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"These are a very tasty treat for snacking or parties!"
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1 cup raw cleaned whole pumpkin seeds
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon white sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon white sugar
I had the same problem with the suger beging to seperate but i found out if i kept stirring and cooked a little bit longer that it did dislove but this was a fun recipe to try
I was disappointed with this recipe, maybe it was user error. The oil and sugar separated despite having stirred it contantly to combine and not burn the sugar, so instead of pouring the separated mess over the seeds I grabbed a paper towel and soaked up the unwanted oil and poured the rest over the seeds. I think it needs salt and the chili powder is so miniscule it's not spicy at all, either the amount of chili powder needs to be increased or use cayenne pepper instead of chili powder (if I make this again I think I'd rather use cayenne). Overall it was fun to try something new.
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I added 1/2 teaspoon of salt into the spice mix, and these came out great. The spice isn't too strong for me, but enough to be a nice change from plain salted pumpkin seeds. With the salt added, it's a nice balance of sweet, salty, and spicy.
I made these for my daughter/hubby while up in Portland on Halloween. Everyone loved them! But I mistakenly didn't pour the seeds into a bowl prior to adding the "sweet & spice". I kept them on a cookie and the mixture only stuck to a small portion of the seeds. Next time I'll put them in a bowl!
I also had problems with the sugar and oil separating. I used white pepper instead of chili or cayenne and it was sufficiently spicy. The spices didn't stick as well as I had hoped, but I did get a good mix of sweet and spicy on the ones the spices did stick to. I think I will try increasing the oil next time. It was delicious, just needs some tinkering.
I LOVED this recipe!!! I've tried a few for pumpkin seeds, this is hands down the best. Every friend & family member who tried it said it was incredible. I did, however, use a LOT more of the seasonings than it called for-I used tons of seeds and made the mxiture double of the powder. It is really good, you won't be disappointed!
This was a good recipe, although I used butter instead of "oil" and you have to be a little patient when melting sugar as to not burn it. I also added more chili powder and a little salt and these came out nice!
Awesome, the best pumpkin seeds I've ever made or eaten.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Sweet Spicy Pumpkin Seeds
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe Servings Per Recipe: 4 Amount Per Serving Calories: 118 Calories from Fat: 58
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By Ruth Ellen Gruber
(This post also appears on my Jewish Heritage Travel blog)
Three years ago, I posted on my Jewish Heritage Travel blog about Vienna's oldest preserved Jewish cemetery, the graveyard on Seegasse that dates from the 16th century, now hidden amid new buildings and entered through an old-age home on the site of what was a Jewish hospital. Many 17th and 18th century luminaries are buried here, including the financier and Court Jew Samuel Oppenheimer (who founded the Jewish hospital and restored the cemetery at the end of the 17th century) and Samson Wertheimer, who succeeded him as Court Jew.
News has now come that during the ongoing restoration of the cemetery, an important trove of buried matzevot has been discovered. According to Jewish community officials in Vienna, the stones appear to have been among those that were buried there in 1943 to protect them from the Nazis. A score of stones have been recovered in recent weeks, but hundreds more may be buried, according to Vienna Jewish officials.
It has long been known that gravestones from Seegasse were buried for protection during World War II – as I noted in my post in 2010, the guidebook "Jewish Vienna" published in 2004 by Mandelbaum Verlag, wrote that some were buried them on the spot and others were transported to the Central Cemetery and buried there.
In the mid-1980s, after the discovery of these stones, the cemetery underwent a full restoration -- and the surviving stones were set up in their original places thanks to a map of the cemetery that had been made in 1912. Many of the stones are massive and feature elegant calligraphy, lengthy epitaphs and some vivid carving of Jewish symbols and floral and other decoration, similar to that on tombs in the Jewish cemetery in Mikulov, Czech Republic, and elsewhere in Moravia. Fragments that could not be put together were used to construct a memorial wall, similar to those that exist in other countries at restored cemeteries.
The Associated Press published pictures of the new find and reported:
Vienna's Jewish leaders say it is not clear exactly how many were buried by the small group of Viennese Jews determined to save their heritage from the Nazi bulldozers. They also say they have few further details of the act, with none of the participants surviving the Holocaust and their location unclear — until now.
After workers scored the ground with radar as part of restoration work, they say they are sure there are hundreds beneath the grass. The 20 unearthed in the past few weeks have convinced officials they have a historically significant find, they said.
Raimund Fastenbauer, a senior official with Vienna's Jewish community, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he believes many of the up to 600 missing stones are still below ground and partially or fully recoverable.
Seegasse Jewish cemetery surrounded by buildings. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber
See more at the Jewish Heritage Europe web site.
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July 20, 2013 | 5:57 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
(This post also appears on my Jewish Heritage Travel blog)
I've been writing about the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow for about 20 years, maybe even longer…so I have some historical perspective and memory in its regard.
