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By DELANIA TRIGG, Register Staff Writer
Gainesville Daily Register
Valley View —
Cydney Wolfenbarger is no ordinary girl.
But don't tell her that.
The ten-year-old Valley View Elementary student can do everything any other child can do including completing the obstacle course at "M-o-o-ving Thru' The Mud With Landon" — a fundraiser held at Circle N Family Dairy last May to raise money for the medical foundation Hope for HH.
The brown-eyed petite girl who loves swimming, performs in children's theater and is a fan of the Junie B. Jones book series looks no different from her classmates until she rolls up her pant leg to reveal a prosthetic limb personalized with watermelon-patterned fabric.
The decision to have her lower left leg amputated was Cydney's, her mother Eva Wolfenbarger said. But the surgery wasn't something anyone took lightly.
The procedure came nearly a decade after Cydney's diagnosis with neurofibromatosis — a genetic disorder in which tumors grow in the central nervous system.
Maybe it was a mother's intuition, but when Wolfenbarger found a lump on her then-six-month-old daughter's calf she knew the spot was something serious — something life changing.
"I called Cydney's doctor's office and her regular doctor wasn't available," Eva said. "I talked to (her doctor's colleague) and that doctor basically blew me off. He said, 'If you can get her here tomorrow before eight, I'll see her before my other patients and you'll see this is nothing serious.'"
That initial examination marked the beginning of a change in Cydney's life.
"When he felt the lump in Cydney's leg, you could literally feel all the happiness being sucked out of the room," Wolfenbarger said. "He said, 'This wasn't caused by trauma.'"
The doctor ordered x-rays and Eva, waiting nervously beside her daughter, asked the radiology technician what he saw in the stark, almost ghostly black and white films.
"He looked at me and said, 'I don't know what it is,'" Wolfenbarger recalled. "I was devastated."
Cydney was scheduled for more diagnostic procedures at Cook Children's Medical Center in Dallas.
Her worst fear, Wolfenbarger said, was that her daughter had some type of cancer.
Wolfenbarger remembers Cydney's diagnosis was an overwhelming relief to her and her husband, Olin Wolfenbarger.
Neurofibromatisis is something Eva Wolfenbarger knew a lot about. Members of her family including her mother and sister have battled the condition. She knew the tumors can eventually become malignant but she also knew Cydney's chances for a full and productive life were excellent.
"The doctor was telling me Cydney has neurofibromatosis, and I was so happy," she said. "She was beginning to think I didn't understand how serious the condition is, and she told me she was concerned about my reaction. I told her, 'You've just told me my daughter will live. She doesn't have to have surgery today. She'll be okay.'"
Cydney's treatment would be a combination of preventative measures and observation.
The tumor on Cydney's calf couldn't be removed, and the doctor told Wolfenbarger her daughter's leg would eventually break at the site of the lesion and the fracture would require complex surgery.
"It wasn't a matter of if her leg broke. It was a matter of when," Wolfenbarger said.
Cydney received treatment at Cook Children's and at Scottish Rite Hospital. To further complicate matters, the little girl was also diagnosed with pseudoarthrosis — a medical condition in which bone fractures do not heal properly.
Still, Cydney was far from preoccupied with her health. She lived an ordinary life with her mother, father and siblings.
A fall years after her initial diagnosis caused Cydney's leg to break. She was reaching for something in her closet, getting ready for church on a quiet Sunday.
Her injury didn't seem severe.
Wolfenbarger said, at first, she wasn't certain her daughter's leg was broken.
Cydney could still walk, her leg supported by a brace she wore daily.
"But she was in pain," Wolfenbarger said. "She cried all through church."
It wasn't until doctors took a look at Cydney's leg that Eva realized how severe the break was. Cydney's doctor grasped the little girl's foot and tugged it gently.
"The foot went this way and her leg went this way," Eva said, making a twisting motion with her hands.
Surgeons inserted steel rods into Cydney's leg to try to coax the bones back together.
Cydney began to joke about the hardware in her calf.
"She would say, 'My screw is loose, get it? It means I'm crazy."
But the rods wouldn't stay put, and Cydney required additional surgeries to replace and reset the rods.
After yet another failed medical procedure Wolfenbarger said her daughter had had enough.
"She said, 'I don't think I want to have another surgery," Wolfenbarger said. "We were at school— I work at Valley View school — and she said, 'My leg hurts. The rod is poking out again!' I was crestfallen. She had told me she didn't like her leg sometimes....It hurt. And she was uncomfortable a lot."
Cydney had already begun thinking about amputation. She knew the surgery would bring an irreversible loss but she weighed the loss of a limb against the pain and the disappointment as surgery after surgery failed to mend her leg.
Having the limb removed seemed like a viable option.
Cydney and her parents didn't make the decision without thought and prayer.
Wolfenbarger said Cydney asked what she would do if she were in Cydney's place.
"I told her I would make the decision and ask Heavenly Father if it was a good one," Wolfenbarger said.
Cydney took her mother's advice. She prayed.
"Jesus, Heavenly Father, told me it was good to get my leg amputated," Cydney said.
The couple did what they could to prepare Cydney for the surgery and its aftermath.
Cydney spoke with a child psychologist. She talked to her doctors and she became friends with another amputee — Valley View resident and emergency medical technician Marnie Smith.
"Marnie's been great," Eva Wolfenbarger said. "When she talked to Cydney about amputation, I asked her to tell the truth. She didn't sugar coat it. And once the decision had been made, Marnie went up to the school in her firefighter gear and talked to the kids. She said, 'Cydney will look different but she'll be the same person she was before.'"
"And she showed us her prosthetic leg," Cydney's brother Evan Wolfenbarger said. "People were like, 'Wow!'"
Smith's kindness didn't stop with the school visit.
"On Cydney's first day back at school, Marnie rolled in with Cydney. They were both in their wheelchairs," Evan said.
Cydney's surgery went well but the healing process played tricks on her brain.
"She had phantom pain. Her toes were cramping," Eva Wolfenbarger said. "After her leg healed enough to touch, we would rub it. You have to teach the brain that the leg is not there."
Cydney also had to learn to deal with strangers' reactions to her amputation.
Friends and family were a small army of supporters — fiercely protective of Cydney — but trips to places such as the movie theater or a store were challenging.
"Little kids get scared. They ask their mother what happened to Cydney's leg," Wolfenbarger said. "And the mother will shush the child and try to look away."
She said she sometimes explains to children that Cydney's had a surgery called an amputation and that the surgery made Cydney feel better.
"The little kids just accept it but the parents usually want to apologize," she said.
Good intentions aside, pity is the last thing Cydney and her family want.
"She's a typical ten-year-old girl," Wolfenbarger said. "She's like everyone else."
Cydney's situation has changed but she isn't broken and except for occasional adjustments, life goes on as usual for the Wolfenbargers.
Like Cydney, her family has learned to laugh at a lot of things they might once have feared including finding a prosthetic limb in an unexpected spot.
