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W here will jockey Frankie Dettori be riding this week? A logical question after the legendary jockey travelled to Penn National on Friday to capture the track’s two major stakes races followed by a quick trip to Monmouth Park for a win in the Jersey Derby on Saturday. All three stakes were decided by a photo courtesy of Dettori’s perfectly timed rides. His stakes success led the panel of racing experts to vote the international superstar Jockey of the Week for May 28 through June 2.The weekly honor recognizes jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys’ Guild, the organization which represents more than 1,050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.

Dettori travelled to Penn National Race Course for the first time on Friday for the track’s marque races. Riding for trainer George “Rusty” Arnold, Dettori was aboard Poolside With Slim in the Penn Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on the turf. Off as the 9-5 favorite in the field of 10, Poolside With Slim broke from post position one and raced in fourth tracking the pacesetters. With a quarter mile to go, Dettori angled Poolside With Slim off the rail to take the lead in the stretch and just hold off Nice as Pie in 1:33.59 for the one mile contest.

Trainer Brendon Walsh next gave a leg up to Dettori on First World War in the Grade 3 Penn Mile for 3-year-olds. Off as the third betting choice in the field of nine, First World War raced in midpack after breaking from post position four. As the field raced into the turn, Dettori steered First World War six wide gradually gaining on the leaders. First World War was briefly stuck on his incorrect lead but once he switched leads, he made up ground in the stretch to win by a short nose in a photo finish over Aspenite and race favorite Trikari in 1:33.50 for the mile turf test.On Saturday, Dettori travelled to Monmouth Park for the first time since the 2007 Breeders’ Cup for four mounts including Twirling Point in the Jersey Derby. Trained by Jonathan Thomas, Twirling Point went off as the race favorite in the field of eight. Twirling Point stalked the pace in third until the top of the stretch dueling with Move to Gold and Fidelightcayut to the wire prevailing by a nose in another photo finish in 1:34.76 for one mile on the turf.

On Sunday, Dettori was at Churchill Downs for two mounts.

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Detroiters get 1st look inside revived Michigan Central Station during tours

Detroiters on Friday get their first look inside revived Michigan Central Station after Thursday's blowout opening night concert .

Visitors, who had to sign up in advance for tours for the Detroit train station, will encounter a range of activities and exhibits honoring the station's history and six-year restoration. Tours continue daily through June 16, but they are fully booked. The station will be open for self-guided tours on Fridays and Saturdays through August.

The first floor of the station, by then with some shops and other features expected to be built out, is scheduled to be open to the public in September.

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3:40 p.m.: A job loaded with smiles

John Martin is a new Michigan Central ambassador, after making a career out of cable TV advertising and spending a couple of more years working part-time gigs. Friday was just his second day of work after he snagged the job just in time for the station’s reopening.

Martin grew up in Lincoln Park and later worked in downtown Detroit, so he spent most of his life watching the city up close.

“Being that I worked down here, I’ve always been interested about what’s going on in the city, and that never left me even after I found another job,” he said.

He toured Michigan Central’s open house back in 2018 after it was acquired by Ford and has since been stunned by Detroit’s numerous and gorgeous renovations.

After he stopped working one of his part-time jobs earlier this year and almost simultaneously came across the Michigan Central ambassador position, he knew he could take the job and have a good time with it.

Martin stands at the doors of the Grand Hall and greets people as they enter with smiles widening and eyes lighting up at their first sight of the hall.

“One of my jobs that I didn’t do this year after working it for 12 years was at a golf course … You get a lot of interaction with folks. You’re not always putting out fires, but there always seems to be one on your shift. So, I thought, jeez, I could come in here and how many fires could I have? People are coming in here awestruck, they’re not complaining,” he said.

3 p.m.: Streets around train station returning to normal

By Friday afternoon, Michigan Avenue opened to vehicles after being closed for Thursday's opening festivities, and there was no traffic congestion even as thousands of people descended on the train station for the first day of public tours.

As workers outside continued to dismantle the concert stage, about 1,800 visitors walked through the train station as of 3 p.m., Michigan Central spokesperson Dan Austin said.

A total of 5,000 visitors were expected Friday, with tours ending at 10 p.m., he said. 

1:55 p.m.: Details make the difference

Christina Roki of Sterling Heights, and Grant Sloan of West Bloomfield, two automotive content creators who were invited to opening day by Ford, said they were brought to tears by the stories preserved inside Michigan Central Station.

“What we appreciate about it most is how much detail Ford cared to preserve to show the story. They kept part of the graffiti on the walls, they preserved a lot of the tickets they found … Even the brick, all the chisels we see on the brick, they didn’t try to make fine cut lines, they still want to show all the history that this building has,” said Roki.