Here's my latest piece, a first-personer published in The Forward. People who also have long experience with the Festival and with the Jewish development of Krakow praised it for presenting a nuanced view….other people, predictably, didn't get what I was getting at…
Onward and Upward with Matisyahu in Krakow
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
July 19, 2013
KRAKOW — In the sultry darkness of a summer night, a tall, skinny figure with close-cropped hair and a purple T-shirt threaded through a beer garden during Krakow's Jewish Culture Festival, the annual nine-day extravaganza of performance, exhibition, debate and intensive interaction that for a quarter of a century now has been a catalyst of Krakow's Jewish cultural revival.
Bridging the open space between the city's lively Jewish community center, which hosted dozens of festival events, and the grandiose Tempel Synagogue, venue for many of the concerts, the garden served as an informal salon where public and performers, Jews and non-Jews alike, could shmooze.
Whispers trailed in the newcomer's wake: "Matisyahu's here!"
The American singer, much less recognizable since he shed his Hasidic garb, blended with the dozens of other folks sipping their drinks as he made his way through the slatted wooden tables and sat down with a group that included Jonathan Ornstein, director of Krakow's Jewish community center, and Janusz Makuch, the bearded, non-Jewish Pole who co-founded the festival in 1988 and is still both its director and its main driving force.
Matisyahu wasn't on the program, though he has performed here in the past.
This time, en route to a gig in northern Poland, he had simply dropped in to hang with the festival crowd in Kazimierz, Krakow's historic Jewish district.
Over the past two decades, Kazimierz has famously been transformed from a rundown slum, the quintessential Jewish graveyard, into a major tourist attraction: a burgeoning hub of revitalized Jewish culture, life, consciousness and commercial kitsch — as well as the city's liveliest center of clubs, pubs and other late-night venues.
"We must have been out till 5 in the morning," Ornstein told me the next day.
I've been writing about Kazimierz since 1990 and about the festival itself for nearly that long, returning each summer, at least for a few festival days, to monitor changes in the place, the program and the issues that swirl around both of them.
To me, Matisyahu's under-the-radar appearance brought home one of the most striking of these changes. Clearly for him — and for the hundreds, maybe thousands, of other Jewish tourists who now flock here — the long post-Holocaust taboo on visiting Poland for pleasure has been broken.
This is no mean feat and has taken years to come about. Auschwitz is just an hour's drive from Krakow, and the new attitude is by no means universal. But I heard it echoed clearly by a Canadian woman staying in my hotel.
"There's no downside to Krakow," the woman told me over breakfast. "As for the festival, it's great. I'm doing as many activities as I can, and I'm already planning to come back with friends in two years."
One of the factors in this change has been the increasingly high profile of the JCC, which opened five years ago as a neutral Jewish space accessible to all streams and forms of Jewishness and Jewish expression, normative or not.
Now one of the hubs of the festival, the JCC is, importantly, recognized as a "Jewish" Jewish space, in contrast to most of the city's other Jewish-oriented venues and institutions. Its involvement has changed radically the dynamics of an event that long was viewed as a Jewish festival produced by non-Jews for a non-Jewish audience. Non-Jewish Poles still make up the vast majority of the festival's attendees.
Among the JCC's annual festival offerings is a kosher Sabbath dinner. This year, hosted in the 17th-century Izaak Synagogue, the dinner drew nearly 400 people.
"Visitors to Krakow now understand that they are not coming to a museum, but rather to a place with a small but increasingly active Jewish community," Ornstein told me. "Understanding that fact puts the festival in a different context from a Jewish point of view. It is not only connecting Poles to Jewish culture, but helping create an environment in which the local Jewish community feels welcome and can thrive. This festival can make a claim that few others can: It is helping to rebuild a Jewish community long thought by many to be without a future."
(more at web site)
Read full article at: http://forward.com/articles/180634/onward-and-upward-with-matisyahu-in-krakow/?p=all#ixzz2ZaSVeCa9
June 13, 2013 | 11:46 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
(This post also appears on my blog at jewish-heritage-travel.blogspot.com)
Two long-awaiting events are happening in Poland next weekend -- the opening of the Jewish museum installed in the restored synagogue in the little town of Chmielnik, and the opening of the restored synagogue in the town of Wielkie Oczy, which will now be used as the public library.
I've actually never seen the elegant synagogue in Wielkie Oczy, located in the southeastern corner of Poland on the Ukrainian border -- but I have long loved it from its photographs: its state of disrepair made it a particularly poignant image. Distinguished by its arched windows and doors, it was built in 1910 but rebuilt in 1927 after suffering serious damage in World War I. It was long used as a warehouse and office after World War II but had languished derelict for years in a steadily deteriorating condition.
A series of events on June 16 will celebrate its reopening after a restoration funded by the town, with support from the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. These will include the unveiling of a memorial plaque to the destroyed Jewish community, speeches, and a concert.
The development of the Jewish museum in Chmielnik, north of Krakow, is something that I have followed for years -- and it all comes to fruition June 15-16, with two days of events including a conference, concerts, talks and more.
