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GMA Network
26-05-2025
- Sport
- GMA Network
Brooke Van Sickle to be feted as MVP in inaugural PVL Press Corps Awards Night
Brooke Van Sickle of the Petro Gazz Angels will banner the list of awardees in the inaugural PVL Press Corps Awards Night on Wednesday. Van Sickle was named the PVL Season MVP after leading the Angels to the All-Filipino crown and ending Creamline's bid for its fifth straight title. Van Sickle topped the voting with a weighted score of 227.6 points which is calculated from 50% statistics, 30% media votes, and 20% team votes. The 27-year old Petro Gazz outside hitter edged Creamline's Bernadeth Pons and Michele Gumabao for the said plum. Thea Gagate of ZUS Coffee, meanwhile, was named Rookie of the Year, while the Mythical Team included Van Sickle and Pons (Best Outside Spikers), PLDT's Majoy Baron and Creamline's Bea de Leon (Best Middle Blockers), Galeries' Alyssa Eroa (Best Libero), Cignal's Gel Cayuna (Best Setter), and Farm Fresh's Trisha Tubu (Best Opposite Spiker). Jude Garcia of Criss Cross, meanwhile, was named Spikers' Turf MVP. Other awardees include: -Creamline Cool Smashers (Team of the Year) -Sherwin Meneses of Creamline (Coach of the Year) -Jonathan Ng of Creamline (Executive of the Year) -Eli Soyud of Akari (Most Improved Player) -Alyssa Eroa of Galeries (Comeback Player of the Year) -Chie Saet of Petro Gazz (Miss Quality Minutes) -Spikers Turf Mythical Team: Jude Garcia and Sherwin Caritativo (Best Outside Spikers), Gian Glorioso and Giles Torres (Best Middle Blockers), Vince Lorenzo (Best Libero), Ish Polvorosa (Best Setter), Steven Rotter (Best Opposite Spiker) -Deanna Wong of Choco Mucho (Fan Favorite) -Choco Mucho vs PLDT, All-Filipino Conference Quarterfinals Game 2 (Game of the Year) —Justin Kenneth Carandang/JMB, GMA Integrated News
Axios
21-05-2025
- Axios
Cleveland traffic deaths rise despite street safety push
More than 600 cyclists and pedestrians were struck by cars in Cleveland in 2024, per a new report from the advocacy organization Bike Cleveland. Why it matters: Fatal car crashes have risen steadily, even as the city pursues policies to make streets safer. Catch up quick: Cleveland launched the Vision Zero initiative in 2022, which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2032. And this year, the city announced Cleveland Moves, a five-year mobility plan to make streets more accommodating for non-drivers. It included a pledge to build at least 50 miles of protected bike lanes in the next three years. Yes, but: Bike Cleveland says the escalating fatal crashes and pedestrian collisions demonstrate the urgent need to redesign streets. "These crashes are not accidents," the report argues, "they're the tragic and preventable result of streets that fail to keep people safe." Zoom in: The group compiled data from the city's 911 calls and the state's crash reports, acknowledging the totals are likely an undercount. The collisions were broken down by location and type. Overall, 75 people were killed in Cleveland traffic crashes in 2024, up from 59 in 2023 and 43 in 2022. Fifteen of the fatalities were pedestrians or cyclists. By the numbers: Ward 3 (Downtown, Ohio City, Tremont) saw more collisions involving cyclists and pedestrians last year than any other ward, with 85 total. Wards 3 and 14 (Clark-Fulton, Stockyards) saw the most fatal crashes, with three each. Beyond ward-by-ward infrastructure recommendations, the crash report outlines priorities like creating a standalone city department of transportation. What they're saying: Bike Cleveland executive director Jacob VanSickle tells Axios the city's transportation system is fragmented, with City Planning, Capital Projects and Public Works each handling elements of design and maintenance. "This siloed structure creates inefficiencies, slows progress and dilutes accountability," he says. A dedicated department would bring these functions under one body and provide the "coordination, capacity, and leadership" needed to deliver on the city's mobility plans. Zoom out: VanSickle said Cleveland could look to Pittsburgh and Oakland, which established similar departments in the past decade. The intrigue: Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne floated the idea of a county-level transportation department on the campaign trail in 2022.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Signed Jimmy Buffett pink guitar sold for $100K
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A sea of pink filled the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center Thursday as the Sanford Health Foundation held the 8th annual Big Stars and Pink Guitars fundraiser. 'It's very rare that you come across somebody and they don't have some kind of story. Even if it's not specific to breast cancer, that their lives haven't been impacted in one way or another with cancer,' Sanford Health Foundation's vice president Erin Sanderson said. Recreation areas along Missouri River temporarily closing This year's benefit raised $1,098,250 with 100% of the money going toward research and patients at the Edith Sanford Breast Center. 'The first year I remember we raised $167,000 and I remember thinking going into the second year, there's no way we're going to do that again. You know that's just was crazy,' Kory Van Sickle with Kory & the Fireflies said. From the love of the The Beach Boys to Snoop Dogg, the event brings together the love for music and a good cause. This year's surprise guitar was one signed by Jimmy Buffett that sold for $100,000. 'We would never do another Jimmy Buffett guitar again out of honor to him, but definitely with what it's going toward and who it helps we're pretty proud of what it's doing,' Van Sickle said. This is the event's first year at the PREMIER center, and Van Sickle is hoping it continues to expand in the future. 'Just how it's grown, with what it's raised. I mean it really has become like a family and the family keeps growing like families do,' Van Sickle said. 'We look at it from bird's eye view a little bit of just going, 'wow look at the difference that this is going to make' and the thousands of lives that these gifts are going to impact, just really special,' Sanderson said. Since starting in 2018, The Foundation has raised more than $5 million. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Big Stars & Pink Guitars
SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — It promises to be a fun filled night of music and hope, while raising money for a good cause. This Thursday night the Denny Sanford Premier Center will host the 8th annual 'Big Stars and Pink Guitars.' It's a fundraiser for breast cancer research and patients that was started by Kory Van Sickle of Kory and the Fireflies. And as you're about to see, they'll be auctioning off pink guitars signed by some of the biggest names in music. Kory and the Fireflies are arguably one of the region's most popular bands. Notice of high-risk offender's release to Huron But their founder, Kory Van Sickle has found a way to illuminate another way to turn music into money by starting and event called 'Big Stars and Pink Guitars' that'll take place this Thursday night at the Denny Sanford Premier Center. 'I thought if we take a ribbon shaped guitar and start having all these artists who play in this beautiful building sign them we can do something with that,' Van Sickle said. And they have. For the first few years the event was held in smaller venues, but 'Big Stars and Pink Guitars' has become a wildly popular fundraiser for the Sanford Health Foundation. 'Now here we are transitioning to the Denny Sanford Premier Center because we've grown so significantly and we have a lot of people who are onboard we are auctioning off a significant number of guitars every single year,' Erin Sanderson of the Sanford Health Foundation said. This year, they are auctioning off 20 pink guitars all signed by music icons. 'I think one thing to really notice is 100% of every dollar given or any gift to the Sanford Health Foundation stays local, this event specifically supporting the Edith Sanford Breast Center,' Sanderson said. It supports the cancer patients in various ways. 'Making sure that people are supporting them through wigs, head coverings, nurse navigation programs, state of the art equipment anything we can do to wrap our arms around these women, we are here working for you through community events like this,' Sanderson said. Van Sickle remembers Jason Aldean signing one of the guitars when he peformed at the Premier Center. But Van Sickle says Aldean got up on stage in Michigan during one of his concerts and played the pink guitar. 'A couple of weeks after that it was put on eBay and sold for $15 plus thousand and crazy enough found our dear friend, he's a dear friend now, but I didn't know him at the time Brian Kern from Madison, South Dakota had bought that, of all the people in the world on the internet, he bought that guitar and he has a killer collection now,' Van Sickle said. 'Various artists, from Tim McGraw, which was the very first one, to Morgan Wallen, Luke Combs He also got the Taylor Swift one last year. Don: What did you give for that one? Brian: It was a lot… He doesn't even play guitar. 'I have a grand piano in my house too, but I don't play piano, so kind of the same thing,' Kern said. But why so many guitars? 'That's an easy question to answer, my first wife passed away from cancer,' Kern said. 'She was 28 years old at the time so when Kory approached me I thought it was a great cause.' A cause that's raised a lot of money. Last year they hit the $1 million dollar mark in one night bringing the total money raised since its inception to now $4.5 million dollars. But it wouldn't have been possible without the cooperation of the stars. 'We find that a huge amount of the artists have been touched by breast cancer in some way, whether it's their mom or sister or daughter or a dear friend, whatever; a lot of women deal with it, and almost every artists who has come through here has signed guitars for us as well,' Van Sickle said. Now some of those signed pink guitars hang in the Premier Center as subtle reminder of what can happen when music and money come together for a good cause. Van Sickle has always had a desire to help others and this is one way he can give back to people who have supported him and his band over the years. 'This program is going to save literally thousands of women,' Van Sickle said. Van Sickle says besides the 20 pink guitars, they'll also be auctioning off one that he says will be a big learn more about the event and how to donate to the Sanford Health Foundation click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
