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 Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, June 26 Have FUN! Dearwebby Todays Bonehead Award: French Teen detained for two weeks after jogging across Canada-US border Bonehead ______________________________________________________ Today, June 26 in 1976 In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest tower until 2010.  More of today in history at HIstory ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ Nothing is said that has not been said before. --- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC) He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. --- Benjamin Franklin ____________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ >From Linda True Story....my friend had a date and didn't have time to eat supper. She grabbed a few dates to help tide her over and went upstairs to change for the date. When the guy came....a different guy than she'd ever gone out with before....her mom said "She's upstairs changing and eating her last date." _____________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ Deer family playing in a puddle during a thunderstorm  _____________________________________________________ 
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 _____________________________________________________ While on a car trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, the elderly woman left her glasses on the table, but she didn't miss them until they were back on the highway. By then, they had to travel quite a distance before they could find a place to turn around. The elderly man fussed and complained all the way back to the restaurant. He called his wife every bad name he could think of. When they finally arrived at the restaurant, and the woman got out of the car to retrieve her glasses, the man yelled to her, "And while you're in there, you might as well get my hat, too." ____________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Cedella Roman, 19 White Rock, BC  French Teen detained for two weeks after jogging across Canada-US border  A young French woman was held by US border control for two weeks after she accidentally crossed the border when she went for a jog. Cedella Roman, 19, ran across the border just south of the town of White Rock in Canada's British Columbia, into the US state of Washington on the evening of May 21. She headed back when the tide began to come in, going up toward a dirt path before stopping to take a photo of the stunning scenery, then turned around to retrace her steps. It was then that she was apprehended by two US Border Patrol officers who told her she had crossed illegally and had been caught on camera. 'I told him I had not done it on purpose, and that I didn't understand what was happening,' she said. Roman protested that she hadn't seen any warning signs, and didn't initially anticipate how serious the matter would become. 'I said to myself, well I may have crossed the border but they'll probably only give me a fine or they'll tell me to go back to Canada or they'll give me a warning.' Complicating matters, Roman, who had come to Canada to visit her mother and work on her English, wasn't carrying any government-issued ID on her at the time. She was transferred by the officers to the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, run by the Department of Homeland Security, 200 kilometers (120 miles) south. 'They put me in the caged vehicles and brought me into their facility,' she said. 'They asked me to remove all my personal belongings with my jewelry, they searched me everywhere. 'Then I understood it was getting very serious, and I started to cry a bit.' When she reached the centre, she contacted her mother, Christiane Ferne, who quickly reached the centre with her passport and study permits but the workers at the site said the documents would have to be verified by Canadian authorities. She was held at the centre for two weeks before the matter was resolved and she was allowed to return to Canada. Ferne said the lack of clear signs had led to her daughter's predicament. 'It's like a trap anybody can be caught at the border like this,' she said. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to CBC that Roman was discharged on June 6. But neither the ICE nor Immigration Canada would comment further on the case, citing privacy concerns. A spokesperson for the US Customs and Border Protection told CBC that anyone who enters the US outside an official port of entry and without inspection has crossed the border illegally and will be detained. 'This applies regardless of whether or not the individual claims to have inadvertently crossed the border,' the department said. The Peace Arch and huge US border station are about a quarter mile south of the border but clearly visible from two miles away. The Canadian Welcome sign is about that far north of the border. The beach is about 50 feet from the border station. The customs officers have always looked out the windows on the West, just in case some bikinis were bouncing by. I used to party there with friends in the early 70s. Even then you had to have some legal ID to show, if the customs officers asked for it. It was always a friendly and low key affair, but they made sure you carried legal ID, even in those days. In those days and until 9/11 a drivers license was enough for Canadians to cross the border into the US and for Americans to cross into Canada. On the road there was always a lot of commuting to work, Americans working in BC and Canadians working in the US. During rush hour, having a hard hat or lunch kit on the dash got you waved through with a nod. 9/11 changed that quite brutally. They probably suspected that she was scouting a route for illegal immigrants, and telling everybody in France how easy it was to get into the USA from Canada. Looks like they smartened her up! 
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 Planning a weekend of entertaining guests, I made a list of things I needed to do, including taking food out of the freezer and grocery shopping. As it happened, a friend whom I had been promising to take to lunch asked if we could make it that Friday. So, hopping into the car, I taped my "to do" list to the dashboard and went and picked her up. As she settled into the car, her face dropped. "Thanks a lot!" she sulked. Then I glanced at my list and saw the first item: "Take out the Turkey."  
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 ___________________________________________________ An agriculture student said to a farmer: "Your methods are too old fashioned. I won't be surprised if this tree will give you less than twenty pounds of apples." "I won't be surprised either," said the farmer, "From orange trees like this, I expect about 120 pounds of oranges". ___________________________________________________ 
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 Soon after our last child left home for college, my husband was resting next to me on the couch with his head in my lap. I carefully removed his glasses. "You know, honey," I said sweetly, "Without your glasses you look like the same handsome young man I married." "Honey," he replied with a grin, "Without my glasses, you still look pretty good, too!" ____________________________________________________  
 Today, June 26 in 1096 Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary. 1243 The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols. 1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne. 1794 The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus. 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles. 1819 The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. 1870 The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened to the public. 1894 The American Railway Union called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers. 1900 The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China. 1900 A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever. 1907 Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries. 1908 Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of Parliament in Persia. 1917 General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force. 1925 Charlie Chaplin's comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered in Hollywood. That was the only movie about Canada that I had seen before I immigrated. 1924 After eight years of occupation, American troops left the Dominican Republic. 1927 The Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster opened in New York. 1936 The Focke-Wulf Fw 61 made its first flight. It is often considered the first practical helicopter. 1942 The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time. 1945 The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA. 1948 The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin. 1951 The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War. 1959 U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. 1961 A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans. 1963 U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall. 1971 The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers. 1974 In Troy, Ohio, a Marsh supermarket installed the first bar code scanning equipment, made by IBM, and a product with a bar code was scanned for the first time. The product was Juicy Fruit gum. 1975 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy." 1976 In Toronto, Canada, the CN Tower opened to the public. The official opening date is listed as October 1, 1976. It was the world's tallest free-standing stucture and the world's tallest tower until 2010. 1979 Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion. 1996 The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support. 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet. 1997 J.K. Rowlings book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published in the U.K. The book was later released in the U.S. under the name "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." This was the first book in the Harry Potter series. 1997 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides. 1998 The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers. 1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee. 2000 The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly announced that they had created a working draft of the human genome. 2000 Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims. 2001 Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games. 2002 David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism. 2002 WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 2018 Do smiled. 
 

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