PLEASE NOTE. THIS EVENT IS BEING POSTPONED. If you had to sum up what Kids Kicking Cancer is all about, it is to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally. Started in 1999 with 10 kids at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Kids Kicking Cancer is [...]
We took a walk down to the marina this evening and things were really lively there. Thousands of people gathered to participate in the Selfie Festival, organized by the city of Ashkelon. They had set up dozens of large backlit displays enabling people to take really fun photos of themselves or the kids. Buskers entertained [...]
For hundreds of years, street performers have charmed snakes with their waving flutes, putting on a show for people on the street. In India, fearsome cobras have been used to amuse passersby and the charmers are rewarded by people throwing coins in a hat. Ashkelon's Marina has its own busker, who uses pythons to delight [...]
Lacrosse is one of the oldest team sports still being played today. A form of lacrosse was played by First Nations and Native Americans as far back as 1100 CE. Canadian Jesuit missionaries wrote about it in the 1600s. Today's lacrosse follows similar ideas, but the rules have been changed to make it a [...]
