Tennis will be the game I play for exercise when I get too old (or smart – fat chance) to play basketball twice a week with players better and/or younger than I am. I asked the boot to do the “giant leap for mankind,” and darned if it didn’t elevate right off the floor. The top 50 entrants won, and only about 70 people showed up.īest of show was Nick Farrantello, 34, who came as Neil Armstrong’s silver boot – the one-small-step-for-a-man boot. The second most interesting thing I learned is the extent to which people will make fools of themselves in public if there’s a prize involved.įifty unabashed folks who had time to play dress-up on a Monday morning won a pair of round-trip economy-class tickets to London (on a regular airliner, not the Concorde). I heard a local urologist tell a British Airways pilot that when a penile implant is put in wrong and droops, it’s called a “Concorde Deformity.” The most interesting thing I learned at the exhibit is that Concorde has become a medical term. Maybe because they’ve seen my wardrobe, the blokes at British Airways asked me to help judge a space-traveler costume contest Monday at the Orlando Science Center as part of a one-day exhibit on the Concorde – the supersonic aircraft with the tilted-down nose. “We spent so much money on hell – it’s so graphically wonderful.” Heaven has been dropped because Craig felt it wasn’t, well, heavenly enough. Among the additions this year is a school-shooting scene in which a principal pleads with a boy who has just blown away all his classmates. The show is tweaked each year to keep it topical. Hellhouse drew more than 7,500 people last year, and Craig hopes to top 10,000 this season. You can take the cautionary messages or leave them, but for $5 ($4 in advance), it’s the best cheap Halloween thrill around. Artfully staged and exuberantly performed by church members, Hellhouse portrays a variety of social dysfunctions in horrific yet entertaining fashion. Craig means the earthly depiction that has been part of the church’s Halloween Hellhouse the past two years. ()Īnyone with information about the homicide should call LASD Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.The hell you say! This shocking bulletin from Kevin Craig, pastor at Apopka Assembly of God: “There’s not going to be a heaven this year.” A shortage of qualified candidates? No, not that heaven. However, LASD believes Moore was targeted, even though he was not robbed. Chuck Calderaro said that there’s very little to go on at this point, no suspect or vehicle description. He was doing what a dad is supposed to do.”Įvidence and eyewitnesses are sorely lacking in Moore’s death, according to L.A. Danae Moore added, “He wanted to make sure we were safe … coming to church. “That’s what we plan to do – come together as clergy to pray and ask for a cease-fire within the city of Compton, California,” he said.įamily and community members held a vigil for Moore last week and remembered him as “a man of God, a grandfather, and an all-around good guy,” said Peggese. Inviting citizens to join the fight against gun violence, Fisher added that local ministers will assemble at Compton City Hall on Sunday, November 14, at 1 p.m. It’s important that we all rally together in this moment and in this time to combat this evil and make sure our community does not live in a place of fear,” he stressed. Pastor Moore’s life meant more than just to his children, but also to the community that he served. “We cannot sit idly by and allow this to become the new norm. “Pastor Reggie Moore’s murder, I believe, is an indication of the need for our community to come together to begin to promote the need for respect – not only for life but for our elders, senior statesmen and for those who care about the community,” said Fisher, the senior pastor of Greater Zion Church Family, which was the first African American church in Compton. Fisher expressed frustration about the increasing number of shootings in Compton combined with the rapid decline of civility and appreciation for members of the older generation. I extend my sympathies to the family and strongly urge the Sheriff’s Department to use every resource possible to solve this murder.” Mayor Emma Sharif (Courtesy photo) “It’s always a tragedy when a life is lost as a result of violence. I still don’t and I won’t be able to.” His cousin, Christine Peggese, was equally distraught, insisting, “I just know I love him and I’m gonna miss him.”Ĭompton Mayor Emma Sharif extended condolences to the family while also stating her disappointment that slayings such as Moore’s continue to plague the city. With no suspects and no known motive, his daughter, Danae Moore, said through tears, “I don’t understand it.
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