"Oh my gosh, it hurts when you trip over her leg in the floor at night," Evan said.
"I have to remind Cydney to put her leg in a place where she can find it every day," Eva Wolfenbarger added. "I'll say, 'You can't leave your leg lying around just anywhere.'"
On a summer swimming trip, Cydney's prosthetic limb became buoyant.
"My leg was floating to the top of the water and I was going under the water," Cydney said, laughing.
Cydney's prosthetic limb is a replica of her own calf and foot.
"She can even paint the toenails," Evan said, pointing out the green glittery polish on Cydney's prosthetic toes.
Doctors adjust the limb as Cydney grows but the apparatus will have to be replaced several times before she reaches her adult height.
The cheerful fabric cover was Cydney's choice.
Far from limiting her mobility, her prosthetic limb allows Cydney to do things she's always loved including swimming.
She's been through a lot and continues to thrive but Cydney said she doesn't think of herself as a hero or role model.
She said she can't imagine why her amputation is a big deal to anyone.
"I think of myself as a normal person," Cydney said. "I'm nothing special....Now I just don't get hurt on my left leg."
Her brother agrees.
"It's just so normal," he said. "She's just Cydney."


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I was very appreciative of Jim Jenkins' Nov. 7 column "Smilin' Jack's very own GOP." Jenkins did a very good job of educating me about of a lot of things I didn't know about Jack Hawke on a professional level. I want to comment on the man outside the political arena.
My friends and I played baseball and basketball for Jack for over a decade, and no one would never have a clue what he did for a living because all he cared about on those nights and weekends was us. Jack was quick to teach, slow to anger and always encouraging to each of us. I am 45 years old, and he still is a huge inspiration to me.
I don't care which side of the aisle a person sits on (red or blue), we need a million more like him. I hope that my children can find a person like that in the sports/life world whom they will be talking about and looking up to 30 years from now. Everyone needs their parents in that role, as mine were and are, but everyone needs a "Jack Hawke," too. Thanks, Jack, we will miss you.
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Students investigate methods to purify a sample of "dirty" water to drinking water. They'll look at three different methods for purification: distillation, filtration, and iodine (I2) treatment. They then will calculate the monetary cost of purifying water.
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Comedian and U.S. late night host Jimmy Kimmel has welcomed his first child with his new wife, three days shy of their wedding anniversary.
Molly McNearney gave birth to a daughter named Jane on Thursday.
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---- — Me and cold don't mix.
Various members of my family have a competition every fall to see who can last the longest before turning on the heat. Apparently, October is early for this bunch.
My brother shuts the heating vents in winter and opens his window – to keep the room from being so stuffy, he says. Me? I don't even touch my windows in winter. Can't let my body heat escape into the cold panes of glass, you know.
So every winter, as the mercury dips – but who has mercury thermometers anymore? – so does my comfort level. I wear one each of my dozen or so thick sweaters, couple dozen hats, and three dozen or so scarves, but I just can't stay warm.
You think I'm kidding about the hats and scarves.
One magical garment, however, solves the problem. I grew up enshrouding myself in some sort of blanket every time I was reading or doing homework. Some parents try to separate children from their security blanket at a certain age. That age, for me, must be about 45.
Ensconced in a reading chair, I looked about like rocky outcropping with a head. If rocks were polyester yarn.
The downside? I continually left my blanket in my seat when I quit reading. Then I took some other seat – the corner of the couch, maybe – and absconded with another blanket. Not necessarily one of my own.
I practically upholstered the entire house with blankets. My mother also figured out who kept pulling her afghan out of shape.
Relatives could give me a blanket for my birthday or for Christmas and I'd be a happy camper. To this day, I need two or three blankets to sleep in winter. I can't walk by a blanket display at the store without lingering with longing looks. They're more attractive than men holding puppies.
So it should come as no surprise that I bought two more blankets last weekend. I had a very good reason to buy these, though. Or so I told myself.
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I cover Brazil, Russia, India & China.
Thanks to the growing popularity of smartphones, more and more people are having their online identities stolen from cyber criminals.
Roughly 12 million Americans were victims of identity theft last year, 13% more than were reported in 2010, according to a study released on Wednesday from Javelin Strategy & Research. The dominance of smartphones and real-name social media websites like Facebook have helped contribute to the increase in ID fraud. Hackers looking for profit can not only find out where a person lives, how old they are, and where they were born, but they can break into smart phones through malicious programming and steal credit card information, running up charges.
The number of people whose information was accessed in a data breach increased by 67% in 2011, but that's mostly skewed by Sony Play Station data breach last year. Someone whose personal information is taken in a data breach is nearly 10 times more likely to fall prey to ID thieves.
"If you buy a new smartphone it is probably connected to your money somehow, and criminals can find your credit card account, the one you use to pay your phone bill with. Once they find it, they can do whatever they want with it," says Denis Maslennikov, a mobile malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab in Moscow.
Between 2004 and 2010, Kaspersky Lab discovered a little over 1,000 malware applications designed to profit from hacked mobile devices. They run the range of trojans that send SMS text messages to premium numbers, charging the phone account and giving profit to the premium phone number owners, to outright identity fraud, where thieves can discover bank account information linked to the customer's hacked smart phone and empty out bank accounts.
"We're up to around 1,000 new malware programs a month now,"says Maslennikov. "Most of it is from Android. It's not as safe as the iPhone. This year we'll see even more attacks on Android operating systems," he says.
The title is spelled wrong. Identity theft. Not Identify theft.
Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, pointed out:
Security issues made more headlines in 2011 than ever before, and showed that no organization, platform or device is immune to increasingly sophisticated threats. Given that more of the world's users will conduct personal and business transactions through mobile devices, the industry faces a tremendous challenge, requiring more cooperation and coordination to keep them safe.


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Despite an impressive showing at the Class 1, District 13 championship, Midway's season ended in quarterfinals Nov. 2.
The Vikings, 31-4, defeated Mound City 26-24 and 25-20 in the Class 1 sectional game at Mound City, but lost to Sante Fe 25-12 and 25-18.
Midway first upset No. 1 seeded Kansas City Lutheran 25-13 and 25-20 in the district final Oct. 30 at Archie.
Two of the Vikings' final four losses came to Lutheran earlier in the season.
"We were just determined," Midway senior outside hitter Megan O'Brien said. "We had the courage."
Seeded No. 2, the Vikings ran off to a quick 8-0 lead in the first game. The Knights closed the gap to 8-6, but Midway held on to the lead. With the score at 22-13, a kill from O'Brien was followed by an error on the Knights. Senior middle hitter Miranda Dahman ended the game with a block.
"We were ready," Dahman said. "We had been practicing all week for this. We were ready to come out and play."
In the second game, Lutheran started off strong, bolting to a 7-4 advantage. Dahman got a block, but the Knights followed with a kill to lead 8-5. After a kill from senior middle hitter Jessica Owens, junior middle hitter Laine Mills got block to tighten the score at 8-7.
