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Irish Independent
01-06-2025
- Irish Independent
Wexford's Wells House launches new guided garden tours for summer season
Wells House & Gardens has announced the launch of its brand-new guided garden tours, inviting visitors to step back in time and explore the beautifully restored gardens of this historic estate through the eyes of head gardener Kevin Williams. Once home to generations of the Doyne family and reimagined in the 1800s by the celebrated architect and landscape designer Daniel Robertson – famed for his work on Powerscourt Gardens, Killruddery, and Johnstown Castle – the grounds of Wells are a living canvas of Victorian design and horticultural heritage. These new guided tours offer an informal yet informative walk through the estate's enchanting gardens, including the meticulously restored Walled Garden. Kevin shares insights into the restoration process, the revival of Robertson's original landscape vision, and the ongoing care and planting that keep the gardens thriving today. As part of Ireland's Ancient East, Wells House & Gardens weaves together nature and narrative, offering an experience where the past meets the present. Guests will also get a glimpse of the estate's newest initiative—the development of a sustainable wetlands area—highlighting Wells' continued commitment to environmental stewardship. Perfect for gardening enthusiasts, history buffs, and day-trippers alike, these tours provide a rare opportunity to see the inner workings of one of Wexford's most breath-taking estates. Guided Garden Tours will be available on selected dates throughout summer 2025 and can also be arranged in advance for pre-booked group visits.
USA Today
27-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
OKC Thunder jersey history No. 30 - Kevin Williams (1986-88)
OKC Thunder jersey history No. 30 - Kevin Williams (1986-88) The Oklahoma City Thunder (and the Seattle Supersonics before them) have 51 jersey numbers worn by the players who have suited up for the franchise since its founding at the start of the 1967-68 season. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Thunder Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. And while those Supersonics jerseys may not remain part of the franchise history should a new team be established in Seattle as was the case with the return of the Charlotte Hornets, they are part of the Thunder's history today. For this article, we continue with the 30th jersey number in the series, jersey No. 30, with 13 players in total having donned the jersey in the history of the franchise. The seventh of those players did so in the Seattle SuperSonics era, guard alum Kevin Williams. After ending his college career at TCU, Williams was picked up with the 46th overall selection of the 1983 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. The New Yorker also played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and in other domestic leagues before he signed with Seattle in 1986. His stay with the team would span two seasons, ending when he was drafted by the Miami Heat in the 1988 expansion draft held to populate that team. During his time suiting up for the Sonics, Williams wore only jersey No. 30 and put up 5.7 points, 1.4 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mineral water made Colfax a booming vacation hot spot
COLFAX, Iowa — Busy streets, booked hotels and booming business. 'There were people with taxis with horse drawn buggies and they'd be hollering out 'Mason House Hotel. Come here,' Kevin Williams who serves as President of the Colfax Historical Society reflects on the town during the late 1800s. Today, this Jasper County town of 2,000 may not be a tourism hub but Williams, who grew up in Colfax, works tirelessly to make sure locals and visitors remember that for a 40-year stretch Colfax was experiencing a Silicon Valley like surge. 'This must have been quite a place,' said Williams. It wasn't microchips and technology it was water. Williams said, 'At one time there were three different railroads that came through Colfax and they shipped water all across the country.' Colfax was originally a coal mining town. In 1875, workers trying to build tracks west towards Des Moines were digging underground when they hit water. 'At about 300 feet, drilling their test hole they hit water and it was artesian water. It was under pressure and so that water went all the way to the top and out the top of the pipe.' Americans couldn't get enough of the natural mineral spring water found beneath Colfax soil. 'Right in those late 1870 and 1880s the medical community really thought a lot of mineral water. They thought mineral water was the best thing you can do if you bathed in it, if you drank it, any way you could get it into your body, was good for you. Colfax capitalized on that,' said Williams. Student winner of Iowa education license plate challenge revealed Hotels couldn't be built fast enough to keep up with demand and the tourism. Williams said, 'By the time we reached early 1900 there were 19 mineral wells, nine hotels, five bottling works. The mineral water industry for a period was a big booming time for Colfax.' Businesses thrived just by bottling the water and shipping it out. Williams showed off clear glass bottles inside the museum in Colfax saying, 'They all would have carried paper labels that would describe the healing effects of the mineral water.' Few remnants of this golden era remain, but many are still on display inside the Colfax Historical Society. Williams said, 'At the heyday there were about 30,000 people that visited Colfax a year.' Perhaps the most majestic reminder remains at the top of a hill. Inhabited by Sheepgate, a teen and adult recovery center, the former Colfax Hotel was so large it demanded its own train depot, power plant and trolley. 'Three hundred rooms when it was built it was a large hotel on one hundred acres and it had a six hole golf course,' said Williams. For four decades Colfax rode a wave of mythical proportions, but due to breakthroughs in modern medicine and World War I the boom went bust. Williams said, 'What really ceases the water industry in Colfax was World War I because during World War I the hotels couldn't get supplies.' Much like the surprise coal miners found over 100 years ago the charm and history of Colfax goes deeper than what you may find at the surface. Williams said, 'For us to be able to tell the story is the most important part of our existence here.' For more information on Colfax history you can visit the Colfax Historical Society or donate to preserve the town's history at their website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
