WRCC's Paceline News

Unexpected Benefits of Membership By Kathy Schroth Some of you may remember that Molly found a young cat on the middle of the Granville Bridge, apparently looking for assistance. Being Molly, she tucked him in her jersey and gave him a ride. We were thrilled to adopt him and named him Carl after the handsome young man in The Restaurant (which I highly recommend, by the way). "Carl" hitchhikes home in Molly's jersey... The vet said he was at least a year old despite weighing only 5.1 pounds and he had definitely spent the winter outside because of his heavy coat. The first week or two he ate can after can of cat food with no apparent preference and plenty of crunchies in between.  Zac Ready, a DVM student at Purdue, gives Carl a checkup Six weeks later, when he was (finally!!) neutered after a delay due to the virus, he weighed 6.8 pounds and seems likely to remain kitten-like in size. And he now has definite preferences when it comes to cat food flavor...

by Tracy Richards This is my story about two decisions and the impact of each on me.   The first decision took place when I was 17 years old and my boyfriend at the time asked me to go on a bike ride with him.   I thought that he meant a nice ride around our small town so I agreed.   I was wrong.   This ride went for hours in the summer sun.   I was completely unprepared.   I didn’t even have water with me.   I was so miserable that I had absolutely no interest in ever riding a bike again. Fast forward 23 years and I’m spending a lot of time with my new boyfriend as well as a close mutual friend. Both are avid cyclists.   They have been trying to get me to ride with them for several years but I have stubbornly refused.   They tell me how fun it is and I’m incredulous.   Finally, while trying to improve other areas of my life, I decided that a bad experience from my past was not going to control my future any longer.   I ma...