With an error on Midway, Mills followed with a tip and O'Brien got a block to knot the score at 9-9. With a block from Mills, the Vikings took a 10-9 lead and didn't look back from there.
Midway was ahead 22-19 and junior right-side hitter Mariah Keeney got a kill. After a Lutheran error, the Knights followed with a block to make the score 24-20. O'Brien got the final say with a kill to end the game.
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By Vanessa Nesvig
Recently, we received an email from a patron who noticed something incredible about a work in our collection. The painting, titled John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) by Portland native Claude Montgomery, is a portrait of the Maine artist and architect and is currently on view in our exhibition The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer's Legacy in Maine. In the portrait, John Calvin Stevens is shown seated in an elegant interior decorated with a small landscape painting in the background to the left of the mantel. This painting-within-a-painting was originally assumed to represent a work by Stevens based on his involvement with the Portland-based painting group The Brush'uns and his dedication to the city's artistic life.
Now, thanks to the keen eye of a visitor, we realize that this landscape image is not of a painting by John Calvin Stevens but, rather, is the iconic painting The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog by Winslow Homer. Homer's composition is recognizable by the dark shapes, the glistening of light off of the water, and the halo around the sun—definitive characteristics apparent in the landscape near the mantel.
In 1901, Homer gave The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog to Stevens who asked for "any production of Winslow Homer" as payment for architectural plans he had drawn for Kettle Cove, a cottage at Prouts Neck that Homer used as a summer rental property. (Stevens had also worked on Homer's studio in 1884 and 1890.) In a letter to Stevens that accompanied the painting, Homer noted, "I am very much surprised and pleased at your bill. This kind of thing occurs seldom in matters of business . . . I can greet you as a brother artist and thank you sincerely. I send you this sketch of mine that I think is appropriate and will please you."1
1 Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. and William David Barry, "Brother Artists," Bowdoin, Fall 1988: 18.
Image credits: (Top to bottom) Claude Montgomery, "John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940)," 1935, oil on canvas, 40 x 32 1/2 inches. Gift of the artist.; Winslow Homer, "The Artist's Studio in an Afternoon Fog," 1894, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 1/4 inches. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; R.T. Miller Fund.


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The autopsy revealed -- just as the ghost has said -- that Zona's neck was broken and her windpipe crushed from violent strangulation. Edward Shue was arrested on charge of murder.
As he awaited trial in jail, Edward's rather unsavory background came to light. He had served time in jail on a previous occasion, being convicted of stealing a horse. Edward had been married twice before, each marriage suffering under his violent temper. His first wife divorced him after he had angrily thrown all of her possessions out of their house. His second wife wasn't so lucky; she died under mysterious circumstances of a blow to the head. Once again, Mary Jane's intuition about this man was verified. He was evil.
And maybe he was a bit of a psychopath. His jailkeepers and cellmates reported that Edward seemed to be in good spirits while in jail. In fact, he bragged that it was intention to eventually have seven wives. Being only 35 years old, he said, he should easily be able to realize his ambition. Apparently, he was certain that he would not be convicted of Zona's death. What evidence was there, after all?
The evidence against Edward may have only been circumstantial at best. But he didn't count on the testimony of an eyewitness to the murder -- Zona.
Spring had come and gone, and it was now late June when Edward's trial for murder came before a jury. The prosecutor lined up several people to testify against Edward, citing his peculiar behavior and his unguarded comments. But would that be enough to convict him? There were no other witnesses to the crime, and Edward had not been placed at or near the scene at the time the murder allegedly took place. Taking the stand in his defense, he vehemently denied the charges.
What of Zona's ghost? The court had ruled that prosecuting testimony about the ghost and what it claimed was inadmissible. But then Edward's defending lawyer made a mistake that perhaps sealed his client's fate. He called Mary Jane Heaster to the stand. In an attempt, perhaps, to show that the woman was unbalanced -- maybe even insane -- and prejudicial against his client, he brought up the matter of Zona's ghost.
Seated on the witness stand in front of a packed courtroom and an attentive jury, Mary Jane told the story of how Zona's ghost appeared to her and accused Edward of the foul deed -- that her neck had been "squeezed off at the first verterbrae."
Whether or not the jury took Mary Jane's -- or rather Zona's -- testimony seriously is not known. But they did hand down a verdict of guilty on the charge of murder. Normally, such a conviction would have brought a sentence of death, but because of the circumstantial nature of the evidence, Edward was sentenced to life in prison. He died on March 13, 1900 in the Moundsville, W.V. penitentiary.
Was the jury swayed, even a little, by the story of Zona's ghost? Was there even a ghost at all? Or was Mary Jane Heaster so convinced that Edward Shue had murdered her daughter that she made up the story to help convict him? In either case, without the story of Zona's ghost, Mary Jane may never have had the courage to approach the prosecutor, and Edward may never have been brought to trial. And Zona's ghost would have remained unavenged.
A highway historical marker near Greenbrier commemorates Zona and the unusual court case surrounding her death:
Interred in nearby cemetery is
Zona Heaster Shue
Her death in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared to her mother to describe how she was killed by her husband Edward. Autopsy on the exhumed body verified the apparition's account. Edward, found guilty of murder, was sentenced to the state prison. Only known case in which testimony from ghost helped convict a murderer.


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The Humanities Program offers courses that draw upon the disciplines of history, literature, philosophy, religion, communication studies, art history, and music history to explore fundamental and enduring questions regarding the human condition. These courses are available to all students, regardless of major, and may be used to satisfy many of the university's Core requirements: the Seminars in Scholarly Inquiry; Artistic Approaches; Humanistic Approaches; and Connections.
The Program also offers an opportunity for seventeen first-year students to live together, along with an R.A. and twenty upper class students in our new residence hall. Residents represent all majors, including the sciences and social sciences, but share in common their interests in the arts. Freshmen take Humanities 132 (The Scientific and Romantic Revolutions) in the fall semester, a course that satisfies the first half of the year-long freshman writing requirement (SSI1). In the spring semester, they enroll in Humanities 200 (Homer to Hitchcock: The History of Ideas in the Arts), which satisfies the Artistic Approaches core requirement. Students also enjoy a variety of house-related activities related to the arts, including film screenings, open-mic nights, guest lectures, teas, course-related co-curricular events, and off-campus field trips.
The Humanities minor offers a course of study in the history of Western ideas as they have found expression through the literary, theatrical, musical, and visual arts. Courses in the minor are distinguished by being frequently team taught, by requiring an experiential and/or co-curricular component, by making use of digital resources in the humanities, and by affiliations with the Humanities Residential Program's activities and events.


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Aria Awards 2012
Thursday night the 2012 Arias took place at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. I was asked to co-host the David Jones Red (Black) Carpet alongside James Kerley and Jesinta Campbell.