Partially renovated Chmielnik synagogue, July 2012. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber
I first saw the ruined synagogue, one of the largest buildings in the little town, back in 1990, when I made my first forays into documenting Jewish heritage sites. Originally built in the 1630s, it was, though derelict, still a splendid building, a massive masonry structure with barrel vaulting. The Nazis turned it into a warehouse, but the interior still retained stucco work dating from the 18th century, and the walls still bore traces of delicate polychrome decoration, including frescoes of lions, neoclassical geometric forms, and signs of the zodiac.
About a dozen years ago, young local activists, in particular Piotr Krawczyk, became interested in the Jewish history of the town -- which Krawczyk noted to me actually meant the history of the town: before the Holocaust, Jews made up about 80 percent of the population, but their memory and the memory of their contribution was long suppressed or forgotten.
Me & Piotr Krawczyk, July 2012.
Inspired by the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Krawczyk and other activists, cooperating with the municipality, launched an annual Jewish culture festival in Chmielnik, held each June. They also started other initiatives, including clean-up of the ravaged Jewish cemeteries and erection of the memorial, as well as a web site about Jewish heritage, history and culture of the region.
The museum project has been the most ambitious project, entailing the renovation and transformation of the synagogue -- the design has been somewhat controversial because of a glass bimah installation.
June 9, 2013 | 4:25 pm
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
I know, I've really let things slide on this blog. Partly it's because there has been so much going on that I have not found time to write a decent post. Partly it's because I've been putting a lot of energy into the news feed of the web site www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu, which I coordinate as a project of the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. I urge everyone to subscribe to the Jewish Heritage Europe news feed -- you can do it from the home page of the web site, or from any of the news pages. (And -- why not like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter, too...?)
One of my main projects over the past few months, linked to Jewish Heritage Europe, was being the main hands-on organizer of the working seminar on Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage, which took place in Krakow April 23-25. Our partner on the ground in Krakow was the Jewish Community Center, whose young staff and volunteers were fantastic to work with and did an extraordinary job and making everything work....and everyone agreed that the kosher food provided from the JCC kitchen was the best anyone had ever had at such a gathering.
We had about 100 participants from about 20 or 22 countries -- as broad a mix of people involved in Jewish heritage preservation, documentation and promotion as possible: culture ministry representatives; Jewish community representatives; academics; architects and architectural historians; grass-roots activists -- and more.
All the sessions (except for a session with funders) were recorded -- and I have posted all of them, in their entirety -- on the web site. Click here to see them. I have also posted the texts or power points of some of the presentations.
There were three plenary sessions -- an introductory session with keynote by Samuel D. Gruber; a session on managing Jewish heritage in Poland; and a summing up "looking toward the future" session. All were held in the ornate, 19th century Tempel Synagogue, in mark to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the restoration of that building.
April 22, 2013 | 2:23 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
I've spent much of the past five or six months working on the organization of an international conference called Managing Jewish Immovable Heritage in Europe: A Working Seminar on Projects, Challenges and Strategic Thinking -- a three-day, invitation-only working seminar convened to discuss a wide range of issues, challenges, strategies and successes regarding the care, maintenance, preservation, use and promotion of Jewish material heritage. It is a direct follow-up to a seminar on Jewish heritage management that took place in Bratislava, Slovakia, in March 2009 and issued the Bratislava Statement, including best practices recommendations.
The conference takes place April 23-25.
The opening session April 23 will take place in the historic Tempel Synagogue, whose restoration, spearheaded by the World Monuments Fund and initiatied in the early 1990s, was one of the first major post-communist Jewish heritage restorations in Poland.
The session -- at 2 p.m. CET -- will be live streamed on internet. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Samuel D. Gruber, a pioneer in Jewish heritage preservation and documentation. You can watch it on the www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu web site, or right here:
The seminar is being convened by the Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe; the David Berg Foundation; the Cahnman Foundation, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; the World Monuments Fund; and the Taube Foundation, in cooperation with the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland; the Jewish Community Centre in Krakow; the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow; and the European Council of Jewish Communities. The U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad will also have a presence.
WHY: The restitution of Jewish property seized by the Nazis or nationalized by post-war communist regimes has been a hot-button international issue since the Iron Curtain fell. But the slow and often painful legal battles to gain restitution have often overshadowed the pressing practical concerns of what to do with such properties, whether they are owned by Jewish communities or by others. Many of them are huge. Many are dilapidated. Many are recognized as historic sites. And most stand in towns where few if any Jews now live. Even basic care and maintenance can stretch already strapped financial and professional resources. How to preserve, manage and promote these historic Jewish properties is a key issue faced by Jewish communities, civic bodies, NGOs., governments, municipalities, grassroots activists and others.
WHO: About 90 invited participants from about 20 countries, including experts in the field as well as a variety of direct stakeholders: Jewish community representatives, grassroots activists, NGOs, civic bodies, funders, researchers, government officials, etc.