As their tour guide led from room to room in the building, they remained at a loss for words.

“The inside was literally mind-blowing. I feel like I was walking in on such a big piece of history that’s been preserved for so long, so it’s crazy to think that this is something they’ve been working on in the past few years,” said Roki.

But for the two metro Detroiters, one of the most significant parts was just to see how Michigan Central had been given new life, narrowly dodging demolition. Sloan remembered times passing by the station with his friends just before the renovation began to see the graffiti and decay; now, to see that part of modern history meshed with its historical past, he said to step inside the new shiny floors was an awesome experience.

“Any Detroiter will agree that this building was such an eyesore for such a long time. Growing up in Detroit and knowing its history but never seeing it operational… But now seeing it up in running, it’s really touching to see that Ford took on such a large project,” said Sloan. “It’s early but I think it’s safe to say that the investment already paid off.”

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1:45 p.m.: Returning soon

Southwest Detroit resident Jennifer Serra set an alarm in hopes of scoring tickets to see the train station on its first day of public tours. 

“There's just not enough wonderful words to describe it,” Serra, 45, said after securing tickets and touring the station Friday. 

The only problem? She had somewhere else to be this afternoon and wanted to spend more time in the station. She’s already made plans to come back for another tour in a few days. 

“I feel like it's like a symbolic representation of what goes on in our city,” she said of Michigan Central Station. “I feel like there's just these landmarks in certain cities … that just really kind of embody the overall history of what's going on. I feel like this helps us bring a little bit of closure to some tough times and show renewal.”

— Adrienne Roberts 

1 p.m.: 'Another crown jewel'

Tom Schultz and his wife, Sylvia Ross-Schultz, are both born and raised Detroiters, but more than that, they’re Detroit-lovers.

“We’re so glad to see it getting so much better, and it’s beautiful … It’s just in my heart, it’s been the neatest thing,” said Ross-Schultz. “It’s another crown jewel in the renovation of Detroit.”

“I made the statement, and I was wrong, that (the comeback) would never happen in my lifetime,” said Schultz. “The rebirth is off the charts.”

Remembering the good old days of Michigan Central Station in the 1970s, the couple knew they had to tour the station on opening day, and so did Ross-Schultz’s cousin and her husband, Renee and Tom Toft. With ancestors who worked in the building, the families are woven into the fabric of Michigan Central, as well as the city of Detroit.

Additionally, the Tofts took what they called the “falling apart” tour of the station back when Ford purchased it in 2018.

Now, the four stood waiting for their tour in awe at the renovated front of the building.

“Instead of just knocking it down, to bring it back to this grandeur is absolutely fantastic,” said Ross-Schultz.

“You see the work they did out here, they recreated everything the right way,” said Tom Toft. “It’s spectacular. We haven’t even gone inside yet but I know its going to be spectacular.”

12:40 p.m.: Eager to return

Donny Wilson and his brother Paul Wilson had never been inside the train station until Friday morning, but they’re all ready to come back.

Donny Wilson, 41, an influencer who lives in Oak Park, wants to bring his family and friends to the station to see it. 

“I can't wait until all this stuff is actually in there …the shops, hotel …” Donny Wilson said after touring the station.

Paul Wilson, 42, a Detroit resident, said he’s just thought of the station as a ruin his whole life — until now. “It’s so cool how they refurbished everything and still kept a whole lot of the building intact,” Paul Wilson said.

Noon: 'Berliners are obsessed with Detroit'

NPR reporter Bobby Allyn, 35, walked quickly toward Michigan Central Station as he prepared to interview President Joe Biden’s director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Arati Prabhakar, at Newlab on Friday. He said he was super excited to be in Detroit, having heard so much about the city when he lived in Berlin.

“Berliners are obsessed with Detroit because of techno music,” Allyn said. “It’s the birthplace of techno. Look up Jeff Mills of Detroit and techno. You’ll see. When you go to Club Berghain in Berlin, it’s impossible to get in but if you wear a hat that says, ‘Detroit,’ they let you in.”

Allyn, a technology correspondent , reports on startups, artificial intelligence, privacy issues and tech litigation. While he was directed to the building next door to Michigan Central Station, the whole site is part of the mobility hub led by Ford Motor Co. Allyn said he couldn’t wait to see the inside of the restored train depot after the interview.

