On October 30, 2006, the Tucson Citizen, in their Body Plus supplement, published an article on Fast Eddie and many of his recent accomplishments. See "He took fast track to skating success".
	On St. Patrick's day 2003 the Tucson Citizen held an essay contest for Middle School students who were to write about someone they admired, "Heros & Saints". The sixth grade winner was one of Ed's former students, Cameron Louie, from Doolen Middle School, who chose as his subject: Fast Eddie. The winning essay is here.

Our own Ed "Fast Eddie" Wachter was one of 35 Tucsonans, part of 7,200 Americans nationwide (selected from more than 210,000 nominees), chosen to be torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame through 46 states to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The Arizona Daily Star report is here. The official Olympics press release is here.

Why was Ed one of those selected from hundreds of thousands? The Olympic committee doesn't give reasons, but a fair assumption would be that it had something to do with the work that Fast Eddie's Skate School does with autistic children in Tucson and the work Ed does with ASDB.