I'm wearing a fabulous Camilla & Marc dress, Novo shoes and Ice bracelets. The guys at Mac took care of my make-up and Richard did my hair – a modern wave look.
(Thanks to Jesinta for the pics)
It seemed while on the carpet – I couldn't stand anywhere without being in someones shot. It was a photo bombers lolly shop. I just couldn't help myself
The night was great – performances by Taylor Swift, 360, Yothu Yindi, Jezabels & Missy Higgins
Harley Quinn
My inspiration
Loves a good dress up….
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Me as Harley Quinn from Arkham Asylum. Only 7 people at the entire party knew who I was.
Fiat Day out!
Recently I went along to a gorgeous Fiat Chrysler day where they showcased the new Fiat 500 and the Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
The day started with a lovely and insightful chat about how much these brands have evolved over the last century, including designs, logos and ownerships.
The traditional Fiat design hasn't altered all that greatly since it's first creation – but it's purpose is to be compact, tres chic and european. In fact, looking back through all the ad campaigns over the decades proved that it was to be sold almost as a fashion accessory to beautiful models with a lavish lifestyle.
The Giulietta had much more of a sports feel to it, catering for another market all together.
The day was mapped out with a scenic drive all through northern Sydney, stopping off for lunch, then driving back along a coastal route. It would have been delightful, was I not jacked up on pseudoephedrine in an attempt to feel remotely better than the sickly state I was in.
Even though I missed out on the lovely drive, the team sent a little 'pick-me-up' with a miniature version of the Fiat 500 to take with me wherever I go!


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The following police reports were provided by the Glenview Police Department. Arrests and charges are accusations and do not indicate guilt.
Residential Burglary
On Jan. 15, a resident on the 2300 block of Swainwood Dr. reported someone burglarized their home after breaking and entering through a window near the front door, according to police. Several rooms in the house were ransacked, and a laptop computer worth about $400.00 was taken, police say.
On Jan. 17, a resident on the 1300 block of West Branch Rd. reported someone burglarized their home, police say. Entry was apparently made by breaking an exterior bedroom window and several rooms were ransacked, according to police. Several check books were stolen and reported loss is $230.00, police say.
On Jan. 19, someone on the 4400 block of Lilac Ave. reported their refrigerator was stolen, according to police. Method of entry to the home is unknown and reported loss is $1,500.00, police say.
Disorderly Conduct
On Jan. 15, an employee of a business on the 1300 block of Patriot Blvd. reported a man came into the store and made inappropriate comments to the employee, police say. The man left the store for a short time, then returned with two roses he gave to the employee before leaving again, according to police.
Suspicious Person
On Jan. 19, someone on the 1100 block of Golfview Ln. reported seeing a man wearing a dark knit hat and a three-quarter length coat standing in their backyard, according to police. The man left the area prior to police arrival, police say.
Burglary to Motor Vehicle
On Jan. 20, someone on the 0-100 block of Mulberry Ln. reported their unlocked car was burglarized while parked in the driveway, police say. A purse and its contents, worth about $755.00, was taken, according to police.
Aggravated Identity Theft
On Jan. 17, Daisy Napier, 29, of Chicago, was arrested on the 1300 block of Patriot Blvd. and charged with Aggravated Identity Theft and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, police say.
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Shortly before 7:35 p.m., Nicholas S. Boire, 23, was traveling northbound on State Route 9 in the Town of Chazy when he allegedly fell asleep and crossed into the southbound lane, Chazy-based State Police said.
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While a lot of attention will be focused on the start of the Greater Lawrence Boys Christmas Tournament on Thursday, featuring a terrific opener between Andover and North Andover, there are two other events worth noting that day.
In boys basketball, St. John's Prep will visit Haverhill featuring several players from North Andover, including point guard Max Burt (son of sports editor Bill Burt) and Drex Costello while, in wrestling, Lawrence will be at Greater Lawrence in what is always a spirited duel meet. Always spicing up the matchup is that Lawrence head coach Rob Niceforo teaches at Greater Lawrence.
Sweep for Owls
Timberlane's wrestling team not only bested North Andover Saturday night in its varsity meet, but they also swept the other meets. The Owls won the middle school meet 46-33 and the JV meet 42-21.
50th was superb
Quite a bit was made, and rightfully so, of the final of 40 seasons coaching boys soccer for North Andover's Bill Tarbox, who led the Knights to a Division 2 North title. But even Tarbox takes a back seat to Needham boys soccer coach Don Brock. In his 50th year of coaching, Brock led Needham to a 21-1-3 campaign and the Division 1 title. The final win of the season was the 662nd of his career.
First and last
One of the most memorable moments of the fall season took place in the Division 1 state swimming meet in the newly created boys-only events. Billerica's C.J. Khoshabjian, in the 100 breaststroke finished both first and last. Since he was the only qualifier, he was the only swimmer in the event.
Until this year, boys swam in the same events as the girls at the state meet.
Coach and runner
Acton-Boxboro field hockey coach Mae Shoemaker has established quite a program. In 14 years, her teams have gone 141-20-20 and this year's squad was 21-1-1 and captured its third Division 1 state title in six years. Maybe more impressive about Shoemaker is that she's run in the Boston Marathon for 24 straight years.
92 and counting
Speaking of field hockey, it's tough not to applaud the Watertown field hockey program. It's been a powerhouse for more than 20 years and it was as strong as ever this year, going 23-0 and winning its fourth straight Division 2 state title. The Raiders have a 92-game unbeaten streak, meaning that this year's seniors never lost a game.
Huskies' All-Americans
Two members of the Bradford Huskies cross country team earned All-American status after finishing in the top 25 at the Junior Olympic nationals in Albuquerque Dec. 8.
Finishing as All-Americans were 8-year-olds Benjamin Craven and Julia Valaskatgis, who finished 20th and 19th respectively with 2K times of 8:12 and 8:23.
Seven other Huskies competed and all finished in the top half of their races. They were 8-year-olds Connor Flynn and Brynne LeCours, 9-year-old Peter Crapsey and 10-year-olds Meaghan Woolbert, Amy Seavey and Ryan Basile and 11-year-old Connor Alessi.
Wrestling mat inflation
The Pentucket wrestling team wants to thank wrestling boosters and members of the Pentucket Athletic Association for purchasing a new wrestling mat, and well it should. What cost about $4,000 just five years ago now costs $8,000.
Don't wait so long!
The Louisiana Tech football team, buoyed by its 9-3 record and the highest point average per game (51.5) in the country, got invited to the Independence Bowl. Unfortunately, hoping for a better offer, it waited too long to respond and was replaced by another team and was then shut out completely.


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Sonoma County's Murphy-Goode Winery, founded in Alexander Valley by Tim Murphy, Dale Goode and Dave Ready but no longer independent (see Murphy-Goode goes to Jess Jackson), has a seemingly dream-job opening that has drawn hundreds of applicants, even before today's (Wednesday, 29 Apr) formal job posting at www.areallygoodejob.com.
