NPF — Fastpitch Softball Hope — Will Host 2012 Softball Championships.

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. From National Pro Fastpitch. July 24, 2005:  The National Pro Fastpitch League (NPF) has announced plans to host the 2012 National Pro Fastpitch International Championship. Bill Conroy, President and CEO of NPF and the owner of the Chicago Bandits will spearhead this event which will coincide with the Gold Medal phase of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

The series of games will be hosted in NPF cities and stadiums and will feature the top international teams who will compete for the NPF International Championship. Mr. Conroy’s vision is to help keep the dreams and aspirations of all young female athletes whose goal is to play beyond the collegiate ranks and realize their dream of one day competing in the Olympic Games in 2016 and beyond.


In 2005, Mr. Conroy began his quest in solidifying the international partnerships by inviting National teams from China, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico, Russia, and Australia to compete against NPF teams this season. Every series was well played and drew thousands of fans who welcomed each team with enthusiasm and respect for each team’s sportsmanship and ability.

“We are very excited as a league and as a nation to perform a necessary function and help foster growth and demand for fast pitch softball. Our mission is to promote the sport in every country around the world and bring the sport back into prominence for the 2016 Olympic Games and beyond”, said Conroy. “We will be vigilant in reaching our goal and look forward to the 2016 Olympic Games with great anticipation,” Conroy added.




 

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Nauts Split with New England, 7-0,0-2 — 22-4 on Season

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WPCNR PRESS BOX. From the New York Juggernaut Website. July 22, 2005: The Juggernaut with half their season complete stand 22-4 on their 50-game schedule, after splitting a pair with New England Friday night, after battling the elements last week. The team has had a solid July, sweeping the Texas Thunder in Hempstead, taking one from Venezuela after rains washed out the other games in the series, sweeping New England. Getting back to business Friday evening in Hempstead, the Nauts split a pair of games,


In game one, a complete of Thursday evening’s suspended game due to a light failure, Ryan Realmuto’s three run dinger was all the margin the Nauts needed. With the game suspended after three innings Thursday, it was resumed Friday evenging and the Nauts completed the rout.


In game two, the Riptide turned the tables, whitewashing the Nauts, 2-0, behind newcomer Tammy Nielson will kept the hard-hitting Nauts off balance on 5 hits, beating Peaches James. Former Naut, Kellie Wilkerson homered in the first off the Peach for a 1-0 lead, and other former Naut, Lisa Iancin drove in the second run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly.


Nauts fans await the Chicago Bandits who come to town next weekend for a showdown. The Bandits behind Jennie Finch, lead the league.

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This week at the City Center Cinema De Lux

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WPCNR SCREEN GEMS. From National Amusements. July 23, 2005: Back from National Amusements, after a short absence is the weekly movie schedule for the City Center Cinema de Lux at the City center. Here are the rundowns on the films in the City Center theatres this week, Saturday through July 30. Scroll down after the previews.





























In Theatres Now
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience ’Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ is a tale about an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka’s extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in fifteen years. (PG ) Dark Water Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she’s determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment — dilapidated, cramped, and worn–seems to take on a life of its own. (PG-13) Wedding Crashers A pair of divorce mediators spends their weekends crashing weddings in a search for Ms. Right? for a night. But, when one of them falls for the engaged daughter of an influential and eccentric politician at the social event of the year, they get roped into spending a wild weekend at the family’s palatial waterfront estate and quickly find themselves in over their heads. (R )







Coming Soon To Theatres
Bad News Bears Morris Buttermaker, a former pro baseball player, was ejected from the game for attacking an umpire and now works as an exterminator. More interested in boozing and broads than baseball, Buttermaker is lured back into the game by Liz Whitewood, an attorney whose class action suit has forced the Little League to accept all players, regardless of their abilities. As the new coach of the Bears, the most losing team in Little League history, Buttermaker has his work cut out for him. (PG-13) Hustle & Flow DJay, a streetwise Memphis hustler tries to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused; this philosopher-hustler lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Anything more feels out of reach. (R ) March of the Penguins (La Marche de L’Empereur) Emperor penguins overcome daunting obstacles in order to return to their breeding grounds for mating season. This tells the story of one year in the life of a flock — focusing on one couple in particular — as they trek across the Antarctic on an annual journey that invokes just about every major life experience: from birth to death, from dating to mating, from comedy to tragedy, and from love to fighting for survival. (G ) The Devil’s Rejects Ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men, the Firefly family wakes up one morning with guns blazing — yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way. But as the body count mounts higher, Sheriff Wydell decides to take the law into his own hands. (R ) The Island Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the “The Island” — reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet — until he makes a terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie and that he is actually more valuable dead than alive. Together with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta, Lincoln makes a daring escape to the outside world he’s never known. (PG-13)






