A tangle of bikes in various stages of readiness await their turn as volunteers apply chain grease, adjust rear hub shifting, tighten spokes and examine brake pads and cables. But this isn’t a bike store or a repair shop. On Saturday mornings in the summer, Ward Street United Methodist Church in High Point, N.C., becomes a first-aid station for bikes to a place where children can trade their broken bikes for newly repaired ones, then saddle up for supervised neighborhood rides. Supporters say the bike rides do more than provide opportunities for physical exercise. They build a sense of community in a neighborhood tucked behind abandoned industrial buildings, where 90 percent of the homes...

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The content of the paper was written by the staff of McClatchy Broadcasting's Sacramento radio station and transmitted to its Fresno affiliate, KMJ Radio. McClatchy Broadcasting spent as much as $50,000 to buy a transmitter and to purchase 100 receiver/printers, which were placed in 50 Fresno homes and 50 Sacramento homes, Kassis wrote. The late Bob Long, longtime Fresno newsman, wrote a history of local radio for the 1986 book "Fresno County in the 20th Century," including a description of the short-lived facsimile experiment. In 1937, the McClatchy Broadcasting Co. applied to the Federal Communications Commission for an experimental license, becoming the first company in the West, and only the fourth in the nation, to try the new radio-facsimile technology, Kassis wrote. Printed in a two-column format on eight manuscript-size sheets, the paper had news stories, photos and comics, giving readers in the two cities a glimpse of the news hours before McClatchy Newspapers' evening editions were delivered.

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