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Sunday Forecast: Hazy sunshine, unhealthy air quality, low 80s

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

Sunday: Hazy sunshine & not quite as hot. Air quality: Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups. NE 5-15 mph. High: 81, Low: 72 lakesideSunday Night: Mostly clear. NE 5-10 mph. Low: 62, upper 50s away from the lakeMonday: Increasing clouds & slight chance of late evening showers. NE 10-15 mphHigh: 82, Low: 73 by the lakeExtended outlook calls for a weak cold front to move through Monday into Tuesday that could deliver a brief spotty shower or two. Tuesday more cloud cover and highs a bit cooler into the low 70s, 60s by the lake. We'll get back into the upper 70s for Wed/Thu. Friday temps close to 80 and chance of late day showers with some continuing into Saturday. attached: ontario fire risk and active fires from Ontario Ministry of Nat'l Resources & Forestry and the AirNow Air Quality Map fr the U.S. Geological Services Attached: Ontario fire risk and active fires from Ontario Ministry of National Resources & Forestry and the AirNow Air Quality Map from the U.S. Ge...

Best Father’s Day gifts for fit dads

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission. DetailsWHAT TO GET YOUR ACTIVE DAD FOR FATHER'S DAYIN THIS ARTICLE:Iron Flask Sports Water BottleBrooks Men's Ghost 14 Neutral Running ShoesGoxrunx Jump RopeFather's Day is coming up for all kinds of dads, but if yours is fit and active, he might appreciate a fitness-related gift. Whether he's the sort of dad who's always at the gym, runs marathons in his spare time or rides bowls at the skatepark, there's a Father's Day gift out there for him. Everyone needs inspiration from time to time, so here are some of the best Father's Day gifts for fit dads.WHAT TO THINK ABOUT WHEN BUYING A FATHER'S DAY GIFTYour dad's interests: You may have already decided that you want to buy your dad something fitness-related, but you'll have to narrow it down more than that. If your dad is into pumping iron at the gym, his ideal gift will probably differ from the type of active dad who loves hiking or cycling.Your budget:&nb...

More showers and thunderstorms today

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Northwest Gillespie County, including Doss, will be under a Flash Flood Warning until 8 a.m. A few LCRA rain gauges in Blanco, Gillespie, and Mason Counties have measured between one and two inches over the last 24 hours.There were five reports of hail between 5:30 and 9 p.m. Hail the size of a hen egg was reported at Pontotoc (NE Mason Co.). The other reports came from Williamson and Travis Cos.Saturday night hailThere will be more showers and thunderstorms today with a good deal of moisture in the area. On average, around .50" to 1.00" could be measured. Keep your umbrella nearby todayThe Storm Prediction Center is looking at thunderstorms today to remain below severe limits. Meanwhile, additional rains pose a flood threat. The Weather Prediction Center has the entire area under a flash flood threat today and Monday.Low flood threat today and tomorrow BLOG: Summer forecast released: When do 100º days begin The forecast remains wet tomorrow and Tuesday when rain ...

SNAP applications processing faster, backlog and concerns over benefit cuts continues 

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

LEANDER, Texas (KXAN) — Tiesa Hollaway surveys the shelves. The food pantry at Hill Country Community Ministries has fresh fruits and vegetables, a variety of breads, milk and canned goods.Hollaway quickly walks through the small space — 900 square feet — smiling at a handful of volunteers who are preparing for a busy day."We are so grateful," Hollaway said. "Our shelves are full. I know that there are a lot of food pantries, whether it's ours or anyone all over Central Texas, that are struggling, a lot of the food pantries are struggling."Hill Country Community Ministries food pantry in Leander. (KXAN Photo/Arezow Doost)Hollaway is familiar with that struggle. Just last month she said she had to write a check for $10,000 to buy food just to keep up with the growing need. "We served over 91,000 people last year," she explained. "We're seeing a 49% increase in new families in May — just this month, we're not even done with May yet — a...

Power outage impacting Schenectady County

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

SCHENECTADY COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- More than 20,000 National Grid customers lost power Sunday morning in Schenectady County, according to an online outage map. The outages span across the city of Schenectady and Rotterdam.A National Grid spokesperson and Schenectady Fire Chief Don Mareno told NEWS10 the outage is attributed to two incidents in Rotterdam. A fire at a BBQ restaurant on Mariaville Road between 6:00 and 6:30 A.M. that impacted a power line, and a vehicle that crashed into a power pole on Altamont Avenue, are both contributing to the issues.Estimated restoration times range between 9:45 A.M. and 10:15 A.M., but those times are subject to change. NEWS10 is working to learn more and will provide updates when they are available.

