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A special moment will occur tonight at the start of the North Montgomery boy’s basketball junior varsity contest. When the public address announcer gives the Charger starting lineup, one name the crowd will hear is Sam Jackman. 

Just a little over one year ago, Sam was diagnosed with leukemia and tonight, he will be back on the court. The game, which is appropriately one night before Thanksgiving, will give an entire community a reason to be thankful.

Sam is a triplet. His brother Matt also will be playing tonight. Sister, Mary, will be in the stands cheering her brothers along with parents Chris and Lisa Jackman and grandmother Mary Lefebvre. It will be a special moment for not only Sam, but for all those in the community who have supported the family through its hellish ride with cancer.

On Nov. 12, 2015, Lisa got off the phone with a doctor who relayed the message that a blood test had revealed the worst. Her 15-year-old son had leukemia. 

The horrible news started the family on a journey they never expected. Sam became a patient at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis where he would spend the next several months undergoing treatment. From chemotherapy to a bone marrow transplant, through good days and bad days, Sam was somehow able to keep a good attitude and never doubted he would beat leukemia.

“I stayed positive the whole time,” Sam said. “The doctors and nurses were good to talk to and helped keep

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Juvenile seals are still on the beach, the last of the juvenile fall haul-out. Most will be gone by the time the adult bulls start arriving at the end of the month.

Young seals, mostly males younger than 6 years, haven’t eaten for the six weeks or so they have spent on the beach. The long fast gets their bodies accustomed to the longer fasts they will endure as adults. Bulls spend as long as 100 days on the beach without food during the December through February breeding season.

Gauge young male seal age by how big that elephant-like nose is. Five-year-olds are just getting a bend. That bend grows into a noticeable trunk in the following year. It grows throughout the seal’s life, so senior seals have very impressive ones, indeed. Technically, it’s called a proboscis.

Young males are preparing for adulthood by sparring with each other for dominance. Dominance can also be expressed when one gives another a threatening look, and one of them moves away. That’s displacement. These youngsters practice taking each other on, butting chests and biting at each other. It’s not serious fighting. That’s yet to come, when they reach adulthood and return to the beach for the breeding season.

November is the calm before the storm of the birthing and breeding season. Bigger, older, more experienced bulls soon stake their claims on the beach. Only the most dominant males get to breed, so there’s a lot at stake. Every male wants to be a beachmaster.

Bulls

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Adam Weisenburger, a 16-year-old student at Seeley-Swan High School, uses a model of a Cessna 172 to explain some of the things he’s had to learn to get his student pilot certificate. Weisenburger’s goal is to get his private pilot’s license once he turns 17, something he’ll likely do before he gets a driver’s license.

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