| Firefighter succumbs to transplant complications
He beat it once with chemotherapy and returned to work, but it came back in June 2007. He received the stem-cell transplant in December. Ordaz was a 1996 graduate of West Aurora High School. He was a fifth-place medalist in 1996 in the Class AA state wrestling championship. He was named North Aurora Firefighter of the Year in 2003 and 2007. Ordaz is survived by his wife, Tricia; his father, Mario A. Ordaz of Aurora; his mother, Maria Ordaz of Aurora; his brother, Mario Ordaz Jr., of McAllen, Texas; a sister, Liliana Kantola of Aurora; nine nieces; four nephews; his mother- and father-in-law, Thomas and Terri Porch of Batavia; a brother-in-law, Thomas Porch Jr. of Geneva; and a sister-in-law, Tracey Jakaitis of South Elgin. He was preceded in death by his brother, Moses; and his paternal grandparents, Guadalupe and Maria Ordaz.
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Mark Carney takes up his mission
David Dodge was in one of his giddy moods in the fall of 2003 when he had lunch with his friend Eddie Goldenberg, a top aide to former prime minister Jean Chrétien. "I just hired my successor," Mr. Dodge said triumphantly, according to the Liberal power broker. "It's this great guy I just got from Goldman." The central bank governor filled in Mr. Goldenberg on how he had lured away a deal maker, Mark Carney, from a plum job at one of the world's leading investment banks, Goldman Sachs. He was thrilled with his coup. But like many people in Ottawa, Mr. Goldenberg had never heard of Mr. Carney. The young Albertan who had spent most of his adult life outside the country was still a mystery man around the capital. More importantly, Mr. Goldenberg felt, he still had a lot to prove before he could be selected by the government and by the central bank's board of directors to be the next governor.
Times poll: Amendment 1 tax cut is no slam dunk
That is down from earlier ratings but Crist remains one of the most popular governors in the United States. "I'm crazy about Charlie Crist," said Nancy Smith, 64, an independent voter from Lutz. "He's a real down-to-earth person." Cliff Deardorff, 56 of Wesley Chapel believes Crist's argument that it will stimulate the housing market. "You'll get more people down here to buy all these homes that are vacant." Floridians are more pessimistic about the direction of the nation than their home state. Sixty-six percent of voters said the United States is on the wrong track. But only 50 percent said Florida is on the wrong track. The property tax amendment is up slightly from an earlier Times survey. In November, approval was at 53 percent.
Megson makes a point
Sammy Lee would still have been manager today if Wanderers had been sitting safely in the Premiership comfort zone. But he has inherited some good players - better than he has ever worked with in his managerial career - and he has a blueprint to work from - the Sam Allardyce plan that put pride back in the name of Bolton Wanderers. And if anyone suspected Megson was simply paying lip service to Big Sam's legacy, they could not have been more wrong. Not only did his starting 11 include nine Allardyce men, but the performance itself had a distinctly familiar look to it. Why shouldn't it? This was, after all, essentially the same side that finished seventh in the Premiership last season, give or take an addition or two, and if they are following the same pattern, then there's no reason why they should be struggling in the bottom three - problems they thought they'd left behind four years ago.
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