| Fall, winter discounts are showing up
If you're planning to travel in the fall, some discounts are cropping up on flights, hotels and more (although don't expect to find any deals around Thanksgiving or near Christmas, busy travel periods when prices are high). A sampling: - Hilton is offering a free $50 American Express gift card with paid stays that include a Saturday or Sunday night. The offer is valid at U.S. properties for stays through Dec. 31 when you pay with an American Express card. Customers must request promotion code OAXM when making hotel reservations. The gift cards are valid toward your next stay at most U.S. Hilton hotels. - Members of AAA can bring children for free when they ride some Amtrak long-distance trains. Each paying adult can bring up to two children ages 2 to 15.
Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Announce Fall Sale Celebrating Horizon's 25th Anniversary
Sister carriers Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are celebrating Horizon's 25th anniversary this fall with an airfare sale on some of the airlines' most popular routes. Sale information, including vacation package discounts and bonus-mile offers from Mileage Plan partners, is available on the carriers' Web sites, alaskaair.com and horizonair.com. Passengers can take advantage of fall fare specials on a wide range of routes. Fares start as low as $49 one way between Seattle and Boise, Idaho; $59 between San Francisco and San Diego; $109 between Portland, Ore., and Palm Springs, Calif.; and $189 between Anchorage, Alaska, and Seattle or Portland. Passengers must purchase their tickets by Sept. 7, 2006, and travel by Dec. 14, 2006. The airlines also are offering special discounts for complete Alaska Airlines Vacations packages to popular destinations like the Disneyland ® Resort, San Diego and Mexican resort destinations, including Cancun and Puerto Vallarta.
South County Digest
Blood drives: The Rhode Island Blood Center conducts blood drives at the South County Donor Center, 14 Woodruff Ave., Narragansett, each Monday and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. Health fair: The YMCA of South County, 165 Broad Rock Rd., Peace Dale, is hosting a "Health & Wellness Day" next Wednesday, with local businesses and organizations offering health tips for mind and body from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is free. For information, call 783-3900. Prostate cancer screening: South County Hospital, 100 Kenyon Ave., Wakefield, will be offering free prostate cancer screenings this Saturday morning from 8 to noon. To register, call 782-8020, ext 3868, but walk-ins will not be turned away.
Next up for BMX: some heavy medal
To many people, BMX biking, skateboarding and freestyle motorcycle riding are fringe sports at best, recreational pastimes best suited for kids and adolescents and others who refuse to grow up. That perspective could change in two years when BMX will be a medal sport at the Beijing Olympic Games. "This is huge; it's very special for the sport to be recognized like that," Johan Lindstrom, a Swede who is the BMX coordinator for the International Cycling Union (UCI), said Friday at the Dew Action Sports Tour stop at HP Pavilion in San Jose. "Now that BMX is an Olympic sport, the national (cycling) federations are looking at it differently. ... It was treated as a kids' sport in the past; now it's being treated differently." In more ways than one. Most BMX fans are familiar with the sport's three main disciplines: park, vert and dirt.
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