ISSUES: Sessions will examine the issues that arose and the recommendations that emerged out of the Bratislava meeting, as expressed in the final Bratislava Statement of best practices. They will also consider new conditions that have arisen in the past four years – including new technology developments; the financial crunch and changed funding possibilities; changed local attitudes, etc. – and look toward the future.
The meeting will include general discussion as well as thematic workshops, and there will be a half-day trip to visit Jewish heritage solutions near Krakow.
Focal points of discussion will include:
– Sharing experience/strategic thinking: Though each situation is specific, there are many shared problems and needs that can be addressed collectively. Importantly, there are also solutions that can be shared.
– Making information available/using new digital technologies: Information on Jewish sites is most useful when it is most widely available. Efforts should continue and expand to make documentation available in publicly accessible research centers and through publications and on-line presentation, all the while considering safety, security and privacy concerns. New technology – ranging from smartphone apps to digital documentation to enhanced scanning – needs to be addressed as part of research, documentation and promotion of Jewish heritage.
– Networking and collaboration/strategic thinking: Jewish communities and institutions should work together as much as possible to share existing information, methodologies and technologies, and to develop new and compatible goals and strategies to optimize the care and management of historic Jewish properties. They should also seek partners among NGOs, local, civic and government bodies, and individuals outside the Jewish community. And vice versa.
– End-user development: Jewish communities and local heritage, cultural and tourist bodies (as well as NGOs, civic bodies, individuals and others) should work together to develop regional, national and trans-border heritage routes as well as local projects.
April 16, 2013 | 3:16 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
I'm in Warsaw for events marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising -- and yesterday I filed a story for JTA on the "soft" opening of the long-awaited, long-delayed Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Though I am not in love with the exterior of the buildng -- except for its location opposite the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Memorial -- I was very impressed with the interior. In particular the way the big glass gash of an entrance frames the memorial when you look out from inside.
For me, who has followed the development of the museum for nearly 20 years, it was a rather emotional (and emotionally satisfying) moment to finally be inside -- and to connect and reconnect with so many people I've encountered here in Poland since the 1980s.
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) -- Krzysztof Sliwinski, a longtime Catholic activist in Jewish-Polish relations, gazed wide-eyed at the swooping interior of this city's Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Nearly two decades in the making, the more than $100 million institution officially opens to the public this week amid a month of high-profile, state-sponsored events marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
"It's incredible, incredible, incredible how things have changed," Sliwinski told JTA. "I remember commemorations of the ghetto uprising under communism when only a few people showed up. How good it was that we were optimistic."
Sliwinski organized Jewish cemetery cleanups and other pro-Jewish initiatives under communism, when Jewish practice and culture were suppressed by the regime.In 1995, then-Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, an Auschwitz survivor, appointed him post-Communist Poland's first official ambassador to the Jewish Diaspora, part of the state's unprecedented outreach policy.
On Sunday, both Sliwinski, now 73, and Bartoszewski, 91, joined hundreds of local Jews and other VIPs as Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, unveiled a mezuzah at the museum's main entrance.
In writing this peice, it was fascinating to go back and see what I -- and others -- had written back in the 1990s.
New York Times 1996 piece on opposition/ambivalence regarding the museum project
My 1996 story on Sliwinski as Poland's ambassador to the Jewish Diaspora
April 16, 2013 | 3:00 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
Over the years I have traveled to many Jewish heritage sites all over Slovakia, and I have closely followed the development of the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route -- I have posted much in the past on my Jewish Heritage Travel blog. See some of those posts HERE
In its current edition, Hadassah Magazine publishes a lengthy article I wrote detailing this route, the brainchild of tmy friend Maros Borsky.
A far-reaching project ... aims to safeguard key sites of Slovak Jewish heritage while using them as tools to integrate Jewish history and memory into local tourism, culture and education.
This is the Slovak Jewish Heritage Route (www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org), a tourist and educational trail that links two dozen key sites in all eight regions of the country—synagogues and Jewish cemeteries, but also Jewish museums and Holocaust memorials.
Formally launched in 2007, the route is the brainchild of Maros Borsky, Slovakia's foremost Jewish scholar, who convinced communal leaders to focus scarce resources on a few significant places to ensure their long-term survival.
"The only way to preserve these buildings is to find a different use for them, predominantly and preferably for cultural purposes," Borsky says. "And what is very important is to generate an audience for them. There is no point in putting money into restoring these buildings if no one will use them."
In the article, I list and profile most of the sites on the Route.
February 13, 2013 | 5:10 am
Posted by Ruth Ellen Gruber
Ben G. Frank is one of the most prolific -- and well-traveled -- writers about Jewish sights, sites, communities, attractions and travels worldwide.
Huffington Post runs a lengthy interview/conversation with him, conducted by Bernard Starr, sparked Frank's most recent book, The Scattered Tribe: Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond (Globe Pequot Press, 2011).
