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Winner of Bonanza Extravaganza grand prize wants to remain unnamed
The winner of the $100,000 grand prize at Saturday’s Bonanza Extravaganza at Hagerstown Speedway has asked that his name not be released, according to John Murray, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1605. Murray...
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Local charities are the real winners of the Bonanza Extravaganza
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comDard Stephens was in disbelief when he won a $10,000 raffle Saturday afternoon during the Bonanza Extravaganza at Hagerstown Speedway. The Halfway resident said he has attended the event for the past eight years, but never won anything until this...Tags: Harley-Davidson Inc., Services and Shopping
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Bonanza Extravaganza offers 'chance to get away'
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comJoe and Sondra Rohm said they didn’t mind waiting in traffic to sleep in a “swamp” during this year’s Bonanza Extravaganza at Hagerstown Speedway off U.S. 40. The siblings said they arrived at the track at around 2 p.m., set up...Tags: Harley-Davidson Inc., Entertainment, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Gaming
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Women get 2nd chance at being firefighters
RaShaunda Dooley has heard plenty of people tell her she can't be a firefighter. "There are always naysayers," she said Monday outside the Chicago Fire Department Academy South. "There are still naysayers now. But I know I can do the job." Dooley, 29,...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Justice System, Roosevelt University, Chicago Fire Department, Laws
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Women who failed Chicago firefighting test can reapply
About 138 women denied jobs with the Chicago Fire Department will have a chance to reapply to be firefighters Monday after reaching an agreement with the city in a federal class-action lawsuit. The women passed the written test in 2006 but were denied...Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Trials
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Five for your planner: Sunday, May 5
1. Food, music and prizes Bonanza Extravaganza will be Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, at Hagerstown Speedway, 15112 National Pike, west of Hagerstown. Food, prizes and entertainment. 2 p.m. Friday, parking gates open, event opens at 5 p.m.; 8 a....
Tags: Movies, World Wildlife Fund, Entertainment, Little League Baseball
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Major corporations backed inaugural festivities
WASHINGTON — President Obama's second inaugural committee raised a little more than $43 million to put on the official festivities surrounding his January swearing-in, backed by major donations from some of the country's biggest corporations,...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Eli's Cheesecake Company, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Politics
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Federal firefighters push for shift-swap flexibility
When city or county firefighters have a family event or unexpected obligation pop up on a workday, their solution is familiar to most shift workers: They find a colleague willing to trade hours. But for the roughly 10,000 firefighters employed by the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Darrell E Issa, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Fires, Politics
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Labor Ordinance Had Strong Influence in Some Assembly Races
Channel 2 NewsThe candidates in the two West Anchorage Assembly races and the Midtown Anchorage Assembly race say Ordinance 37, Mayor Dan Sullivan's rewrite of the city’s labor laws, had a major influence on the election outcome. City labor unions poured money...Tags: Career and Workplace, Local Elections, Labor Legislation, Voting, Politics
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La Grange girl will shave head for cancer fundraising event
Sadie Madden would have fit right in atop a St. Patrick's Day parade float, with her outgoing personality and curly red locks. But right now she's focused on a St. Baldrick's event for which she'll have her head shaved at the end of a fundraising drive...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Breast Cancer, St. Patrick's Day, Medical Research
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Chambersburg Borough Council to appeal labor ruling on fire department captain
waynesboro@herald-mail.comThe Chambersburg Borough Council announced Monday it intends to appeal the conclusions recently reached by a Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner. On Jan. 30, that examiner, Thomas P. Leonard, issued two proposed decisions and orders...Tags: Career and Workplace, Work Relations
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Examiner rules Chambersburg should not have suspended fire department captain
waynesboro@herald-mail.comA Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board hearing examiner decided recently that the Borough of Chambersburg wrongfully suspended a union official who told salaried firefighters to stop volunteering in the municipality. The Pennsylvania Labor Relations...Tags: Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Career and Workplace, Work Relations, Unions
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