| Team Sugar Free revs up
CHARLES TOWNWhen Donnie McFall bikes the American Diabetes Assocations Tour de Cure this year, hell be thinking of a friend.
McFall says hes dedicating this ride to a friend whose wife of 25 years died from complications because of diabetes.
His wife was diagnosed with diabetes just as she turned 6 years old and passed away when she was 44, he says. In that time, he said she was a great wife, friend, mom to two and foster mother to 17.
With a generous donation from his friend, McFall is part of the Charles Town Gold Gyms Team Sugar Free that will take part in the Tour de Cure, set for June 10 beginning at the Reston (Va.) Town Center.
Tour de Cure is a series of cycling events held in more than 80 cities nationwide to benefit the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Make Us Home
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- A program in Philadelphia is targeting commuters who want to save money and the environment. It allows drivers to share vehicles for a minimal cost.
Michael Pavelsky lives only two blocks from his center city office, so he walks to work. When he needs to see a client in the suburbs he gets a car from car share.
"It's much less expensive than renting a car for a short trip," says Pavelsky.
Car Share is a non-profit car rental company aimed at getting people to use cars less, rather than more.
You can rent a car from Car Share for just under 8 dollars an hour. That covers gas and insurance. You pay 9 cents for every mile you drive.
College student Dillon Steinberg says getting cars from Car Share is cheaper than having a car on campus.
MAKE YOUR HOME GREEN
Everywhere you turn these days, there go those buzzwords again: green, eco, organic, sustainable, renewable, alternative, recycled, reused. And it's not just Al Gore and Whole Foods Market and Mother Earth News and a bunch of long-haired, tofu-loving guys wearing Birkenstocks and obsessed with Armageddon doing the talking. The conversation now has entered bastions of Middle America -- places such as Target, The Home Depot and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., all of which are making a major green push. Add to that an ever-growing buzz over global warming, carbon footprints, China's thirst for oil, a nuclear renaissance and the plight of the polar bear. But what's the average homeowner to do to make any sort of difference? The idea and the prospect of living in a more environmentally conscious way have, indeed, gone mainstream in the United States.
Credit Card Climate Change May Come Too Late
There's a saying among professional money managers that goes something like this: "Managing what you owe is just as important as managing what you own." To that I would add "because if you don't, you're liable to end up not owning anything at all." This also happens to be the theme of a controversial new film called "Maxed Out," a documentary that has been creating a lot of buzz lately, similar to last year's "An Inconvenient Truth." Instead of global warming, the threat this time involves a spending-addicted middle class America getting buried under a mountain of credit card debt. Entertainment Weekly called it "the scariest horror film of the season." The movie portrays banks and credit-card companies as financial predators who prey on middle- and low-income Americans, luring them with cash-back rewards, frequent flyer points, and low initial interest rates, and then sucking them dry once those low come-on interest rates rocket into the kind of double digits only a loan shark can love.
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