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Ward Stone — former wildlife pathologist
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Ward Stone, Ph. D., wildlife pathologist for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation for more than 40 years, has fought his way back from a series of strokes that almost killed him. “I can’t walk, but I can think,” he says. At almost 82, the passion he’s had since his boyhood for wildlife and for discovery is unquelled. He says in this week’s podcast that he has an unfinished job — to fight for the environment. He recalls helping Mohawks discover what was polluting their water, working to identify the West Nile virus in New York, and predicting the sort of pandemic that we’re suffering from now.
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Daughter and mother coach dragon-boat paddlers
31:33|Anna Judge and Louisa Matthew realize they live in an ageist and sexist society — but, with generous spirits, they are paddling against the current. The mother-daughter duo together coach a crew of dragon boat paddlers. Matthew, the mother, is an art professor at Union College. Judge, her daughter, is a certified personal trainer who led her mother into the sport. “A dragon boat is a 40-foot long, very narrow racing boat,” explains Matthew in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “That became standardized in the 20th Century but it’s based on a thousands-year-old Chinese tradition of racing the big rivers in China.” A dragon boat has 20 paddlers, two to a seat, with a person in the stern who steers and a person in the bow signaling directions, traditionally by drumming. “It’s the national sport of China,” said Judge “so it’s quite big in Asia and has subsequently spread to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.” It came to the United States through Canada, she said, citing the work of a doctor in British Columbia who changed prevailing medical opinion on exercise for breast-cancer survivors.
Angelica Sofia Parker and Elca Hubbard prepare for a pageant while supporting each other
27:03|https://altamontenterprise.com/07242023/angelica-sofia-parker-and-elca-hubbard-prepare-pageant-while-supporting-each-other
