Rockin' on Rum Runner Days (Crowsnest Pass Promoter)Summer's here and the time is right for dancin' in the streets. Martha & the Vandellas sang it first in 1964, but the Chevelles will make it happen at this year's Rum Runner Days.[...]

Rum Rebellion Days in Iron River (The Iron Mountain Daily News)IRON RIVER - Iron River's 2009 Rum Rebellion Days festival will feature fun for the whole family. The event runs through Sunday. This year, the festival's theme has shifted from an emphasis on the historic events of the 1920 Rum Rebellion to a "Salute to Education" theme, since there will not be an All-School Reunion for the West Iron School District in 2009.

Great Sporting Moments: Red Rum's third Grand National win, Aintree, 2 April, 1977 (Independent)It was the man with the cauliflower all over his shoe that Ginger McCain would always remember. Brown brogues, he was wearing, and one of them was in the middle of his dinner.

Westby's Wedwick still styling after 65 years (River Valley Business Report)WESTBY — If customers of Norse Styles beauty salon in Westby appeared to be a little tipsy as they left the building on May 21, rest assured it was for good reason. Chances are they indulged in a piece of La Vina Wedwick's 85th birthday butter rum cake.

Vandals strike Rum Village park :Parks chief says it will cost thousands to clean up graffiti. (South Bend Tribune)SOUTH BEND -- Parks department employees spent Tuesday morning and afternoon removing graffiti from dozens of buildings and other objects at Rum Village Nature Center and Park after vandals struck the park overnight Monday, covering it with gang symbols.

Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Rum (NBC Chicago)Watch a sugar cane crushing demonstration and try a variety of 10 Cane Rums at a spirited patio party at Dunlays on Clark.

Young & Hungry Weekly Newsletter (Washington City Paper)The origins of the classic Cuban daiquiri are much in dispute. The consensus favors an American-oriented creation tale , in which a group of U.S. mining engineers in Cuba, circa the early 1900s, concocted the cocktail when they ran out of gin and were forced to fall back on the rum found widely on the island.

Parties, deaths lead to manslaughter charges for area mom (The Florida Times-Union)Before Jessy Calvin Pitts left a house party with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, the 18-year-old was seen downing shots of rum with Diane Katz Santarelli, the 51-year-old mother of the party's teenage host. Later, Pitts got into his 1991 Ford Thunderbird and started south to drop off his friend, Taylor Rae Brennan. Friends tried to stop him from driving. Santarelli, ...

The Friday Buffet (Chicagoist)Today : Dunlay's on Clark Street (2600 N. Clark) and 10 Cane Rum are hosting an patio party featuring a Trinidadian sugar cane crusher. guests will be able to taste fresh-squeezed sugar cane juice. 3-7 p.m. Saturday : Eivissa chef Dudley nieto will lead guests on a crash course in making paella. The $25 course includes samples, instruction and sangria; a take home paella kit is also available ...

Students will learn about Lake Erie pirates at the Maritime Museum (Port Clinton News Herald)From Confederate rebels to rum runners, students will discover the types of pirates that terrorized the waters of Lake Erie from 10 a.m. to noon, during the Pirates on Lake Erie session, July 28 to 31 at the Maritime Museum of Sandusky.

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