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19th February 07, 11:41 PM
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Local Sheriffs Pipe Band in the news w/ pics
The print version included this quote in a sidebar "A man's gotta have a hobby. I just got to get the wife to quit calling it a skirt." Danville police Cpl. Mike Briggs, a drummer.
Hearing the call to duty
By John Simerman
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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Contra Costa Sheriff's Police Pipes & Drums, which formed in 2004 as one of the few law-enforcement-only pipe bands on the West Coast.
The band counts 10 members, all recruited from the ranks to play traditional Scottish pipe music at line-of-duty funerals and other, less somber events such as holiday fests, school functions and, on Friday, a police academy graduation at the Dean Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.
Most of these police pipers and drummers have musical experience, but many had only a distant memory of it when they signed on to don kilt and glengarry, spats and sporran.
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More here including a slide show with audio.
Best regards,
Jake
(|):=' Less talk, more monkey! ,=:(|)
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19th February 07, 11:53 PM
#2
Cool article thanks for posting it.
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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20th February 07, 12:27 AM
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guid oan the lads
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20th February 07, 12:44 AM
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You gotta love livin' baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. -- F.A. Sinatra
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20th February 07, 03:20 AM
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The audio/visual link off the article is really well done - worth a couple of minutes to watch it!
John
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I used to be apathetic, now I just don't care...
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20th February 07, 08:10 AM
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Thanks for the great link!
Order of the Dandelion, The Houston Area Kilt Society, Bald Rabble in Kilts, Kilted Texas Rabble Rousers, The Flatcap Confederation, Kilted Playtron Group.
"If you’re going to talk the talk, you’ve got to walk the walk"
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20th February 07, 08:19 AM
#7
Jake,
Thanks for the article!
Monkey@Arms - Our kilted reporter is on the beat!
Cheers
Panache
-See it there, a white plume
Over the battle - A diamond in the ash
Of the ultimate combustion-My panache
Edmond Rostand
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21st February 07, 03:39 PM
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Just wish I was still fit and able to play the drum 
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21st February 07, 03:42 PM
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Excellent, thanks for posting.
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