Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day

Our nation loves to observe special days, and now for the past 21 years, we have Grandparent's Day on the first Sunday after Labor Day — today. When a Syracuse, NY, woman, Hermine B. Hanna, first conceived the idea way back in 1961, it was only the beginning of a long struggle for official recognition. Credit for persisting enough to get it on the calendar is given to Marian McQuade, a Fayette County, VA, housewife. She and her husband, Joe, were parents of 15, grandparents of 40 and great-grandparents of eight.

An advocate for senior citizens since 1956, she felt compassion for the lonely elderly isolated at home or in nursing facilities and also wanted to encourage children to spend time with their own grandparents. She became vice chairman of the West Virginia Committee on Aging in 1971 and was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging. The observance spread to Canada in 1995, and is observed in the United Kingdom the first Sunday in October. In France, Grandemere gets her day on the first Sunday in March, while Grandpere is honored on the first Sunday in October.

Mrs. McQuade began the Grandparent's Day campaign in West Virginia, where it was first proclaimed in 1973 by Gov. Arch Moore, the same year the resolution was introduced by Sen. Jennings Randolph in the US Senate. It took five more years of campaigning, letter writing and contacting influential persons to get the legislature to proclaim the first Sunday after Labor Day as Grandparent's Day. President Jimmy Carter eventually signed the proclamation. September was chosen supposedly because of symbolism with the Autumn of life. The official flower is the forget-me-not.

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Ironman Wisconsin

Ironman Wisconsin

Among the most reliable high points of Ironman Wisconsin each year: the opportunity to check out displays of all the hottest bikes. In the span of a 10-minute stroll through the Ironman expo at Monona Terrace, you can see vast collections of bikes totaling well into the six figures. The Ironmen are right about now getting out of Lake Monona and onto their bikes.

Among the high-end models on display this year: Trek’s TTX Equinox and 5200, the Ceepo Ironman Viper, Quintana Roo’s Seduza, the occasional Kestrel and Cervelo’s P4, S3 and P2C – gleaming marvels of carbon-fiber engineering, wind-shedding geometry and dizzying price: framesets alone cost $2,000 and up for many of these high-end bikes; fully loaded, the best of them retail for more than $6,000. That big rack of Zipp 808 wheels? Somewhere north of $1,000 each.

You might think that’s a high price to pay for an advantage in the 112-mile bike leg of Sunday’s race. It is, however, what the market can bear. And the looking is free. Even if you ride a squeaky 10-year-old beater with a rusting chain and maladjusted gears, you can appreciate the research and development that goes into these bikes, which are as much works of art as they are machines — and look mighty fast, even when idle.