TIMELINES
October 2005
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October 12, 2005 - There's nothing like a good rivalry to stimulate interest in a game, whatever the sport.

Football, basketball, baseball, you name it. A lot of years ago, it seemed that some teams could play all season, and in a few cases, the local reaction might be "OK."

But let football come down to the last couple of weeks when Connellsville might hook up with Uniontown, North and South Union collide, Brownsville and Redstone, Connellsville and Dunbar Twp., or German Twp., Fairchance-Georges, and Albert Gallatin in any combination of that trio. Then it would be Katie, bar the door!

For example, this week, awayyyy back in 1951.

-The National League season ended with Ralph Kiner of the Pirates and Stan Musial of St. Louis taking top batting honors. Kiner won the major league homerun title with 42, getting his last homer in dramatic fashion - a grand slam in the ninth, on the last pitch of the season, to nip Cincinnati, 5-4. It was his 11th career jackpot, only one behind the then record held by Rogers Hornsby. The Pirates finished 64-90, seventh, 32 games out of first, and just two ahead of last place Chicago. Musial hit .355 to win his fifth NL championship, the first left-handed hitter to win that many to that point.

-In service football, Camp Atterbury, Ind., beat the South Bend (Ind.) Jayhawks, 13-6. Jim Stimmell ran 44-yards for one score by the winners.

-In World Series play, Gil McDougald's grand slam led a 13-1 win, to give the Yankees a 3-2 World Series lead over the over the Giants. Play ended the next day when the Yanks won, 4-3, Hank Bauer's bases-loaded triple in the sixth the clincher. It was their third consecutive championship.

-Remember?  Jim Kriek, Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown,PA,USA

October 02, 2005 - Hoosier rescue training

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Hoosiers witnessed Indiana responders putting years of training to use.

At Camp Atterbury, more than one hundred responders from 11 different agencies spent the day making sure they are ready to answer the call again heading into action in the event of a disaster.

Somewhere beneath rocks and rubble a person is waiting to be rescued.

"I will release Daisy and she has to go search for the victim," says a dog handler.

The difference between life and death largely lies in the dog's ability to sniff it out. That's why training exercises like this one and several others held at Camp Atterbury this weekend are so vital.

Lillian Hardy from the Department of Homeland Security says, "We've got the bomb teams out here, FEMA task force one out here, several search and rescue teams, DNR is out here with some of their equipment, And what we're doing is getting everyone together so they understand what each others capabilities are."

The urban search rescue simulation, is where Task Force One from Indianapolis is searching the rubble with K-9s to find the victim.

"This is very important because the more we can get together in an atmosphere where several agencies get together ahead of time so they kind of have an idea of what each other does and then when the real disaster happens, it flows a little better," said Hardy.

One more way the department of homeland security is preparing for the time when the training is no longer for practice and the lives on the line.

As part of the homeland security initiative, various agencies spent the day going though several demonstrations including cave, vehicle and confined space search and rescue.  Linsey Davis, WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA