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Another Waterville Valley Resort, NH athlete - Chris Devlin-Young (below & right) - will be going for the gold at the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. The Paralympic Winter Games is an elite sporting event for accomplished athletic champions spanning five different physical disability groups. Emphasizing the Paralympic values of courage, determination, inspiration and equality, the Paralympic Winter Games showcase participants' athletic achievements rather than their physical disability in five sports: alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country skiing, sled hockey and wheelchair curling. In Vancouver, a total of 600 athletes from approximately 40 countries will compete in these five sports.

Chris Devlin-Young, of Campton, will be competing in the Men's Downhill - Sitting, Men's Slalom - Sitting, Men's Giant Slalom - Sitting, Men's Super-G - Sitting, and the Men's Super Combined - Sitting.

NBC Sports and Universal Sports has announced that they will broadcast 2010 Paralympic Winter Games highlights, including a one-hour program recapping the Opening Ceremony on Saturday, March 13 (1-2 p.m.) and a two-hour highlights program on Saturday, April 10 (3-5 p.m.).

In addition to the coverage on NBC Sports, Universal Sports will broadcast a nightly two-hour show for nine straight nights dedicated to the daily competition of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games starting on Monday, March 15 at 6 p.m. (re-air at 11 p.m.) and continuing nightly through Tuesday, March 23.

Additionally, UniversalSports.com will offer on-demand re-airs of the Universal Sports television coverage, plus full-length event “rewinds.”

The official site of the U.S. Paralympic Team, www.usparalympics.org, will also offer daily video and news highlights of the competition from Vancouver.

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There is a little know attraction in Grafton, NH called Ruggles Mine.

It may not be very famous but every child who has been there will remember the trip forever! Ruggles Mine is a mica mine.

To geologists this area is known as the Littleton Formation, it is 300,000,000 years old!

Mica was discovered in 1803 by Sam Ruggles of Grafton. A "book" of mica as large as five feet in diameter has been found there.*

Mica is heat resistant and transparent. It was used in whale oil lamp chimneys, ships windows and stove fornts. Newer uses were cosmetics, cement block and asphalt roofing.Early electrical appliances such as toasters had mica in them. The mine was also a good source for Feldspar- used in glazes and also in nonabrasive scouring powder and glass cleaner. From 1932 to 1959 the Bon Ami Company extracted 10,000 tons of feldspar.

By the 1930's an estimated $12 million dollars worth of mica came out of Ruggles. By the 1960's the number had swelled to $30 million. But as is the way of the world....eventually other countries offered mica cheaper, the government eliminated subsidies and the demand became less.

In 1963 Ruggles Mine opened as a tourist attraction!

If you have children who love collecting rocks, or if you yourself are a rock hound you have got to make the trip. Bring boxes and buckets as well as hammers and spades because you are allowed to take anything you find. Your children will spend all day delighting in exploring the caves and anticipating finding treasure!

**Those of you who have coveted mica when you were a child are familiar with the transparent layer upon layer-pages like a book!

Ruggles Mine, Grafton NH Admission: $20/adults $10/children

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