A Knight in Dragonland

A woman drowned in Lake Arlan and two women were busted for heroin after one of them overdosed and had to be taken to the ER. M’lady, the Little Dragons and I drove past all the first responder vehicles on our way home from our nephew’s birthday party in Edwardsville last Saturday night. [...]

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WHOI aired a segment Thursday about Jake Grys, the tiny little guy with a great big personality. Hopefully this will help Jake and his family in their campaign to get on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.
If you haven’t signed the petition yet … what’s wrong with you???  Get going!

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Don’t forget to sign the petition to get Jake Grys and his family on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. You could help an adorable little boy have a more independent life, and all you need to contribute is your online signature.
Of course if you have a few extra dollars burning a hole [...]

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This is Jake Grys. He’s seven years old.
No, I’m not kidding.
Jake has osteogenesis imperfecta – the “brittle bone” disease – and the disorder has limited his growth. He’s the size of an 18 month old.
Jake is the youngest member of the Grys family here in Pekin. This family adopted Jake as well [...]

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The Pekin girls soccer team won the inaugural Lady Dragon Invitational at Coal Miner’s Park this weekend. After attending the Celebrate 108 even at the Dragons Dome, I dropped by with Little Dragons #1, #2 & #3 to see the final game against Lincoln on Saturday afternoon. The Pekin girls won that game [...]

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Michelle Teheux wrote a nice editorial in the March 7 edition of the Times (the link is broken … I’m not sure why) highlighting my situation. Thanks, Michelle … you could have warned me you were doing that! Now I’m REALLY out.
I’d like to give some additional hat tips to some other bloggers [...]

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I’m referring to my own paranoia with this post. Given recent events, I hope you’ll forgive me.
Specifically, my apologies to black helicopter. We’ve had some nasty online disagreements in the past, but further behind the scenes conversations have cleared the air. He’s not my guy.
Of course now I have no clue who [...]

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The number of visits and page views to my blog has literally DOUBLED since I posted about the threat placed on my door. Now even more people are reading what I have to say. Was that your intention, Stalker? Somehow I don’t think so.
I’d like to thank everyone who has offered their [...]

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The owner of the Four Seasons Family Fun Center in Canton has bought AMF Sunset Lanes on Court Street. There’s an article about it in the Pekin Daily Times. My girls have lots of fun bowling, and this is right down the street from me. Good news!

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I’m still trying to figure out what happened yesterday. Why would the Pekin Dragons Calling blog just disappear? Did they really want to avoid outside input THAT much? Another strange thing is that when I look back at the Pekin, My Home blog (still online but no posts since 8/22), all save [...]

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This is interesting. I went to eat dinner, and now I come back and Pekin Dragons Calling has gone missing. Nothing seems to be wrong with Blogspot in general … weird. Well, since you can’t see what the heck I’m talking about when I refer to Dr. Dragon’s nasty post on his [...]

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The title of this post is VERY tongue-in-cheek, given the wonderful “Mr Fake Needs To Get A Life” post on the Pekin Dragons Calling blog. I’m posting my response here since the enlightened Dr. Dragon is obviously going to delete it.
Hmmm … this seems to be directed at me. I’m a fake? [...]

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We had a knock on the door this morning, and it was the Pekin Police. Apparently our dog was barking too much. Because it was storming early this morning and we had her in, she was outside for ohhh … 30 minutes at most when the police showed up. She’s a big chocolate lab … [...]

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