The offer: Get paid $10,000 a month for six months of work, plus free housing in Healdsburg, to blog and post videos about Murphy-Goode Winery. The chosen social networker will toil from Aug 2009 to Jan 2010, using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs and other networking tools to tell the world about Murphy-Goode wines.
News of the job opening has rapidly spread via the internet, Twitter, word of mouth and print. Without hiring anyone yet, Murphy-Goode has reaped an amazing amount of press, without submitting its Sauvignons, Chardonnays, Merlots, Zinfandels and Cabernet Sauvignons to the taste test (they tend to be good but not great).
Some of the many PR pros who have recently lost their jobs in the economic downturn tell me they will apply for the position. A few asked, 'Do you think I have a chance?'
My response: Not unless you are under 30 years of age, are in love with tweeting and acquiring friends on Facebook, and are willing to abandon what you perceive to be a blogger's freedom of speech, in favour of corporate reality and being on Jess Jackson's payroll.
This story got into the business section of the SF Chronicle. Evidently they had a long line of applicants, many of whom were seriously knowledgeable.
Dave and his father are great guys and whoever wins will have lots of fun. Maybe the winner will even get to meet Linda Murphy.
6 May 2009 18:24 by Mel Knox
I hate it all so much.
The only actual use of Twitter, (apart from giving second-rate journalists (especially Guardian ones) the delusion that they have their stupid, unimaginative, self-congratulatory fingers on the Zeitgeist) seems to be the ability to get a day-by-day bulletin of which famous people Stephen Fry has been having breakfast with. It won't last. It can't last. If it lasts, I'm moving to Mars.
29 Apr 2009 14:17 by David Stewart
Maybe Linda Murphy and Jamie Goode (who blogs at www.wineanorak.com) should apply and split the job between them?
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Jet Lag Jet lag is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. If you have ever traveled from one time zone to another, you might have felt tired, unaware, headache, it means you are suffering from jet lag. It is important that a traveler should understand jet lag and avoid factors, which led to it. What is jet lag? Jet lag results from disruption of circadian rhythms in the human body. Circadian rhythms pertain to changes in body function that occur throughout a 24-hour period. These circadian rhythms regulate mental alertness and the propensity to fall asleep. In simple words, Jet lag is a temporary condition that some people experience following air travel across several time zones in a short period of time their body clock that regulates sleep, wakefulness, and other activities is disturbed. In order for the body to work with maximum efficiency, the body's 24-hour circadian rhythm cyc Continue...
The dry air in aircraft causes dehydration. As a result, the condition called jet lag arises. Instead of sitting on your airplane seats, it's good to get as much exercise as you can. The passengers traveling north to south does not face jet lag, as they do not cross time zones. How can we control jet lag Avoiding the factors, which led to jet lag, is the best defense against it. Sleeping aids like blindfolds, ear-plugs, neck-rests, and pillows are all useful in helping to get a good sleep while flying. le must be tuned to the light-dark cycle of the external environment. Some people use sleeping pills to alleviate jet lag. A person's biological clock needs some time to synchronize with the external environment. If your travel time is long it's better if you choose the day flight, also prefer flying westwards as it causes less jet lag as compared to flying eastwards. Jet lag can also cause daytime fatigue, stomachaches, headaches, irritability, and decreased awareness. A traveler should try to cope with the new environment as soon as possible. Before flight, ensure that you are not stressed-out with excitement or worry and not tired from a function the night before. Walking up and down the aisle, standing for some time, and stretching the body will greatly reduce the discomfort.
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tim Scott, a freshman tea party Republican, will become South Carolina's first black senator, Gov. Nikki Haley, announced Monday, appointing the congressman to fill the seat left vacant by Jim DeMint.
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Special Town Meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 or when a quorum is reached.
On tap tonight is a discussion and vote on a Hoops & Homework proposal and how to send $1.7 million in additional state aid. There have been letters to Framingham Patch that indicate that Town Meeting members will ask for and
The Framingham Schools had original requested $899,000 but Superintendent Stacy Scott told the School Committee Monday night he has reached a compromise with the CFO to hav the schools receive $600,000. All appropriations will need approval by Town Meeting.
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Herb Chasan = TMM4 - speaking on Article 10 - Hoops & Homework presentation. Chasan is the sponsor.
Given 10 minutes to speak.
Goals of the program -- youth to have a safe and productive way to spend time after school - this is when kids have been getting trouble.
Moderator asking for quiet in the hall...
Chasan -- want program to self-sustainable.
future funding with Afterschool Alliance. Don't want to come back for $81,000 next year .. CDBG money is available . for Precinct 17 - highest proverty in town - support of United Way ...
lots of help available for low income - high poverty area
three locations - pelham apt, cochitutate homes, Carlson Road
They look like they are close -- theyare concerned about safety too. She really wants the kids in the neighborhood.
Pelham apartments - over 1,000 kids ... 18 years in business successfully -started at first by funding through Framingham Housing authority, police
lot of the homework today you need a computer ... for many of these kids there is no computer at home.
Cochituate homes - second site for the program - 350 kids
Invite everyone to come down and walk the walk ...
Third site - Carlson & Pusan Road -- planning to use room on the left ... lots of apartments
Why improve the neighborhood -- wants to keep the kids in the neighborhood, lots of he parents work all the time, looking for less crime...
Facts -- $81,000 is a lot of money -- if we can save one kid -- $82,000 is what it costs to keep a kid in DYS one year .. money well spent.
$1 investment saves $3 .. Chasan
Ned Price -- TMM 17 --speaking -- there are about 10 homes in the precinct and the rest are subsidized housing -- this is first time putting in something only for the precinct where I live... recently visited the Pelham program and quite impressed with the programs they are running ..I hope you will support the article ...
7:54 p.m. -- Committee reports
FinCom chair - Dan Lampl - precinct 8 -- Finance Committee discussed the article -- this type of program is a valauable of the community but should be funded privately -- VOTE 4-0-2 not to recommend
ways & means chair - Audrey Hall - learned several organization to work with the sponsor on the programs ... spoke with Town Manager ... programs in the school and park & rec .. want to be sure nothing is duplicate -- committee saw a need for after-school programs .. so important for youths at risk .. all know school programs have been cut ...committee discussion on finding additional opportunities in existing structures or support from other organization .. no doubt need - how best ... motion refer back to sponsor 9-3-0.
Selectmen chair Charlie speaking -- board expressed support for it ... but worried about a number of details -- how success would be measured and sutained in future years -- board voted to take no action .. hoped sponsor and town manager would work together ...
Standing committee one education - chair Melanie Godddard -- rise to speak to - no presentation by sponsor -- variety of questions unanswered - no vote taken
Town Meeting menber discussion - 8 p.m.
William Lebarge -- speaking - rise to support this article ... $81,000 may seem like a lot of money -- but a good investment - get these kids before they go bad ... do need to provide them means help them become productive citizens...seed money asking for ... come back in savings ... show that as a community we care for the all the helpless members in the community...
