Pop rock group We the Kings amazed thousands of fans who filled the Yigo Amusement Park Sept. 26 for the Rock in the Park concert.

Fans were blown away by the double performances of two nationally known acts, including the amazing Christofer Drew Ingle, the solo guitar, ukulele and singing talent more popularly known as NeverShoutNever.

Teens, mostly high school students from public, private and the military base schools packed the Yigo park even as rain poured on and off.

NeverShoutNever poured himself with a bottle of water while performing as the fans were drenched.

“Just to be fair, I’m gonna get wet, too,” NeverShoutNever says.

The crowed went crazy with screams and cheers.

“It was freakin’ awesome, it was wild and crazy,” says Jeremiah Cepeda, a seventh-grader at Agueda Johnston Middle School, smiling after the concert.

After standing for almost six hours, getting soaked in the rain, not to mention paying a week’s worth of allowance to get through the concert door; many fans felt it was worth it.

Joseph Babauta, a freshman at George Washington High School says, “I thought that was the best concert I’ve ever seen in my life.”

“It was freakin’ bad…,” says Dominic Ungacta, a freshman at Notre Dame.

Local band Freedom Fries performed before the bigger names, but did not disappoint with its unique ensemble that included a trumpet, trombone, and a shirtless drummer.

NeverShoutNever

Shortly after a moving performance by NeverShoutNever’s tour buddy, Carter Hulsey, NeverShoutNever took the stage and the crowd let out a deafening cheer.

By then, the crowd had already tripled in size and was still growing.

Ingle let the audience decide what they wanted to hear. The audience sang and clapped along to all the widely popular songs like “Happy,” “Your Biggest Fan,” and “Trouble.” The 18-year-old artists’ songs were inspired by girls he knew, liked or dated.

Adoring fans screamed, “I love you!” and threw several gifts and clothes on stage including a red pair of shorts, candy and lip gloss. Ingle ate the lip gloss.

He also put the red short on top of his jeans — and fans screamed again.

We The Kings

We the Kings exploded onto the stage led by Travis Clark, the band’s lead vocal. They rocked the park with their biggest hits like “Secret Valentine,” “All Again for You,” “This Is Our Town” and “Skyway Avenue.” The speakers were blasting the crowd as they rocked their hands in the air, waved lighters, and jumped to the rhythm like a big, crazy party.

Later in the concert, Clark led the crowd to do a giant, picture perfect wave that started in the back and ended at the stage. Even after they finished, the audience wanted more. Everyone cheered: “encore, encore, encore!” and “We the Kings, We the Kings!”

The kings soon returned to play their last song, “Check Yes Juliet.”

The crowd sang along, and at the end of the performance, the band threw drumsticks, and other souvenirs.

The kings — pleased with the crowd — promised to return.
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Anna

It is good you have a worldwide readership. The world could take a good cue from this one. I have another article on sugar that I would like to share with your readers.
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Have you ever tried adding up all the sugar (carbohydrate) you consume in one day? Give it a shot — keep a small pad handy and each time you eat something, write down the amount of sugar in it.

At the end of the day, add it up. Unless you’re already following my diet advice, you’ll probably be shocked by that number.

The average American consumes 22 teaspoons of sugar each day. That’s close to 100 grams of this junk.

It’s so bad that now that, after years of essentially ignoring the role of sugar in our overall poor health, the American Heart Association is finally advising us to cut back.

I hate to break it to them, but they’re a little late to this party.

For years, all the evidence has pointed to carbohydrates as the main cause of our health crisis, especially diabetes and heart disease, and sugar is the worst offender of the lot.

That’s just basic biology. If you go back and read the old medical textbooks, you’d see that the human body is supposed to have 6 grams of sugar in the entire bloodstream. That’s it.

These textbooks have been replaced, not because the information is outdated but because doctors are now trained to match symptoms to meds. Basic biology is becoming a lost science.

But the AHA has been influenced by something other than science. The organization has been collecting money for years from food manufacturers eager to slap the AHA seal on their products — many of which are packed with sugar.

The AHA was only interested in fat and cholesterol content. Well, that and whether the check cleared. Frosted Flakes and Pop-Tarts have each carried the AHA’s seal of approval, which should tell you everything you need to know about the credibility of that seal.

These sugar-packed foods have done far more damage to Americans than eggs, steaks and all the other healthy, fatty foods that have been on the association’s list of taboos.

So let’s consider for a moment those 6 grams of sugar that are supposed to be coursing through your blood right now. Those old textbooks will tell you that if it falls to 3 grams, you’ll pass out. If it rises above 9 grams, you’ve got yourself a case of diabetes.

Now consider how much sugar we eat and drink every day. A can of soda usually has 42 grams alone. Too many people drink two, three, four or more of those every day — and that’s just the beginning of their sugar intake. Is it any wonder, then, that diabetes is our new health epidemic?

But here’s something that’s truly disturbing. While the geniuses at the American Heart Association are finally ready to admit that all that sugar is making us fat and sick, the junk food industry says we don’t have enough of it.

Now they’re begging the Agriculture Department to give them access to a cheaper and more plentiful sugar supply. They’re even suggesting that we may be about to run out.

If you believe that, I have a jackalope running around behind the clinic that I’d like to show you.

The simple fact of the matter is that sugar is ruining the health of more Americans more quickly and more completely than anything else. It’s at the heart of what I call the low- fat, high carb Torture Chamber Diet.

If you just want to eat well, lose weight and be healthy, then the best of advice of all is also the simplest: Enjoy a diet rich in fresh, fatty meats and delicious organic vegetables.

Just don’t wash it down with a soda.

Be Well,

William B. Ferril, M.D.
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The girls have had very little sugar in their diets. I am trying to keep it that way.

Ruth

Good tips, if we r all exercising the walk to the store is happening. I used to ride my bike and wear a backpack to shop the wet market in Sg, miss that…

I was going to go over and add things to the ZL program today but just received a distress call from a pal, he’s on his way over, he ‘totally F-d up’ with his woman. This ought to be interesting – hope I can help.

Back later or tomorrow…Zen Lill (on iPhone sorry for typos)