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Algorithmic foundation of robotics VII, selected contributions of the seventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
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Snow alters routines for Cascade squads

LEAVENWORTH — On the first day of spring sports practice in late February, Cascade High School’s soccer field was buried under 16 inches of snow.

Initially, first-year head coach Pete Spiegel hoped that he might be able to shovel the snow off the field with the help of his players. He quickly deduced, however, that that idea wasn’t going to work once he saw up-close just how much snow they would be dealing with.

A couple of weeks later, Spiegel and the Cascade girls soccer coach, Glen Stefanko, tried to remove the snow on the school’s smaller practice field with a Bobcat utility machine equipped with a snowblower, but that method also proved to be ineffective.

A full month later, there is still four to six inches blanketing the field. The only thing that Spiegel and his players can do at this point is hope for increased temperatures that will melt the snow, but in the meantime, they’ve done what they’ve had to do to adapt.

Cascade has played three scheduled home games on its opponent’s field an two others at Eastmont Middle School, and has held practices in the high school and middle school gymnasiums.

Source: The Wenatchee World Online

Snow Plow and Small Town Living

by Galen Geer

I am a former US Marine and I am a Vietnam veteran. Also served in US Army. I am an avid angler and hunter and my fishing/hunting trips become the basis of much of my writing. I am married, have three step-children and two children of my own from my first marriage. This year, at age 59, I earned my MA in English from the University of North Dakota. I had planned to take an afternoon off this weekend and do some late season pheasant hunting. First, I had to clear the snow that had accumulated Thursday night and most of Friday. It wouldn’t be such a bad job if I didn’t have an ongoing battle with George, head of the City Shop and primary snow plow driver. In a lot of ways I find the whole thing amusing and somewhat reminiscent of the rural mail delivery madman Crumb Petrie in the 1988 Chevy Chase film Funny Farm . In the film Petrie drives over the mailbox, throws the mail at Chase’s character and commits a number of other hilarious acts. Our George hasn’t driven over our mailbox (we don’t have one), but he has buried our driveway in up to three feet of snow on a good day (for George). After he passes with the snow plow I can count on at least half-an-hour, if not more, digging out the driveway entrance—even with my snow blower! The problem is simple enough, George must clear the road and when he passes my drive his plow mounds up the snow. George is actually a pretty nice guy and we are both members of the Finley Wildlife and Gun Club, but I can’t help but picture a slight upturn of his mouth when he first eyes my driveway and slowly, carefully, and corresponding to the distance closed as he nears my driveway, his features begin to take on a distinctive Snidely Whiplash sneer as the snow that had once blanketed the street is scraped from the asphalt and gloriously pilled in my drive--the new guy's drive. Sometimes, while standing in my kitchen looking out the window and watching George bearing down on my driveway...

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