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"He doesn't need his arms.

He could probably use his chest."Chavez realizes now that he probably should have gone on the disabled list at some point last season, because the injuries limited him to 137 games.

His offense suffered and he never felt quite like himself at the plate, but the Athletics were winning and he couldn't fathom just watching games that mattered in the playoff chase.

Now, all he cares about is a healthy 2007 campaign.

"You look at everybody, and everybody on the back of their baseball card has a roller coaster.

So you can't really assume your career's going to go clean," Chavez said.

"I'm just glad it's over.

I've been through a lot in the first eight years of my career.

I'll know what to expect, and if it happens again, I'll know how to deal with it."With Barry Zito moving across San Francisco Bay to the Giants, Chavez now is the face of the franchise _ the only player left who was part of all five playoff teams this decade.

Along with outfielder Milton Bradley, the A's brass will tell you he has the most raw talent, too.The 29-year-old Chavez batted a career-low .241 last season, second worst among all American League qualifiers, and his 100 strikeouts were his third most in parts of nine big league seasons.

He still hit 22 home runs to reach the 20-homer mark for the seventh straight year, but his 72 RBIs were his fewest during that span.He committed only five errors _ after making 15 in 2005 _ on the way to his sixt...

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"I'm not going to lose any.

I'll go to bed and wake up six and a half hours later like I always do but when I wake up the clocks are going to go from 6:30 to 8:30 all of a sudden." Just like that, two hours will be gone.

"Hopefully the time zone confusion will disappear too," said Connor.

Now this ba href=/sleep/a/by town will join hands with the rest of the state knowing they've got more to lose.

What takes place this Sunday can best be described for Winamac as the terrible twos.

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b." But his second career changed that.

After retiring from 30 years with a Bechtel company, he got a real estate license, and was introduced to groups he had never known.

"I kept meeting people and learning about new things and community needs," he said.

He joined the Chamber of Commerce and became a board member; he joined the church and became a deacon; he heard about the Children's Fund.

Eventually, his schedule was packed.

Finally, he retired again for full-time volunteering.

"I didn't have to work to make a living after I retired, but I treated volunteering as a job.

I got really involved.

It stimulated me," he said.

A Healthy Cities volunteer since 1998, King now spends an hour or two per week tutoring a student at White Oaks School in San Carlos, one of six students he has worked with since he started tutoring.

The students often need additional support and attention they may be missing at home.

"This is a way for volunteers to make up that void in a child's life and make a contribution," King said.

"Of all the activities I have participated in, this is the most important.

You are helping the child get on the right track." For the Children's Fund, King arranges for and collects donations of cash and goods, such as new clothing and toys, from organizations and businesses around the County.

Each Christmas the fund collects around 3,000 toys for county families.

For another program, whose end he lamented, he collected computers from businesses for young peop...