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puddin:
Mainer on 'Survivor'
Thursday, January 12, 2006 - Bangor Daily News << Back

Mainer on 'Survivor'

"Timber" Tina Scheer may get a chance to put some of her lumberjill skills to the test when she's surviving in the rainforests of Panama on the new season of "Survivor," which premieres at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, on CBS.

Scheer, the owner and emcee of the Great Maine Lumberjack Show in Trenton, which operates every night during the summer, was selected to be one of 16 "castaways" on "Survivor: Panama." The 45-year-old world champion lumberjill can't personally comment on her experience on the show, since CBS doesn't want to give anything away regarding the ending, but friends and family seem to think she has an excellent shot at winning it all and taking home the big prize - a million bucks. That'll buy her a lot of wood to chop.

Allison Melton, a lumberjill who worked at the Great Maine Lumberjack Show and who has traveled to various logging sports competitions with Scheer, received the news that Timber Tina was going to be on "Survivor" just a few days ago.

"She disappeared for a while," said the University of Maine senior, who had not heard from her fellow lumberjill for a short period toward the end of 2005. "But we had absolutely no idea she was going to be on 'Survivor.' "

Scheer, who splits her time between Maine and her hometown of Hayward, Wis., had told everyone she was going to British Columbia on lumberjill business, when she was actually roughing it in Central America. Her sister Judy Hoeschler, who lives in Wisconsin and is herself a world champion log roller, had no clue at all.

"I picked her up at the airport in Milwaukee," Hoeschler said. "And I said 'God, you're really tan. Is it that sunny in British Columbia?' She's very clever about keeping it a secret. All she ever says is 'I was awesome.' "

Scheer has won world titles for logging sports in both North America and Australia. She's a champion log roller, and is also one of few women who competes in underhand chopping and crosscut sawing.

Another thing people didn't know was that she had originally planned to be on the show the previous season, "Survivor: Guatemala." She had applied to be on the show last year, confiding only in her 16-year-old son, Charlie, and when she was selected as a contestant, she didn't tell a soul.

When Charlie was killed in a car crash last spring, those plans were put on hold.

Hoeschler said it's more than just a game show for Tina. It's been a long year of grieving and coping, and the choice to appear on "Survivor" was a difficult one.

"I think all the emotions surrounding the circumstances has made this a really hard journey for her," said Hoeschler. "She misses Charlie so much, and this has been such an ordeal for her, that she just needed to do this. It was something they'd started together."

Come Feb. 2, we'll see just what Scheer managed to pull off while she was surviving down in Panama. Melton thinks it's her dynamic personality that will see her through to success.

"I bet she's going to do really well, just knowing her personality," said Melton. "She's probably got some tricks up her sleeves. She's a sneaky one."

"She's pretty tough in both the physical and mental departments," said Hoeschler. "She's an extrovert and an entertainer. Any girl that can log roll and swing axes has a pretty good chance, I'd say." (Emily Burnham, BDN staff)

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=126906

puddin:
Survivor' Has Connecticut Connection
January 12, 2006
By ROGER CATLIN, Courant TV Critic  A pilot from Simsbury and an astronaut from Norwalk are among the 16 castaways in the 12th go-round of "Survivor," which begins next month.

Terry Deitz, 46, a retired Navy pilot and airline pilot from Simsbury, and Dan Barry, 52, a Norwalk native and retired astronaut from South Hadley, Mass., are among the oldest contestants for "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island," which starts Feb. 2 on CBS. The series title comes from a cruel new twist, in which one of the castaways is banished to a separate island miles away, where an immunity idol is hidden.
Also new this season will be the division into four teams: older men vs. older women vs. younger men vs. younger women.

Deitz and Barry are among the older men, of course, though neither can claim to be the oldest contestant. That distinction belongs to karate instructor Bruce Kanegai, 58, of Simi Valley, Calif.

Deitz, a New Jersey native, moved to Simsbury in 1994 after discharge from active duty; he retired from the Navy Reserve in 2001 and flies American Airlines routes to London and the Caribbean. He and his wife, Trish, have two children, Kayla and Daniel.

After a career in medicine and engineering, Barry was selected by NASA to be a mission specialist on three Space Shuttle flights in 1992 that included four space walks. He retired in April 2005. He and his wife, Sue, have two children, Jenny and Andy. With five patents to his credit, he builds robots for his own company, Denbar Robotics.

- Roger Catlin

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-survivor.artjan12,0,2825427.story?coll=hc-headlines-life

puddin:
Timber Tina Scheer proves she's a 'survivor'
Paul Mitchell
Sawyer County Record
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 03:53:07 PM

 
She’s been recognized in Hayward for years, and now her face will be seen on television screens across America and ‘round the world.

Hayward native Tina Scheer, 45, daughter of Donna and Fred Scheer Sr., is a castaway on CBS’s “Survivor: Panama — Exile Island,” which will premiere at 8 p.m. Feb. 2.