— Phoebe Wall Howard

11:50 a.m.: Memories rekindled outside Michigan Central

Bob Bilkie, 63, and Shari Bilkie, 62, of Northville walked the side streets surrounding Michigan Central Station as they waited for the noon public tours to begin. They parked at 10 a.m. and took in the sights of the Corktown neighborhood on the cool, cloudy day.

As they approached their 41st wedding anniversary on Monday, they talked about dates at Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit, ordering their lemon meringue pie and Faygo Red Pop. That’s pretty much all Bob Bilkie could afford as an intern at Detroit Edison. At lunch, he ordered coney dogs with lots of onions and mustard because that’s what he could afford. Now Bob is an investment adviser and Shari is a compliance officer for a financial firm.

Being in Detroit together during this special time also celebrates memories of their families. Her grandfather went to Cass Tech High School and owned Ward’s Bar in Dearborn. They went to the old Tiger Stadium around the corner as a family. His father worked at American Motors as a fabricator, and his grandfather worked for the railroad.

“He probably worked here,” Bob said, glancing up at the 18-story Beaux Arts-style building from the corner of Wabash and Marantette.

Shari said smiling, “It is so cool, the fact that they took something decrepit, falling apart, an eyesore and turned it into something absolutely beautiful.”

11:35 a.m.: The morning after and a new dawn

On a much noticeably cooler and windier morning compared with Thursday, Corktown appeared to be just waking up after last night’s celebration. 

With much of Michigan Avenue still closed off to vehicles Friday morning, the few businesses that were open had just a couple of customers. 

The train station, however, was bustling with activity, albeit a different kind of energy compared with Thursday night, as workers dismantled the concert stage that the night before featured acts including massive music concern in Roosevelt Park a night earlier that featured Diana Ross, Eminem, Jack White and Big Sean. 

— Adrienne Roberts

11:25 a.m.: Michigan Central prepares for company

The sounds of Motown and techno music filled the halls of Michigan Central Station, spilling from speakers in a gallery plastered with vintage posters less than an hour before the doors officially opened to visitors on Friday.

Inside the station, hundreds of workers dashed about, putting final touches on exhibits scheduled to attract 60,000 people over 10 days.

A woman from Chicago leading a group of eight South Korean government officials, walking through the renovated station half an hour before the official open, explained that the visitors oversee small- and medium-sized businesses and they’re looking at the 30-acre innovation zone created by Bill Ford, executive chair of Ford Motor Co.

Gov. Newsom latest to tour the Siskiyou site where crews are tearing down four huge dams

With less than four months left before all four dams on the Klamath River are removed, California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Siskiyou County on Wednesday to check on the progress of what is being called the nation's largest-ever dam removal project.

Newsom visited what is left of Iron Gate Dam and the former locations of Copco Dams No. 1 and No. 2. He was joined by top state officials from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the California Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Agency.

Members of the Shasta Indian Nation tribe, which once had villages on the river where the dams were located, also joined in the tour with the governor.

"It's been on our radar from day one. And so, here we are five years later and now we're just five or six months away from this thing coming out," Newsom said in an interview with the Record Searchlight.

Below the overlook at Iron Gate Dam site, heavy equipment moved back and forth, digging up and hauling away the soil and rock that composed the earthen dam.

Soil used to build the dam was taken from a nearby hill when Iron Gate was built in the early 1960s. The dirt and rocks from the dam were being excavated from the dam and returned to the hill where it came from, according to Daniel Petersen, project manager for Kiewit Corp., the contractor in charge of the deconstruction.

At Copco Dam No. 2, there was little evidence remaining that a diversion dam once existed at the location.

There were the remnants of a retaining wall, high on the walls of the river canyon, anti-erosion material and riprap rocks lining another portion of the river where the 33-foot-tall Copco Dam once stood. A tunnel that diverted water from the river was no longer visible.

The governor last visited the river in December 2022, when the $500 million dam removal project was getting underway. Half the money used to pay for the project comes from a bond being repaid by the state and the other half is being paid for from a surcharge on ratepayers that purchase utilities from PacifiCorps.

The Klamath River Renewal Corporation, which is overseeing the project, hopes to have all four dams removed from the river by the end of September, said Mark Bransom, CEO of the corporation.

Newsom said he was happy to see the project finishing up.

"That's a powerful thing at a time when we're so consumed situationally with power, dominance and aggression in our personalized politics. This is a sustainable framework that I think just sort of softens the edges a little bit for everyone," he said.

There has been some edgy opposition to removing the dams, though.

The Iron Gate Dam, Copco Dams No. 1 and No. 2 and the J.C. Boyle Dam are being removed to improve conditions on the river for spawning salmon and steelhead.

