News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
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Bridging cultures with art - Sat, 26 Jun 2010 PST
What do Americans know about Africa? Visions on television show that it’s hot and dusty, that wild animals roam free, that men and women run barefoot, carrying water on their heads or spears in their hands. Draped in brightly colored fabric, they dance and do strange things. They are nothing like “us.” Artist Nicholas Sironka disagrees, “we are all human beings.”
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Ring is returned to owner
Jennifer Tilbury's search for the owner of a wedding ring she found has come to a close.
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Found ring returned to rightful owner
Bruce (left) and Nicola White had Bruce's late mother's wedding ring returned to them Thursday. Jennifer Tilbury (right) found the ring, which had been missing for over a decade, earlier this year.
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A chance to do it all over again
My wife, Carol, is a smart cookie, but this sometimes gets her into trouble. Take, for example, our wedding proposal — or make that proposals. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t slip the slightest thing past that girl.
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Robin Dexter: Blogging from China, No. 6
Robin Dexter, Grand Island Public Schools assistant superintendent, blogs about what she had learned about Chinese jade, her lessons on dumpling making and on how to play the game of Marhjong, and an impromptu invitation she received to do street dancing.
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News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
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News in brief
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
Read more on Onalaska Holmen Courier-Life
Q&A with Rachel Frederickson, co-owner of Simply Gelato
Occupation: Co-owner (with mom Julie Frederickson) of Simply Gelato, a mobile ice-cream business. For more information and events calendar, go to simplygelatomn.com.
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About town
Elk Grove Peace & Justice forum is facing the question, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Forum founders are discouraged over the lack of attendance at programs, and would like input as to whether to continue meeting monthly, meet occasionally for special events, or disband.
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About town
Elk Grove Peace & Justice forum is facing the question, “Where Do We Go From Here?” Forum founders are discouraged over the lack of attendance at programs, and would like input as to whether to continue meeting monthly, meet occasionally for special events, or disband.
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The Broadway Backslide
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - You can find just about anything for sale on Broadway. Stores, many of them small mom and pop shops, hawk everything from wedding dresses to plastic toys to opulent jewelry.
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Flower store offers wide variety of gifts
Baskets and Treasures Flower and Gift Shop in Williamsburg is a full-service flower store that also offers a wide variety of gifts.
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Two home burglaries reported in Bernards
BERNARDS TWP. – A pair of home burglaries were discovered on Mount Airy Road near Lake Road on Tuesday afternoon, June 8, according to police.
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Kelly builds on experiences learned at PHS
PORTSMOUTH — As some teenagers do, Zach Kelly struggled his first few years at Portsmouth High School.
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Like ‘magic’ they fell in LOVE
There is magic in love. Ask Richard Watts. He’s a retired magician – he knows a little about love, and a lot about magic.
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Storm recovery
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Kimberly Lemire’s worst nightmare came true.
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The Top Ten Most Hated/Hateable Beings In NFL History
The thing that is great about sports is that to the fans point of view, there is pure evil and eternal goodness. A Packers fan may envision heaven as Lambeau Field with an adjustable thermostat while the eternal depths of Satan's realm may be outlined with Bears memorabilia. While most Bears fans would likely disagree with the above paragraph, I don't think anyone can disagree that the ten men ...
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Q-C Pride street fest is Sunday
Tricia Eddy and Ashley Kostelnik of Fort Wayne, Ind. are proudto be marrying in Davenport on Sunday.
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Entangled in fashion
What is it with women's shoes these days? Have you priced the or checked out their design recently? I just went to Somerset mall looking for shoes and the prices were more than some people put as down payments on homes in the last few years. And the height of the heels would give you vertigo to say nothing of trying to cross a street with potholes. At a recent Karmanos Hospital charity affair ...
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