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One of a handful of original artwork sold at Comicon this year. This one is a page out of my sketchbook of a possible painting I might do at a later date.
I absolutely love these drawings, the 3D effect of your shading is really eye catching, even moreso because parts of the image are left more flat
I thought this was real when I first saw it
A little kangaroo mouse? How cute! I owned a book as a child about a boy who found a little kangaroo mouse and kept it as a pet.
I want one as a pet
so cute
so cute
I like this a lot- it looks like it's coming off the page
Hi Bobby, I know you get a lot of comments and even you can not anwser all of them,I hope you will answer my question, Is it a white pencil that you use for the lights on those kind of drawing? and how is called the kind of paper you use? I'd love you to answer, thanks Bobby you're the man!
Great effect, cool image!
so cute
A Bunny-Kangaroo? Really cute!
Cool lookin' character!
cute.... such a unique style
Love how he seems nearly 3d! Great work@
Love how he seems nearly 3d! Great work@
So cuute! What kind of paper do you use? Or do you photoshop this onto a texture?
It's sooo cool ^_____^ Can't stop looking at it!
Beautiful work!!
Soo cool! It's hopping off the page.
suuuu cutex w3w
Is this intentionally "trompe l'oeil"?
i love it.
i love it.
Cute! x
very pretty
very nice 3D Hopper
This is so nice! It looks like he's coming off the page!
Muito criativo, parabéns!
Very nice!
Awesomely cute! Beautiful job. I'd love one of those for a pet!
I love these little sketches with the... the... is it trumpeu effect? How bad of an art student am I? Is it especially bad if I'm a senior?
Anyway, I usually use the same sort of paper for sketches as well and loves it =3
Anyway, I usually use the same sort of paper for sketches as well and loves it =3
wow! like a 3d effect ^^
I thought that was three dimensional! Well done!
3 things pop up in my head watching it - cool, cute, 3D
This is pretty frickin awesome.
That is really cool Bobby.
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Cute!! I love the 3D effect where the creature's head seems to be coming out of the paper- that is too cool!!
ah that is so cute!... i like how you only left a few part 3 dimensional... very interesting
I think that would be a great painting.
pretty cool! There's also something about this creature that reminds me of fictional rhinogrades / snouters, maybe it's the ears and the eyes. Did you took some kind of inspiration from them?
Very cool critter!
The three-dimensionality is amazing
I'm not even sure if its... a sculpture... or not...
I wonder if its feet are lucky.
it's so cool!


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Results Group2845 E. Camelback Road Phoenix, Arizona U.S.A.
Results Group Business shut down Phoenix Arizona
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Phoenix company swindled $19.5M on promise of online riches
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Aug. 21, 2007 04:16 PM
A Phoenix company swindled $19.5 million from unsuspecting customers in exchange for the promise of being able to get rich quick through the Internet, according to state and federal investigators who have shut the business down.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that the Results Group LLC and two of its top managers have been ordered to pay almost a half million dollars in fines for violating fraud and telemarketing laws.
Edward Longoria and Amber Halvorson, Results Group's owners, have been prohibited from running any telemarketing businesses or any enterprises that offer business opportunities. Their assets have been seized and authorities said some victims may be reimbursed.
"They preyed upon folks who were looking for a possible new career or way to make money at home, and unfortunately this is a common scheme, especially with the economy being not as strong as it has been," Goddard said at a news conference Tuesday.
According an Arizona Superior Court judgment, Longoria and Halvorson reeled in victims by advertising work-at-home opportunities using pop-up ads that appeared on job posting Web sites. They and their employees contacted the people and sold them Web sites that would link to other businesses, including Amazon.com and casino Web sites.
The company charged between $100 and $600 to set up a Web page, telling customers they could earn $1,000 a week, or as much as $100,000 annually.
In addition to the Web pages, the Results Group sold customers advertising packages that cost up to $10,000 annually to funnel traffic to their sites.
But, based on the investigation, no customers earned any money from the sites, and when they tried to get refunds from the Results Group the company refused, according to the judgment.
Goddard said investigators do not know how many people the Results Group may have victimized, but a joint investigation with his office and the Federal Trade Commission turned up victims from across the country.
Under the Arizona judgment, Longoria and Halvorson must pay the state $40,000, including $25,000 for consumer fraud education and $15,000 for attorneys' fees.
In addition, the company, Longoria and Halvorson were ordered to pay the federal government $435,000 under a separate federal order. Some of that money will be used to reimburse victims.
The fines were determined after the government liquidated Longoria and Halvorson's personal property, which included a luxury sports car, real estate and life insurance policies, said David Griggs, an attorney for the FTC's southwest region.
The Attorney General's office and FTC first filed their complaints against the company in November. At the time, the FTC announced a federal sweep cracking down on business-opportunity scams.
Longoria and Halvorson incorporated the Results Group in August 2004, according to documents filed with the Arizona Corporation Commission. The state court order said the company operated primarily from a boiler room at 2845 E. Camelback Road.
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Purity Mineral Makeup/Mineral Science can't be reached to cancel membership, phone # reports line volume is too high, call back, internet site address not available, random charges to my bank account without any product shipment. Farmers Branch Texas
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Aaron Anthony Blanchard, 75, a native and resident of Chauvin, died at 7:45 a.m. Sunday, June 25, 2006.
Visitation will be from 4 to 10 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to funeral time Tuesday at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Chauvin. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with burial in the church cemetery.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Theresa Bergeron Blanchard of Chauvin; two daughters, Laura Lirette and husband, Stephen, and Carolyn Pellegrin and husband, Murphy, of Chauvin; four grandchildren, Tate Lirette and wife, Christel, Jeremy Lirette and wife, Kim, Tara Portier and husband, Ryan, and Dylan Pellegrin and wife, Kamie; and six great-grandchildren, Taylor Lirette, Mitchel Lirette, Chance Lirette, Mark Portier, Lanie Pellegrin and Anthony John Pellegrin.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Joseph Blanchard and Zilda Price Blanchard; four brothers, Magnus, Vanis, Nolan and Adam Blanchard; and two sisters, Leona Blanchard and Beulah Neil.
He was a self-employed fisherman and was a parishioner of St. Joseph Catholic Church.
He was a member of the Terrebonne Council on Aging Ward 7, Woodmen of the World, president of the Chauvin Senior Citizens and a board member of the Terrebonne Council on Aging.
