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  • DATELINE: METRO HQ
    The fireworks will go on this year. Steve & Kristen are hosting the annual 4th of July bike parade and fireworks show. In between the bikes and the pyrotechnics will be swimming. 

  • DATELINE:  TECUMSEH, MICHIGAN
    Austin McCarty decided to go skydiving on Father's Day. It was his very first jump, and the video is on the Movies page in this edition of your McCarty Metro. Austin's comment on the jump.... "IT WAS FRIGGIN AWESOME!"

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One of Mom McCarty's biggest fears of being hospitalized and then in physical rehab at her age was that she would forget how to play the piano, and how to throw a boomerang. The piano playing is fine, and she figures eventually the boomerang will come back to her.

Mike chips in on Mom's injury and rehab from his accident in Grand Rapids. "Ever since the bike accident, I really do have a photographic memory -- I just haven't developed it yet."

Police were called to a Grandville, Michigan daycare where Luke and Mia were cited for resisting a rest.

Evan McCarty is sure glad to see summer vacation come. It wasn't school that Evan disliked... it was just the principal of it.

  • DATELINE: SANDUSKY, OHIO
    The Grand Rapids/Haslett/Wyoming/Hudsonville McCartys took an overnight trip to Cedar Point in June. Mike, Karen, Chris, Jill and Ryan and Missy had a great time. Mike reports he did the Millennium Force roller coaster twice! On the pendulum-swinging Wildcat ride, Mike managed to stay in his seat despite not being buckled in correctly. (That's me, second from left, and Chris, left.) Let's do it again next year!

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OTHER NEWS -  STEVE McCARTY WRITES A BOOK ON GOLF

Dear Metro Friends,

I believe my new book on GOLF gives the reader valuable playing tips and insider information that I have gained through my years of struggle and experience with the game. I'm hopeful you find it a useful tool. The cost is only $9.95 and can be ordered through this website. Don't wait until they're all gone !!!! -Steve O
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Chapter 1 - How to Properly Line Up Your Fourth Putt.
Chapter 2 - How to Hit a Nike from the Rough, when you Hit a Titleist from the tee.
Chapter 3 - How to Avoid the Water When You Lie 8 in a bunker.
Chapter 4 - How to Get More Distance off the Shank.
Chapter 5 - When to Give the Ranger the Finger.
Chapter 6 - Using Your Shadow on the Greens to Maximize Earnings.
Chapter 7 - When to Implement Handicap Management.
Chapter 8 - Proper Excuses for Drinking Beer Before 9:00 a.m.
Chapter 9 - How to Rationalize a 6-Hour Round.
Chapter 10 - When Does A Divot become classified as Sod.
Chapter 11 - How to Find That Ball That Everyone Else Saw Go in the water.
Chapter 12 - Why your Spouse Doesn't Care That You Birdied the 5th.
Chapter 13 - Using Curse words Creatively to Control Ball Flight.
Chapter 14 - When to Let a Foursome Play through Your Twosome.
Chapter 15 - How to Relax When You Are Hitting five off the Tee.
Chapter 16 - When to Suggest Major Swing Corrections to Your Opponent.
Chapter 17 - God and the Meaning of the Birdie-to-Bogey Three-Putt.
Chapter 18 - When to regrip Your Ball Retriever.
Chapter 19 - Throwing Your Clubs: An Effective Stress- Reduction Technique.
Chapter 20 - Can You Purchase a Better Golf Game?
AND FINALLY
Chapter 21 - Why Male Golfers Will Pay $500 a Beer from the Cart Girl and Give her a $3 Tip, but will balk at $2.50 at the 19th Hole and then stiff the bartender.

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GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN IN MARCH, 2010

Rue McClanahan, 76, actress (The Golden Girls, Maude), stroke. John Wooden, 99, basketball coach (UCLA, 1948–1975). Bobby Kromm, 82, hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings), complications from colorectal cancer. Jimmy Dean, 81, country music singer, actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes. Manute Bol, 47, basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome. Willie Huber, 52, former Detroit Red Wing defenseman, heart failure. Robert Byrd, 92, politician, U.S. Representative (1953–1959), Senator from West Virginia (1959–2010). 


AND FINALLY

This math test can predict your all-time most-watched film. Mine was "JAWS" Try it without looking at the answers. It's easy, takes only seconds and really works: 

Pick a number from 1 - 9. Multiply by 3. Add 3. Multiply that by 3. Add those two digits together. Use that number to find your all time favorite movie in the list to the right 

YOUR
NUMBER
IS...

1. Gone With the Wind. 
2. Aliens. 
3. Dances with Wolves. 
4. Star Wars. 
5. Forrest Gump. 
6. Saving Private Ryan. 
7. Jaws.
8. Doctor Zhivago. 
9. The Joy of Gay Sex. 
10. Mary Poppins. 

DON'T LOOK AT ME --- YOU PICKED THE NUMBER!

SEE YOU BACK IN SEPTEMBER

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