 








































Saturday, July 23, 2005
Bad News Bears (PG-13) 10:30 am 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:45 pm 12:20 am.
Batman Begins (PG-13) 3:15 9:45 pm 12:35 am.
Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) [IMAX;IMAX Reserved Seating] 9:25 pm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG ) 11:15 11:45 am 1:55 2:25 4:35 5:05 7:15 7:45 9:55 10:25 pm 12:40 am.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience (PG ) [IMAX;IMAX Reserved Seating] 10:45 am 1:25 4:05 pm 12:20 am.
Dark Water (PG-13) 6:20 9:05 11:35 pm.
Fantastic Four (PG-13) 10:25 am 1:00 3:45 6:35 9:20 11:55 pm.
Herbie: Fully Loaded (G ) 10:55 am 1:20 3:40 pm.
Hustle & Flow (R ) 11:05 am 1:50 4:30 7:20 10:05 pm 12:45 am.
Madagascar (PG ) 10:50 am 12:55 pm.
March of the Penguins (La Marche de L’Empereur) (G ) 10:50 am 12:50 2:50 4:50 6:55 9:00 11:10 pm.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG-13) 10:40 am 1:30 4:15 7:05 9:50 pm 12:25 am.
Must Love Dogs (PG-13) 7:30 pm.
The Devil’s Rejects (R ) 10:55 am 1:25 3:55 6:40 9:15 11:50 pm.
The Island (PG-13) [RWC/DVS] 12:10 3:20 6:30 9:35 pm 12:30 am.
War of the Worlds (PG-13) 10:15 am 1:05 4:10 7:10 10:00 pm 12:35 am.
Wedding Crashers (R ) 10:35 am 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:40 pm 12:15 am.
Wedding Crashers (R ) [Director’s Hall;Reserved Seating] 10:00 am 12:40 6:25 9:10 11:45 pm.








Sunday, July 24, 2005
Bad News Bears (PG-13) 10:30 am 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:45 pm.
Batman Begins (PG-13) 3:15 7:00 9:55 pm.
Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) [IMAX;IMAX Reserved Seating] 9:25 pm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG ) 11:15 11:45 am 1:55 2:25 4:35 5:05 7:15 7:45 9:55 10:25 pm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The IMAX Experience (PG ) [IMAX;IMAX Reserved Seating] 10:45 am 1:25 4:05 pm 12:20 am.
Dark Water (PG-13) 6:20 9:05 pm.
Fantastic Four (PG-13) 10:25 am 1:00 3:45 6:35 9:20 pm.
Herbie: Fully Loaded (G ) 10:55 am 1:20 3:40 pm.
Hustle & Flow (R ) 11:05 am 1:50 4:30 7:20 10:05 pm.
Madagascar (PG ) 10:50 am 12:55 pm.
March of the Penguins (La Marche de L’Empereur) (G ) 10:50 am 12:50 2:50 4:50 6:55 9:00 pm.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (PG-13) 10:40 am 1:30 4:15 7:05 9:50 pm.
The Devil’s Rejects (R ) 10:55 am 1:25 3:55 6:40 9:15 pm.
The Island (PG-13) [RWC/DVS] 12:10 3:20 6:30 9:35 pm.
War of the Worlds (PG-13) 10:15 am 1:05 4:10 7:10 10:00 pm.
Wedding Crashers (R ) 10:35 am 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:40 pm.
Wedding Crashers (R ) [Director’s Hall;Reserved Seating] 10:00 am 12:40 6:25 9:10 pm.








Monday, July 25, 2005
Bad News Bears (PG-13) 10:30 am 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:45 pm.
Batman Begins (PG-13) 3:15 7:00 9:55 pm.
Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) [IMAX;IMAX Reserved Seating] 9:25 pm.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG ) 11:15 11:45 am 1:55 2:25 4:35 5:05 7:15 7:45 9:55
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Mayor Delfino Suffers From Pneumonia. Resting Comfortably at Home

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WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. July 22, 2005: Sources close to the Mayor of White Plains, a councilman and an acquaintance have confirmed that White Plains indefatigable Mayor, Joseph Delfino, has pneumonia, for at least the last two weeks. Questions buzzed around City Hall the last few days wondering where the Mayor was as he was not there with his steady hand on the city’s helm. He was present at the Common Council special meeting Thursday evening on the plumbing matter, and is available to come in for certain functions. He is being treated for the condition. City Hall had no comment on the matter to WPCNR when asked twice to confirm the Mayor was ill. Get well cards may be addressed to the Mayor’s Office, 255 Main Street, White Plains, N.Y.



Mayor Joseph Delfino of the City of White Plains at the last Common Council Meeting.  Photo, WPCNR News Archive.

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