Spring training gets into full swing at the end of February in Surprise Arizona. The teams have finally arrived in the area, workouts are underway at the training fields and many games have been scheduled over the next month.

 Be sure to plan on attending the first game on the 4^th of March. Its the 8^th annual Sundancers Charity Game and the action starts at 1:05 pm at the stadium in Surprise Arizona with the Texas Rangers facing the Kansas City Royals.

 This is going to be a great way for you to start Spring Training in Surprise because you’ll have a chance to visit with the players and pick up a few autographs while you’re there.

 Every morning around 10:00am the practice fields will be open for the public to watch the Texas Rangers or the Kansas City Royals work out.  The teams are usually there until around noon.  There is plenty of parking and some bleacher seating is provided around the outside of the fields.

 After the game if you want to head out to a local restaurant there isn’t much within walking distance but there are a large number of eating places within a couple of miles of the Surprise Recreation Complex. If you need help with transportation from your hotel to the Surprise Arizona Stadium your best bet is to call a local town car service.  They are quick and reliable and provide dependable service.  Contact Copper Trails Towncar Service at 480-650-6147 for service valley wide.

 Those citations issued from the offices where the pictures are reviewed are getting to be more difficult to enforce and more and more people are choosing to not plead guilty and  pony up the money for a fine.  It seems the previous administration was sold on the idea that the cameras would be a great way to generate revenue to help balance a run away budget.  The big problem is that Red Flex (the company that put them up) has a contract for the maintenance of the cameras and participates in the revenue generated by them.  Just to make sure the numbers remain high enough, Red Flex actually provides training for courtroom employees on procedures to handle the processing of the cases.  It sure makes me think about the speed traps set out side those little bergs across the country where they caught tourists who didn’t slow down quickly enough as they came into town.

 For some reason I never have cared for the idea of BIG BROTHER taking my picture all day long and then sending me a citation in the mail because I may have accidently broken a law somewhere along the way.  Before long we’ll be getting a bill from the Government for a tax on the number of miles we have driven on the highways that our BIG BROTHER has to maintain.

I think this year it would be a good time for us all to keep an eye open for a voter referendum that would tell the state of Arizona that we don’t like ‘em and we want them taken off the highways.  Have your say and leave your comments here. Let’s be heard!

We had the pleasure of attending the opening night performance of “All My Sons” at the Peoria Center for the Performing Arts on Friday the 22^nd of January.  The Arthur Miller play which has received several awards is a drama which draws your attention to the problems faced by two families as they come to grips with their wartime decision that appears to have affected the lives of some of our nations heroes.  The actors did a wonderful job and kept our interest centered on the stage as the events unfolded and exposed a story of deception and intrigue that ultimately effected the lives of everyone in both families.

 Not only did we enjoy the terrific acting and solid story line of the impressive Arthur Miller play but because this was the opening night we had the pleasure of joining with family members and the cast and crew of the performance for wine tasting and Prime Rib sandwiches provided by Flemings Prime Steakhouse and Wind Bar.

 It was considered a wonderful Friday evening in Peoria, Arizona and we are looking forward with great expectations to future opening night performances of plays scheduled by the Theater Works throughout the rest of the spring season.

 Haitian and US officials entered into an agreement of understanding that allowed communications to be reestablished and the administration of the airport facility was taken over by the US officials. Relief efforts can now be coordinated with military support beginning at the airport where a huge bottleneck had been developing.  Planes were arriving from around the world and were forced to circle for hours as there was no place to file flight plans and therefore no arrival schedules.

 The US Air Force has now begun to schedule landings and departures for relief flights and many planes are being diverted to airports on other Caribbean islands and into Florida.  Haitian airspace is now off limits to planes arriving with little or no advance notification because of the overcrowding of the limited airspace. Nearly 200 flights arrived at the Haitian airport bringing in both military personnel and all types of food and emergency aid.

 Armed forces commanders have stated that it is their job to oversee the orderly distribution of food and emergency supplies and no one has said any thing about the US making plans to take over the administration of the nation of Haiti.

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In the past six months BA has lost about 346 million dollars as the numbers of first class travelers and leisure travelers has dwindled because of the recession. People are not spending as freely this year as they have in the past and revenues are slipping behind predictions. As a result the union members are becoming very anxious about plans to eliminate jobs.

If you have plans to travel with British Airways in the next few days be sure to have an alternate plan in place just in case you should need to make changes. Be sure to contact BA and inquire about changes to flight schedules.