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We combined the ease and affordability of a double umbrella stroller with the quality and luxury of a high-end twin stroller! Our sturdy, zippy, double stroller features a wider seat, reclining seatback, and removable parent's tray. Plus, we gave it large, all-terrain wheels for maneuverability and raised the parent's handles for more comfortable pushing. And we upgraded from the three-point harnesses found on many umbrella strollers to safer, more secure, five-point harnesses. Great for travel, with a one-hand fold and handy carry strap. Weighs 22 lbs.; each seat supports up to 45 lbs.(that's 5 lbs. more than many others). Imported. Designed by OneStepAhead! See Product Details
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Great, compact double stroller!
By Mom of two
from Indiana
About Me Parent of Two or More Children
Comments about One Step Ahead Ulti-mite Twin Umbrella Stroller:
We bought this stroller for our 2 yo and 3 1/2 yo b/c our old double stroller (front and back style) was getting way too hard to steer. Even though they weigh over 50 pounds combined, it's very easy to move. It also appears very comfortable for both of them and easy for them to get in/out. It's simple to fold up and is very compact for a double. The baskets, cup holders and parent bags are also very convenient. The only negative I've found so far is the sun visors aren't very large so it only shades the kids heads and when the stroller is folded up, the sun visors don't appear to latch onto the stroller so it's a bit awkward to transport. When we received our 1st stroller, there was a small defective part, I wrote the company, they immediately shipped out a new one with a return label, extremely prompt and helpful! Great buy!
lightweight stroller for tall parents!
By Kellykris
from Tampa, FL
Thank you, One Step Ahead! I have been searching for a lightweight stroller with taller handles and I didn't think one existed until I found this. My husband and I are both tall and were very uncomfortable pushing our old umbrella stroller. I love the cup holders and storage. The carrying strap is also great. You cannot find a better lightweight stroller for the price. I am much happier with this than a much more expensive stroller I own.
Happy with the purchase
By Kathryn
from New York, NY
I got this just a couple weeks ago but I'm already so glad I got it. I bought it for my 3 year old and 15 month old. I was tired of lugging out my bigger double and wanted something little and easier and this fits the bill. We walk most everywhere and I find this easy to push and handle and have zero complaints.
It's not perfect, but does the job well!
By Jennifer
from Seattle, WA
About Me Parent of Multiples (Twins etc)
I bought this stroller about a year ago for an airplane trip cross country for my one year old twins. It handled really good for the trip, although we left the sunshade at home. It was easy to get through security checks at airport and was easy to push to get to our gates. It's a great stroller for travel. I had never purchased a double umbrella stroller before and found the selection limited. This stroller had it all: good storage, holder for drinks/keys/phone, sun shade, was tall enough to push easily, had good turning radius and solid wheels. Most umbrella strollers are pretty bare bones and look flimsy. Having used this stroller for almost a year it has delivered good performance overall. The cons are that the wheels stick occasionally, the parking break is hard to close/open, and the sunshade is pretty useless, but it's a quality stroller and a very good value!
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Buyer beware
By Rachel
from Hadley, New York
I wish there was an option for NO stars. I purchased this stroller in September of 2012 to take on vacation with my 1 and 2 year old children. Luckily, we tried the stroller before we left for vacation and the wheels didn't move correctly. I was so completely disappointed but called customer service and they promplty sent new wheels. The problem is the new wheels now don't work either. I would personally expect more than six months use from a stroller. We have another more sturdy stroller we use for everyday use so this stroller has not had much use at all. The last time we tried to use it, we put both children in it and all of our belongings and then had to remove everything because it would not wheel down the sidewalk. This is the worst investment I have ever made and I wish I had not bought it. I do not usually write reviews but I'd like other parents to be made aware of the problems with this stroller. I have bought other wonderful products from One Step Ahead, but this is a terrible stroller.
Easy to use, kids love it
By Jessy
from Nebraska
I use this (since it's winter and we don't stroller through the snow) while I'm shopping. My 5month old twins love to be able to see everything while we're shopping, and it's easier to maneuver than 2 shopping carts. Plus, it's lightweight enough and compact enough to get in and out if the van easily.
