP.