He enjoyed fishing, hunting, was an avid outdoors man and liked to travel.
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Mike LawrenceMike Lawrence is a New York City based comedian from South Florida who has found success in both writing and stand up. He is a staff writer on the upcoming season of Inside Amy Schumer and was a writer on the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, the 2015 Webby Awards, and We Have Issues on E!
Mike is a recurring guest on the Comedy Central TV show @midnight and his stand up has been featured on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers, TBS' Conan, FX's Totally Biased, and John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central. In 2013 His half hour special for Comedy Central aired in conjunction with the release of his album "Sadamantium", produced by Comedy Central Records.Additionally, Mike co-hosts the podcast Nerd of Mouth on Cave Comedy Radio and has appeared on countless others such as WTF with Marc Maron, Robert Kelly's You Know What Dude, You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, Who Charted, The Dana Gould Hour, The Adam Corolla Show, and The Artie Lange Show.
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Matt Knudsen was born in Hawaii, raised in the Mid-West and sailed around the world as a merchant marine. After trips to Africa, Europe and The Far East, he eventually put down his sea bag, picked up a microphone and began performing stand up comedy all across the country.
As an actor, Matt has shared the big screen with Oscar winner Sean Penn in the Warner Brothers feature Gangster Squad and appeared in TV shows like Key & Peele, Workaholics, Big Love, Boston Legal and Malcolm in the Middle just to name a few.
As a stand up comedian, you may have seen him on Conan, The Late Late Show, Last Call or Comics Unleashed, as well as several festivals, including The San Francisco Sketchfest, Bridgetown, Limestone, Laughing Skull, High Plains and the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal; where he was named a "Best of the Fest."
His critically acclaimed albums The Comedy Stylings of Matt Knudsen and American are top downloads on iTunes and heard regularly on SiriusXM, Pandora and even NPR.
"Mix droll observation with a dry, almost hypnotic delivery," (The Onion A.V. Club) "Amazingly measured and deliberate...well done. (Laughspin) "The personal feels universal, and the universal feels personal. The only explanation for this phenomenon is that it's all finely crafted comedy from a strong central voice." (The Huffington Post)
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New York City-based comedian and actor Todd Barry is widely recognized for his roles as the bongo-playing "Third Conchord" on HBO's Flight of the Conchords and Mickey Rourke's deli boss in 2009 Oscar winner The Wrestler, and renowned throughout the entertainment industry for his nuanced, measured, and thoroughly original approach to stand-up. Drawing audience members in with his deadpan self-deprecation and ability to pile punchline upon punchline, his decidedly low-key stage persona belies a deeply intelligent, often biting, occasionally absurdist worldview, one lauded by discerning fans who seek a fresh yet honest update to traditional observation and social commentary.
Boasting multiple stand-up appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and two Comedy Central Presents specials, and his latest one hour Comedy Central special Super Crazy. Todd's resume also includes such hit TV shows as Louie, Delocated, Bored to Death, Tim and Eric, Chappelle's Show, Sex and the City, and even Sesame Street. Among his additional feature-film highlights are Todd Phillips's Road Trip, Louis CK's Pootie Tang, and Mitch Hedberg's Los Enchiladas. You can see him soon at Sigourney Weaver's right hand man in Amy Heckerling's Vamps, and as Paul Rudd's co-worker in David Wain's Wanderlust. Internationally he has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, the Vancouver International Comedy Festival, and Kilkenny, Ireland's Cat Laughs Festival.
Todd has been heard on both The Howard Stern Show and The Bob & Tom Show, and his albums Medium Energy, Falling Off the Bone, and From Heaven are available from Comedy Central Records, Amazon and iTunes. He has earned the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival's Jury Award, praise from Ricky Gervais as one of the best comedians of 2009, and accolades from The Onion's A.V. Club, which declared Medium Energy one of the best comedy albums of the decade.
Todd was the subject of a recent New York Times Arts section cover story, which referred to him as a "master of standup" and noted "when it comes to live performance, few comics are more consistently funny."
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"Piercing, blinding, slaying, violating wit." – NPR
"Infuses his observational comedy with a wonderfully individual disdain." – The Times of London
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Comedian Mal Hall has come a long way in a short period of short time. In four years of performing as a comedian, Mal has worked with headliners Dat Phan, Ian Edwards, and Bobby Lee at clubs and colleges across the country.
Mal is featured as a regular in studio guest on The Show (KIOZ FM Rock 105.3), and The Dave, Shelly and Chainsaw Morning Show on 100.7 JackFM in San Diego.
In January of 2009, Mal was named the unanimous winner of the 2009 Orange County Comedy Competition, which featured over 100 local and national contestants at the Irvine Improv. Along with regularly performing at the World Famous Comedy Store and the Irvine Improv, he has performed at the Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and for many members of the US military at various bases worldwide.
Mal was also a finalist in NBC's 6th Annual Standup for Diversity nationwide talent search and recently completed a nationwide college tour with NBC as well.
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Jade Catta-Preta is a Brazilian born comic and actress working in Los
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Christian Finnegan
Christian Finnegan is a stand up comedian. He appears frequently on the television and also writes things, for both money and for kicks.
Christian can currently be seen on the TBS sitcom "Are We There Yet?" but is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of VH1's "Best Week Ever", where he offered keen insight into the workings of popular culture and the ubiquity of celebrity genitalia. "Chappelle's Show" fans will recognize him as 'Chad', the only white roommate in the infamous "Mad Real World" sketch. And pinko Communists know Christian from his regular appearances on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann".
Christian Finnegan is a fixture (some might say 'barnacle') on Comedy Central, having starred in countless network interstitials, the shows "Premium Blend" and "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn" and in his own special, "Comedy Central Presents: Christian Finnegan". Christian was also the host of TV Land's "Game Time" and has appeared on "The Today Show" and "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson".
Christian's first CD, "Two for Flinching", was released by Comedy Central Records in 2006 and his super-duper DVD extravaganza, "Au Contraire!" was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2009.
When he's not on tour, Christian Finnegan lives in New York City with his lovely wife Kambri, a Chihuahua, a parakeet and a useless rabbit. He spends his free time plotting society's downfall and googling the names of obscure hair metal bass players.