Loved it
By Mom on the go
from Miramar,Fl
I bought this stroller specific to take my 4months twin boys for their everyday walks. I love it. The wheels are a bit shaky but i try to walk on concrete only. My boys love it, it reclines enough for them to enjoy their walk. I also had to buy an extra organizer since i did not like the cupholders it came with, but that was no big deal for me!
piece of junk
By Amanda mom of three
from Grand Junction, CO
So disappointed in this stroller. It just barely fits through most standard doorways, but we've gotten stuck several times in non-ADA compliant doorways. The wheel axel broke 2 weeks after we got it. The replacement wheels then broke soon after they arrived. We sent the whole thing back and the new one broke exactly the same way 3 weeks later. We are not excessively hard on strollers. We have a diferent hand-me-down double stroller that has been through 2 families before us and is great. The sun shade is pretty worthless, and the stroller can't be folded unless the shade is removed. I threw away the box it came in, so return shipping was really difficult and expensive. Now it sits in my garage with the second set of replacement wheels on it just mocking us for our stupidity for throwing away the box.
Fell apart on first use
By amy
from san diego, CA
About Me First Time Parent
Wheels fell off on first use and wouldn't stay put, which easily bent the frame, making it unusable.
love it
By on the go mom
from MA
Perfect on days i have my 1 year old son and 5 month old nephew. Love the small storage area above each seat-easy to organize which sippy cup belongs to which child! easy to maneuver- lightweight. very adjustable- reclines only a very little. Occasionally can be difficult to fold up as the pull forward and up foot release sticks sometimes- hard to fold up without supportive shoes. Great for in the mall and to get to library storytime- fits through doors fairly easily. Love this item and would recommend to anyone looking for a high end umbrella stroller- u will not be happy if you are expecting more than an umbrella stroller.
Our babies love it
By Older Mom With Twin Boys
from Long Beach, CA
Twin 1 year old boys love the stroller so much they fight over who gets in first and cry when it is folded and put away. They even like to sit in it at home (between distractions). Unfortunately, one of the seats had a defective seatbelt/harness that would not snap closed, which was dangerous for a rambunctious baby who jumped out while riding one afternoon. Fortunately, he was not hurt and when I called to complain, One Step Ahead staff sent out a new stroller immediately. Very courteous. I did not have to pay fees or return shipping & the new one arrived within five days. Very quick. The new one works great. No problems. Stroller is needed for regular use. Because the boys enjoy sitting in it, running errands is a lot easier. I am no longer frazzled from chasing after two little ones in public. They can run fast.
So happy to find this!!!
By SmokinMom23
from Hot Springs, AR
I was wanting a stroller for my twins that was side-to-side, bigger than the $7 single strollers that I got from a retail store one day (horrible idea that was), and not too big when folded! My husband is tall and he didn't think that any stroller other than the front-to-back kind that held their carseat carriers would be tall enough. He also loves this stroller! It folds up to a great size and is quick and easy to open/fold. I'm still getting used to the wideness of it as I go through doors in public, but it fits easily through most without a problem (that just goes along with having twins...everything is bigger or heavier)!
Great Twin Stroller
By Twins father
from New Jersey
We use this stroller on a weekly basis, whether going to the mall on a Saturday afternoon or simply taking the babies for a stroll around the neighborhood. It is a lightweight, easy to close/ open design make it a pleasure to use.
Awkward to push
By Heybabyhey
from Glen Ellyn, IL
This stroller is lightweight and easy to fold/unfold. Unfortunately, it is very awkward to push. We purchased this as our trunk stroller for travel, and on the first use the plastic buckle broke when trying to adjust the length of the chest strap and on the second use the wheel fell off mid-stroll. Needless to say, we've returned this stroller.
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Great Stroller didn't fit my needs :(
By Nini to all
from Northern, Va
About Me Grandparent
My stroller came quickly but when reading the instructions,they state you must remove canopy to fold. My primary use was for getting 6 month and 14 month old grandkids into my 41/2 year old grand daughter's preschool "quickly" in the bad weather.The canopy snaps on fairly easily but I don't want to have to mess with it every time I need it. So, as much as I loved almost everything about this stroller due to this one thing it has to go back :(
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Beyond Pandora
Basically here I am asking if the vehicle of information necessarily has to be perfect in order to facilitate the transit of information expediently? For example; if you wish to tell me there is a cube drawn upon the paper, then you need only show me the paper and I will get the message perfectly, even though my eyes are imperfect and the way they carry info to the brain is imperfect and my interpretation subjective. If we accept that we cannot know anything then are we not left in Pandora's box?
We often speak of subjectivity as if it cancels out any 'true' representation of reality, and we are left with a vacuous Pandora's box where we don't know anything within the vessel of the mind [pandoras box was originally a vessel sometimes large enough to contain a human, so I am using both the original and the modern meaning here]. However if we reach into that confused state, I do believe it is possible to extrapolate 'true' information from it.
