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COVINGTON -- The Family Fantasy Football League championship is staying in St. Tammany
Parish, La.,
but it's
changing
homes.
    After 17
weeks of regular-season and postseason play, the title was decided lat month, and He Hate Me, coached by Mike Scott, took the big prize. He Hate Me beat Judy and Mick's Georgia Peaches, 93.25-88.45, in the championship game to earn bragging rights.
   Last year's winner, Bobby's BludUndEisen, finished third.
   To go with the championship, Mike gets possession of The Bob Trophy for the next year, until it is given to next year's champion. His name will be added to the short list of champions on the trophy's base, immortailizing him in plastic.
   "I'd like to thank Shane and Besty, without whom this wouldn't have been possible," Mike said, referencing the midyear trade that sent NFL MVP Kurt Warner to his team. Warner was slumping at the time, but he caught fire, carrying He Hate Me through a six-game winning streak.
Final standings are as follows:
1. He Hate Me, coached by Mike Scott
2. Georgia Peaches, Judy and Mick
3. BludUndEisen, Bobby
4. The Big Bad Mamas, Lanie
5. Go Lions, Shane and Betsy
6. MikeWalsh, Mike Walsh
7. Charioteers, Robbie and Magdi
8. Survivors, Lesley

By Liz Scott
Contributing writer

SAULT STE. MARIE, MICH. -- Move over, Doctors Without Borders. You've got competition.
Betsy will be part of a medical mission team from the Flint-Hurley Medical Center to go to Barahona, a remote town in the Dominican Republic to perform medical services for needy children. She will practice her anesthe-sia

By Judy Walsh
Contributing writer

COLUMBUS, Ga. -- After viewing a special movie preview at Fort Benning on Ash Wednesday, Mick gave an enthusiastic nod to the movie "We Were Soldiers"
which stars Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott and Greg Kinnear as soldiers in an important Vietnam War battle in the Ia Drang Valley in 1965.
The movie is especially meaningful to Mick because he has spent several months interviewing the real-life soldiers whose stories were told in "WeWere Soldiers Once ... and Young" by Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and Joe
Galloway, the book on

which the movie is based.        The culmination of this project will be a 34-page special section in the Ledger-Enquirer that tells the individual stories of
23 who lived through the horrendous battle, which pitted 2,000 North Vietnamese against 450 U.S. soldiers.
     Mick said it was very emotional to sit among the soldiers, including Moore and Galloway, and several spouses who lost husbands in the battle.
     It is a great tribute to the utter hell they endured and their loyalty to one other.
   No word yet on whether the paper will post the section on its Web site, but we'll keep you updated.

skills. She was scheduled to leave Feb. 15, one day after Bridget's 27th birthday, and will return
late
on Feb. 24.
For
weeks,
she has
been
searching
snowbound Flint for bug repellent with Deet, which she has been told she will need, but evidently they don't sell it there this time of year. Finally

she found a product that is 20 percent Deet, as well as some mosquito netting treated with
bug repellent from a camping
store. In addition, she has received, from Liz, a copy of the book 'Bugs, Bites and
Bowels,' which Liz took to Africa last year at the recommendation of
Bridget, who said it proved invaluable on her Asian trip the previous
summer.
Shane will have Rocky and Carlos, the New Orleans cats

that he adopted form Jim and Liz, to keep him company. Rocky has learned to turn the
lights on and off by leaping up the wall and swatting the light switch, and to open drawers.
    When Betsy returns, Shane plans to let both cats have a
supervised bare-paws-in-the snow experience.
    For now they have the run of his big house in Saulte Ste. Marie.
   The cats have thier own e-mail and can be reached at [email protected].

COVINGTON -- It's been a crazy two months in the Bayou State, with the Christmas and Carnival holidays being interrupted by three funerals. Somewhere amid it all, though, Katy quiety graduated from Mizzou.
After three and a half years in Columbia, Mo., the family's newest graduate earned a degree in print journalism. She didn't get the opportunity to walk across the stage -- she passed on that in order to get home in time for Jim's December funeral -- but she's a graduate just the same.
Now comes the real work, the job hunt, after which she'll become the fifth working member of the Fourth Estate in the family.