I met 92-year-old Isabelle Thomas in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has fought four different types of cancer and just refuses to give up. She is just one of the dozens of reasons why I'm walking.
Quotes about rapids (16 Quotes)
The fire chief from Stoughton called the state command center and Wisconsin Rapids was the closest team available to respond,
The club currently has 52 members from all over central Wisconsin, but most are from the Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids areas. Members are known as 'family members' emphasizing the aspect of this being a family hobby.
People are talking about the rebound of Wisconsin Rapids. Four years ago, they were talking about this as a dying community. That's a significant change. ... We've really instilled a positive can-do attitude.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.
I'm sure we've both thought of that, but we can't look ahead. We've lost to Rapids in the semifinals the past two years. If we meet them this year it will be for some hardware and that would be great.
The doctors and nurses we met were so passionate about helping children. We came away from our tour with a desire to help support the new hospital in a significant way. Our children and all six grandchildren live in Grand Rapids or close by, so we want to assure that the best health care available anywhere is available here--not only for them, but for all children and families in the region.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past.
I've been coming here since 1990 and there is no other community that runs a wrestling tournament like Wisconsin Rapids. This is a big tournament and it runs like clockwork.
Grand Rapids will say all the right things, but I think they'll look at the standings and see they finished 25 points ahead of us and think in the back of their minds, 'Hey, let's win four straight and move on. We want to go in and maybe take it to seven games and see what happens then.
We've been close (in the standings) all year. I don't care if it's one point or 12 points (Cedar Rapids is) still a great team and we are going to have to be at our best to beat them.
That's the thing with Dell Rapids, you can't let them get out to a fast start. We certainly couldn't chase them man-to-man. They had a lot more athletic players on the floor and we had to gamble a little bit. They're a very good inside team, and they're a very good outside team. But you can't stop both. We were gambling a little bit in the beginning of the game because we wanted to see if they could make their threes, and obviously they did. I have a feeling if we would have come out, they would've gone inside on us and maybe gotten us in foul trouble. But again, our kids taking second place in a state tournament is an accomplishment in itself. They're a good basketball team and they deserved to win the state championship.
Isn't that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said 'Gerald Our Ford'. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.
Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.
I think L. A. is under a lot of pressure right now. They have a lot of resources on that team, but they're only four points ahead of us, with (the Rapids having) two games in hand. They had a tough loss on Sunday and I expect it to be a very emotional, very physical game.