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Chris D'Elia is quickly becoming one of the most sought after comedians and actors in the comedy world. D'Elia recently starred as "Danny" on the NBC comedy series Undateable, which centered on a group of friends who are living in Detroit and helping each other figure out their lives. The series recently aired its third season, which featured all-live episodes.
On stage, D'Elia continues to cement his status as a force in standup comedy. He is a regular at Hollywood comedy clubs—where he performs multiples times a week—and continues to tour the US and Canada to sold-out crowds. His latest standup special, Incorrigible, debuted on Netflix in April 2015. He could also be seen on the dais of the highly anticipated Roast of Justin Bieber, which premiered in March 2015 on Comedy Central. In December 2013, he released his first one-hour Comedy Central special, White Male. Black Comic.
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The night had already been hard enough on Brandon Workman.
The right-hander entered a solemn Red Sox clubhouse after Tuesday night's 8-3 loss to the White Sox with his third straight defeat in hand and bitter memories of a 3-2 cutter he wishes he could have back as the Sox fell to 1-7 on their current homestand.
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Workman was informed that he had been optioned to Triple-A Pawtucket as a corresponding roster move after the Sox called up Rubby De La Rosa to start for the team Wednesday night.
"Definitely it's not ideal," Workman said of his demotion. "Not what I was hoping to hear after the game. It's part of it. I just have to keep getting my work in, keep getting better and get ready to go again."
After holding opponents to three runs or fewer in his first eight major league starts dating back to last season, Workman has struggled to find the same consistency that made him so valuable to the Red Sox' rotation in his last three outings, going 0-3 with a 6.49 ERA in that span.
Tuesday was arguably the best of those three starts. Just three of his five runs allowed were earned and he threw 70 of his 106 pitches for strikes. Workman said it was a definite improvement from his six-run clunker over four innings against the Cubs last Wednesday.
"I thought it was a step in the right direction off of last time," he said. "Obviously I could still be sharper, there are still pitches I need to make, but I thought it was a step in the right direction coming off of a rough one the other day."
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That one pitch was enough to end what could have been a much more positive ending for Workman and the Sox.
"I think you've got to look beneath the line score on Workman tonight," Farrell said. "Seven solid innings other than that [homer] and we contributed to that cause in the second inning."
Workman's next start will likely be with Pawtucket. When asked if his demotion offers a chance to get back to form on the mound, he said, "I'm not sure. If that's the case, then yeah, hopefully I can continue building off what I was able to do today, take the good out of today."
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We've all heard the saying "it takes a village." But communities are drawn together for many reasons. Some cling tight to tradition with activities like barbecues and Fourth of July parades. Others share neighborhoods with backyards that spill onto golf courses, lakes and swimming pools. And then there's Agritopia.
"If you live here, it just feels different," business manager William Johnston said.
Cultivating an agrihood
It is different. Located outside of Phoenix, in the little-known city of Gilbert, Agritopia is what's called an agrihood, or suburban neighborhood planned around a working farm. Jim and Virginia Johnston purchased the farm in 1960. They built a home; grew crops, including cotton, wheat, barley, corn, alfalfa and sugar beets; and raised three boys. Time went on. The Johnston children grew up, and two continued the family farming tradition. The once-rural area surrounding the farm grew, and the third son, Joe, an engineer, got an idea to reinvent the place he called home.
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"The kernel of the idea was in 1998, when I started thinking that I'd like to do a restaurant in our house that served produce from the farm: that was the 'agri' part. That was the extent of the idea," Joe said. "However, that idea was shortly followed by the notion that I'd like to live close to where I worked. That opened up a bunch of ideas, because we had a clean sheet of paper to design the kind of community we'd like to live in."
Agritopia stretches 160 acres and has more than 450 houses. Four generations of the Johnston family, along with 1,500 or so other folks, call it home. At its center is the certified organic farm (where Jim and Virginia still live) and more than 11 acres of permanent urban farmland.
A cornucopia of crops
"During the year we grow over 200 varieties of field and orchard crops," William Johnston said. "It's important for families to grow up together and understand food and farming."
The farm bounty is diverse — and delicious. Along with Medjool dates and olive groves, there are citrus, apple, peach and plum groves. Other crops include cauliflower, Romanesco broccoli, herbs, a variety of lettuces and tomatoes of assorted varieties.
Enjoying the fruits of their labor
The same-day harvest is readily available to residents and Agritopia visitors. But how folks get their farm-fresh fix varies. What was once an old tractor building is now an airy cafe called The Coffee Shop. The Johnston family homestead has a new lease on life as a modern diner called Joe's Farm Grill. Whenever possible, fruit, vegetables and herbs come from The Farm at Agritopia.
Then there's The Farm Stand. Open 24 hours a day, the stand is not staffed. All purchases are made using the honor system. Grab what you want, put your cash or check in an envelope and drop it in the pay slot. And residents can grow their own bounty by renting one of the more than 40 plots in the community garden.
Rural life, redefined
When most city slickers envision life on a farm, they think of solitude. At Agritopia, rows of vegetables sprout within view of homes and the neighborhood school. With the antics of school recess and chickens clucking in the background, a cozy neighborhood feeling prevails in this unique slice of Arizona farm country, where houses have front porches and streets are lined with trees and sidewalks.
"We like the fact that people can kind of just wander and feel that sense of exploration," William Johnston said. "A lot of people compare it to Mayberry."
Main photo: A citrus display at Agritopia's farm stand. Credit: Copyright 2016 Dana Rebmann
New York's Hudson Valley is fertile terrain for organic farmers. Organic is a gentler, more gracious way of farming, seemingly old-fashioned when compared to the prevailing industrial example, where chemicals, fertilizers and pesticides are used. When asked by those in corporate farming, "How are you going to feed the world?" Ken Kleinpeter of Glynwood Farm in Cold Spring, New York, speaks for many organic farmers when he answers: "I don't have to feed the world, I have to feed my community, and someone could feed their community, and someone else could feed their community. That's how we're going to feed the world."
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The free banquet for 400, held at the Garrison Landing on the Hudson River about 50 miles north of New York City, was the brainchild of Garrison locals Stacey Farley and Carinda Swann. "And it all started with the plates," Farley says. "I looked around my kitchen and noted that none of my plates were made in the U.S.A. Seems like if we are going to all the trouble to grow organic fruits and vegetables and grass-fed meats locally for farm to table, why not serve this precious and delicious food on homemade ceramic plates!"