During the hot summers, harmful algae blooms in the reservoirs and in the river were not uncommon. And fish in the river were prone to infections from parasites in the water when the river level ran warm, low and slow during the hot summers, said Ren Brownell, a spokeswoman for the renewal corporation.

Native American tribes in the area — such as the Karuk, Yurok and Shasta — supported the dam removal, as the river and the fishery are an integral part of their culture.

Bransom said the river below the Copco No. 2 Dam was nearly drained, as the dam was used to divert water from the river for generating hydroelectric power.

Brownell said that in recent years the dams produced very little power and none of it was used by Siskiyou County residents.

"It's outlived its usefulness, in terms of its economic benefits. And now we're restoring it, I think, in a way where Mother Nature approves," Newsom said.

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Even though the dam removal was seen as a boon to the salmon and steelhead fishery, there was widespread opposition to the project by Siskiyou County officials and residents.

"They're the ones directly impacted. I respect that. And I think what I'm hearing today — and another reason it's good to come in and hear firsthand and check in — is I think they've been hurt and they've been listened to. It doesn't mean that everybody's happy and gets everything they want. But the fact is, it's an iterative process. It's a two-way conversation, not a one-way conversation," Newsom said.

There have been reports of some wildlife incidents on the river since the dam removal project started, including reports of wildlife becoming stuck in the mud after the dams were breached and the reservoirs were drawn down.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife released 830,000 hatchery-raised salmon into the river in February, but a large number of them were killed by what officials called "gas bubble disease" when the fish passed through a tunnel at the base of Iron Gate Dam.

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, which has long opposed the dam removal, passed a resolution in March declaring a local emergency and warning of the dangers in the river due to alleged toxic chemicals in the water from breaching the dams.

The resolution warns the public not to come in contact with the water and says the "increased turbidity and sediment transport occurring during the drawdown phase of the project has resulted in public and environmental health concerns related to heavy metals and other undesirable water quality constituents."

The county has also asked the state to do monthly water quality testing in the river and of residential groundwater wells in the area around the river.

Brownell said she disagreed with the interpretation of the test results the county had done, as the county obtained results from water quality testing in the river in January when turbidity was highest. But even then, water in the river was safe to come in contact with.

She also said drinking water in the river was not an issue because only the California Department of Transportation was taking water from the river for drinking, and the agency suspended pumping before the dams were removed.

Caltrans has resumed taking drinking water from the river, but treats it before it is available for people to drink, she said. All surface water from any stream or river used for drinking must be treated to make it safe and meet state and federal standards, she said.

Many of the chemicals ― including arsenic and other heavy metals ― cited by the county occur naturally in the river, she said.

Jacqueline Nushi, who lives along the Klamath River just south of the Iron Gate Dam site, said there was intense opposition to the project, but with the dam removal nearly complete, resistance seems to be dying down.

"I just feel like we all need to just take a deep breath, let nature return the way it was and move forward with what we have," she said.

Nushi said she could understand why residents who lived along the shores of the reservoirs would be upset to lose the lake access and views.

Since the reservoirs were drained, "there's nothing. It's just dirt all the way down. It actually reminds me a little bit of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, but not as great," Nushi said.

She said the river seems murkier now that the dams have been removed and silt washes downstream, but birds, otter and other wildlife also are returning to the river.

Bransom said it will take about two years for the silt that built up behind the dams to continue to dilute and wash downstream. In the meantime, the renewal corporation also plans to replant trees and other vegetation along the riverbank to restore the stream to how it looked before the dams were built.

"In my humble opinion, when this is done. I can't conceive that it doesn't drive property values anywhere but up, ultimately," Newsom said.

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German tour operator FTI is filing for insolvency and canceling future trips

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BERLIN (AP) — German tour operator FTI said Monday that it is filing for insolvency protection from creditors, and trips that haven’t yet started will be canceled or scaled back.

FTI Group, which describes itself as Europe’s third-biggest tour operator, said parent company FTI Touristik GmbH, was filing an application for the opening of insolvency proceedings at a Munich court.

Since an announcement in April that a consortium of investors would come on board, “booking figures have fallen well short of expectations despite the positive news,” the company said in a statement.

“In addition, numerous suppliers have insisted on advance payment,” it added. “As a result, there was an increased need for liquidity, which could no longer be bridged until the closing of the investor process,” making the insolvency filing a legal necessity.

The operator said it is working to ensure that trips that have already started can be completed as planned, but “trips that have not yet begun will probably no longer be possible or only partially possible from Tuesday.”

A support website and hotline were set up for customers affected.

The Munich-based FTI Group has over 11,000 employees.

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