Air Force 2nd Lt. John Avrett and Meghan Kinney are hitched.
The inspirational couple we first told you about in October were recently married at the Sanderling Resort and Spa.
Avrett, a student at the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Kinney, an Olympian, won the Salute To Love competition sponsored by ObxBrides.com and Operation Homefront.
The three-day bash was to include a bachelor/bachelorette outing, rehearsal dinner and farewell brunch as wells as a cake, flowers, multiple photography sessions, fully catered reception, entertainment and an officiant.
Hard copies can be picked up at Beavercreek Schools’ Central Office, schools offices, the Beavercreek Community Library, the Beavercreek Senior Center, Beavercreek Chamber of Commerce, City of Beavercreek administrative offices and Beavercreek Township administrative offices.
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This one proves that lessons learned young can last a lifetime.
A Sugarcreek Twp. man said training he received as a Boy Scouts aided him in helping save a Waynesville man’s life.
Staff photo by Jim Noelker
Jason and Emily Praeter were honored by Sugarcreek Twp. Monday for helping Ashley Fry after an accident near the intersection of Wilmington Dayton and Middle Run Road earlier this year.
The couple received a proclamation during Monday night’s township trustees meeting.
Fry crashed his car near the Praeters’ farmhouse 9 p.m. March 16.
The Praeters were hosting a bonfire. They and guests rushed to Fry’s aid.
The car rolled over and Fry’s arm was badly mangled and gushed blood, Sugarcreek Twp. Fire Chief Randall J. Pavlak.
Jason Praeter removed Fry’s belt and used it as a tourniquet to stop bleeding. His wife made the call for help.
Jason Praeter said lessons he learned in Boy Scouts and while working at a skydiving center in Waynesville came to mind when he saw Fry.
“We just knew we had to stop the bleeding,” he said.
Pavlak said the couple’s actions were life-saving.
“I was amazed by your actions” Pavlak, the first emergency responder at the accident scene, told the couple. He noted that many are reluctant to act in the face of so much blood.
Fry said he knew he was dying.
“I love you guys,” he told the Praeters. “You did save my life.”
He and his wife have become friends with the Praeters since the crash.
Fry faces charges in Xenia Municipal Court of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and failure to maintain reasonable control.
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The folks at AIDS Resource Center Ohio are still grinning from ear to ear over the success of last month’s Ooh La Rouge themed RED Table Design Gala.
The gala raised a record $500,820, ARC Ohio spokeswoman Lisa Grigsby said today.
That’s about 30 percent more than the $373,000 record set during the 2010 RED (Reach, Empower and Dream) Table Design Gala. The event happens every two years.
Grigsby gave props to event chair Sue Spiegel who started raising money for this year’s gala at the 2010 gala.
Nearly 400 people attended the 2012 gala April 28 at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds Roundhouse in Dayton.
There are a few shots of the 43 French-themed tables designed by volunteers.
A trip to France was raffled for $37,000 and the event’s silent auction brought in $31,000.
Money raised will be used to support ARC Ohio programs for those infected, affected or at risk for HIV infection in the Miami Valley. This includes a mail order pharmacy that will soon open in Columbus.
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Grigsby said area residents will be able to get medications from that pharmacy.
What do you think?
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George Stephanopoulos and his crew over at ABC’s “Good Morning America” have dubbed a Dayton man “world’s worst boyfriend” for a prank that sent the man’s girlfriend and two other women screaming from an apartment.
A YouTube video of the prank has earned 25-year-old George Daoud a degree of fame.
In it, Daoud dons a blue ski mask and trench coat and waits for his girlfriend and her sister to arrive at their apartment in Little Rock, Ark.
Daoud leaps out holding a TV and a duffel bag when the duo and a friend arrive about an hour later.
The women freak out and run from the apartment like one is wont to do when one think their place is being robbed.
The girlfriend’s sister sobs.
Stephanopoulos asked Daoud, apparently a known prankster, why he did it.
“I was bored one day and I thought, ‘What’s their biggest fear?” Daoud answered.
The video has gained hundreds of thousands of online hits and been featured on several TV show.
A man learned the hard way that you don’t take a cell phone call when Princess Leia is performing.