So local artist and potter Lisa Knaus set about over the summer teaching people in the community to make plates. The ensuing meal, served on the plates, included locally grown vegetables, homemade mozzarella, baguettes, chicken and fruit tarts. What ensued was a lovely, generous community meal, a summer's last prayer before fall, and a gathering of people who will long remember its grace and beauty.
Main photo: Glynwood Farm provided the locally focused meal's chicken, which was brined and peppered and simply delicious. Credit: Copyright 2015 Andrew Lipton
Farmers markets are everywhere. Thanks to a rapid expansion in recent years, there are more than 8,000 farmers markets in the U.S., making it possible for almost everyone to buy fresh food directly from farmers. But with so many stalls and so many different foods, farmers markets can feel overwhelming. How do you find the best produce? Who's who? And what's what?
Follow our slideshow to learn the tricks to getting the most out of shopping at your local farmers market. In no time, you will be addicted to the super fresh fruits and vegetables and the seemingly endless variety. Shopping for produce and the other delicacies you can find at a farmers market will become a joy instead of a chore.
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Gardening in winter hardly seems ideal to those of us in cold climates, but for Craig LeHoullier, the season of snow brings the first opportunity to plan his summer tomato crop. A tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange and author of the recently published book "Epic Tomatoes: How to Select & Grow the Best Varieties of All Time," LeHoullier is an expert in the field, having developed, introduced and named almost 200 tomato varieties.
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Over the past 30 years, LeHoullier has brought a number of heirloom tomato varieties back from the brink of extinction. Perhaps his most notable contribution is the Cherokee Purple, a tomato that came to him as an envelope of seeds sent by John D. Green and is now one of the most popular varieties in the Seed Exchange catalog.
LeHoullier's love for heirloom tomatoes began as a hobby, but after retiring from his career as a chemist and project manager in the pharmaceutical industry in 2007, this passion blossomed into a second career. LeHoullier lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, Susan, and is known within the heirloom tomato community as NCTomatoMan.
I caught up with LeHoullier before the launch of his book tour and got his advice on how to successfully grow heirloom tomatoes in my own backyard.
Winter gardening: prime time for research
LeHoullier says he gets about a monthlong break between digging up the last of his dead tomato plants each fall and the appearance of the first seed catalogs, when the real work of planning the garden begins. This lull in the action is prime time for research. Online sites such as Dave's Garden, Tomatoville and GardenWeb can provide a good starting point for new gardeners. LeHoullier recommends searching for "garden discussion groups," "tomato discussion groups" and "top 10 tomatoes" to begin your reading.
Determine your gardening goals
LeHoullier points out that gardening is a personal experience and that "Each one of us will choose how much of our lives we'll pour into it." Growing great tomatoes requires figuring out what kind of gardener you are — or would like to be.
LeHoullier suggests that you think about what you want to get out of your tomato garden. Before you place your seed order, consider whether you want to garden because you want to grow food; because it's a good hobby to work off a few extra pounds; or because you want to use it as a teaching tool for your friends, family or children.
Ask yourself: Do I want a high yield? Am I looking for huge tomatoes to impress my friends? Do I want an incredible flavor experience? Or do I want to grow something that I've never seen before? The answer to these questions will help you focus your research on the tomato varieties that suit your gardening goals.
Figure out what kind of tomatoes you like to eat
Tomatoes come in a wide variety of colors, flavors and sizes. Most of us have not tried many of the thousands of tomato varieties that exist in the world. LeHoullier believes that the best way to know which tomatoes you should grow is to decide which tomatoes you'd like to eat. Visit farmers markets and stores such as Whole Foods to try tomato varieties you've never eaten and notice which flavor profiles excite you.
Get to know your gardening climate
Understanding your growing season is crucial. If you live in a warm climate where summer lasts more than 150 days, then the maturity date doesn't matter much. But if you're in a colder climate, pay close attention to the maturity date of the tomatoes you want to grow. Talk to friends in your neighborhood who are avid gardeners and vendors at local farmers markets to see which tomato varieties grow best for them.
Seeds vs. seedlings
LeHoullier says that "At a basic level, people will want to understand that growing tomatoes from seed opens up the world for you to try different colors, sizes and shapes." That said, starting tomatoes from seeds can be a tricky proposition. Consider your capabilities and experience with growing tomatoes from seed. If your tolerance for failure is low, begin by planting seedlings.
Hybrids vs. heirlooms
Although LeHoullier says he "won't make the blanket statement that some make that heirlooms are always more disease susceptible and difficult to grow than hybrids," he does allow that heirlooms can be finicky and that "every tomato — including the hybrid varieties — has its own personality and foibles."
Start small (Do as I say, not as I do.)
After you've familiarized yourself with the seemingly endless choices in the tomato world, it's time to get planting. Showing restraint is key, especially for new gardeners.
Raising thousands of tomato varieties isn't for everyone. (Or in fact, for most people.) LeHoullier cautions new growers to start small, in spite of the fact that he has a huge and ever-growing tomato collection. LeHoullier identifies himself as a "hobby collector" — he's into beer brewing, roasting his own coffee, bird watching, kayaking, and has countless other hobbies in addition to what he calls "the tomato thing." He describes himself as a "seeker who is never satisfied." It is this tendency that has led LeHoullier to raise a collection of tomatoes that now hits the 3,000 mark.
One reason that LeHoullier's collection has grown so large is that he has inherited the collections of gardeners who have become overwhelmed. "People send me entire collections because they can't take care of them."
Disappointment is an opportunity for learning
A scientist by training and experience, LeHoullier sees gardening as "an exciting hobby to learn stuff" and reminds us that "Each year, X number of plants are gonna die. Critters are gonna eat another bunch of plants, but that's great because we learn from it and the next year we try different things to avoid that problem, knowing that other problems will arise."
The bottom line
LeHoullier asserts some basic goals: Do a lot of searching. Ask a lot of questions. Make an accurate assessment of your interest level. Taste every tomato you can get your hands on. Recognize that there aren't a lot of hard and fast answers to gardening questions. There are just, as LeHoullier says, "an infinite number of variables for every act a gardener takes."
Perhaps most important, LeHoullier cheers us on in our tomato-growing efforts by reminding us that, "If you can find them, and buy them, and taste them, and like them, there's no reason you can't grow them."