Do we need perfect instrumentation to gain knowledge? I remember watching Richard Dawkins [on tv] show how the eye is imperfect, and expect the brain has its imperfections too. Yet I am wondering if you need a perfect or just an adequate transport of information in order to gain 'truths' from a given source? if for example we see an image of a blonde girl on the TV, we see an imperfect representation of what she looks like, and indeed if she stood before us we still do, and yet the knowledge in our minds are perfect items of knowledge, a cube is a cube and girl is a girl etc, and we only need to marry a rather more vague representation of that to know what it is. If we see a box we know it is a cube even though we can never see a perfect cube in the real world ~ but we can see one in the minds eye.
So lets do a bit of 'shotgun philosophy' on this; we don't get all the information we need from a given source, but we do get some information [probably all we need]. We see the girl and most of her attributes, we know what these things are so we can attest to the idea that we have seen the girl because the image fits into our bank of knowledge. We only get small amounts of correct information, but with everything we observe we get some more grains [or pellets of the shotgun] of info, eventually from simple forms and ideas we build up a vast collection of verified information ~ even though every part of it is only ever partially true in transit.
"What makes the most sense to me is that the brain forms an archetype of objects after it acquires a small collection of experiences of them. It builds sort of an 'average' and then uses and refines this average with more and more experiences of the same object. To know that we see a woman is for the brain to identify the sight of one with the archetype of 'women' it has formed from past experiences of them. We feel fairly certain when the archetype has been fortified by means of numerous experiences and when the next instance of one in experience bears similar enough features".
The universe needs to know how to be a universe. It started as a singularity rather than chaos, so I would think something made it that way ~ it formed a singularity by the given principles and archetypes.
To form a thing like e.g. a particle, you need the principle of balance which itself is composed of many archetypal ideas, and you need the archetypes of positive, negative, neutral, then sphere [kinda] centre epicentre etc. once you have these ideas then the thing can take shape, this is how I would define the original causal relationship of things.
Having archetypes in the mind allows us to compare a worldly object with the archetype, which it would seam impossible to otherwise decipher Pandora's box ~ where it contains a reality we cannot read.?
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"He Dared!!"
I love this series. It is a great story! It is best to start with Conflict of Honors, then Agent of Change, Carpe Diem, Plan B, then this book, to get the full story and understanding. I was not very happy with this narrator. Most characters were voiced well, but he made Pat Rin sound smarmy, though he is written as a reserved, very proper gentleman. It was better by the end of the book, but every time Pat Rin said something, I got irritated, and it spoiled the experience somewhat. However, it would take more than that to spoil the Liaden Universe!
Savannah Reid is my kind of heroine! She's comfortable with her body, won't let others push her around, and is warm, loyal, and loving to her friends and family. She is also really funny! Loved hearing some familiar 'southernisms' coming out of her mouth. Dina Pearlman did her usual great job as a narrator - good accents without going over the top. A great start to a fun series.
"Edge of my seat"
Edge of evil is the beginning of another series by J. A. Jance, starring Ally Reynolds. She is a tv news anchor who is fired because of her age, and she won't stand for it! Then her childhood best friend is found dead, and she has more to think about than losing a job. I really enjoyed the writing here, it sounded more like a real person's life, with several story lines that are handled admirably. I read this book when it first came out, and enjoyed this narration. When the narrator's style blends in so well that you don't notice the narrator - that is when it is done right!
"Needs a new narrator"
A mix of mystery, procedural, romance, and written like a YA. The story is ok, but the narration is so bad I wouldn't have listened to the end except I had no wireless connection and no other books to listen to on a long trip. The southern accents make everyone sound like a fool, and the whole recording sounded like it was done at the bottom of a well. Not recommended unless you're desperate!
"Honor's honor"
The second book in the series introduces the planet Grayson, and its misogynistic people. But not as misogynistic as the Masadans! Honor once again saves the day, several times, and manages to make some powerful enemies as well as some good friends. The narrator did an excellent job, even with all the different characters she has to voice.
"On Basilisk Station"
This is the first book in the Honor Harrington series, and there are 12 more at this time, plus several collections of short stories in the Honorverse. I have read them, and own many, but was reluctant to listen to them because of my main complaint with these books - too many meetings and conversations to explain plot points. I found though, that the narrator did a great job of making even those tedious parts interesting! I am purchasing more, and hoping they continue be this good. I appreciate DW's explanation about the pronunciation of Manticoran. Otherwise, I would have been really irritated! Mispronunciations are a pet peeve of mine!
"Starts slow, but hang on!"
