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Players vie to be the ‘Survivor’ in Durham
DURHAM — When Kyle Jason got the call last week, he didn’t hesitate to hop on a plane and fly to Maine. It was last minute, sure, giving him just days to prepare for a competition that taxes contestants physically, mentally and emotionally. But the 32-year-old Detroit man, who had been a contestant on the […]
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‘Survival’ comes to Durham
DURHAM — They stood in the blazing heat, 24 people from all over the country, balancing on barrels, using an oversize block to answer multiple-choice questions, running circles with two 15-pound bags of sand slung around their necks. Next up: A new maze lined with electrified cow fencing. All 24 were there to win. Bob […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Survivors spearhead new Norway cancer resource center
NORWAY — When Barbara Deschenes was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, she felt conflicting senses of fear, confidence and resolve. She had a lot questions. “You’re not expecting a cancer diagnosis — and who is?” Deschenes said. Cancer-free since 2012, Deschenes and a group of survivors have set up the region’s first cancer center to help patients navigate the […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
‘Survivor,’ Durham-style: Crowley hosts second annual Durham Warriors Survival Challenge
DURHAM — Bob Crowley said with a wide grin that he’s just thrilled no one died last year. Rail thin, dressed in head-to-toe khaki and tall rubber boots, he walked the woods here Monday where he hosted 18 people last September in an ultimate endurance contest. The now-retired physics teacher who won “Survivor” in 2008 […]
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Pearl Harbor survivor thrives meeting visitors
“Come get a picture,” Weatherwax says. Her family surrounds his scooter to pose for a snapshot and shake his hand. The 96-year-old charms visitors in a similar fashion each of the three days a week he volunteers at a memorial for the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank in the 1941 Japanese attack. The retired […]
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‘Survivor’ campers compete in Durham
DURHAM — The first contestants were arriving in six hours. Still written on the dry erase board to-do list on a rough cabin wall: Eighteen stumps for tribal. Clean mud pit. Bob Crowley walked the sprawling camp in thick rubber boots, eyeing the under-construction challenges, the newly flooded pond, the volunteers hurrying to make everything […]