Bobby LeFebre, Colorado’s outgoing poet laureate, on 4 years of “making magic of the mundane”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

Bobby LeFebre’s mind is a repository for the beginning of poems.Dozens of fledgling verses take flight in the Denverite’s brain every day. LeFebre witnesses an interaction, overhears a conversation, stumbles across a particularly poignant scenic view and can’t stop himself from converting those little moments into words and phrases that may or may not make it out of the nest and into his next work.Just don’t ask to look at the notes app on his phone, where he tries to capture it all.“It’s a big mess,” LeFebre said.The 41-year-old is wrapping up his four-year term as Colorado’s eighth poet laureate. LeFebre is the youngest of the state’s poet laureates and the first poet of color to hold the title.LeFebre’s ability to connect with a younger, more diverse audience made his tenure stand out, said Christy Costello, interim director of Colorado Creative Industries, a department in the state’s Office of Economic Development...

Keeler: How did Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. find peace? By giving children hope. “This guy’s a class act. The real deal.”

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

Kaleena Patrick could’ve scaled that smile to Heaven. No COVID. No Delta variant. No gasping. No pain. Just Taurean Taylor grinning at his phone like it was a winning scratch ticket.“I didn’t know that they’d been talking for an extended period of time,” Patrick said of her son, Taurean. “He’s like, ‘Yeah, I talk to MPJ all the time.’“I’m like, ‘What?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah. That’s my friend.’”He showed her his phone. Yep. That MPJ. The Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr., texting from Portland.See, on May 16, 2021, Porter had drawn up the perfect play. The day after the Nuggets’ regular-season finale, he was coming by Aurora to hang out. Taurean, a two-time cancer survivor now wrestling with the coronavirus, just had to hang in there.“Taurean was so excited,” Patrick recalled. “He was like, ‘Mom, MPJ is going to come see me tomorrow.’ And he passed away that morning.”Taurean was 13. His light left us too soon, a story unfinished.Yet when Kaleena texted the Nuggets forward to thank him, she disc...

Eating disorder patients say punitive, threatening methods at Denver treatment center left them with new trauma

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

Lizzy Earhart didn’t know much about Eating Recovery Center when she agreed to get treatment there in October 2020. She’d already received treatment for anorexia at another treatment provider in Denver, but she’d relapsed immediately after. But Eating Recovery Center was big, well-known. It seemed her best option.But the months she spent there reinforced her illness, the 21-year-old said, and the punitive environment left her with new trauma.If she didn’t comply with treatment, she wouldn’t be allowed outside the facility. Patients were lined up each morning to be weighed wearing nothing but ill-fitting mesh or paper gowns. When Earhart expressed concerns about her treatment plans, her psychiatrist told her she was out of options and that her concerns were “just the eating disorder talking.”“I wouldn’t go outside for a week, two weeks at a time. It just made my anxiety and other issues a lot worse,” Earhart said. “And...

Kiszla: Why are Nuggets in control of NBA Finals? In superstar-driven league, Nikola Jokic versus Jimmy Butler is a mismatch.

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

In the NBA Finals, Jimmy Butler is wrestling with a basketball god, and that’s a tussle Nikola Jokic is destined to win.“It’s never over. Nobody is ever counted out,” Butler vowed Saturday, with Miami trailing the Nuggets 1-0 in this best-of-seven series. “Once you get to four, it’s over with. So down 0-1, we know we are going to get to four.”The Nuggets, however, have the shorter path and more routes to get to four victories, because Jokic is a sorcerer who sees a game beyond a muggle’s imagination. And the Heat, as even coach Erik Spoelstra admits, has no solid answers for Joker’s genius.Butler is no slouch. He has carried Miami, the eighth seed from the East, to the NBA Finals. By any measure, including the voting results from the All-NBA teams, Jimmy Buckets was among the top 10 players in the league this season.Jokic, however, is transforming the way basketball is played before our eyes, in a manner Magic Johnson and only a handful of others have done before him. This champions...

How bootleg merch hurts (and helps) the Denver Nuggets, Blucifer, and other Colorado icons

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:38:43 GMT

Derek Friedman would like to sell you an officially licensed Denver Nuggets NBA Finals T-shirt for $40. But if you decide to go with a $20 knock-off, he won’t be upset.“The biggest risk isn’t for somebody who just wants something with the Nuggets logo on it,” said Friedman, owner of the Denver-based SportsFan chain, of the counterfeit gear currently flooding the Denver market. “It’s that you get what you pay for.”With the Nuggets in the NBA Finals, Denver has become fertile ground for opportunistic producers and sellers of counterfeit merchandise. But even without the pop-up, Nuggets-themed tents now decorating street corners around the city, Denver designers, online sellers, and street vendors risk copyright crackdowns all the time. Their unlicensed shirts, hats, jerseys and other merchandise tout icons ranging from rock stars Taylor Swift and the Grateful Dead to sports teams like the Nuggets and Colorado Rockies, to Casa Bonita and the Bi...