Another in the retrieval artist series. This is not a stand-alone book, since there are many references to previous ones, and it would be hard to care about the characters if you don't know who they are. Several different threads are going at once, but they do come together! I found it a bit slow at first, but by the end my heart was racing! Looking forward to the next in the series!
"Great Story"
Another story in the Liaden Universe! Yaaaay! It is well-written, though it seems (except for one scene) that the target audience may be YA. Doesn't bother me at all, just realize that the majority of the story is from the viewpoint of young adolescents. The narrator did an OK job, though I wish the various narrators would use the same pronunciation of Liaden words! Or even the word Liaden! Also, pronouncing 'kompani' as if it were 'company' just didn't make sense to me. All in all, a good addition to the universe.
"Excellent short story"
This is the first time I've listened to this author's work, and I was impressed. Writing a good short story is difficult, especially for one who usually writes full length novels. And she did a fine job, with decent character development, and an excellent mystery. I will be checking out her full length works. Thanks for the free introduction!
"Uh-oh! Talk your way out of this one"
Yes, it's getting better, and the plot lines are starting to come out. It can't be easy writing an entire book that is made up of short stories that are interrelated, but so far, Scalzi is managing it. I do wish he would find words other than 'said' for his dialogue. Gets irritating! He does this in all his books, so I guess it won't change anytime soon. If these stories are your first introduction to Scalzi, try some of his other books to get a better idea of his writing style. I especially recommend Fuzzy Nation or Agent to the Stars.
Some reviewers complained about this short story, but I found it well written and well performed. Yes, it isn't really a stand alone story, unless you like unresolved stories (remember reading The Lottery in high school English class?), but I found myself hoping for a good ending. You find out what happened to this colony in the next installment.


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HEAD racquet rebel Novak Djokovic has fulfilled his 2010 tennis dream in perfect fashion by leading Serbia to a first-even Davis Cup title. The 3-2 defeat of France in a Belgrade arena filled to its 17,000-person capacity marks an historic first triumph for the world No. 3 who plays with a YouTek Speed MP.
Joining Djokovic in victory celebrations after Serbia became the only nation besides Croatia in 2005 to win a Davis Cup trophy from its first appearance in a final, was Serbian doubles ace Nenad Zimonjic. The 34-year-old HEAD player added Davis Cup honors to his resume a week after winning the doubles title at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London alongside Daniel Nestor.
Djokovic was thrilled to have ended his season with a storybook final in a tie played with HEAD ATP balls and remains sure that he can make the brief off-season turnaround after an offseason which will last barely three weeks. The Serb rode to the rescue in Sunday's first of the reverse singles, coming up victorious in a must-win match as he beat France's Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-2, 6-4 to pull the tie level at two wins each.
"It was unbelievable today," said Djokovic. "Maybe one of the best matches I have played this year. It was definitely a lot of pressure and expectations. But this is the final of Davis Cup. You cannot get more energy than this. So I'm very, very happy with the way I played."
Djokovic said his decision to rest instead of playing the Saturday doubles was a wise strategic choice. "I didn't feel that playing was the best option. It was a good decision from my side so I can save my energy for singles today. I felt great."
Teammate Viktor Troicki then clinched the win as he defeated Michael Llodra 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in the deciding fifth rubber.


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August 22 – Happy Birthday Jeff Weaver
I was a Ted Lilly fan back when the left-hander was a young Yankee trying to become part of the New York's starting rotation in 2001 and the beginning of '02. Then, right around the 2002 All Star break, the Yankees made a complicated and confusing three team trade involving the Oakland A's and Detroit Tigers. When it was over, Lilly was no longer a Yankee and the flaky Jeff "Dream" Weaver was. All of baseball loved Weaver's stuff during his three-plus year stay in Motown, but he pitched poorly as a starter in Pinstripes, forcing Joe Torre to use him in the bullpen. After posting a 7-9 record and a 5.99 ERA in 2003, the Yankees sent Weaver to the Dodgers for the infamous Kevin Brown. He won 25 games for LA in 2004 and '05 and then joined Angels as a free agent in 2006. The Angels than traded Weaver to the Cardinals just before the 2006 All Star break to make room on their roster for Jeff's younger brother Jered. The deal worked out OK for both siblings because Jeff went onto help the Cardinals win the 2006 World Series and Jered has become the ace of the Angels staff.
In '07, Jeff signed with Seattle but pitched poorly that year and ended up back in the minors in 2008. Weaver, who was born on August 22, 1976 in Northridge CA, then rejoined the Dodgers and Joe Torre in Los Angeles the following season. He has not pitched in the big leagues since 2010. Ted Lilly, who now also pitches for the Dodgers, went on to achieve double-digit victory totals for nine straight seasons after being dealt by New York.
