Another Double Your Dollar Day tomorrow

Be sure to log on tomorrow at 8:20 am when you can purchase $50 worth of certificates for only $25 at Dublin’s Street Pub on University.

Today is National Photograph Your Children When They're Not Looking Day.

The 101 number one song of the day was written and recorded by a young Canadian who found fame and fortune by the time he was 17 but as time went on, his fame lessened but that fortune grew – dramatically- because of the music he wrote for others.  In 1958, he wrote a song for his friend, Buddy Holly, “That’ll Be the Day.” Much later he wrote Tom Jones biggest hit, “She’s A Lady.” In the sixties, he bought the rights to a melody written in France, and wrote new words to a song that would become a signature song for Frank Sinatra AND Elvis Presley (My Way.)  He would earn thousands every year for the music Johnny Carson would use each night as the theme to “The Tonight Show.” But on July 29^th, 1959 – a few months shy of his 18^th birthday, his name was on the record label of the number one song in America – it was Paul Anka and the song, was “Lonely Boy.”

Go Las Cruces Vaqueros!  The 3 game series for the championship begins today in Big Bend.  First game is at 6:50 against the Cowboys.  You can listen here: http://www.bigbendradio.com/

In North Dakota…a hail storm struck last week – causing backyard craters and smashed car windows. People reported craters in their yards where the hailstones struck…some craters a foot wide! One person grabbed a hailstone and measured it – it was 19-inches in circumference and weighed two pounds!  Here’s a big one but not that big -

At a wildlife sanctuary in Georgia, a rare ‘zedonk’ has been born. It’s a cross between a donkey and a zebra. The baby looks like a donkey on top…but has horizontal stripes on its legs. Park officials say donkeys and zebras usually don’t mate…but ‘zedonks’ aren’t totally unheard of…and do turn up occasionally.

There’s a lot of disturbing pairings that turn up in nature. Like a rhinoceros mating with an elephant… (What do you call that baby?) Eleph-ino…