Bill McCarthy - TMM10 - speaking -- I'm against this article. Town should not be funding a program for he Framingham Housing Authority ... indictaed SMOC and United Way may sponsor in future years - why can't they do it in the first year? Whyc an't the housing authority support the program it self??
two things bother about article -- where does the town draw the line for other partments in town (program available for all residents in town) -- we could have every apartment complex and neighborhood looking for funding ... should town meeting decide which to fund? What if the funding from other sources don't come in the following year? Town should be last resprt for this funding and not the first.
Renee Faubert - TMM14 - speaking -- in theory these program are wonderful .. I'ma single mother work fulltime, the school had a 21st century grant program, don't know which school these kids go to, there is opportunity to stay at Wilson afterschool -- I think that there is alot being offered to kid s-- don't think we should start a new program right now .. I think we should look at broad spectrum of the whole town .. too narrow .. the whole town needs to be looked at ... send back to sponsor ...
Ken High - TMM12 -- rise in support of this ... we should be a town that looks after everyone here .. I think this is where we need to look the most ... I think they do need help more than other areas of town ... concern about duplications ... there is no program in that area .. the kids with the roughest situtation from home ...kid sneed to get support they need and in their neighborhood ..their space and no school ...
Kevin Crotty - TMM7 - speaking - i respect all the committees ... but th ebottom line is -- a mind is aterrible thing to waste .. we have a chance to help some people out who need it ... we can leave the town in a better condition than it is now ..
Donald Taggert -- speaking -- C stands for communitym caring, cooperation and choices -- first step to reach out to a segment of our community... says we care about the young people .. please support this program.
Cynthia - Precinct 7 -- speaking the residents feel a great sense of disconnect - language bariers - negative past experience -- increase in youth violence andgang areas in this area .. challenge families face on a day-to-day basis ..growing need for neighborhood based support services ... majority living there are single families - with women as head of household ... she is a teacher at Framingham High School .. ask for your support of project
Ed Kross - TMM12 - speaking -- don't think anyone here who disagrees on the need - put yourself back to that age - what it would be like to be in that poverty stricken area ... concept everyone agrees good concept -- question for sponsor??? Why weren't funds available for this now? what agencies will step up in future years.
Chasan speaking -- been in with discussion with Framingham Hosuing Authority - interested in this - have a 5 year plan -- working on $1 million improvements to the memorial building -- been in discussion with and Jewsih Family Services all in srong support -- they want to see if you are behind it also --
Gloria Geller - TMM2 - speaking -- question -- who will be the teachers, who will be the managers, and what about security -- I would feel better about voting for the program.
Chasan speaking -- Jewish Family Services are running programs at Wilson Elementary now -- they have limited money -- running for some 3rd graders and 5th grade girls .. they would be perfect ... theywould need to enter in a contract with the Town Manager ...outcomes will be measured ... the other model is the recreation center at the Pelham Apartment -- 18 years doing this kind of work ...
Jewish Family Service and Pelham will hire specialists and provide security
8:20 p.m. Geller - followup question -- have anidea -- who will be the umbrealla for the program .. over reaching management -- make sure it works??
Chasan -- three sites here -- pelham, carlson/Pusan and Cochituate homes. .. each one of those areas will enter into a separate contract with the town manager...
Peter Pleshaw - speaking --speaking that this will set a precident - I'm not going to vote for this.
8:28 p.m. Dan Giltinson - TMM14 - speaking -- security issues?
Chasan - $20 an hour including benefits ...
Motion to move the question ... 2/3rd vote needed - about 6-8 people still want to speak
8:32 p.m. Patrick Dunne - TMM9 -- in favor of the motion ... contractors come in and manage this ... key words in the presentation -- seed money... I think we can do this in Framingham ... some responsible party at each location - CORI checks .. get someone school and parks & recreation ... I had the same questions until I saw the words contract under the town manager
Norma Shulman - TMM5 -- I rise to support this motion -- encouraged by the number of organization interested to secure ongoing funding -- if we don't fund this limited amount of money - the kids will have to wait -- don't want to see another school sememster to put together a diffrent proposal -- like to see them get the services now ... my vote in support of this motion
Steve Orr - TMM1 - speaking - questions not answered on this proposal ... heard from all the committee reports -- against this -- talking about SMOC acting as the umbrella ... talking about 200 days per year .. 5 days a week all year long ... seed money talking about -- not guaranteed to appear in subsequent years -- this should be worked out in advance how funded in future years .. this should have come from the school board ...
Bob Snyder - TMM11 -- money we soend is tacpayer money not charitable money ... money we extract legally by the state -- only committeed to do that to do functions as a town .. one is dept of education .. this is a classic charity .. something we can contribute too .. don't take this from the taxpayers ... I am voting against this
8:42 p.m.
Elsa - TMM6 --first year as a town meeting -- never missed an election in my 48 years here in Framingham - I am appaulled and saddened this is the character of out town ... Ned Price said this is first time anything ever done for precinct 17 ... majority of people in Framingham have never been in Precinct 17 .. it might as well be a foreign country to most people in Framingham .... from what I hear from a lot of you - you don't care about them... how can that be more important that little children in town .. $81,000 is a little amount ... I highly support this .. in a human level .. embrarassed by how some of you feel about this
MOVE the question -- 2/3 rd vote needed -- question moved via hand
8:46 p.m. Point of Order -- question the vote ... so now electronic vote
82-30-0 -- question is moved
VOTE -- send it back to sponsor ...via ways & means
8:48 p.m. electronic vote ... majority vote needed - FAILED
8:51 p.m. vote to fund the $81,000 -- majority vote needed --
64-45-2 -- PASSED- Hoops & Homework program funded ...
8:53 p.m. BREAK
9:12 p.m. Back from break - Moderator speaking - going over some announcements
Norma Shulman speaking - TMM5 -- Town Clerk's office and check in table - beg each of you to check your papers ... master list has disappeared - Town Meeting numbers and email addresses - Precincts 1 & 2...
*** 109 Town Meeting members present tonight
Article #11 -- Dennis Paulsen - sponsor of the article - for a motion -- eastleigh farm petition ... begin billing for water service effective 11/1/12
In 2006 discovered Eastleigh never billed for town water ...
Eastleigh lost two building in a fire in the 1930s...
Town has easements for eastleigh -- main water pipe was not in the easement -- could have been a mapping era ... sometimes in the 1980s, lay new the pipe outside the easement and then switch them over ... so legal mess - pipes are not whee they are supposed to be ...
Eastliegh has no meter and was not billed ... it has pressure reduction valves installed inside their buildings ...- Paulsen speaking on his presentation.
9:28 p.m. -- unbilled water almost $80,0000 .. thisissue has dragged on for decades .. water billing goes back to the 80s...