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SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — It is one of the icons of America, the backdrop to a thousand stories — the place where Tony Soprano's nightmares unfolded, where Nucky Thompson built his "Boardwalk Empire", where Snooki and The Situation brought reality TV to the ocean's edge and where Springsteen conjured a world of love and loss and cars and carnival lights and a girl named, incongruously, Sandy.
But after the storm of the same name passed through this week, the seaside towns of the Jersey Shore, a place that popular culture has picked to exude Americanness, have been upended, and some of the boardwalks have been pushed into the sea.
And those who live there, those who spent their childhood weekends there and those who experience its stories from afar are asking different versions of the same question: What happens now?
"This is just a heartbreaking experience seeing all these places we love that are just decimated," said Jen Miller, a blogger about the Jersey shore who lives in the Philadelphia area. "It's just what you do every summer: you go 'down the shore.'
"The pictures are awful; my heart breaks looking at them," she said. "I run on all these boardwalks. I go over that bridge between Belmar and Avon. It's one of those things you think will always be there. And now it's not."
All along the state's 127-mile coastline, the storm wrecked communities rich and poor, from multi-million-dollar homes in Bay Head and Mantoloking to blue-collar bayfront bungalows. Boardwalks were trashed, a roller coaster dumped into the ocean. The worst damage was nearest the ocean, but winds and water wrecked homes several miles inland as well. Damage assessments were still being made, but thousands of homes were affected.
"Who ever thought they'd see a roller coaster in Seaside Heights in the ocean?" New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie asked. He vowed to help rebuild the shore, while cautioning it might not look exactly the same.
For many people, the Jersey shore is much more than a place; it's an identity, a brand, an attity-toode. It's the place where Christie got into it with a heckler last summer while eating an ice cream cone as he went out for a stroll with his family.
It's also the economic engine that powers New Jersey's $35.5 billion tourism industry.
The real Jersey shore is the setting for MTV's "Jersey Shore" reality show about a group of foul-mouthed, horny, hard-partying 20-somethings, which has enshrined big hair, fist-pumping and phrases like "Come at me, bro" as part of Jersey pop culture. Continued...
A young Jon Bon Jovi shot one of his first music videos atop a rest room pavilion on the Seaside Heights boardwalk in 1985, across from the Sand Tropez clothing stand and Lucky Leo's arcade; Richie Sambora played the guitar solo to "In And Out Of Love" in a Seaside Heights lifeboat.
"It's gone," Bon Jovi said on NBC's "Today" show, hours before he and Springsteen were to headline a televised concert Friday to raise money for storm victims. "The entire Jersey Shore that I knew is gone."
That Jersey shore is a blend of competing aromas: the fried dough of zeppoles just before the powdered sugar goes on, the extra garlic on pizza slices, the salty spray coming off the ocean, and the smell of the chemical protectants they spray on pier pilings to insulate them from water damage.
It's where the click of spinning prize wheels, carnival barkers' shouts and the "pop" of breaking water balloon games compete for attention with boom-box rap, pop and heavy metal from strolling or skateboarding teens.
"When you're a teenager and you get your driver's license, the first thing you do is get in the car and drive down to Seaside Heights," said Marilou Halvorsen, a lifelong shore resident who until recently worked for the company that owned the now-wrecked Casino Pier in Seaside, where the remains of a roller coaster sit half-submerged in the ocean.
"You walk on the boardwalk, you get an ice cream cone, you take your kids on their first carousel ride: whether you're young or old, these are memories that are part of your life in every stage of your life," she said. "This is the skyline of the Jersey shore. It's a special place, a historic place."
Historic, indeed. Atlantic City built the world's first boardwalk as a way to keep guests from tracking sand into beachfront hotels. A small portion of that Boardwalk — now uppercased as a formal street name — was destroyed in the storm, although the Boardwalk in front of the nine oceanfront casinos remained intact.
In Wildwood, the widest beaches in New Jersey — a half-mile from the boardwalk to the water in some spots — helped protect the famous boardwalk amusements in what is routinely voted as the Jersey shore's most popular beach. Will Morey, president of Morey's Piers, said his rides sustained some electrical damage from flooding, but nothing that won't be fixed well before Memorial Day.
"This is a part of our culture; it's deep in the soul of Jersey," he said. "The whole Jersey shore phenomenon is pure Americana. Is it the sense of freedom, the sun, the water, the Greek joints and the pizza stands? I think it's a symphony of all these things. It's an authentic experience and a very powerful one."
