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Riverfront concert to benefit children

Area churches and organizations are banding together to put on a concert next week to benefit needy children overseas.

The Kids Matters Benefit Concert featuring musician Brenton Brown, will be held at Kamiah’s Riverfront Park July 11 from 6-9 p.m.

Event organizers and Nazarene Church Pastor Hunter Mizar said the money raised will be given to Compassion International to assist overseas children in need of basic services that are all too often taken for granted in this country. 

 

Read the rest of this story in the July 3, 2008 issue of The Clearwater Progress. 

Kamiah man dies in crash

The Idaho State Police report David Ray Helms, 66, of Kamiah was killed Monday after his 1997 Jeep went off the Beaverslide Road and traveled down an embankment after he failed to negotiate a left turn.

The accident was reported at 1:51 p.m. Monday afternoon. The ISP said Helms was heading south at the time of the accident and that he was not wearing a seat belt. The investigation is ongoing.

Hangin' on - The bull "Peach Schnapps" was anything but sweet for would-be rider Bryce Palmer during Saturday's opening round of bull riding competition at the 44th annual Clearwater Valley Roundup Association Rodeo. For more photos and rodeo results, visit our Sports page.

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Determined to stay in the game

Thirteen-year-old ball player not deterred by diabetes

By Ben Jorgensen

The Clearwater Progress

Austin Breckenridge is living proof that when life throws you a curve, you take your best swing.

Like most 13-year-old boys, Austin loves sports. But the lanky blue-eyed teen is known in baseball circles as a prodigy.

Unlike almost everyone else his age, Austin’s biggest battle isn’t hitting, catching, fielding line drives or finding the strike zone with a full count in the bottom inning of a championship game.

It’s diabetes.

For the Breckenridge family, Jan. 27, 2007 is known as D-Day. D for Diabetes. That’s the day doctors determined that Austin had Type 1 diabetes.

 

Ben Jorgensen/Progress

Austin Brekenridge of Kamiah isn't letting diabetes stop him from playing baseball.

Read the rest of this story in the July 3, 2008 issue of The Clearwater Progress. 

 
 

 

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