Mary Dee Ready Cates, of the Cripple Creek Community, celebrated her 98th birthday in May, 2011, at the Porterfield home on Northcutt Road where she was born and raised.
Two-thirds of the estimated 7,000 fireworks injuries that occur each year in the United States will happen in the summer months, and according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), half of those injuries will be to children under the age of 20.