Future Olympians

The Dow Jones is still above 10,000 (Karl Marx would never have believed a “dove” market), the begonias are in full bloom, Albert Pujols remains our hero, seems like it will be Over There, Steve Shankman has become our Lawrence Welk and people even smile when they are asked to wait for a place to watch the Senior Olympics at the JCC. Joy, despair, hope and sometimes a tragedy happens there as it did the first year Nancy Weigley began as a volunteer at the SO, when a participant expired on the tennis courts. The columnist headed over to the campus of the JCC to ogle the action of some of the 1,400 from 18 states participate in 85 events. Sister Madonna Buder, 79, is flying in from

Badminton Anyone?

her base in Spokane, WA., to compete in cycling, swimming, iron man triathlon and running races (she insists she keeps in shape by running to mass). At 96 years-old, swimmer Bill Grant, may be the oldest in the SO. It was recalled that once a person lost his dentures in the pool; a young KSDK, Channel 5 news reporter, who poked fun at the older competitors, lost his trunks in the pool. A glorious event for all as spring melts into summer.

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