Carrie Fisher, who portrayed Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” movies, had her one-woman performance of “Wishful Drinking” interrupted twice (you read right, twice) Saturday at the Victoria Theatre by a cell phone user.
A man near the front row apparently couldn’t resist the urge to answer two calls.
Fisher laughed it off when the man answered the phone in the show’s first act, asking if his wife was in labor or something, Diane Schoeffler-Warren, a spokeswoman for the Victoria Association, said.
She was not in a laughing mood when he answered it again in the second act, Warren said.
Theater-goer Julie Liss-Katz said the man left the theater with Fisher and her sharp tongue on his heels.
“She was livid,” Liss-Katz said of Fisher. “She ran up the aisle. She called him every name in the book. I thought she was going to take his phone from him.”
To Fisher’s apparent surprise, the man later returned to his seat.
Warren said that after the show Fisher said that was the most disrespectful thing she’d ever experienced at a performance.
Warren found the whole thing puzzling.
“It is so obnoxious that someone thinks they are so important that they have to answer their cell phone at a show that other people paid to see and that they paid to see. And to do it twice, ” Warren said. ” I don’t know any one that important.”
This isn’t the first time noise at a performance has caused controversy in recent months.
Lots of people still like to put the needle on the record.
Live music, a late night screening of the cult film “Empire Records,” underground music trivia and giveaways will be part of Record Store Day celebrations locally Saturday.
The local festivities includes free live music all day at Toxic Beauty Records, 220 Xenia Ave., Yellow Springs; and in Dayton’s Oregon District at Omega Music, 318 E. Fifth St.; Record Gallery, 16 Brown St.; and Feathers, 440 E. Fifth St.
The 10:15 p.m. screening of Empire Records will be at The Neon, 130 E. 5th St., Dayton.
Tickets to next month’s Nelsonville Music Fest will be given away at the show.
The music trivia will be 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Blind Bob’s, 430 E. 5th St., Dayton.
What do you think? When was the last time you listened to a record?
Here’s the text from the Facebook page promoting the event:
Saturday, April 21 is Record Store Day and a day is an entire day, not just a few hours! Come down for the special RSD releases and live music at our amazing local record stores, along with DJs & underground music trivia at Blind Bob’s, discounts from many local businesses and a late night screening of Empire Records, where we will be giving away two tickets to this year’s Nelsonville Music Festival!
Omega Music | 318 E. Fifth St Dayton, 937-275-9949
*Special Record Store Day releases & live music all day (check their facebook page for schedule) - Free
Toxic Beauty | 220 Xenia Ave Yellow Springs, 513-965-1195
*Special Record Store Day releases & live music all day (check their facebook page for schedule) - Free
Record Gallery | 16 Brown St, Dayton, 937-224-3277
*Live music all day (check their facebook page for schedule) - Free
Feathers | 440 E. Fifth St Dayton, 937-228-2940
*Live music all day (check their facebook page for schedule) - Free
Blind Bob’s | 430 E. 5th St Dayton, 937-938-6405
*Live DJs all day (check their facebook page for schedule)
*4-6:30 pm Underground Music Trivia with prizes from great indie labels like Merge, Rhymesayers, Thrill Jockey and many more!
Free until 9pm / $5 cover in benefit of 2012’s Dayton Music Fest
The Neon | 130 E. 5th St Dayton, 937-222-7469
*10:15 pm screening of Empire Records at The Neon with a Nelsonville Music Fest ticket giveaway!
$6 tickets in benefit of 2012’s Dayton Music Fest ($4 with receipt from Omega, Record Gallery, Feathers or Toxic Beauty)
—LOCAL DISCOUNTS—
5th Street Deli (local sponsor) will be offering 20% off all food with a receipt from Omega, Toxic, Record Gallery or Feathers
Thai9 (local sponsor) will be offering 50% off appetizers with a receipt from Omega, Toxic, Record Gallery or Feathers
Blind Bob’s (local sponsor) will be offering 50% off select appetizers with a receipt from Omega, Toxic, Record Gallery or Feathers
The Neon will be offering $2 off Empire Records tickets with a receipt from Omega, Toxic, Record Gallery or Feathers
Basho in Dayton & Yellow Springs will be offering 10% off with a receipt from Omega, Toxic, Record Gallery or Feathers
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