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A state emergency management committee says hundreds are still in need seven months after the floods of last mother's day weekend. Some lawmakers are now calling on the state to step in with funding. In the meantime, a fundraiser is set for next week to helps defray estimated needs of about 2 million dollars. New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers has more. .
GLENS FALLS -- There were Christmas stockings with little trains chugging across the toe and bags of tiny trees, each one not much bigger than a thimble, to place along a Z-scale track.Victorian barbershops, crossing signals and 1,500-piece puzzles with a train theme were all for sale at the 7th annual Greater Glens Falls Model Train Show and Sale, held Sunday at the Civic Center's Heritage Hall.Train enthusiasts by the hundreds flocked to the show, sponsored by Upstate Model Railroaders club, which also offered a simultaneous display of four different-scale layouts at their headquarters in Glens Falls."Club members have been working for the past year, getting all four layouts built," said Pat Dowd, who added that the club's facility is now permanently located in the basement beneath Aimie's Dinner & Movie at 190 Glen St."Having a location has made a big difference," said Dowd.
87 players will line up at the Peninsula Country Golf Club on Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula tomorrow to contest the Final Stage of PGA Tour of Australasia Qualifying School for 2006.The event to be held over four rounds from Tuesday to Friday will see the top 35 players and ties earn playing privileges on the Australasian Tour for 2007.Players from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, England, the USA and Korea will play at Tour school this year. Of the 87 players taking part 22 are amateurs.Fourty six players successfully progressed to final stage of Australasian Tour School after last month's combined Australasian/Asian Tour School First Stage was completed at the Amstel and Ranfurlie courses in Victoria.Those who graduated from the First Stage are:Andrew Brook-LenehanAshley HallBen HallamBen WhartonBrett LoweCharles GardinerChris GauntChris SarquisClarke OsborneClint SailesDaniel JonesDarren BaynesDarren BeckHeath D'AlteraJae-Hyun KimJamie RogersJosh CarmichaelJuong-Wook LeeKurt CarlsonLee HuntLucas BatesMark BoeMichael ChoiMichael LambertMitchell HarryNaohiro YasumotoNathan MainNathan UebergangNicholas HealyNicky HowellPaul DonahooPaul SpargoRichard CaracellaRyan HammondShane LearySimon FurneauxTetsuya WatariTigh Van LeewenTim BrayTim WoodTom DavisTony McNaughtonVernon Sexton-FinckWilliam OliverYeon-Jin JeongYong-Sun HwangSource - PGA TourEnjoy this article?Get weekly newsletter - It's free! .
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