Creaking, Grappling and Walking the Walk

1. Here's another fundraiser you can get behind this week and do some immediate good. Head to , or the , mention "Educate Rancho" and have 20 percent of the bill applied toward local schools. The offer, part of the first Educate Rancho Week, is good through Friday. Jim Riskas, owner of the car wash, has some about it.

2. As you get older, you tend to creak more. The last thing you need to do is lop off a piece of your finger. Still, there's a silver lining to every missing digit. Read John Weyler's column, .

3. Santa Margarita Catholic may have finished 31st as a team, but 130-pounder Cody Smith will continue his wrestling season after placing fifth in the Coastal Division Individual Championships over the weekend. Tyler Adams of Tesoro did even better, finishing second at 119 pounds in the Eastern  Division tournament. Here's the .

4. On this date in history, Feb. 22, 1980, the seventh-seeded United States hockey team upset the Soviet Union, 4-3, and gave Americans a miracle on ice. Ten years later, in 1990, Milli Vanilli won a Grammy Award for best new artist; they had lip-synched their songs.

5. Celebrating a birthday today are Drew Barrymore (36), Michael Chang (39), Jeri Ryan (43), Vijay Singh (48) and Dr. J, Julius Erving (61). Others born on this date were the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin (1962), Sparky Anderson (1934), Edward Kennedy (1932), the man who produced The Andy Griffith Show, Sheldon Leonard (1907)  and Frederic Chopin (1810). Also a couple of famous fathers, one who knows best, Robert Young (1907) and the father of our country, George Washington (1732).

For What It's Worth: It's Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month, and National Entrepreneurship Week. Since it's Taco Tuesday, it's a good time to celebrate National Margarita Day.