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Living the dream for many out on the open road Several years ago, not long after my work life had planted me in downtown Millersburg every day, I had a visit at the office from an old friend. Bill and I had ridden together on a number of different squads over the years and made some of our greatest bicycling memories as members of a four-man team that ruled the legendary 24-Hours of Vulture’s Knob mountain bike race during a time that most of us now refer to as “back in the day.” I hadn’t seen Bill in a couple of years, so it was a real treat when he dropped in. We regaled each other with memories of the mud, mos-
anymore.” He deflected further questions by pulling something from his pocket. It was his mountain bike headlamp. “Here,” he said. “I’m not going to be needing this anymore. If you can’t use it, I know you’ll find someone who can.” “Sure, Bill, I can find someone ... but, Lord, that thing’s worth a couple hundred bucks. Why don’t you sell it on eBay or something?” I said. “No,” he said, shaking his head. “I just want it to be used. I’m not interested in anything but that. I had a lot of fun with it and now it’s someone else’s turn.”
quitoes, five-foot snakes and pie pan-sized moths that were all a part of that now-defunct summertime ritual along the banks of the mighty Killbuck. Bill knew I was still riding by following my exploits in the newspaper, but I wasn’t sure about him. I hadn’t seen him at the races in a long time and when I asked, he mumbled that he “didn’t have a lot of time
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July (Continued From Page 10) know she’s willing to help with our HDM events. It shows she’s got her head where it really needs to be with the promotion of not only herself but the
whole downtown area,” Lamp said. Official HDM events include not only the upcoming Antiques in the Alley, on Aug. 3, but Girls Night Out, the Holmes 100 bike race, Boo in the ’Burg, Soire Saturday,
Children’s Night as well as cash mobs and Second Saturday events throughout the year.
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