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Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Work at squash club makes it more accessible
Work to make a Lincolnshire squash club more inclusive has nearly been completed. Grantham Squash & Fitness, on Harlaxton Road, received £35,000 from South Kesteven District Council's portion of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund after showing how the changes would make the building more accessible. Club chairman David Goodridge said it wanted to encourage more people of all ages and abilities to use the facilities and become more active, both socially and physically. "We regularly turn down inquiries for events which may involve elderly or infirm people simply because two staircases are involved, but this improvement will make such a big difference to what we can offer the community," he said. Mr Goodridge added: "We completed the first stage of this wider project last summer when we installed electric entrance doors and two internal doors to provide easier access to the gym, toilets, sauna and squash courts. "What we're doing now is making our function rooms upstairs easily available to those with more limited mobility – or parents with pushchairs and prams – so they can join in the various classes and events hosted here. "The lift will also allow people get to the squash court viewing galleries more easily." The lift work is due to be completed in this week. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. South Kesteven District Council
See - Sada Elbalad
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Jacob Elordi, Lily-Rose Depp to Star in "Outer Dark" Film Adaptation
Yara Sameh Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the buzziest young names in the acting industry, are set to star in "Outer Dark," a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel. The 'dark fairytale', which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning "Son Of Saul" filmmaker Laszlo Nemes. "Outer Dark" is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the "Triangle Of Sadness" co-producer who has "Left-Handed Girl" playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit "Nosferatu" another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein", as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" and in Ridley Scott's "Dog Stars", which is in production. Nemes recently completed his third film "Orphan" (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot "Moulin", a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, "The Ballad Of A Small Player", starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner "No Country For Old Men" and Viggo Mortensen starrer "The Road." read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers Lifestyle Pistachio and Raspberry Cheesecake Domes Recipe News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War
USA Today
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Video: UFC 8 legends reunite nearly 30 years after fighting each other
Twenty-nine years after they squared off at UFC 8, two of the more recognizable names from the promotion's early days recently reunited to look over some hardware earned three decades ago. Still rivals, but now in a lighthearted way, Don Frye and Gary Goodridge traded jokes as the Frye's belt case was opened and out came the UFC 8 tournament belt. 'Where's my belt?' Goodridge asked. 'You've been keeping it warm for me?' No one found that funnier than Frye, who let out a deep cackle. 'It's shiny and pretty – and says Don Frye on it,' Frye rebutted. UFC 8 took place Feb. 16, 1996. Frye defeated Goodridge by TKO in the tournament championship after wins over Thomas Ramirez and Sam Adkins. Those were the first three fights of Frye's career. Goodridge had earned the tournament final spot after wins over Paul Herrera (RIP) and Jerry Bohlander. Frye and Goodrige would fight twice more, once at UFC 11.5 in December 1996 (which Frye won by exhaustion) and the other at PRIDE Shockwave 2003 (which Goodridge won by 39-second head kick). It's trippy seeing videos like this. We always talked about how MMA and the UFC didn't have the history of the major four sports. But as MMA's oldest generation ages, so do we. Frye and Goodridge have both in recent years struggled openly with health issues, including depression and other after-effects of a career of fighting. They will both turn 60 in 2025, but nostalgia in this sport is just being born – and I'm not sure I'm ready for that. The Blue Corner is MMA Junkie's blog space. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, that's on you.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
The legacy of York County's stop on the underground railroad
YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– An important stop of the underground railroad was right here in the Midstate. William Goodridge, the station master of the Goodridge Freedom Center, was a black man who became one of the most successful businessmen in York. He and his family lived at the Freedom Center, which is now a piece of American history. Goodridge was born into slavery, sent to York when he was six and freed as a teen. Once free, Goodridge trained to become a barber. Kelly Summerford, Director of the William Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum, said Goodridge turned a one-chair barbershop into York's tallest and most important emporium. 'We are not a museum of gallery. We are a museum of transformation. We tell the stories,' Summerford said. And Goodridge's story is a remarkable one. 'What makes that unique is the fact a person born, enslaved, coming to York County and able to establish himself. York County would probably have been one of the most using the vernacular of the day racist counties in the Commonwealth,' he said. Goodridge took his success and helped slaves escape, using his home to house those fleeing the South. 'I think we're about eight miles from the Mason-Dixon Line, you know, which represented enslavement to freedom. So just relative, relative relatively easily, just having a stop so close, you know, was quite important and. Sure, quite dangerous,' Summerford said. Today, she gives guided tours through the house. Summerford said some of the guests come fall on their knees and start praying, especially in one specific room. The room, which would have been a kitchen, housed a trap door that would hide escapees. A special viewing window gives guests a glimpse at the conditions escaped slaves had to endure. 'He absolutely was a hero,' Summerford said. But that's not the end of William Goodridge's legacy. 'His sons were some of the first black photographers in the world. And we're standing on this in the second floor, which we dedicate to Glenalvin Goodridge and his brothers, William and Wallace,' Alison Renner said. Glenalvin Goodridge was a pioneer in photography. 'Basically, his importance lies in how early it is. This is a very emerging genre and not that many people have had their portraits, actually,' Goodridge added. 'They've had them painted, but they haven't had them photographed. And so he's taking photographs of some of the most important people in York.' While he took many of the photos that now remain in the Freedom Center, there are no photos of him. 'While it seems easy from the outside, the reality of it was because of his position in York as a prominent black man and moneyed prominent black man, he was targeted,' she said. And that's the real lesson of the Goodridge's. Despite the cruelty of the era, they found a way to make a difference through talent, determination, and courage. Learn more about the Goodridge Freed Center online. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