Frank's curiosity about this extraordinary phenomenon of the Diaspora sparked his mission to find and visit remote and isolated -- sometimes forgotten -- Jewish communities in surprising locations. As a travel writer with a passion for Jewish history, Ben Frank is the perfect person to have undertaken the task. He eventually visited 89 Jewish communities. I interviewed him to learn more about his fascinating journey.
When did you first get the urge to undertake this demanding adventure? Did you have concerns about the difficulties you might face in remote locations?
It all began in 1964 on a trip to Algeria. As a reporter/journalist, I was fascinated by the emigration of Jews from that war-torn country to France, where they were guaranteed the rights and privileges of French citizens, since, according to the Cremieux Decree, they too were French. When I landed I met with the last few Jewish residents in Algiers. They called themselves "le Dernier Carre," the last unit in Napoleon's army to stand in battle and defend themselves in the form of a square.
How did you find out about these scattered wandering Jews?
In the case of Algeria, I contacted organizations, such as the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and others who follow and aid Jews in the Diaspora. I discovered that Jews were scattered globally, including concentrations in Asia and South America. Jews have lived in India, for instance, for 2,000 years and they are still there. With contacts and research tools, I located them.


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Those of us who have long expressed moral indignation at our nation's capital punishment laws have recently been joined by individuals and groups who are attacking the death penalty on theoretical, financial, and practical fronts. Some recent developments include:
- The latest edition of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Death Row USA showed a decrease of 43 inmates under sentence of death from January 1 to October 1, 2012. Over the last decade, the total population of state and federal death rows has decreased significantly, from 3,703 inmates in 2000 to 3,146 inmates as of October 2012.
- On October 23, the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, told a UN General Assembly human rights committee that countries around the world are increasingly viewing capital punishment as a form of torture because of the severe mental and physical pain it inflicts on those sentenced to death.
- Proposition 34, titled "Death Penalty Initiative Statute," was on the 2012 ballot in California, where it was only narrowly defeated. If the state's voters had approved it, Proposition 34 would have eliminated the death penalty in California and replaced it with life in prison. Nearly half of registered CA voters still back capital punishment, but the margin has shrunk to 4 percentage points. Additionally, CA Proposition 36 revises the three strikes law to impose life sentence only when the new felony conviction is "serious or violent."
While these developments represent the tremendous momentum that is gathering behind abolition, the bleak reality is that 3,146 people are still on death row. The situation is gradually improving, but the need for action has never been more urgent.


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For 28 years, Yvette Norton lived at the James E. Scott homes, a dingy and often dangerous Liberty City public housing project. But it was home and it was her community, a place of deep roots and lifelong bonds shared by hundreds of families.
When Miami-Dade's housing agency decided to tear it down along with the smaller, adjacent Carver homes, scattering 1,150 residents across the county, Norton and many of her neighbors were pained to go. There was one balm, though: The county pledged to replace the housing project with a real neighborhood of attractive homes, apartments, trees and amenities, and said there would be a place for those who wanted to return.
What they could not know then is that it would take more than 10 years, complicated legal and public relations battles, and one of the biggest scandals to hit the housing agency for the county to do what it promised.
Norton has just moved into a sparkling two-bedroom terrace apartment with her 18-year-old granddaughter. It's in the new NorthPark at Scott Carver, a community of 354 mixed-income apartments and town homes arranged in tree-lined clusters along new suburban-style blocks, where rows of barracks-like public housing once stood. Two sections are done, and a third will open by November.
When complete, the $84 million development, which straddles Northwest 22nd Avenue from 75th Street south to the Florida East Coast rail tracks, will be dotted with playgrounds, a community center with a swimming pool, a gym and a computer lounge.
It's no longer a housing project, but a publicly subsidized, privately built and managed development with scaled rents depending on income. They range from 70 apartments with market rents starting at $651, to 107 homes set aside for low- and moderate-income income families. The other 177 are public housing apartments, with rents going all the way down to zero for the poorest residents.
But there is nothing to tell one kind of unit from the others.
"I feel good about having my new home,'' said Norton, who moved three times during her exile, first to a Section 8 home and then to another housing project before her return. "I love it. They didn't just throw something up. I will give them that much.''
The experience still clearly smarts, though. It turned Norton and several of her old neighbors into community activists under the aegis of the Miami Workers Center, which helped them organize to fight for the county commitment to replace all 850 demolished units, locate hundreds of original Scott Carver tenants after the county lost track of them, and then win their right to first dibs on the new homes.
"We were scattered all over, some people as far as Georgia,'' Norton recalled. "Some people were homeless and living in their cars. But the county had no answers for us.''
The group even managed to save one original Scott homes building, which the county historic preservation board declared a protected landmark. It will be turned into a museum.
"If we hadn't fought, we wouldn't have what we got now,'' said Norton's longtime friend and fellow combatant Yvonne Stratford, a former Carver resident who finished raising her children after being moved to another rundown project, Annie M. Coleman Gardens, and is now on the waiting list for a one-bedroom apartment in the new development.


