You’ve seen her on ESPN’s Garage Block – Mother’s Polish Car Show Series, Bidding Wars, Russo & Steele Collector Car Auction and other motorsports Shows & Auctions throughout the country. She will also be on the cover of Hot Rod Deluxe in July/August and featured in Car Craft in Aug. Now you can see her at the Great Pottsville Cruise on August 9th & 10th for photos, autographs, T.V. interviews and much more.

The Great Pottsville Cruise plans an exciting lineup of events and celebrities for Sunday, August 10, 2008. This year’s Cruise will kick off with the 2nd annual Cruise-In Deck Party at the Pottsville Club, Wednesday August 6th from 6 pm to 9 pm. Everyone is welcome.

Thursday night August 7th is the annual Coney Island and 12-Volt Dave’s “Generation X” Sound Off and Car Show at Yorkville Coney Island from 6 pm to 9 pm. For sign-up information call 570-628-4561.

Tickets will be available for the 2008 official Cruise Car at all events; a 1995 Admiral Blue Corvette sponsored by Pioneer Pole Buildings Inc. of Schuylkill Haven. Also, tickets are now available for a drawing for VIP tickets to “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”, compliments of Jay Leno. Airport transportation by Deer Lake Limousine Service is included, courtesy of T-102/WPPA radio.

Friday night August 8th is the annual Sock Hop at Pine View Acres, Pottsville, sponsored by Vist Financial & Banking of Schuylkill Haven. Tickets are $10.00 per person at the door or in advance. There will be live music by “The Mudflaps”, trophies and prizes for the best 50’s attire, dance contests, and much more. Bring your ride; parking lot security will be provided.

Saturday, August 9th kicks off with the annual Cruise-In to Jerry’s Classic Cars & Collectibles Museum, 394 S. Centre St. Pottsville. A great day is planned with a live appearance by Genevieve Chappell from ESPN2, live radio, a DJ, and special Museum tours throughout the day from 10 am to 5 pm. Re-live the 50’s and 60’s and have a little fun. Extra off-street parking will be available.

Saturday night it’s the Cruise-In to the downtown Coney Island on North Centre St Pottsville from 6 pm to 9 pm with the band “Shake, Rattle, & Soul” sponsored by the Schuylkill Valley Corvette Club. Last year’s event drew over 200 classic cars, street rods, and Corvettes. TV personality Genevieve Chappell, host of ESPN2’s “Bidding Wars” and “Garage Block” will appear for photos and autographs.

Sunday, August 10th kicks off the 15th Annual Great Pottsville Cruise with 12-Volt Dave’s “Cruisin’ Thunder” starting at 8 am at Ken’s Tires, Laurel Blvd. Pottsville. Special features throughout the day will include Kevin Harvicks #29 Pennzoil Shell NASCAR and the Bridgestone/Firestone Formula F-1 Indy car, sponsored by Ken’s Tires.

Stage your cruise car early at Martz Hall for a full day of fun and special appearances. Spectator parking will be available at United Metal Receptacle. The car show will be from 10 am to 4 pm. Cruise the city from 4 pm to 6 pm, and then it’s back to Martz Hall from 6 pm to 9 pm for trophy presentations, live music from “Flamin’ Dick & the Hot Rods”, and drawings for the Cruise Car and for the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” tickets. The evening will conclude with a fireworks display sponsored by the Yuengling Brewery & Gift Shop, Schuylkill County Visitors Bureau, Ed’s USA Auto Rentals, and United Metal Receptacle.

For additional information, call 570-622-9510 or 570-628-4561, or see www.TheGreatPottsvilleCruise.com provided by DSSCO.net. The Great Pottsville Cruise is a Pottsville Lions Club and Pottsville Pride event.

In April I was called to cover Formula Drift, Round One -Streets of Long Beach. I was extremely excited about this call – because Formula Drift is my favorite motorsport.

Entering its fifth season, Formula DRIFT Championship is recognized as the North American professional drifting championship series. As the first official series in North America, Formula DRIFT has taken competitive motorsports to the extreme attracting fans and car enthusiasts from all walks of life. This high-skilled, high-powered motor sport where drivers intentionally maneuver their cars into well executed, controlled sideways slides at high speeds through a marked course, has more than 60 professional drivers competing in all seven competitions this year.

Judged on execution and style, rather than who finishes the course in the fastest time, Drifting is a guaranteed crowd pleaser, and is often compared to the freestyle nature of skateboarding and motocross.

Drivers and Formula DRIFT also serves as ambassadors for the sport of drifting bringing exhibitions to traditional/mainstream motor sports events across the country which have included: multiple Champ Car World Series races, American Le Mans, USAC, NASCAR Busch North & Featherlite Southwest and the SPEED World Challenge, among others.