Committee reports -- Fincom chair -- take no position on this article
ways & means chair speaking -- ask town meeting to show support for billing of water service beginning Nov .1 ... as you heard a lot of history here ... 11-0--0 to recommend favorable action as presented by the sponsor.
9:35 p.m. Town Meeting members to speak
Kevin Crotty - TMM7 - speaking -- giving some historical background ...
Jeanne Bullock speaking -- TMM5 -- gentleman's agreements .. time to stop giving them free water .. they are billing the rest of us for water...
Point of information -- Ted Anthony - TMM1 --
Paulsen -- Town Meeting can not rescind the sleectmen's agreement with Eastleigh Farms ...resolution is to have selectmen adhere to their own agreement.
Selectmen Chair Charlie speaking ... resolution to aks the selectmen to do what we voted to do .. we've been dealing with this ....
9:44 p.m.
Dan Giltinson -- TMM14 -- I don't think any taxpayer should help subside a farm .. a majority of us have to pay own own bills ... situation about to talk about .. hitting us too close to our hearts and wallets .. situation exists due to selectmen/water commissioners .. they had failed ... I wish selectmen have decided to look out for one special resident in town .. this resident has been getting free water for the past 6 years -- new member of the standing committee for public works ...and new town meeting member -- you the taxpayers have to pay your own water and sewer bills. ..this resident si the owner of eastleigh farms -- or he should put a well in .. selectmen gave him a date of early november to put the well in ... I have a funnyfeelling that he is going to ask for an exception .. I don't know how he can free water year afteryear .. is this fair for you?? ..urge you to vote against every incumbent when they run for re-election .. we will not accept busines as usual .. this has been going on way to long ...
Point of Order - Kathy Vassar - chair of precinct 1 -- town meeting member was elected to the standing committee of public works ...
Dunne -- TMM9 - speaking - this is a resolution? Town Meeting can not tell the selectmen was to do as water commissioners.
Dennis Giombetti -
Peter Sellers - DPW director speaking -- relative to the answer charge - there is no sewer being used ...
Giombetti- I can not allow the previous speakers comments to go unchallenged ... water usuage being given to that property unmetered ... he will bebilled for water Nov. 1. .. if well not installed .. retroactive bill to July 1 2012....
Michael Hugo -- Precinct 2 -- Chair of Board of Health -- we are the authority on wells - find it rather bizzare .. to see the subject of the property -- there is a 700 foot well -- well is in the process of being connected -- board of health had him going through several steps ... in the process of being connected ..
on personal level .. how can town meeting put its will over an agreement by selectmen - its bad government .. he got the permit ... he does not own eastleigh Farms ... he is stewart or a trustee of the property .. that farm should always be here for the beauty of our town ...
equity -- everyone should pay their share and pay their water bills ... the abutting property next to eastleigh does not pay for their water ...HUGO.
William Lebarge - TMM16 - speaking --
Steve Orr - TMM1 -- I'm getting lost here - on the insanity of this motion ... I don't understand why we are making waves here .. there is a process in play.
Motion tomove the question - 2/3rd majority needed -- PASSED
moderator -- reading the motion on the resolution ...
10:05 p.m. -- Electronic voting --
51-28-18 abstain -- PASSED
10:06 p.m.
#12 -- Motion from Dennis Paulsen -- refer back to sponsor - hand vote -- PASSED
#13 motion from Dennis Paulsen -- refer back to sponsor - hand vote - PASSED
Motion to adjourn --- Gloria Geller -- PASSED
Town Meeting will resume on Tuesday night ...
10:08 p.m.


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Tallahasee to Cape San Blas
Bradley's Country Store has good smoked sausage.
I've had some really good bacon from Limestone Meat House in Monticello. They don't seem to have a website:
305 Limestone Rd
Monticello, FL 32344
Another place in Monticello... I've had their bacon and it was good, but not as good as Limestone: http://www.johnstonsmeatmarket.com
You won't find local made Andouille or Tasso around here.
Since you say ANYTHING, please see the recent thread we had on the deviled crab patties unique to that stretch of road - http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/662875 . I HIGHLY recommend you try stopping by Posey's Steam Room and Oyster Bar in Panacea, FL, where you can get a plate of local shrimp, beautifully briny local oysters, and one of these deviled crab patties, and two sides for $13. Truly one of the best fried seafood plates I've had anywhere in my deliberate quest to order such a plate anywhere I travel.


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Loudoun County Supervisors Chairman Scott York says he has spent "the better part of 20 years" on bringing rail to Dulles.
But with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wavering on the commonwealth's contribution and the York says "we are down to the final minutes."
York was at Tuesday's Virtual Rail-ty Tour presented by the. The event, at the gave chamber members and other business leaders a look at how Metro's Silver Line will impact Dulles Corridor development.
And while the hosts conducted a "virtual tour" of the Silver Line from Tysons to Loudoun County, there is real fear that costs may doom Phase 2, which will run from Reston's Wiehle Avenue into Loudoun.
Loudoun Supervisors have until to July to decide whether they are going to continue to support the project. The board is slated to contribute $260 million. Fairfax County Supervisors reiterated their support last week.
Unlike Phase 1, the $5.6-billion Phase 2 has no federal money. Virginia has pledged $275 million. McDonnell (R) recently said Virginia would give another $150 million. He initially said he would offer another $300 million, but has wavered since realizing that other Virginia transportation projects may suffer.
"This is the great debate going on at the state level in the Commonwealth of Virginia," York said. "Quite frankly, I think the commonwealth should put $1 billion into this project."
Without additional money from Virginia, a large part of the cost may be borne by Dulles Toll Road users.
Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins said yesterday that public-private partnerships—like the one at Reston's Wiehle Station, where Comstock and the county are teaming up to build a 2,300-space parking garage—are the key to getting the rail project completed.
"Rail is an economic asset to the region, the commonwealth, the corridor and the county," she said. "I believe the vision and commitment is still there, even if it is a struggle."
Gerald Gordon, president and CEO of the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, said having rail service is essential to the growth and continued economic outlook of Western Fairfax County.
Tysons and Dulles/Reston/Herndon are in the top 20 in office space and ability to grow," he said. "Tech workers want to live where other young people live, but they want to work in Tysons and Reston. The ability to attract that work force is critical."
Gordon also said the fact Dulles International Airport and Washington, D.C., are not connected by rail service has been a challenge as Washington tries to compete as a "major league city."
"You need major league assets," he said. "You need to get rail to the airport and beyond."
Several commercial real estate and development firms gave an overview Tuesday of projects planned in conjunction with the debut of Silver Line Phase 1—which will run from Tysons Corner to Reston's Wiehle Avenue beginning late 2013. They said there will likely be a development boom in residential, rather than office space.
• JBG office buildings Summit I and II (288,000 square feet of office space) at Sunrise Valley Drive and Edmund Halley Drive, will undergo a $15 million renovation.
