Image from the Scholastic Art Awards of Colorado website. Click to follow link.
Ralston Valley, as per usual, joined in the Scholastics Statewide Art Competition and, also as per usual, we did pretty well. Read more…
Toys for Tots, an organization run by the Marines since 1991 that delivers new toys to thousands of needy children nationally and in the Colorado area, is running very low on donations this year. Toys for Tots received nearly 70,000 requests from struggling families this season, a higher number than usual; but because of a lack of donations it is estimated that nearly 50,000 of those requests will go unfilled, unless there’s a ton of donations going into the organization in the next couple of days. Read more…
Falcon, Bradford, Ryo and Mayumi Heene arriving at their lawyer's office on Oct. 28. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press.
The father of the 6-year-old “balloon boy”, Richard Heene, is going to plead guilty to attempting to influence a public servant. That’s a felony. His wife, a citizen of Japan, will plead guilty to reporting falsely to authorities. That’s a misdemeanor, and anything more would result in Mayumi Heene being deported.
Written all over his face: Siebers's handiwork is very much visible.
Obviously, no one likes to go to work everyday, expecially on a Monday. However, Aaron Siebers of Edgewater, Colorado, opted to stab himself instead of going to work at a Blockbuster video rental on Sheridan. Read more…
From left to right: Falcon, Richard, Mayumi, Bradford, and Ryan Heene. Photo courtesy of Reuters.
NOTE: The views expressed in this piece are mine alone. This is an editorial, not to be confused with the opinion of the paper.
What a petty act of insecurity. The Heene family got the nation sick over nothing.
When six-year-old Falcon Heene made the comment that “we did this for a show,” everyone got suspicious. It didn’t help that he kept getting sick when the matter was brought up during interviews. Now the family is facing criminal charges.
The boy, Falcon Heene, who was thought to have been trapped in a balloon for two hours, with his father. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press.
Could the two hour scare that swept through Colorado news be a fraud? Falcon Heene, a kid famous for his family’s appearances on Wife Swap, is being hard pressed to find out.
This boy was thought to be riding in an experimental helium balloon. Photo courtesy of the Associated Press.
A six-year-old from Boulder led police on a wild goose chase today: He was hiding in his family’s attic after being thought to have taken off in a helium balloon.
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