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In 1992 a book came out that was pretty earth shattering and it shed light on why men and women are so different it turns out.
It's all of us is if we came from different planets or at least that's what men are from Mars women are from Venus claims well since then both the book.
And its author of held couples all around the world and this year in the book is twenty years old so now.
Have things changed in the last decades he -- -- -- -- -- it is the author of men are from Mars.
Women are from Venus John Gray doctor good to see -- look at this the it's a pleasure what what a friendly warm face to see again.
How have things changed I think is the same somewhat different what's yeah.
Later different men and women are still the same and we don't change them my right that our roles have changed when our roles changed and more women in the work place.
As opposed to working at home -- -- -- him.
Live with that said -- -- have to pick up at home help out and more men are helping literally picked up yet they really need to pick up my car.
And we did today is scrubbing bubbles worked with me on it.
A dirty work indexed -- to ask women what their feelings and thoughts were and man.
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Of women.
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And almost all the Mintz -- we want to help more we're willing to help more just tell us what you want.
That's an addict because -- haven't seen their fathers do -- we're not.
Like trained to do it we -- help in that direction -- to this generation is having to learn so let's talk about some tips.
For modern couples to make you feel less like you're on two different planets and more like you're together so what's what are some of your gentle one of the first -- that we found in the study was only one out of three couples have actually sat down and discuss household duties.
And shared responsibilities like what are you gonna do what you gonna do so communication like -- number -- exactly like washing the dishes if he's Washington issues.
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What do you wanna do tonight instead do it week in advance that she can look forward to something special that helps lower stress for women dramatically -- that's gonna -- my husband is watching.
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The Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents: Clybourne Park
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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and London's Olivier Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a wickedly funny and fiercely provocative new play about the volatile combination of race and real estate. Act One opens in 1959, as a white couple sells their home to a black family (the Younger family in A Raisin In the Sun), causing uproar in their middle-class neighborhood; Act Two finds the same house, in 2009, changing hands again. And, while the stakes have changed over the years, the debate remains strikingly similar as neighbors wage a hilarious and horrifying pitched battle over territory and legacy that reveals just how far our ideas about race and gentrification have evolved—or, have they?


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Isabella Coons was booked in the J Reuben Long Detention Center Saturday for harming her three-month-old son.
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Henrico names McDowell as fire chief
Anthony E. McDowell has been named the new chief of the Henrico County Division of Fire, effective Oct. 20. County Manager Virgil Hazelett made the announcement Oct. 10. McDowell, who has been serving as battalion chief of administration in the Henrico Division of Fire, will succeed Edwin W. Smith, who retired in September after five years as fire chief. As fire chief, McDowell will oversee a department with 539 employees, including more than 500 state-certified firefighters, and a budget of $49.6 million for fiscal 2012-13. The Division of Fire provides fire protection and prevention services and is the primary provider of emergency medical services in Henrico. The department manages 20 fire stations and a training facility and covers an area encompassing 244 square miles. It also operates a regional hazardous materials team and provides technical rescue, ground search and water rescue. The Division of Fire responded to more than 39,000 calls in fiscal 2011-12. McDowell joined the Division of Fire in 1997 as a firefighter. He later rose to fire lieutenant and fire captain before becoming battalion chief of administration in 2011. He holds a bachelor's degree in geography from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in public administration from the University of North Texas. He is a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Virginia Fire Prevention Association, Virginia Chapter of the International Society of Fire Service Instructors and Central Virginia All Hazards Incident Management Team. He is certified as an executive fire officer by the U.S. Fire Administration and a chief fire officer by the International Association of Fire Chiefs. |
VBS seeks blood donations
Citizen Staff Reports 12/16/2013
Virginia Blood Services (VBS), the sole supplier of blood for more than 20 hospitals throughout the state of Virginia, is in need of blood donors to help replenish the local blood supply over the holidays.
A decline in blood donations is typical during the winter months as people become busy with holiday activities and travel. Patient needs remain steady, however, making it important for people to visit a VBS donor site or mobile drive to give blood. > Read more.
Varina's Big Toy parade to help usher in holiday season
In Varina, one of the most anticipated events of the season is approaching. The 19th Annual Big Toy Parade will return on Dec 14, offering a "homey," small-town feel that helps elicit holiday spirit among participants and spectators alike.
The parade, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the Battlefield Ruritans and Henrico County Parks and Recreation and is held in conjunction with the James River Boat Parade. It is led by a grand marshal along Old Osborne Turnpike and ends at the Osborne Boat Landing, where hundreds of community members gather to await nightfall and the arrival of lighted boats, concluding a festive holiday celebration. > Read more.
Strikers, Kickers form partnership
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
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Henrico students star in 'Nutcracker'
A number of Henrico students are performing in the Richmond Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, which runs through Dec. 23. Pictured above, left to right are: back row – Elizabeth Sjovald (Mother Ginger), Deema Meguid, Maya Link (Mogi top) and Sophie Rounds (Mother Ginger) and front row – Sarah Echols (Chinese) and Carter Echols (Chinese). > Read more.
