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OUTDOORS ALMANAC Berdette Zastrow mug Zastrow gets award The 2006 South Dakota Wildlife Federation annual convention was recently held in Aberdeen, hosted by the Sportsman’s Club of Brown County. Activities included business meetings, Sand Lake tour, shooting competitions, banquet, auction and awards night. The 2006 South Dakota communicator conservationist of the year award was presented to Berdette Zastrow by the Sportsman’s Club of Brown County, South Dakota Wildlife Federation and the National Wildlife Federation. Zastrow, of Columbia and Pickerel Lake, authored Woman’s Guide to Hunting, is an avid outdoorswoman and writes for newspapers including the American News, regional and national magazines, and has co-hosted outdoor radio and internet broadcasting shows. She is on the Pheasants Forever national board of directors and serves on the board of the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers. Aberdeen club camp out The Aberdeen Driftbusters Snowmobile Club’s summer camp out will be Sept. 22-24 at …

The nation’s largest celebration of outdoors recreation is even bigger this year. The 15th annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Expo next weekend in Austin is expected to attract up to 45,000 people, about 9,000 more than last year and more than six times the crowd of 7,000 for the first Expo in 1992, said Tom Harvey, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department spokesman. Attendance, however, isn’t the only thing that has grown at the free Expo. Several new events have been added, providing almost any outdoors activity a person might want. The Expo originated as an event to celebrate the role hunters play in conservation but over the years has added other shooting sports, fishing, kayaking, mountain biking, rock climbing, camping and hiking. Chuck Nash, then the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission chairman, “believed we should do something to promote hunting and wildlife conservation,” Harvey said. “The Expo started out …

Suspect killed in crash after police chase A man being pursued by police after an alleged armed robbery attempt was involved in a five-vehicle crash in Coatesville that killed him and injured eight others, police said. Police said Bradley Roach, 20, of West Bradford, tried to rob the Caln Farmer’s Market Gun Shop at 9 p.m. Saturday and assaulted the owner before fleeing in a car. “As far as we know, nothing was actually taken,” Caln Township Police Officer David Wardle said. The owner was struck by the butt end of a shotgun and went to a hospital to be treated for facial fractures, police said. The fleeing car then entered Coatesville and clipped a car that had four people inside, sending it spinning, and then hit a second vehicle head-on, police said. Roach died of injuries at Reading Hospital. Some of the others injured were flown to hospitals for …

The first thing Charles Carl Roberts IV did when he walked into the one-room Amish schoolhouse, police said, was to show the children his semiautomatic pistol. He was talking, but he didn’t make sense. “Have you seen anything like this?” police say he asked. “Can you help me find it?” Roberts let all 15 boys leave. A pregnant woman, too. Three adults were allowed to escape with their infant children. He bound the girls with wire and plastic ties and lined them up at the blackboard. He called his wife to say that he wouldn’t be coming home, that he loved her. And then he began to shoot the girls. A scene of carnage erupted in pastoral Lancaster County about 11 a.m. yesterday as a lone gunman with a 20-year-old grievance took his revenge on a room full of pupils at the West Nickel Mines Amish School, then turned the …

PARADISE, Pa. | The first thing Charles Carl Roberts IV did when he walked into the one-room Amish schoolhouse, police said, was to show the children his semiautomatic pistol. He was talking, but he didn’t make sense. “Have you seen anything like this?” police say he asked. “Can you help me find it?” Roberts, 32, let all 15 boys leave. A pregnant woman, too. Three adults were allowed to escape with their infant children. He bound the girls with wire and plastic ties, and lined them up at the blackboard. He called his wife to say that he wouldn’t be coming home, that he loved her. And then he began to shoot the girls. A scene of carnage erupted in pastoral Lancaster County about 11 a.m. Monday as a milk-truck driver, apparently with a 20-year-old grievance, took his revenge on a room full of pupils at the West Nickel Mines …

CALENDAR ** Today — “Fall Turkey Hunting — The Basics” will be taught by John Pflueger, at Gander Mountain, 4938 Portage St., N.W., Jackson Township. The 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. class is free. Call: 330-498-0995. ** Oct. 13-15 — Fourth annual Fox Creek Outdoor Experience, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day at Clay’s Park Resort. Participation events include fishing, archery, air gun, paintball, ropes course, canoeing, Frisbee golf, boomerang, kite flying, mountain bike racing and skateboarding. Spectator events include water ski shows, chain saw carving, lumberjack shows and others. Information: www.FoxCreekOutdoors.com or call 330-854-9083. ** Through Nov. 30 — Metro Parks, Serving Summit County has its 43rd annual Fall Hiking Spree. At various locations, see breathtaking fall foliage. Hike at least eight of 14 designated trails to receive a hiking reward. Hikes must be completed between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30. Parks are open 6 a.m. to 11 ..

Byline: Mike Dano It looks like everybody and their mother is courting the public-safety market. Thanks to the wonders of digital TV, there’s now a bunch of extra spectrum at 700 MHz, a valuable band due to its propagation characteristics. Congress agreed to give 24 megahertz of this newly freed 700 MHz spectrum to public safety, and then auction off the rest. Of course, industry is hungry to bid on the 700 MHz that is being auctioned. However, it appears that won’t be enough-industry now looks increasingly hungry for the 700 MHz of spectrum designated for public …

94.1 WYSP listeners heard a familiar voice Tuesday afternoon when Howard Stern called into Kidd Chris’s show. He spent about 30 minutes on the air plugging Sirius Satellite Radio, which yesterday began a two-day free trial on sirius.com. Pittsburgh’s 93.7 K-ROCK, a CBS Radio station that syndicates Chris’ show, mysteriously developed technical difficulties just as Stern came on the air. While Pittsburgh listeners did not hear Stern’s appearance, WYSP was not so petty and let Stern be heard on its airwaves. Stern ,of course, famously left CBS Radio, then Infinity Broadcasting, for the world of satellite. He was later sued by CBS, and it was settled out of court. Pair use boobs as brushes A joint painting by the breasts of 94.1 WYSP’s Kim Douglas and Wired 96.5’s Casey is among artwork up for bid as part of Barsky’s Boob Art Auction, which benefits breast-cancer charities. We reported exclusively in …