• An application to develop a parcel adjacent to Reston Station (where the is now located) is currently under review, said Mark Looney, land use attorney with
The proposed mixed-use development near the Wiehle Station (and the planned 1.5 million-square-foot, mixed-use development at Reston Station) will have 175,000 square feet of office space, as well as retail and residential.
• Reston Station will soon break ground on its luxury rental residences, to be called The BLVD.
• Boston Properties is at work on Block 16 (also called "The Avant at Reston Town Center"), a 15-story, 359-unit residential building (with 27,000 square feet of retail) at Reston Town Center (across the park from Vapianos). The project is expected to be completed next year and will feature a rooftop pool and dog area.
Boston Properties also has plans for Reston Gateway, a 22-acre site between the Reston Town Center and the Reston Parkway (Phase 2) Metro station.
"We anticipate a very vibrant, mixed-use development," said Pete Otteni, Boston Properties' vice president of development, "We are not necessarily recreating the Town Center, but connecting Reston Town Center to the Metro."


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Alva Sidle Legion Auxiliary
GRAND RAPIDS - President Tracy Bostelman opened the Feb. 7 auxiliary meeting with eight members present.
Karen Dress and Barbara Thomas made 12 fleece blankets for the veterans which will be taken to Vi Grzybowski.
Membership applications for Lori Carlson and Kathy Habegger were read and accepted.
Letters were sent to the Buckeye Girls State candidates. The interviews will be at the March 7 meeting.
The unit bought the Birthday Ball tickets.
Thank you cards were read from Ellouise Myers and Virginia Walerius. Sympathy cards were sent to Lillian and Sue Welch and family for the loss of their son and brother. Member Virginia Turner's house was partially destroyed by fire.
Among payments made were $96 to Dress for items for veterans and veterans' wives at the Grand Rapids Care Center, $200 for Otsego Food Baskets, $200 to Mary Jo Myers for items to send to the troops, $50 for the ALA Department of Ohio Government Test trip; $30 each to VA Hospitals in Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Chillicothe; and $445 in dues to the ALA Department.
There will be a fish fry Friday, Feb. 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. Cost is $9.


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Dear Editor.
After a decade of swimming in the mountains, the Yosemite Swim Club regrets to announce that we will be closing our club. Yosemite Unified School District recently informed us that they will be forming their own swim program. This means that we will not have pool time available to run all our programs. We hosted our last swim meet on Oct. 12 and 13 and our last practice will be Nov. 22.
Yosemite Swim Club is immensely grateful to the community for its support and participation since our grand opening in 2004 at the newly built YHS/ Baker Swim Complex.
Thank you to the parents who volunteered countless hours on deck and behind the scenes to keep the club running year round and to all the local businesses and individuals who donated their time, services and products when we hosted our invitational swim meets.
Thank you to our coaches who taught your children butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and thank you to our coaches who got up in the dark all year long to lifeguard morning adult lap swim and to those who helped create and coach our summer water polo club.
And, most of all, thank you to all our members. The lap swimmers and the many hundreds of children who participated in our summer recreational and year round leagues. You are the reason that club existed.
The Yosemite Swim Club Board of Directors Glen and Karen Lauterbach,
Dwan Foster,
Anthony Misner,
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LOST CITY — Editor, Daily Press:
I'd like to to thank the students, parents, and the Tahlequah community for the outpouring of support my wife and I have received.
My time as a teacher at Tahlequah Public Schools was filled with wonderful memories and opportunities to make a difference in many students' lives. I would not trade these past five years for anything. The relationships I've built with students, parents and colleagues have made me a better person and gave me strength to persevere through these past few months.
I have been contacted by many students who stated they intended to quit the Tahlequah music program, in support of me and because they disagreed with the new direction of the program. I'd like to urge these students not to cut music out of their lives. Whether it is playing music in your church, taking private lessons, or finding an outside music ensemble to perform in, it is important to me that you do not use this situation to abandon your music education.
While we have been contacted by many in the community who were disappointed that so much personal information was included in the newspaper articles, I'd like to confirm that this was a situation my wife and I were willing to endure. I was getting pressured by the administration to resign so this situation would go away quietly, but it was important to me to fight and publicly denounce the allegations against me. Putting our private lives on display for the community was the price we paid for getting to state my innocence.
While it will be sad to not see my students on a daily basis, I hope they know I will continue to support them. They will see my face at graduation, concerts and other events. My desire to see the Tahlequah students grow up and attain successes hasn't gone away. That's what good teachers do: They desire for their students to succeed, and I look forward to hearing and seeing all of your successes in the future.
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Fortuna Düsseldorf even keeps clean sheets on the road. A trip to Greuther Fürth was no problem as they leave 2-0 victors.
Düsseldorf started well by limiting Fürth's opportunities in front of their goal. They opened the scoring in the 26th minute when Oliver Fink headed in a cross from Johannes van den Bergh. With Düsseldorf being the only side in the division yet to concede a goal this season, Fürth knew they were in trouble.
Their doubt was increased only minutes later when Max Grün was beaten again to make it 2-0. Ken Ilso received a pass from Andreas Lambertz in the center of the penalty area and shot past Grün.
Desperate to get back into the match, Fürth began to push forward more fervently in attack as Düsseldorf began to sit back. Fabian Giefer was called upon to make a few key saves to keep Fürth from scoring, but they never seemed under threat of conceding.
The second half would play out with Düsseldorf maintaining their fifth consecutive clean sheet to begin the season in what can only be described as a remarkable start to the season for the newly promoted side.


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I've spent today wondering just why it was I spent yesterday filled with sorrow, at times with tears, grieving a man I had never met, from a country I had never been to. This wasn't a young man taken in his prime. Younger men have been taken and still held to have lived a full life. So what was it? What made this one hurt?
I became a Raider at the age of 4 or 5 (I'm not sure which, I was young and the memories are nearly 30 years old now) when my grandfather, who lived in Toronto, came to visit us in Scotland and brought me a t-shirt. As a man living in Bills territory, who himself supported the Dolphins, I can't begin to know what the reasoning behind his choice was, but that choice proved fateful. The t-shirt read "Los Angeles Raiders", and my pact with the dark side was struck.
When you become a Raider, you abandon all ties and claims to previous nationality and you become a citizen of the Nation, and like other citizens, you swear fealty to your new leader. Mr Davis. You take on the virtues extolled by this man, and lived by him and his team, and you try to do your best to live them yourselves. You accept that nothing is going to be easy, that nothing will be handed to you. You go out and you take what you need and if you have to, you fight to do so. You strive at all times to be the best you can be, in the knowledge that through excellence you will succeed.
When you have risen though, you look around and see those around you that surround you and if you can, you help them to be the best at what they can be. This is the side of being a Raider that many fail to see or unerstand.
Al Davis lived that life. He took everything he could to make himself and his team stronger, and he never backed down from his convictions. He also looked out for his friends and for those that had helped him.
We are all Raiders and he was the best of us. This team goes forward now with the values he installed.
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