Main photo: Cherokee Purple heirloom tomato, named by Craig LeHoullier, author of "Epic Tomatoes." Credit: Susan Lutz
When people talk about eating local food, the first thing that comes to mind is often produce-related — shopping for fruits and vegetables at a farmers market or joining a community-supported agriculture group, or CSA. While those actions do help support a local food economy, an event I recently attended made me realize how much broader the idea of being a "locavore" has become.
"Let Us Eat Local" is an annual benefit for Just Food, a New York-based nonprofit that focuses on making good-quality food accessible across the city by promoting community gardens, CSAs, urban farms and the like. Its tasting event brings together chefs, bartenders, farmers, fish and meat purveyors, beverage producers and representatives of other New York-area culinary businesses to showcase the region's bounty.
Local food not just about fruits and vegetables
Although I've attended this fundraiser before, I was struck by the sophistication and "big-tent" feel of this year's iteration. Not surprisingly, the event included some of the city's stalwart veggie-focused and vegan eateries, but their tables were just a stone's throw from those of Jimmy's No. 43, known especially for its meat and beer offerings, and Momofuku Ssäm Bar, whose founding chef, David Chang, famously delivered the line "Let's put pork in every f****** dish" when he appeared as himself on the HBO show "Treme."
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There were also farm-to-table brunch spots and an Italian perennial, but the remainder of the restaurant lineup was filled with some of the heaviest hitters on New York's fine-dining scene — tony Michelin-star recipients and Zagat-list toppers such as Blue Hill, Esca, Gramercy Tavern, Perry St and Riverpark. The sheer preponderance of these types of places made it clear that local food is no longer the sole domain of the ascetic or preachy.
Some of the most intriguing participants were the artisanal craftspeople whose wares defy the pious crunchy-granola expectations that (often unfairly) get pinned on anything relating to sustainability. It's nice to see the movement become established enough to let down its hair and have some fun. Here are three examples of products that break the mold:
Mixing it up
The next time you sit down to a meal of organic local produce, cheese and poultry, consider pairing it with a glass of soda. Wait, what? At first glance, soda might seem like a strange bedfellow, but when you taste the syrups produced by Anton Nocito's P&H Soda Co., the combination makes perfect sense. Eschewing extracts, Nocito creates his blends in a commercial kitchen in Brooklyn using only sustainably sourced whole ingredients. In addition to six year-round varieties — cream, ginger, grapefruit, hibiscus, lovage and sarsaparilla — he experiments with flavors such as the tart, aromatic lemon verbena he served at the event.
Available at retail locations and via the company's website, P&H's complex concentrates can be mixed with seltzer to your desired level of sweetness, but they're also terrific in cocktails, which is how they're being used at some of New York's hottest bars and restaurants. Looking to put a spin on the classic margarita? Nocito recommends adding a little of his hibiscus syrup, which is made from a blend of dried hibiscus leaves, organic ginger and cane sugar.
Worth her salt
If you're making the hibiscus margarita with P&H syrup, you might want to rim the glass with New York sea salt, produced on a rooftop high above Manhattan. Although Urban Sproule did not have its own table at this year's event, Sarah Sproule's company was represented in the evening's gift bags, which included small tins of her "Virgin" salt. (She also produces several infused varieties, such as celery and grilled ramp.)
The idea for the venture came to the young chef when she was doing weekly cooking demonstrations at the Union Square Greenmarket. As she prepared dishes using market ingredients, she dreamed of topping them with her own locally made seasonings. The seawater she uses is gathered 30 miles east of Montauk, Long Island, by two area fishermen and transported to a building in Chelsea, where it is brought up to the roof (16 floors by service elevator, plus two flights by stairs) and placed into an evaporation house. Once the crystals form, the salt is harvested by hand and baked by the sun before being infused or packaged in its pure form.
Your pick of pickles
One of the veterans of New York City's resurgent artisanal food movement, Rick's Picks has been brining local produce for the past decade. Based on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood filled with pushcart pickle vendors a century ago, founder Rick Field has helped transform the image of this ultra-traditional food-preservation technique. His product line — which includes "Phat Beets," "Hotties" (Sriracha pickle chips), "Smokra" (pickled okra) and "Pepi Pep Peps" (pickled red bell peppers) — is clearly marketed to appeal to those who would breeze right past the supermarket Vlasics and B&Gs. These are not your Nana's gherkins.
While you could certainly go the conventional route and top your next burger with the company's gently sweet "Bee 'n' Beez" (bread-and-butter pickles), the promotional postcard handed out at the event also featured this recipe for Pickletinis.
Recipe courtesy of Rick's Picks
Yield: Makes 1 drink.
2½ ounces gin
½ ounces dry vermouth
½ ounces Rick's Picks Classic Sours brine
1 Classic Sours spear
Fresh dill, for rimming the martini glass
Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes. Stir for 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the Classic Sours spear. Rim the glass with fresh dill.
Main photo: Dishes of Portobello Mousse by Dirt Candy. Credit: Sofia Perez
What is the connection between conventional food systems, erosion and global warming? Climate change accelerates as industrial agriculture, with its heavy plowing and application of pesticides, sends carbon into the atmosphere. This creates soil loss and depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store. The Monsanto-sponsored Green Revolution in Africa and Asia was bolstered by the idea that we needed to find a way to break out of nature's boundaries to provide enough food for a growing population. Yet decades of synthetic fertilizer use and industrial-style monocropping have created diseased soils, broken ecosystems and social instability.
Raj Patel, who has written extensively about the need to shift our relationship to food, says the problem with the food system is not that we don't produce enough calories to eradicate hunger. Instead, it's that the system puts a priority on profit and institutional consolidation. The upshot: More than 1 billion people are malnourished and 2 billion are overweight.
Perhaps the answer lies in the dirt.
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The earth beneath our feet contains billions of microorganisms — huge quantities of carbon in the form of bio-matter. Organic farming, permaculture and other regenerative food-growing strategies enrich soils and restore their ability to store carbon.
I have spent the past eight years documenting regenerative design around the world, deeply motivated as a new mother to find solutions to our global ecological crisis. I've used my anthropology background to put together a book, "Sustainable [R]evolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms and Communities Worldwide." A catalog of 60 sites and an anthology of articles, it represents the work of a small army of about 100 contributors, including Paul Hawken, Vandana Shiva, Starhawk and David Holmgren. It includes projects in climates as diverse as the Dead Sea Valley in Jordan and the Amazon rainforest, inner cities as well as remote corners of Mongolia.