'It's something special': WNY will see a total lunar eclipse early Friday morning
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Lunar eclipses are a natural phenomenon that happen once or twice a year, but once in a blue moon (figuratively speaking) you might see a total lunar eclipse. 'It's something special, it's reminding us that we're part of this dance that the Earth, Moon and Sun make to cause the shadows to line up,' said Dr. Kevin Williams, director of the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium at Buffalo State. 'Being able to view these with our eyes instead of just seeing pictures of them makes that connection between use and the universe. Total lunar eclipse 2025: What to expect on 3/14 Unlike last year's total solar eclipse, you won't need any instruments to view this total lunar eclipse, other than maybe an alarm clock. 'Around 1:10 in the morning, that's when the moon will pass into the main part of Earth's shadow, and that's when you'll start to really see the moon start to get darker, between 2:30 and 3:30 that's when the moon will be entirely in the Earth's main shadow, so that's pretty much the best time to watch it,' said Dr. Williams. 'As we look at the moon we're actually seeing sunlight reflecting off the moon, as apposed to looking directly at the sun like we were last year.' Dr. Williams is the director of the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium at Buffalo State University, and gave a preview of the Total Lunar Eclipse on Wake Up. At the planetarium, they hold a variety of programs and events for people of all ages to learn more about astronomy and see that the night sky really looks like without light pollution. 'Once we get away from that light pollution, we can see several thousand stars, you can see the Milkyway and again it just reminds us that this is what the night sky looks like if we could get rid of the light pollution,' said Dr. Williams. For more information on the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium, visit their website here. To attend one of their events, click here. Hope Winter is a reporter and multimedia journalist who has been part of the News 4 team since 2021. See more of her work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Independent
05-03-2025
- Health
- The Independent
One test could have prevented terminal prostate cancer, says patient
A former amateur rugby player, who has terminal prostate cancer, has said that he could have been diagnosed with the disease much earlier if he had undergone one simple test. Kevin Williams, who was 55 when he was first diagnosed, is dealing with similar complications faced by Olympic legend Chris Hoy, 48, who announced in February that he was being treated for cancer. However, after a scan last September showed a tumour in his shoulder, a second scan found the main cancer to be in his prostate – which has since spread to Hoy's shoulder, pelvis, hip, ribs and his cancer also spread to his bones. Williams, from Pyle, South Wales, had no symptoms before his diagnosis and was initially told by his GP that he had a bladder infection after passing blood in his urine. 'The local hospital did a cystoscopy [a procedure using a camera on the bladder] and reported a small polyp which they said they'd have me in to remove and that would be the end of things,' Williams told The i newspaper. 'It was only after booking a CT scan myself privately to be on the safe side, that I was told I had metastatic prostate cancer.' Seven years later, after being placed on a key hormonal drug called abiraterone, Williams remains optimistic about his future but wants to emphasise the need for mass testing in the future. 'It's frustrating as I should have been diagnosed much sooner, but it just shows that we need mass testing so that people are getting picked up at a time which gives them a really good chance of beating the disease,' he added. According to the report, Williams did not receive a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, an examination which may have told doctors about his cancer earlier and could have prevented it from spreading. The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test which is used to check for prostate conditions including prostate cancer or an enlarged prostate. Routine PSA testing is not currently offered on the NHS, but patients may be offered a PSA test if a GP suspects they have prostate cancer. Men over the age of 50 can ask their GP for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. New research has found there is a significant variation between GP surgeries in the proportion of men with no symptoms (asymptomatic) who are given the test. Researchers said that the variation 'speaks to the ongoing lack of clarity regarding prostate cancer screening practice in the UK'. 'People have shown that if we can target the androgen receptor with drugs, patients can respond to that and it can keep the disease at bay for a number of years,' says Adam Sharp, a prostate oncologist at The Institute of Cancer Research, told The i newspaper. Around 55,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and around 12,000 men die from the disease each year in the UK.
