Minden physical therapist on way to Austria

Minden physical therapist Monique Haviland has been appointed to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association to be the team physical therapist at a variety of world cup and international events.

The owner of BodyWise Physical Therapy-Fitness said she will be leaving for Bad Gastein Austria on Jan. 5 to take care of the U.S. Boardercross team. She recently returned from Beaver Creek, Colo., where she met with the association medical team, which also includes Terrence Orr, who has a practice at Lake Tahoe.

She said this is the highlight of her career as a therapist.

Monique was raised in Austria, the daughter of a U.S. Air Force colonel. She said when she decided to return to the United States she was looking for a place that had mountains.

"This place reminded me a lot of the Alps," she said.

Monique is a 6-year resident of Gardnerville who serves on the Diamond Peak Ski Patrol during off times. BodyWise has a therapy suite in Merrill Gardens and is planning to open a location on Mica Drive in Indian Hills after New Year's.

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In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, I hit the stacks to find the report of Bill Nelson's enlistment in the U.S. Navy after the Dec. 7, 1941 attack.

Bill's memorial service is 2 p.m. Saturday at his property along Highway 395.

His family reports he was the first boy born in Minden in 1912, news that appeared on the front page of The Record-Courier.

R-C Editor Bert Selkirk reported Bill resigned from his job as a cashier at the Farmers Bank of Carson Valley to sign up in the April 17, 1942, edition of The R-C.

Before he reported for duty, he participated in a mountain oyster festival held at The French.

Including Bill, 81 Valley men had signed up to serve in the military by mid-April, a number that represented roughly a tenth of the county's male population.

In March 1942, draftees Walter Leehman, Carl Filmore, Henry Meyer, Richard Bryan, Cleveland Mack and Manuel Fillmore were bid farewell at a ceremony at the Minden courthouse. The Sons of the Legion provided each man with a carton of cigarettes as a farewell gift.

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When we first discussed putting newspapers on the Web in the early 1990s, the picture I had in my head was of actual newspaper pages where people could read them.

No surprise that's not what happened, until Wednesday that is.

Swift Newspapers working with a company called Technavia has placed The Record-Courier's pages online, as they appear in print.

The system is still in its test phase, but if you click e-edition under services in the blue left-hand column you can take a look.

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Record-Courier subscribers have claimed 25 Raley's gift cards through our year-end give away. Keep watching for your name in those ads with the turkeys in them through the end of the year.

The card is advertised as being for a turkey or a ham, but it's really a $15 gift card and can be used to purchase whatever you want that's in the store.

n Kurt Hildebrand is editor of The Record-Courier. Contact him at khildebrand@editor.com or 782-5121.