It also highlights permaculture training, which has been held in approximately 100 countries around the world. One innovative program in Israel, called the Bustan Project, brings Arabs, Jews and Bedouins together for courses. The courses combine teaching practical techniques of natural building, water catchment and traditional agriculture with peace building.
"It is connected to peace, in that we work the land together instead of fighting about it," says Petra Feldman, a resident of Hava ve Adam, the permaculture center that hosted the training that I and my co-author Louis Fox attended in 2008. Israeli youth work at the center for a year as an alternative to military service. Petra's husband, Chaim Feldman, began a collaboration with Palestinian farmers involving traditional agriculture. They have shared irrigation techniques, drought-resistant heirloom seeds and other permaculture practices that enable farmers with restricted land access to grow more intensively in smaller spaces.
"The closest thing in the world to the principles of permaculture I'm learning in this course are the principles of traditional Bedouin culture," said Haled Eloubra, a Bedouin community leader and green architect attending the course.
Permaculture integrates traditional knowledge with appropriate technology, linking ancient and modern approaches. As an international movement, it reconnects native people with ancestral knowledge, as well as giving industrialized societies a framework to meet their needs more sustainably. Some call this approach permaculture. For many traditional people, as Nahuat-Mayan activist Guillermo Vasquez told me, "It's a practice, a way of life."
Vasquez founded Indigenous Permaculture, an organization that partnered with residents of Pine Ridge, an Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota. There they developed a Wounjupi garden, a local food-security project using ecological principles. He sees permaculture movement as a form of cultural resistance and a healing process.
"This is the way to create a real Green Revolution and make change," he told me.
Pine Ridge, long associated with native resistance, holds a unique place in the history of indigenous struggle. The reservation is among the most impoverished in the United States, with an adolescent suicide rate four times the national average, unemployment around 80% and many residents without access to energy or clean water. Although there is a good deal of agricultural production on the reservation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, only a small percentage of tribal members directly benefit from it.
Local leader Wilmer Mesteth has been leading the development of the Wounjupi and systems for water catchment, grey water recycling, seed saving and composting. The organizers see local food security as a path to confront poverty and health issues such as diabetes, and have developed a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. A greenhouse has been built, medicinal plants are being cultivated and workshops are held for residents about perennial agriculture techniques. The harvest provides enough produce to give to families and elders in the community, and even share at an elders gathering in Montana.
Another advantage of biodiverse systems is they are more resilient. While grasshoppers destroyed many other crops on the reservation one season, the Wounjupi garden saw little damage, probably as a result of the permaculture technique of planting flowers that attract beneficial insects that prey on pests. "We're seeing a major change in the soil due to the addition of organic matter," Vasquez said. "It's much darker and richer, and the vegetables are starting to grow really well."
This kind of soil building also has larger positive implications. In her book, "The Soil Will Save Us," Kristin Ohlson suggests that the ancient partnership between plants and soil microorganisms that created our planet offers hope for pulling carbon from the atmosphere and sinking it back into the ground. She documents a huge increase in the numbers of "soil farmers" within organic agriculture, and beyond.
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In my part of the world in Northern California, soil farmers in the heart of Oakland are transforming soil tainted by decades of intense industrial pollution, building local community and creating social change at the same time. Oakland's food security movement has brought fresh organic produce to what was a desert of liquor and convenience stores, and locals are raising bees that pollinate urban crops as well as provide local sources of honey.
The diversity of insect and bird pollinators is crucial to agriculture, and farmers require healthy ecosystems to grow food. Our choices about how our food is grown connect directly to issues of biodiversity, climate change and the survival of natural ecosystems across the globe. Organic and permaculture farms are significantly better at preserving agro-ecosystem biodiversity than conventional farming. With such systems, the number of plant, bird and insect species can often be 50% greater, so developing biodiverse systems should be a high priority. When we choose to eat locally-grown and organic foods, we are giving energy to a diverse and vibrant international cultural movement that is revolutionizing the food system.
And they taste better too.
Main photo: Bedouin community leader Haled Eloubra, left, discussing permaculture with a student at a course in Israel. Credit: Louis Fox
Across the lane from Napa Valley's French Laundry restaurant lies a 3-acre farm that produces many of the fresh vegetables that have helped give the three-star restaurant its reputation as one of the best in the world.
Presiding over the rows of tomatoes, beets, melons, cucumbers and microgreens is culinary gardener Aaron Keefer. "We're right across the street from the restaurant," Keefer says, "and there's this beautiful space that people are allowed to walk around. You can come up to the garden and see the stuff you're actually eating. It's funny how detached people are from what food actually is. People say, 'Wow, I've never seen a potato grow before.' "
Keefer will preside over a different garden for a day when he gives the keynote address at the eighth annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello in Charlottesville, Va. Keefer has become a fan of the president who has been called "The Founding Foodie," and whose revitalized Revolutionary Garden at Monticello continues Thomas Jefferson's legacy of raising heirloom fruits and vegetables. Keefer says his garden at The French Laundry mirrors Jefferson's 2-acre garden at Monticello in many ways.
Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello
Part 1: Aaron Keefer and Thomas Jefferson
Part 2: Gardeners and chefs converge at Monticello (coming later in October)
Keefer is always experimenting with new vegetable varieties in the garden and believes that vegetables — and the farmers who raise them — have become an exciting new resource for chefs. He explains, "I think that it's coming around now and vegetables are really becoming the star of the flavor profiles on a plate. Every single starred restaurant out there — and really even other people — are using their relationships with farmers to get new inspiration and to create these new dishes for themselves."
At home in the kitchen and the garden
Keefer is not only a resource for chefs, but also a liaison between the garden and the kitchen at The French Laundry. As a former chef, Keefer is uniquely qualified for his job as culinary gardener. As Keefer puts it, "I think it definitely helped me to be in the kitchen, even though it's a completely different animal, but I think the thing to take home from having both careers is the communication. I know what's going on on both sides of the equation, and I'm able to meld them together a little better."
Eleanor Gould, Monticello's curator of gardens, believes that The French Laundry "captures Jefferson's spirit of innovation and experimentation." The focus for both gardens is curiosity and passion.
