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City Auctioning Off
Demolition of Former
Trump Casino
By Ben Hooper
Dec. 18 (UPI) -
- The mayor of Atlantic City, N.J., announced the city is auctioning off the opportuni- ty to virtually push the button that will cause the demolition of a shuttered casi- no formerly owned by President Donald Trump.
Mayor Marty Small Sr. announced Thursday that the winner of the auction will be invited to virtually push the button to implode the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, which closed perma- nently in 2014.
Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City.
"Personally, I'm a pretty ambitious guy. I want to raise at least a million dollars,"
Small said in a news conference that
was livestreamed on Facebook.
Small said the property is cur- rently owned
by billionaire Carl Icahn, who plans to redevelop it.
Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City CEO Stephanie Koch said the funds raised by the auction will expand and sus- tain the organiza- tion's operations for its three Atlantic City facil- ities. She said the organization has expanded its
programs to 12 hours a day amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
"No longer is the Boys & Girls Club a simple after- school program," she said.
The building's demolition origi- nally was sched- uled for Jan. 29, but the implosion is being pushed back to February for weather and safety reasons, Small said.
The demolition opportunity is due to be auc- tioned Jan. 19.
12 Siblings Earn Guinness Record With Combined Age of 1,042yrs
By Ben Hooper
Dec. 29 (UPI) -
- A family of 12 siblings earned a Guinness World Record when their combined ages added up to more than 1,042 years.
Guinness
said the siblings from the D'Cruz family ranges in age from 75 to 97 years old, and they were award- ed the world record for highest combined age, with 12 living sib- lings, on Dec. 15, when their com- bined ages totaled 1,042 years, 315 days.
Genia Carter, 75, of London,
Ontario, is the youngest in the family, but she said even her oldest siblings still are in good health.
"It doesn't seem real. I always think of Guinness records as the tallest or shortest person or some- thing like that. It was a surprise they even count this," Carter told The London Free Press. "But it's exciting. I'm grateful to have all these siblings still alive."
Carter and her siblings grew up in Pakistan and their oldest broth- er was the first to move to Canada,
where he worked to raise money to bring the rest of the family to the country. She said one sibling now lives in California and another lives in Switzerland, but the rest still are in Canada.
Carter said the family remains close-knit and her siblings have a daily video call every day at 11 a.m. to keep in touch.
"I can't remember any of us ever having a fight where we would not speak to each other. We're all very close. We would do any- thing for each other," she said.