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Father, child lookalikes excite
Bahamas @ Sunrise held its second "Father, Daughter, Son Look-Alike" contest on Friday, June 16, 2006. The morning show, produced by The Counsellors Ltd., attracted ten fathers who brought their children to vie for a myriad of prizes from travel tickets to a day at the spa.Out of the twenty-seven contestants, "Mr. Rake and Scrape"- Mitchell Thurston and his daughter Mitchelle emerged as the overall winners with Lennox Cartwright and his infant daughter Logan right behind them in the second spot. The Beneby threesome consisting of Benson, senior and junior and baby girl Alia took the number three spot.
The show aired live at its usual time 6:30 am and entrants for the look-alike contest were present and accounted for at that early hour.
For placing first, the Thurstons received two tickets to any destination sponsored by Bahamas Ferries; dinner for two at the British Colonial Hilton, a portrait by Wendell Cleare and a digital camera and CD player from QBC/Radio Shack.
Sean Connery inspired Andy Murray for his famous win over Roddick!
London: British teen ace Andy Murray, claims that a phone call from Sir Sean Connery in the middle of the night inspired him for his famous Wimbledon victory over American Andy Roddick. Murray was woken by a 3am call from Connery before Saturday's showdown with No3 seed Andy Roddick. Murray, who was too sleepy to answer the call, picked up the message in the morning, reports the Scotsman. He revealed in his online diary that Connery had called from his home in the Bahamas to wish him well. He said: "I was up at 3am. Got woken by a call from an unknown number so obviously I didn't answer. "Didn't struggle to get back to sleep though. When I got up I checked my phone and there were three messages, and the one left at 3am was from none other than Sean Connery, calling from the Bahamas, which is about five or six hours behind us.Lovers of living on the edge
Widespread Panic percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz says one of the requirements for being in the band is to enjoy a big element of musical unpredictability."We like living on the edge," Ortiz said in a recent phone interview.
"I think that was one of the requirements of joining the band, that you wanted to live on the edge. And it's still a barrel of fun for all of us."
Ortiz has certainly seen that outlook play out night after night on stage, where the band changes sets nightly and is known for jams that take songs to new and unexpected places on a regular basis.
With the band's new CD, "Earth To America," Widespread Panic more than ever also took the notion of living on the edge into the studio.
For the first time after eight previous studio albums, the band left its home base of Athens, Ga., for recording and went to Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas to record "Earth To America."
The group also took a break from working with longtime producer John Keane to work with Terry Manning on the CD.
Hispanic firms growing in SC
In Puerto Rico, Stella Colwell and her brother Larry Mercado made extra money while at their aunt's house by making and selling cookies.It was an early lesson in entrepreneurship.
Today, the duo is on the front end of a burgeoning movement in Horry County - indeed, statewide.
They are Hispanic business owners.
"I've always been an entrepreneur," Colwell said.
Back then, their entrepreneurial drive paid off in a cruise and trip to the Bahamas.
Today's payoff is a bit richer. Their Pawleys-Island-based high tech firm, Mercom Corp., earns more than $7 million a year. Colwell is the president and CEO of Mercom and Mercado is the vice president.
They've even made Hispanic Business' directory of the 500 largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States.