Woman on Wheels

Genevieve Chappell has reported on a wide range of sports as a television host and correspondent, interviewing star athletes from the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB and hosting the Vans Triple Crown of Motocross and X-Games. As host of ESPN2′s most popular automotive lifestyle shows, Bidding Wars and Mother’s Polish, she explores the world of hot rods and muscle and classic cars. Her own athletic pursuits include ice hockey, roller hockey, mountain biking, ocean sports, snowboarding, golf and bowling. She lives in Huntington Beach with her husband, a former pro hockey player, and 9-year-old daughter.

Question. Which sports do you indulge in most?
Answer. Roller-blading, especially in the nice weather, along the boardwalk. We start at the Huntington Beach Pier and go down to where the boardwalk ends [on the Balboa Peninsula]—that’s such a great skate. And roller hockey. And any time I can be in the water…. I love swimming in the ocean, boogie boarding, longboarding…. When it comes to just being on the beach, I love Little Corona—it reminds me of being in Greece. It’s small, it’s pretty, it’s somewhat protected. You see a lot of creatures—we’ve seen whales come up pretty close, lots of dolphins.

Q. You know a little about cars—where do you go for a drive?
A. I don’t have any fancy classic cars myself, but I did just have out-of-town visitors. Pacific Coast Highway is great, of course, the beautiful beaches…. You can see Catalina Island and it’s fun to people watch. I don’t know a guy who’s not into cars—exotic cars, hot rods, classics—and you go down PCH, it’s like a car show itself. You head up Main Street in Huntington Beach, by Newport Pier, into downtown Laguna, they get whiplash looking at the cars, looking at the ocean, looking at the girls—these are male out-of-town guests.

Q. Where might you stop for dinner?
A. One of my favorite places is Tabu Grill in Laguna. I love that place, not a lot of people know about it. The ambience is hip but relaxing, you could go in in sandals and a sundress or you could dress up—it’s not “see and be seen.” It’s a 10 across the board. I order whatever seafood’s on special, a glass of Pinot Grigio, we split a soup, split an appetizer…and you don’t skip dessert.

Q. How else might you spend a free summer day?
A. I get on my skates or beach cruiser, cruise to Newport Beach, stop for shrimp tacos at Chronic Tacos. If I feel like shopping, I’ll head to Huntington Surf and Sport Girls and Model Citizen on Main Street [in Huntington Beach] or Soul to Sole in Laguna. I love the free Wednesday night concerts at Fashion Island—you can take your kids if you want to. If there are any new art galleries or exhibitions in Laguna, or the summer festivals (Special Events) are going, then definitely, definitely. I get a lot of inspiration from that. I always have a new project—right now, I’m working on a line of vintage T-shirts. I’ll go down to Laguna, look at the art galleries, then go to Tabu Grill. That’s the perfect day for me.

Details
Chronic Tacos 4533 W. Coast Hwy., Newport Beach, 949.642.2458 • Fashion Island 401 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, 949.721.2000 • Huntington Surf and Sport Girls 126 Main St., Huntington Beach, 714.374.6266 • Huntington State Beach Pier Pacific Coast Highway and Main Street, Huntington Beach, 714.536.1454 • Little Corona del Mar Beach Ocean Boulevard and Poppy Avenue, Corona del Mar, 949.644.3151 • Model Citizen 324 Main St., Huntington Beach, 714.960.6870 • Newport Beach Municipal Beach Pier West Oceanfront and McFadden Place, Newport Beach, 949.673.3371 • Soul to Sole 424 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, 949.497.8881 • Tabu Grill 2892 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, 949.494.7743

“U.S. workers spend half a billion hours per year playing (computer) games on the job, at a cost of $10 billion in lost productivity. ” This does not even counting the time “spent surfing the web at work for personal use.”

-Management-Issues Web Site.

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Having a network of good friends may well increase a person’s life span, reports the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. A study of nearly 1,500 Australians aged 70 or over examined how relationships affected longevity over a ten-year period. Individuals with a strong network of friends had a mortality rate 22 percent lower than those with few friends. Active friendships also have a positive effect among the elderly when it comes to “depression, self efficacy, self esteem, coping and morale, or a sense of personal control,” says the report.

The condensation trails, or contrails, left in the sky by jet airliners affect atmospheric temperature, says Scientific American.During the day these contrails reflect incoming sunlight, resulting in a net cooling of the atmosphere. At night, however, they trap heat beneath them. English researchers found that “flying between 6P.M. and 6A.M. contributed between 60 and 80 percent of the climate warming that originated from contrails, even though these flights represent a quarter of the total air traffic,” states the report.