Morey said it is at least theoretically possible for wrecked attractions such as the Casino Pier in Seaside Heights to be rebuilt by next summer, provided state government cooperates with expedited permits and minimal red tape. Continued...
The pounding surf wrecked part or all of boardwalks in Belmar, Sea Girt, and Point Pleasant Beach. Walkways in Asbury Park, about which Springsteen often wrote, and Ocean City sustained lesser damage.
Kimberly Blackburn grew up at the Jersey Shore but has been living near her husband's family in Joliet, Ill., for the past four years. She described feeling "helpless" over the past week from 750 miles away as she viewed devastating images of the communities she holds dear: Belmar, where she went to high school and took her senior class picture at the 5th Avenue Pavilion; Seaside Heights, where she'd always pick up a pizza from Maruca's; and Point Pleasant Beach, where she constantly hung out with friends and even worked on the boardwalk one summer during college.
"It's like someone washed my childhood away," Blackburn said. "That's how it feels. It's like this storm literally just came and washed it all away."
She now treasures photos of her young daughters taken at Brick Beach over Labor Day weekend, the last time she visited home. And while she believes New Jersey will rebuild the boardwalks and piers "bigger and better than ever," there will still be something missing.
"They can never take the memories away," said Blackburn, briefly breaking down. "But it's never going to be the same."
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Construction is nearly complete on the new Walmart store in Lucas scheduled to open in February. Associates will now begin stocking shelves in the approximately 177,000-square-foot store with a full line of groceries and an assortment of merchandise in preparation for the grand opening of the new store, located at 2662 W. Lucas Rd.
�With major construction complete on this store, we are now headed into the home stretch for our grand opening,� said store manager Jamie Dennis. �Next steps are to complete the landscaping and interior cosmetic touch-ups and continue associate training. We are proud of our new store and look forward to welcoming members of the Lucas and Parker communities when it opens.�
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Labor Day is a holiday many American workers eagerly anticipate -- a three-day weekend, and a respite from work to relax and celebrate with friends and family. As you're calculating how many bags of buns you need to go with that jumbo pack of hot dogs at your barbecue (they never seem to match up), here are some other Labor Day numbers to contemplate.
33 million: Americans who plan to travel at least 50 miles over Labor Day weekend this year, according to AAA.
14 cents: Average increase in the price of a gallon of gas since AAA's 2011 Labor Day forecast.
155.2 million: Number of people 16 years and older who are in the labor force.
85: Percentage of full-time workers 18 to 64 covered by health care insurance during all or part of 2010.
39.7 million: Number of people who the Department of Labor helped through the Employment and Training Administration programs.
58: Percent who think it's OK to wear white after Labor Day according to a nonscientific poll.
685,000: Number of workers who were placed into new jobs through the Workforce Investment Act Adult and Dislocated Worker programs.
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By Ryan Divish/Havre Daily News Sports Editor
As I sat at Legion Field the other day watching the Havre Northstars take on the Fort MacLeod Royals, I realized something. I was jealous.
I was jealous of the beautiful field they were playing on and the massive lights that made the field look brighter than a sunny day even though it was 10 at night. I was jealous of the raucous crowds that filled the stands and lived and died on every play. I was jealous of the success on the field as the Northstars were pounding the Royals en route to a pair of wins.
The next day, as I watched the Havre Comets take on the Royals in their own doubleheader, my jealousy didn't subside. It grew.
Jealous, jealous, jealous. The more I thought about it, the more envious I got.
But as I sit and write this, I begin to understand that I am not alone in my jealousy. Every player who ever wore a Northstar uniform before 1995, every kid who ever wanted to wear a Northstar uniform but didn't get the chance, every opposing player, every opposing coach, every out-of-town fan feels a little resentment.
Because all of us, every single one of us, wishes they could have been a part of the powerhouse that has become the Havre American Legion Baseball program.
A solid foundation
It isn't as if the Northstars suddenly became successful in the last five or six years. On the contrary, since its inception in the late '60s, the program has been one of the best in its respective divisions. And it only seems like Northstar head coach Mickey Williams has been around for all of them.
He's played on and coached a state champion Northstar team. He's only threatened to retire 1,750 times during a coaching career that has spanned 27 years. Yet, he is still here working on the field, working on the umpires and guiding the Northstars.
Williams played on some of the finest Northstars teams and coached on more. He has been associated with the program since 1970 and in that time there's been peaks for every valley - down years for every outstanding year.
But beginning in 1995, the program has maintained a consistent level of success.