Timber Tina, as she’s known, is a well-known lumberjill and timber sports promoter, as well as the owner of Timber Tina’s Great Maine Lumberjack Show, a timber sports venue in Ellsworth, Maine, similar to Scheer’s Lumberjack Shows here in Hayward, owned by Tina’s brother, Fred. Tina Scheer’s show has a twist, however — a team called the Timber Tina’s World Champion Lumberjills, an all-female timber team that takes its traveling show on the road.

When she was 8 years old Scheer began logrolling, which was her springboard into timber sports. According to the Web site at www.lumberjills.com, Scheer is the only woman who competes in the chopping, sawing and logrolling events. She is also responsible for introducing Women’s Chopping and Sawing at Hayward’s Lumberjack World Championships.

She has traveled to Australia 10 times with her exhibitions and was one of the first women to chop and single saw at the Royal Sydney Show in Australia in 2001. She was also the only female member of a team of axemen to travel and compete to South Africa.

Scheer has also been the voice of the Stihl Timbersports Series for 10 years.

The mission statement of Timber Tina’s World Champion Lumberjills reads, “It is our goal at World Champion Lumberjills to advance and promote female athletes in logging sports worldwide.”

According to a CBS press release, Scheer described herself as a female in a male-dominated business, and “I have to struggle a lot,” she said.

In this season of survivor, the struggle will be familiar, as the 16 castaways are divided into tribes by sex as well as age: the four teams are Older Men versus Older Women versus Younger Men versus Younger Women.

In the second episode the four tribes will become two during what CBS calls a “schoolyard pick.”

There’s a new twist to this season of the top-rated series — at least one castaway each episode will be banished to a separate island miles away from camp to fend for himself or herself for an undetermined period of time. While being separated from the tribe may not be easy, there is a hidden Immunity Idol somewhere on Exile Island which, if found, could save a castaway from being voted off the island at a Tribal Council.

Scheer was originally accepted as a castaway for “Survivor 11: Guatemala.” Tragically, Scheer’s 16-year-old son, Charlie Shumway, was killed in an automobile accident on Highway 27 during a thunderstorm on June 11, 2005, just about a week before she was to leave to begin filming.

So what are the odds of Scheer being the “Sole Survivor” who outwits, outplays and outlasts the other castaways in the quest for the $1 million prize?

She’s a world-renowned lumberjill. She’s won silver in the Great Outdoor games. Having grown up here in the northwoods, Tina is most comfortable in the outdoors. She is an avid hiker and biker, kayaks regularly and enjoys cross-country skiing.

And she’s from Hayward.

What do you think?
 
http://www.haywardwi.com/record/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=213562

puddin:
High school teacher to be on this season's 'Survivor'
January 12, 2006

A Simi Valley man will appear on this season's edition of the reality television show "Survivor," a CBS spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Bruce Kanegai, 58, is one of 16 contestants competing on the 12th edition of the show, "Survivor: Panama -- Exile Island." Kanegai, an art instructor at Simi Valley High School, is the oldest contestant on the show.

For this edition of "Survivor," which premieres Feb. 2, older contestants will face off against each other, and younger participants will do battle with one another, among other activities.

Filming for the season has been completed, but Kanegai cannot comment until he has either been voted off the island or declared the winner on air, a CBS spokeswoman said.

"Sorry, I can't talk to you about it," Kanegai said when asked by a reporter to comment on his time in Panama.

In 2002, Kanegai filmed a "Worst-Case Scenario" episode for TBS, where he had to handle a rattlesnake.

http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/sv/article/0,1375,VCS_239_4382552,00.html

puddin:
Survivor' Has Connecticut Connection
January 12, 2006
By ROGER CATLIN, Courant TV Critic
A pilot from Simsbury and an astronaut from Norwalk are among the 16 castaways in the 12th go-round of "Survivor," which begins next month.

Terry Deitz, 46, a retired Navy pilot and airline pilot from Simsbury, and Dan Barry, 52, a Norwalk native and retired astronaut from South Hadley, Mass., are among the oldest contestants for "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island," which starts Feb. 2 on CBS. The series title comes from a cruel new twist, in which one of the castaways is banished to a separate island miles away, where an immunity idol is hidden.


Also new this season will be the division into four teams: older men vs. older women vs. younger men vs. younger women.

Deitz and Barry are among the older men, of course, though neither can claim to be the oldest contestant. That distinction belongs to karate instructor Bruce Kanegai, 58, of Simi Valley, Calif.

Deitz, a New Jersey native, moved to Simsbury in 1994 after discharge from active duty; he retired from the Navy Reserve in 2001 and flies American Airlines routes to London and the Caribbean. He and his wife, Trish, have two children, Kayla and Daniel.

After a career in medicine and engineering, Barry was selected by NASA to be a mission specialist on three Space Shuttle flights in 1992 that included four space walks. He retired in April 2005. He and his wife, Sue, have two children, Jenny and Andy. With five patents to his credit, he builds robots for his own company, Denbar Robotics.

- Roger Catlin
http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-survivor.artjan12,0,2825427.story?coll=hc-headlines-life

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