Route 66 Toastmasters of Williams changes meeting times and location.

WILLIAMS—The Route 66 Toastmasters of Williams has changed the times and location of their meetings. The Toastmaster organization gives people the opportunity to hone their public speaking skills.

The group now meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month from 5:30 to 6:30 pm except holidays. The new location for the meetings is the Williams Justice Court at 700 W. Railroad Avenue in Williams.

The local group is still a prospective Chapter of Toastmasters International. Toastmasters is a group that has been teaching public speaking and leadership skills since 1924. The skills are useful in a variety of environments.

‘Slurpee’ brain freeze blamed for 5-vehicle crash

It has long been an axiom that drinking and driving can kill. It is unknown if Texas legislatures are drafting new Slurpee regulations. No toaster pastries were reported at the scene. This comes just days after 7-11 started offering a free Slurpee to download their iPhone or Android app. It appears that you can download the app and activate the coupon in the store to obtain the Slurpee without a background check. Offer probably void in New York.


Original-slurpeeSAN ANTONIO — A driver lost control of his truck and crashed it into four other vehicles on the Southwest Side Friday.

The accident happened around 2:30 p.m. Friday in the 2800 block of General Hudnell. The driver said he was drinking a “Slurpee,” when he got a ‘brain freeze’ and blacked out. His truck went over a curb and hit four vehicles in a parking lot at an office building on Port S.A. When he came to, his foot was still on the gas pedal.

Police said the man passed a field sobriety test.

No injuries were reported.

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Lovelorn ‘killer’ dolphins escape military duty

What’s more important to a dolphin than honor or country?

Sex, of course.

According to Ukrainian media reports, three highly trained dolphins belonging to the Ukrainian Navy escaped their handlers earlier this month and haven’t been seen since. Are they deserters? Not exactly. Yury Plyachenko, a former Soviet naval anti-sabotage officer, posits that the dolphins are simply twitterpated and have gone off to observe the finer customs of the dolphin mating season.

The Ukrainian government is denying the whole thing, saying they don’t even use dolphins for combat or defensive purposes, but pictures of dolphins equipped with military devices surface every once in a while in Ukrainian media. Furthermore, a military source told RIA Novosti that as recently as last year, the military started training dolphins to detect mines and attack enemy swimmers. The “killer” dolphins are even said to be equipped with pistols or knives on their heads.

Read more at HLNtv

March for Meals pancake breakfast Saturday.

WILLIAMS—The City of Williams, Coconino County and NACOG are sponsoring a March For Meals pancake breakfast from 9 am to 11 am on Saturday, March 16th, 2013 and the Williams Senior Center at 850 W. Grant next to Safeway.

The menu consists of pancakes, sausage or bacon, eggs, hash browns, biscuits and yogurt. Drinks include orange juice, coffee and tea.

The requested donations will benefit the Williams Senior nutrition program at the center. You can call 928-679-7485 for more information.

Weekend weather mix.

sante-fe-20130306 001-wcreditWILLIAMS—Williams, Arizona is going through its curious weather pattern as spring approaches. While the ice on the Santa Fe reservoir and snow in the mountains melt filling the reservoir to capacity, the weekend forecast shows snow for tonight and Saturday.

The weather service is warning that snow could be heavy at times with a possible accumulation of up to seven-inches. Snow accumulations over Saturday could be two more inches.

7-year old boy suspended for deadly pastry

Fox News in Baltimore is reporting that a 7-year old in Maryland was suspended from school for a pastry. Not because he had the Obama-denounced snack food in school, but because he chewed the triangle-shaped pastry into the shape of a *gasp* gun.

It is presumed that the “assault pastry” was chewed into the form of a hand-gun. It is not clear whether it was a revolver or semi-automatic with a high-calorie magazine.

“Progressive” indoctrinated idiots such as this do tend to lend support to the opposition of the NRA plan of arming teachers in school to prevent school shootings.

One of the reporters correctly points out, “Baltimore has a crime problem. There’s actual crime in Baltimore. If you see that boy, and you consider that threatening, I suggest that you should not be in a position of leadership.”

Frank Borelli in an article for Officer.com wrote of the incident, “Again, I understand ‘zero tolerance’ toward the presence of weapons in schools but to date I’ve seen articles where children were suspended for having cut a piece of notebook paper into the shape of a gun, for having pointed their finger and said, ‘Bang!’, for having thrown an imaginary grenade on a playground and now… for eating their breakfast wrong.”

What this does appear to be is yet another incident of terrifying our children into a fear of weapons.