"Right now, the program is stronger than ever," Williams said. "It just isn't on the field; it's in the facilities, budget and support from the community. We're at the point where other programs are trying to emulate the things we have done."
What the program has done is not only maintain a high level of success, but also offer the opportunity for plenty of perspective players to participate.
Everyone doesn't get to play
As a 16-year-old on the Havre Northstars, I once sat on the bench for 97 consecutive innings before getting into a game. And that wasn't even the most on our team. My buddy sat 108 consecutive innings to hold the team record. And you know what? That wasn't even close to the all-time record, which was about 200 innings.
No, I didn't have any splinters in my backside, because I had enough time to get them out after I got one. Was I disappointed to be more attached to the bench than the water cooler? Not really. After all, I wasn't blind. I was barely 5 foot 6 and weighed about 130 pounds. Most teams thought I was the bat boy, not the back-up second baseman.
Coming out of Babe Ruth, I was like many kids - nowhere near ready to play legion baseball, at least not with the Northstars, who had eight 18-year-olds and five 17-year-olds returning. We had guys on our team who were shaving every day. I wasn't shaving every six months.
There was an at-bat here or a couple of innings there. That's all I could really hope for. We called ourselves 10-run players because we only got in if we were winning or losing by 10.
We carried about 18 players on the roster and simple math tells you that some kids aren't going to play as much as others. Most of us understood it. We practiced and hoped for playing time, all the while counting down the days until we would be 17 or 18 and play more.
"There were plenty of kids that sat at least 10 or 12 games without playing," Williams said. "They would sit 100 to 115 innings without seeing so much as an at-bat. They had to be patient and stick it out and know they would get their playing time in the future."
But there were plenty of kids who weren't that patient. They decided that practicing every day and giving up basically the entire summer wasn't worth a few innings here or a couple of at-bats there.
They quit before they ever really started. The first day of tryouts had about 30 kids and by the end of the week there were barely 20. They didn't get cut by Williams or the other coaches. They cut themselves.
With summer camps for almost every sport and other distractions, they could look elsewhere for competition or entertainment.
"Some kids started not even bothering to try out," Williams said. "They would look at who was returning on the team and who would be trying out and they figured they wouldn't be good enough to play."
Said current Comet coach Bob Evans: "Once you lose a kid, they very rarely come back. With the extra team, we weren't losing kids as easily."
The birth of the Comets
It started out pretty innocently about eight years ago. Perry Miller, a local parent, approached Williams about borrowing some of his younger players to team with his son and some other players to play in a legion tournament in Williston, N.D., that Miller's friend ran.
"I thought it was a good way for some of those kids to get some more games in," Williams said.
It worked out pretty well. Williams' younger players got to play in four more games than they would have on the season. And the Comets were born, sort of.
They called them "the B team" and they were still a part of the Northstars. But Williams set up games and tournaments specifically for the B squad. Maybe 15 to 20, not a ton, but they were still games. And that was important.
"You can't replace game experience," Williams said. "It is so much better than practice and it offers incentive for all the practice."
It still wasn't easy in those first few years. Scheduling was tough since the team didn't have a set conference schedule. Instead, the B team was forced to travel across the state and into Canada in search of games.
And as the first coach of the B team, I was there for just about every mile. We won a few games, lost a few more. But the opportunity to just play in games was more important to the kids than wins and losses.
After two years , the number of kids wanting to play on the B team increased. Kids told other kids, "hey, this isn't so bad."
Slowly the numbers increased to the point where the squad became independent of the Northstars for the most part. Once summer began we even went to separate practices.
But the big step came in 1999 when the Northern A District reconfigured, adding the two Great Falls A squads and Malta. Williams convinced members of the Northern A District to allow the Comets to join the conference.
"They were pretty skeptical at first," Williams said. "They thought we wouldn't be able to keep it going. I assured them that we would be in the league longer than Malta."
With the step into the league, the Comets were officially born. The determining factor in putting the Comets in the league wasn't about wins and losses but about a set schedule.
"With a conference schedule, you know you will get a certain amount of home games," Williams said. "When we weren't in the conference, we constantly had to travel and go to tournaments to get games. That got really expensive after awhile."
It was a perfect year to join the conference. In terms of numbers and talent, the Comets had plenty of both. We had a good year, winning more games than I expected. We even qualified for the Northern A District tournament. Any thoughts that the Comets weren't ready for being in a conference were quickly erased.