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Eastern Henrico's annual "Holiday on Parade" event is back tomorrow. Family-friendly activities will take place at various locations in the east end. The festivities will culminate with the 21st annual James River Parade of Lights. Also, several churches throughout the county are hosting holiday celebrations including West End Assembly of God, St. Andrew's United Methodist Church and The Gayton Kirk Presbyterian Church. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
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Estilo charms, with a stylish twist, in Henrico's Near West End
If you're looking for something a little different from the standard, ho-hum restaurant experience, look no further than The Village shopping center. Among the recent success stories to put down roots in The Village is Estilo, created by the owners of the gastropub Toast (featured in a Feb. 21 review in the Citizen), only a few steps away.
Estilo – which translates to style – offers a taste of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, among other countries, and a menu that rotates regularly through the rest of Central and South America. > Read more.
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FRC's Lindsey Ball prepares to serve against Santa Rosa Junior College. The Eagles lost the match, allowing Santa Rosa to head to the State tournament. Photos by James Wilson |
The Feather River College volleyball team faced something Nov. 27 it hasn't faced since the beginning of the 2012 season; a loss.
The Santa Rosa Junior College Bear Cubs played FRC in the final round of playoffs. The winner advanced to the state championship tournament. In a three game match, Santa Rosa beat the Eagles.
"We made a lot of mistakes," said Eagles' coach Sarah Ritchie. "We made 48 unforced errors and we lost by only eight points. Santa Rosa didn't beat us; we beat ourselves."
The Eagles had problems at the net throughout the match. Whereas FRC normally excels in its serving game, against Santa Rosa the team fell short.
"We made mistakes that we never make," continued Ritchie. "We were doing things we haven't done all season. We hit the ball out of bounds multiple times. We just... I hate saying the word 'choked', but there's no other word to describe how we played."
FRC faced Santa Rosa earlier in the season in a tournament match. FRC won 2-1. That match was one of the two matches Santa Rosa lost all year. Before Nov. 27, FRC also only lost two matches.
The California Community College Athletic Association seeded FRC second and Santa Rosa third. Santa Rosa played immaculately, and only made six errors the entire match.
The first game was fairly evenly matched, but the Eagles were noticeably taken aback by the skill level of Santa Rosa. The Bear Cubs returned nearly every Eagle attack. Santa Rosa won 25-22.
Santa Rosa got an early lead in the second game to lead 15-7 at one point. The Eagles fired back and kept the ball bouncing back to the Bear Cubs' territory. Slowly but steadily the Eagles started coming back.
Toward the end of the game Marilyn Agae served up a wicked ace to tie Santa Rosa 23-23. Santa Rosa regained its momentum, however, and finished the game 25-23.
The Eagles started game three determined to win and quickly gained a 6-4 lead. The Bear Cubs came back however to lead 10-7. The lead mimicked the ball by going back and forth between the two teams.
Feather River came back to tie the game 17-17. Santa Rosa's technical abilities proved too much for the Eagles, however, and the Bear Cubs knocked the Eagles out of the playoffs with a 25-21 victory in game three.
"(Santa Rosa) was very good on defense and extremely tough servers," said Ritchie. This is the first time this year we've seen a team serve that good."
Though Santa Rosa won, the Eagles fought extremely hard to make Santa Rosa earn its victory.
Amber Hall led the Eagles with 16 kills and eight digs. All-State player Callie Aberle hammered eight kills and two aces. Jeanette Van Sickle added six more kills for the Eagles.
"(Hall) did great," said Ritchie. "She really showed up. If we would have had one more player not make as many mistakes we would have won."
The sophomores on the team traveled to Los Angeles Nov. 30 for a sophomore showcase; another chance to show college scouts what they're made of. All the sophomores on the team had several colleges talking to them about recruitment.
FRC ended its season with a school record season; 31-3. The Eagles went undefeated in conference; never even getting to a fourth game. The Eagles were only one game away from breaking a state record of the most wins in a single season.
"We had a phenomenal season," said Ritchie. "The girls played well and they are just the greatest team. I want to be around them every single day. They really made me love my
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Greencastle of Bayonet Point, a government-subsidized senior housing apartment complex, has been "going green," and it's getting recognized for its efforts.
The Southwest Florida Water Management District announced recently that Greencastle, 11722 La Madera Blvd., is the first property in Pasco County to be certified under its Florida Water Star program at the "Community" level.
Florida Water Star is a voluntary certification program aimed at improving water efficiency. It's available for builders, developers and homeowners and has residential, commercial and "community" level ratings. The Community level is for community wide projects.
"It's going to save you money," Robin Grantham, a district spokeswoman, said of the program. "And it's going to save water and help protect the environment.
Greencastle's management has been adding improvements over the past two years to reduce the complex's energy and water use.
