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Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Automotive
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Starting the season with the Race Party Car Show
ROWENA, S.D. (KELO) — The dirt track racing season at Huset's Speedway in Brandon is scheduled to start one month from today on Mother's Day, May 11. It's was foggy morning on Friday of cleaning the outdoor coolers and sprucing up the grounds at Red Rock Bar & Grill in advance of Saturday's Race Party Car Show. 'It's a fun time to get the local racers together with their cars and everything before they get dirty and banged up on the race track,' Red Rock Bar & Grill owner Mitch Runge said. Student faces misdemeanor for leaving gun in car The afternoon event is expected to include dozens of local drivers and a variety of race cars. 'There'll be everything from go-karts and quads to 410 sprint cars,' Runge said. Runge says the event allows fans of all ages to get hands-on with the cars. 'Everybody can kind of hang out, enjoy them, and get up close and personal and touch them, kids can come and see them,' Runge said. 'One of the best things, the funnest things for me, is to have the little kids coming up and being able to shake their hands and have them sit in your car and you bounce them a little bit and let them do their thing inside the race car,' sprint car driver Jay Masur said. Masur has spent nearly five decades with the MED-Star Dirt Track rescue team. He's also a second-year sprint car driver and considers everyone at the track family. 'You get to go see your family there and you don't have to worry about them pushing you into the wall or anything else, by accident most of the time, but it's that time where you can talk and have fun about the things that happened last year that weren't so fun,' Masur said. 'I'm kind of the older guy out there now but it's still fun to drive,' sprint car driver John Lambertz said. Lambertz has been racing sprint cars for more than 30 years and says he changes up his car every season, adding an element of excitement to the race party. 'You bust your hump all winter long to get your cars done and you kind of get to show them off, all your hard work that you did on the off-season,' Lambertz said. A former driver himself, Runge is ready for opening night and the future of the sport. 'Local racing is strong,' Runge said. Drivers are encouraged to unload their cars at Red Rock Bar & Grill between 9 and 11 Saturday morning, with the party running from noon until 4 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Health
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Transgender people oppose limits on minors' access to procedures
Mar. 3—Luke Boisvert of Nashua, a 13-year-old transgender male, said a proposed ban on minors receiving hormone treatments or puberty blockers could trap him in a prepubescent life because he suffers from Turner's syndrome. "Physically I can't go through puberty without these treatments," Boisvert told the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee Monday. "I was just a little boy who didn't know how to say I was a boy." Luke's mother, Jennifer, said lawmakers have no business adopting these mandates. "My child's health care is my child's health care. Nobody in the government has any right to legislate that," Boisvert said. Over more than seven hours of testimony, transgender youths and their supporters opposed the bills, one to block the hormone treatments for minors (HB 377), and the other (HB 712) to outlaw breast surgeries for those under 18 except to "treat malignancy, injury, infection, or malformation." The ban on puberty blockers would make providing that treatment a Class B felony that could carry up to a three and a half-to-seven-year term in state prison. Medical providers who gave minors breast surgery services under the second bill could be subject to professional discipline. Rep. Lisa Masur, R-Goffstown, said her bills would protect minors as studies have shown nearly 90% of youths who explored transition decided to remain in their biological sex. "I have spoken personally with these families who have been devastated by these treatments, parents who thought they were only doing what their children wanted only to find they later suffered greatly," Masur said. "They need time and compassionate care, not radical medical intervention." Linds Jakows, co-founder of 603 Equality, a transgender advocacy group, said both bills violate the 2018 statute that outlaws bias based on gender identity. "These bills cruelly single out this care when it is performed for the purpose of a gender transition, although non-transgender young people also sometimes need the same exact care. That's discrimination," Jakows said. Masur said it's hypocritical for the state to allow minors to have these procedures. "We don't let minors get tattoos, go to tanning salons, buy cigarettes or consume alcohol because we know they lack maturity needed to make decisions," Masur said. "Why then would we let them make irrevocable medical choices that will affect their health and happiness all of their lives?" A.J. Coletti, a member of the N.H. Youth Movement, said it took him more than two years to get the double-mastectomy top surgery last Jan. 14 at age 19. (Top surgery is a procedure that reshapes the chest for a more masculine or feminine appearance.) "Despite the popular idea that these procedures are easy to get, getting approved by insurance and scheduled for elective surgery takes a long time," Coletti said. Rep. Erica Layon, R-Derry, maintained the medical community refuses to take a stand against these procedures for children. "In any other area of medicine, they would go the other way on this but look around, it's scary to talk about this because, A, they will be told they hate transgender people which isn't true and, B, they are afraid of the repercussions they will face if they speak publicly about this," Layon said. Online, 2,582 people registered opposition to both bills while 197 supported them. Diana George is the mother of a 23-year-old transgender man who had breast surgery at age 16. "As a registered nurse, I know that what they prescribed was evidence-based, best-practice care that is validated by every major medical association," George said. "It's chilling to think about parents like me, who only want the best care for their teenager, being criminalized." klandrigan@