Direct effects of success
The emphasis of the Comets was always about participation - to give as many kids who wanted to play baseball the opportunity. But telling a 16-year-old boy that winning and losing aren't important and just playing the game is, is like telling the same kid that someday he will actually miss going to school. By playing in the conference, the young players on the Comets were forced to learn to play at a higher level at an accelerated pace. They really had no choice. It was learn to play with the big boys or endure loss after loss, which never sits well with most kids playing any type of sport.
At the beginning of every season, I would say to myself, "We're going to lose every game." But after each practice, things would get a little better. With every game, they hit the ball a little harder, threw the ball a little more accurately and fielded the ball a little more consistently.
Kids at that age are like sponges. They soak up information and instruction so quickly and easily because they are totally raw in terms of the skills needed to play at that level.
But what Williams and I both knew was the real benefits wouldn't be at the end of the year for the Comets. It would be seen in the next year and the year after that. All of those at-bats, all of those pitches thrown, all of those balls fielded - all of those games - were building a foundation for the coming years.
Instead of sitting for 100 innings in a row, kids were now playing 100 in a row.
"You can't simulate game experience in practice," Williams said. "All of those games that kids were playing with the Comets was starting to show when they became Northstars."
Indeed, one of the first full B squads was in 1996. The team had 16 players and played close to 50 games. It wasn't the most talented, but it had enough to win plenty of games and more importantly play competitively with most teams it came across. Two years later, eight of the players from that team were the core for a squad that won the Class A state championship and placed third at the Northwest Regional.
Evans was an assistant on that state championship team and he saw firsthand the benefits of playing on the B squad that first year.
"Since we've had the second team, the Northstars have become a consistent power in Class A baseball," Evans said. "There is no rebuilding process really. We just kind of reload. In the past with just one team, there were years when teams were really young and struggled, and then be better the next year and even better the next. With the Comets, there isn't that gap in between. It has made the Northstars more consistent."
Consistency might be what defines the Northstar program best. Since 1995, the Northstars have finished in the top three in the Northern District every year and have made appearances at the Class A State Tournament each year.
The future is now
The success of the Northstars and Comets has far exceeded anyone's vision when this whole idea of two teams began eight years ago. People within Havre's baseball community knew that they would always be competitive, but not this competitive.
Perhaps the sign that this odyssey has come full circle came on May 31. On a crisp Havre spring night, the Comets defeated the Northstars for the first time ever with a stunning 8-4 upset.
"I think that has to be the worst thing out of all of this," Williams said. "I hate it when we have to play each other. We're in a no-win situation and there are always some hard feelings. And we don't want that. After all, we are still one program."
Evans concurred: "It was a big win for the Comets because they have never beaten them. But at the same time, you don't want to create a rivalry or anything like that. The main focus for the Comets isn't about trying to beat the Northstars, but prepare kids to become Northstars."
The Northstars currently sit in second place in the Northern Division with a 22-6 record in the conference and a 38-17 record overall. The Comets are lingering near fifth place in the conference with an 11-17 conference record and a 19-34 record overall.
Williams gets nervous about the possibility of playing the Comets in next weekend's district tournament in Medicine Hat.
"We don't want to play the Comets," Williams said. "Not because of winning and losing, but that means that either way a Havre team loses and we don't want that."
The ultimate goal for the program would be to see both teams advance to the state tournament. While it isn't unattainable, it certainly would be difficult.
Instead, Williams likes to keep the goals a little more simple and directed to the overall picture.
"The best thing would be to get three teams instead of two," Williams said. "We almost did that a couple years ago because we had that many kids. It would mean more chances for kids to play."
And more chances is all Evans wants for Havre youths.
"I love baseball," Evans said. "There isn't a better game and I want to give as many kids that want to the opportunity to play. That's what really is important in all of this."
Baseball dreams
As I finish writing this, my jealousy still really hasn't subsided. Evans gave the perfect example when describing the success of the Havre program.
"When the Northstars played the AA Stallions about a month back, I looked around and saw about 200 young people at the ballpark," Evans said. "The place was packed, but it wasn't just parents. There were young kids and teenagers all there watching and hanging out at the ballpark. What better place to hang out with friends. We didn't have that a few years back."
That's where my envy reaches its peak. It's not that I am jealous of the current players' success. Rather, I am jealous of the opportunity they have. There isn't a guy that wore a Northstar uniform before this baseball renaissance who wouldn't jump at the chance to have their baseball career begin during these best of times.
The feeling I get more and more as I watch the two squads play is pride. It was nice to know that I was around when this golden age of American Legion baseball began and maybe played a little part in help building it.
But the real pride comes from seeing a program that lets kids have the chance to play baseball, have fun, compete and fulfill their dreams of playing baseball.


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