Gaffneys sidelined by Wilma at Cancun

Beacon Journal sportswriter Tom Gaffney and his wife, Lind\a, planned to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary at a luxury beach hotel in Cancun, Mexico, before Wilma struck and they ended up staying at a brothel. Gaffney tells BJ reporter Bob Dyer all about it in a call from a borrowed cell phone.

“We’re without power, without lights, without air conditioning...” he told Dyer. “They’ve handed us bags of food, like sandwiches. People have been eating Spam right out of the can, tuna fish right out of the can.”

Click on the headline above to read Dyer’s story.

Out-of-towners also might like to check the BJ online at http://www.ohio.com/bj/ to read other stories in Saturday’s edition including one about efforts by attorneys for Cynthia George to get her trial moved out of Summit County. If they are successful, it would be the first time in 25 years. The wife of Tangier owner Ed George is charged with conspiring with a lover and orchestrating the death of an ex-lover.