Olympic runner’s world record attempt to benefit Nat’l Down Syndrome Soc.

By Catherine Holland from AZ Family.com:

PHOENIX – When professional runner Andrew Lemoncello and his wife, Julie, welcomed their first child, Isla, in June, they were stunned to learn that she has Down Syndrome.

“It kind of took us by shock,” Lemoncello, who lives in Flagstaff, told 3TV’s Kaley O’Kelley.

Egg-ormous! Easter Chocolate Treat Goes for Record

by Bryan Llenas from Fox News Latino:
Talk about a sugar high. 
A 19.685-foot-tall Easter egg made of 9,920 pounds of hand-made chocolate could become the world's largest when completed in Miramar, Argentina.
In other words, the chocolate behemoth will weigh as much as a large hippopotamus, three Volkswagen Beetles, or 450,000 eggs in a huge bowl.
"We are hoping to enter the Guinness Book for the biggest egg in the world made of chocolate," Carlos Pagilardini, director of the Miramar region tourism office, told AFP. "There is already a bigger one but it is made of metal and wood. This one is totally chocolate."

Pagilardini said this is the first time anyone has ever attempted to make an Easter egg entirely out of chocolate and from scratch. No machinery has been used in the process – the chocolate is made entirely by hand.
Currently, the Guinness World Record title for the "world's largest chocolate Easter egg" goes to Le Acciaierie shopping center in Cortenuova, Italy. That chocolate egg weighed 15,873 pounds and was over 34 feet tall, and was 64 feet at its widest point. But it was supported by a wood frame.
The chocolate egg is currently being cooked and assembled underneath a tent by a team of 30, mostly kids with Down syndrome, in the middle of the summer tourist resort town 280 miles south of Buenos Aires. The head chocolate chef has worked with special needs kids at the Centro de Dia Crede, an institute for kids with special needs that is dedicated to helping kids learn to read and play sports.