February 2007 Archives

High school junior Bryson Lail is geting some pub for his basketball abilities in the Lawrenceburg, IN, paper.

An exhibit by sculptor Thomas Lail for the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, MA.

Here's his MySpace page.

A truly heartwarming story about the "Racial Integration that Nobody Noticed" with a Lail as a player.

It's the story of Alma Shippy "one of the few (blacks) to attend any segregated college or junior college by invitation -- and not by court order and armed escort."

And then 16-year-old Marvin Lail had a key role in this story. Read it.

I noticed the story elsewhere on the Web and was pleased to see that it had been written by the Associated Press' Margaret Lillard, one-time UPI reporter Knoxville. Cool!

Sixteen co-workers at Hickory Sample put $2 each into a pot to buy single Powerball tickets on Friday. On Saturday, they learned they had won $200,000. Lori McLaughlin Lail is holding the winning ticket.
ROBERT C. REED (RECORD PHOTOGRAPHER)

“Lori called me on Sunday morning and she said, ‘We won, we won.’ I said, ‘Won what?’ I didn’t know what she was talking about at first,” said Hickory Sample co-owner Betty Rink. “I’m just so happy for these people.”

-- Hickory Daily Record

Joann Lail, right, embraces fellow crafter Becky Lopez at Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand, Fla., Friday, Feb. 2, 2007. Lail was in her RV, the one overturned behind her, when a severe storm struck early Friday morning. (AP Photo/ Daytona Beach News-Journal, Mark Harper)

Saw this on a Florida Today blog:

DeLAND -- JoAnn and Garfield Lail travel to craft shows along the east coast and had just arrived Thursday night at a fairground in DeLand.

JoAnn Lail had woken up because of a bad back and opened windows on both sides of their fifth-wheel RV. She turned on the television and saw what was heading their way.

She went to the RV's loft "laid my hand on my husband and told him it was fixing to take us."

The tornado picked up the RV, threw it over their truck, rolled it over twice before it came to a stop on its side.

"If I had stayed downstairs here, I would have been gone," she said.

The Daytona paper covered their story, too.

There seems to be a Bradley Lail in the Air Force taking photos in Iraq. I found the above photo on Steven Moyer's blog, "THE TENSION."

Here the photo caption:

Senior Airman Mathew Steer and Senior Airman Richard Rodriguez monitor vehicles closely Jan. 24 at an entry control point at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq. Both are Kirkuk Air Base perimeter guards for the 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Bradley A. Lail)