Jefferson felt strongly about gardening. He grew 330 herb and vegetable varieties in his 1,000-foot-long garden terrace at Monticello and raised 170 varieties of fruit on his property. He encouraged others to garden with similar passion by hosting an annual contest with his neighbors to see who could harvest the first peas each spring. To further fuel his neighbors' passion for gardening, he made sure one of them won the contest — even if his peas were the early champions of the season.
Keefer also shares Jefferson's passion for the soil itself. In 1792 while serving as secretary of state in Philadelphia, Jefferson wrote a letter to his daughter Martha who was caring for Monticello's garden in his absence. Jefferson told Martha that the only way to rid his garden of insect-infested plants was to cover it with a heavy coating of manure. When I mentioned Jefferson's obsession with soil to Keefer, he echoed Jefferson's sentiments, saying, "That's what it's all about. It's all about the soil. You can give your plants chemical-based fertilizers and they will grow. Just like if you give your muscles steroids, they will grow. But it's not the same."
Keefer believes that the flavor in vegetables comes from the cycle of life in the soil. "When you take a handful or two of really truly rich organic soil, there will be millions of microorganisms and fungi in there. And those are the things that create the nutrition for the plant. They need the life in the soil to break it down for them so they can uptake it and somehow that creates a completely different flavor profile."
The lesson of Jefferson
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Jefferson didn't have access to chemical-based nutrients — and chances are he wouldn't have wanted them. Gabriele Rausse, director of gardens and grounds at the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, contends that what made Jefferson a truly revolutionary gardener was his belief that everyone should eat a diversified diet — a rare occurrence in 19th-century America. Now, America has begun to catch up with the founding farmer. Rausse says, "Today I look at the market and I think of what Jefferson had. I compare it to when I came to America 40 years ago, and I think finally they are listening to Jefferson. There are artichokes and chicory at the market now. People are starting to figure it out, but it took 200 years."
Keefer's revolutionary approach to gardening mixes the great traditions of heirloom farming techniques with the innovations of West Coast cuisine. Jefferson would have approved.
Main photo: A garden at Monticello. Credit: ©Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, photograph by Robert Llewellyn
It wasn't until we got off the ferry on North Haven, Maine, and started to move on island time that I realized just how badly we needed this break.
North Haven is tiny — roughly 12 miles long and 3 miles wide. It is situated in Penobscot Bay an hour and 10 minute ferry ride (and a mere 12 miles) off the coast of Rockland, Maine.
Our room at Nebo Lodge wasn't quite ready, so we headed to one of the many beaches on the north side of the island.
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North Haven is a place where everyone who drives, walks or bikes by waves hello when you pass on the road. And you wave back. It's a place with public-access trails across someone's gorgeous field where you are welcome to park and hike the mowed trail and climb down the ladder onto the secluded beach facing Camden Hills. It's a place where you won't see another living soul in sight when you reach the beach. Instead, you share the beach with 10,000 rocks (Maine's famed rocky shoreline), two yellow kayaks moored to a tree and many seagulls.
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A long swim (yes, the water is icy) woke me up and made me feel so good I just kept swimming. Finally, I headed back to my towel to join my husband, and we fell into a deep sleep. Not even the annoying flies or brisk ocean breeze could wake us.
But when I woke and saw where we were (and did an internal check to see how good I felt), I couldn't believe it was the same day, the same week or even the same month as the one I woke up to this morning.
We stopped in at the North Haven Oyster Co., but no oysters were to be had because of heavy rains. Try tomorrow, said the oysterman, who was slumped in an old chair smoking a cigarette looking like he didn't have a care in the world.
When we checked in to Nebo Lodge, our home for the next two days, there was freshly made iced tea with lemon and fresh mint leaves as well as paper thin, almost lacy chocolate chip cookies waiting for us. Suddenly, still in my not-quite-dry bathing suit, I realized we were on vacation.
Nebo Lodge is owned by Chellie Pingree, who represents Maine's 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She's a woman who fights hard to keep Maine's food and farming traditions alive, among other important causes. She and daughter Hannah Pingree (also a politician) own the inn. Amanda Hallowell is the talented chef. The food comes from nearby Turner Farm — the island farm Pingree and her husband, Donald Sussman, own — where meat, vegetables, dairy and spectacular flowers are raised.
That night at dinner, at tables decorated with vintage flowered cloth tablecloths and tiny vases full of garden flowers, we sat outside on the porch, no mosquitoes biting our ankles, and started with seared padron peppers in olive oil and Maine sea salt — blistering hot and perfectly cooked. I also rolled up and devoured a Peking duck wrap, with house-pickled radishes, cucumbers and fabulous sticky rice and Sriracha. The harpooned swordfish came on a skewer with chunks of grilled bread on a bed of Israeli couscous. House-made ice cream with a salted caramel sauce ended the meal.
The next morning, we dined on fresh blueberry muffins, Turner Farm yogurt, cereals and fruit. A farm-fresh egg, yolk bright as a garden sunflower, was served with Turner Farm lamb sausage and house-made bread.
Over the next two days, we biked, swam, napped. We ate chowder and lobster rolls, fish sandwiches and ice cream cones. Two days of letting go, Maine style.
By the time we were on the ferry to return home, we were holding hands and smiling, ready to get back to whatever awaited us.
A classic Maine lobster roll contains fresh lobster meat tossed with mayonnaise and, sometimes, finely chopped celery. That's it. The salad is stuffed into a buttered and grilled hot dog roll. You can do it the old-time Mainer way, but I happen to like my (slightly yuppie) version better, combining fresh-cooked lobster meat with just a touch of mayonnaise spiked with lemon juice, lemon zest, chives and scallions. And I like serving it on a piece of buttered, grilled baguette because I love the crunch and texture of French bread with the tender lobster meat.
- 2 one-pound lobsters, or 1 cup cooked lobster meat
- 1½ to 2 tablespoons mayonnaise (Use 2 tablespoons if you like it creamy, 1½ tablespoons if you like it less creamy.)
- 1½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh chives
- 1 tablespoon very finely chopped scallions
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 three-inch pieces of baguette or crispy bread, or two hot dog rolls
- Fill a large pot with about 2 to 3 inches water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Add the lobsters, shell side down, cover and cook for about 11 to 13 minutes, or until a leg pulls out of the body easily. Remove from the boiling water and let cool.
- Separate the tail from the body. Using a fork, remove the tail meat from the tail. Crack the claws and remove the meat. Enjoy the bodies. Cut the tail in half lengthwise and remove the thin black vein. Coarsely chop the tail and claw meat and set aside.