The Port Richey complex has 80 apartment units and installed dual-flush toilets in each of them. Dual flush toilets offer different flush settings for solid and liquid waste.
Greencastle's management also added low-flow showerheads, faucet aerators and high-efficiency dish and clothes washers.
Energy efficient improvements included double pane, high-impact windows energy-efficient lighting, recyclable carpeting, automatic lights in common areas and rooftop solar panels.
Outside, the management added new water-efficient improvements that include a micro-irrigation system, drought tolerant plants and a rain sensor.
The district says the complex reduced its water use by 1.3 million gallons during a one-year period. The average monthly water bill fell by $974.82.
Greencastle's improvements were completed through a retrofit of the existing facility. The improvements were added over the last two years at a total cost of $1.2 million. A big chunk of that cost was paid for with grants from the federal Green Retrofit program, which was created by the federal stimulus act of 2009.
Greencastle is also now competing in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Battle of the Building.
Greencastle is managed by Consecra Housing Network, a nonprofit housing services organization related to the United Church of Christ.
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"Presidents' Day Storm" brings up to 10 inches of snow to parts of Michigan
Say 'goodbye' to Spring. For now, at least. After unseasonably warm temperatures last week, winter weather has returned. As the Associated Press reports:
A winter storm that blew through the upper Midwest over the long Presidents Day weekend has dumped a hand bag of snow, sleet and ice on Michigan, canceling flights, closing schools and making driving treacherous for early morning commuters.
The National Weather service in White Lake Township says by Monday morning six to 10 inches of snow fell on southern Michigan since the storm began Sunday afternoon.
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Astronomer Jill Tarter, the inspiration for heroine Ellie Arroway in the novel and movie "Contact," is retiring after spending 35 years scanning the heavens for signals from intelligent aliens.
Tarter is stepping down as the director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., the organization's officials announced today (May 22).
But rather than go lie on a beach somewhere,Tarter will continue to devote herself to the search for E.T. She's shifting into a full-time fundraising role for the SETI Institute, which had to shut down a set of alien-hunting radio telescopes for more than seven months last year due to budget shortfalls.
"That was a wake-up call," Tarter told SPACE.com, explaining why she decided to focus on fundraising full-time. "I can't put it off any longer. It's really critical." [Q&A with Jill Tarter]
A long research career
Tarter, 68, got involved in the SETI search in the 1970s, joining a small group of NASA scientists who were developing new equipment and strategies to make systematic SETI radio observations.
She signed on after reading "Project Cyclops," a seminal 1971 NASA report that described how to use Earth-based radio telescopes to hunt for signs of intelligent alien life up to 1,000 light-years away.
"I hadn't ever been thinking about SETI, or intelligent life elsewhere," Tarter said. "But when I read that document, I was absolutely astonished by the fact that I lived in the first generation of humans that could actually try to do an experiment to answer this really old question."
"The fact that I was alive with the right skill set, at just the right time to tackle this important question, was what hooked me," she added. "That's why I signed up to SETI when I was getting out of graduate school. And I've stayed hooked. I just think it's an amazing privilege to try and take on this challenge, and answer this old, fundamental question."
Though Congress killed NASA's SETI efforts in 1993, Tarter kept up the search. She'd already been with the SETI Institute for nearly a decade at that point, helping to create the nonprofit organization in 1984. In the decades since, she has continued to shape and steer the Institute's sky-scanning efforts, long serving as director of its Center for SETI Research.
Today, the SETI Institute employs more than 150 people, and its scientists are engaged in a range of astrobiology work beyond just looking for radio signals. Tarter said she's proud of the progress the organization has made since the early days, when a handful of pioneering scientists ran the whole show.
The Institute "is far bigger than I ever envisioned it would be when we incorporated it in 1984 with very modest goals to save NASA money," Tarter said. "We have a very vibrant institution of astrobiology, and also education and public outreach, that most people don't know about."
Funding the search
One of the SETI Institute's main signal-scanning tools is the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a set of 42 radio dishes located about 300 miles (500 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco. The ATA began scanning the heavens for "technosignatures" — electromagnetic signals that could betray the presence of an intelligent alien civilization — in 2007. [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]


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Danielle Lucero is becoming a regular with police.
"This is her fourth DUI arrest and she's only 27," says Sgt Scott Peck of the Cottonwood Heights police department.
Around midnight police spotted her car without a headline and pulled her over.
"The officer noticed the smell of alcohol and saw a spilled drink leaking out the door," says Peck.
When police looked in her vehicle they spotted two young children in the vehicle and they also learned of her previous DUI and drug arrests.
"As officer looked further into it he learned she's alcohol restricted which means she can't have no alcohol at all because she had prior arrests and convictions," says Peck. "He looked into it and she had 3 convictions and this is her 4th DUI arrest."
But police gave Lucero a break.
Instead of going to jail, she got a DUI ticket and a relative took her and the children home.
"She obviously has a problem," says Peck. "That's a young girl to have four DUI's under your belt."