- In a bowl, mix the mayonnaise, lemon juice, zest, chives, scallions and pepper to taste. Fold in the lobster meat. You can make the lobster salad several hours ahead of time, but not more than three to four hours. Cover and refrigerate.
- In a skillet, melt the butter over low heat. Cut the baguette pieces in half lengthwise and brown the inside of the bread in the melted butter until it just begins to turn golden brown. Alternately, melt the butter and brown the hot dog rolls until they begin to turn a golden brown, flipping them over so they get toasted and buttery on both sides.
- Divide the lobster mixture between the bread or the rolls.
To add more crunch or flavor to the lobster salad, you can also add the following: 1 tablespoon drained capers; 2 tablespoons finely chopped celery; lime juice and zest, instead of lemon; buttery, tender lettuce leaves; slices of ripe tomato; a strip of cooked country-style bacon; thin slices of buttery avocado; or very thin slices of red onion.
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In making the announcement, Steve McPheeters pointed out, Company C currently employs over 80 people but over the years has employed hundreds. "Our winner continuously trains its people to meet new challenges working with the latest technology. It aggressively deploys its employees to new geographical areas on a regular basis to widen its customer base."
And, he added, management and employee relations are above average with the employees staying for at least six years while many others retire from there.
Finally, McPheeters, noted, "especially during times of calamity or natural disaster, the men and women who work for this company are a credit to the Sikeston area."
The award was accepted on behalf of Company C by Guard members Ed Gargus and Dan Armour
It wasn't the end of the patriotic salutes, however.
The 2005 Civic Group of the Year Award went to a group who works to pay tribute to all men and women who served in the Armed Forces - the Veterans' Park Committee. "This group of volunteers works with the common goal of maintaining and expanding the Veterans' Park as an on-going tribute to the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have served and continue to serve their country," said Brian Bradley with the Sikeston Jaycees, the 2004 award recipient. Accepting the award was Steve Taylor.
Walter Bizzell was presented the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Chamber's Bill Powers. "He is no stranger to hard work having worked three jobs most of the time. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 32 years, he delivered flowers for the Flower Basket and helped his son start his own business," said Powers, adding Bizzell also recently retired after serving as a Scott County commissioner.
In addition to his business activities, Bizzell is a deacon in the First Christian Church and has been involved in various sporting activities over the years including coaching and maintaining the VFW baseball field.
Presenting Beth Butcher, a Sikeston Public Schools' art teacher, with the Educator of the Year Award, were Ed Cowan and Bonnie Harris, the 2004 recipients. They took note not only of Butcher's service in the classroom ("there is nothing that she will not try to motivate and inspire every student") but also her example outside of education. "Tonight's recipient had numerous letters of recommendation sent into the Chamber on her behalf. They all mentioned the courage she has shown facing a serious illness that would have stopped others in their tracks," they explained.
Ken Williams' efforts on behalf of the Chamber's Agricultural Business Committee earned him the SACC Volunteer of the Year Award. Described by Tom Austin as a behind-the-scenes guy, Williams was praised for his work to promote the Annual Farmers Recognition Banquet and the Farmers Cook-Out along with the establishment of the Scott Waters' Memorial Scholarship Fund. "He is always trying to find ways to support our future farmers, while helping our existing ones," said Austin.
Instead of an individual, the SACC Law Enforcement Officer of the Year honors went to a group - the Missouri State Highway Patrol's Troop E Division of Drug and Crime Control. Explained David Markham, "Troop E's DDCC Unit has the reputation of being one of the best units with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. They spend countless hours in investigating and following leads in numerous investigations."
The group is headed by Sgt. Bud Cooper and includes Sgt. Phil Gregory, Sgt. Jeff Heath, Sgt. Terry Mills, Sgt. Scott Stoeling, Sgt. Dennis Overbey, Sgt. Don Windham and Sgt. Scott Rawson. Cooper accepted the honor on the group's behalf.
The Jaycees Distinguished Service Award was presented to Mike Conway by Jeff Miles.
"Traditionally, most individuals choose to slow down their volunteer service following the Jaycee presidency. However, tonight's recipient is the exception," said Miles. He explained Conway, who was the club's president in 2001, is the 2005 Rodeo chairman for the organization.
The Small Business of the Year Award was presented by Susie Kenedy to Sabona of London Inc. Calling the company a "leader in their field," she pointed out Sabona began with three items and now produces over 50 different products with a customer base in North, Central and South America to all sizes of businesses.
With 16 local employees, the Sabona's staff is not only busy as their retail market expands but also serving in the community in various school, civic and church organizations. During the deployment of the 1140th Engineering Battalion, the company provided bracelets in their honor to family members. The award was accepted by Darryl Riggs.
The evening's final award, the Citizen of the Year, went to Chester Kordahl. In presenting the award, Scott Matthews noted he is often seen putting out flags for the American Legion along North Kingshighway or may be found cooking the fish for the American Legion Post 114 fundraisers or working in the American Legion concession trailer during Cotton Carnival Week. Also Matthews praised Kordahl for his leadership and hard work to bring about the renovation of the American Legion Post facility.


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Wells Street is a main North–South road in downtown Chicago. It is officially designated as 200 West, originally named 5th Avenue and is named in honor of William Wells, a United States Army Captain who died in the Battle of Fort Dearborn.
Wells Street is interrupted by Comiskey Park, Interstate 55, and Lincoln Park. Wells Street crosses the Chicago River at the Wells Street Bridge.
Several Chicago attractions are located on or near Wells Street, including Comiskey Park[1] and Ed Debevic's.[2] Some downtown blocks of Wells Street are located beneath the Chicago 'L' train system. The first Crate & Barrel store, which opened in 1962, was located on Wells Street.[3]
Wells Street was named in Time Magazine's 1976 article "The Porno Plague".[4]
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- ^ Sweeney, Brigid (2014-07-14). "Former Crate & Barrel CEO Barbara Turf dies". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
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Do you think Tolkien could ever imagine his creation becoming so popular and surpassing all his expectations?
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Although when he was still alive and could see how many people fell in love with his work do you think he was impressed with the response people had to his writings? After reading a few of his letters and such I believe The Hobbit and LOTR did better than he thought it would. However, not even in his wildest dreams could he imagine how it's still rapidly growing in popularity to this day.


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