Oregon Recreation Report (3) Jun 24, 2009
Through the end of the season, Denman Wildlife Area Hall tract will only be open for hunting Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, all other tracts on the Wildlife Area will be open everyday through the season ... CHRISTMAS VALLEY GOLF COURSE POND: hatchery rainbow trout ... Fish are still available at Christmas Valley Pond. (Lebanon Express, OR)
Suck it up, Cupcake Jun 23, 2009
Christmas came with stockings loaded with candy canes and ribbon candy, with an orange for luck shoved into the bottom. Birthdays were sugar comas with streamers and presents. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The case for dress standards in court May 31, 2009
It currently holds about 100 ties -- most sporting the labels of expensive designers, although several feature gaudy Christmas scenes -- collected over what he estimates to be about 28 years. "I realized a long time ago, you don't really need to wear a tie in to work or on the way home," Mr. Teitelbaum said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Coming home to the Valley to honor mom May 12, 2009
But today with her children grown, they listen to mom, await her approval and at least twice a year Christmas and Mother s Day make the journey home to celebrate mom. The author from Rehobeth Road. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
Piece Makers Quilt Club Still Stitching Up Fun After 24 Years Apr 28, 2009
"We make Christmas stockings for the children in juvenile hall and those in foster care each year," Nobel said ... Nobel said they planned a big Christmas party last year. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
The secret is out Apr 11, 2009
During a Christmas visit to a friend in Hawai'i, she fell in love with the Islands, especially the Big Island, which she calls "a place of pure nature." She decided to move there and start designing. During a trip home to visit family in Brazil, she and her mother sourced fabrics and found a manufacturer who could make her line of bikinis, bustiers, cover-ups and dresses. (Honolulu Advertiser)
- From the desk of: Have a blessed and eggs-tra special Easter 0 Apr 8, 2009
At Easter we generally had Easter lilies, and at Christmas there were poinsettias. I remember one year before Easter I was in San Diego with Mama and Daddy. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Putting a top on iconic topless show Mar 22, 2009
When it opened on Christmas Eve 1959, the Tropicana's topless review embodied all that was naughty and daring in Vegas. But, in time, Vegas became much racier than the "Folies." Cirque du Soliel performers disrobe in "Zumanity." In the show "Bite," vampires bare fangs and breasts. (Boston Globe)
NPHS Cheerleading wins Suburban One Championships Mar 19, 2009
"It's also the enthusiasm, and overall impression - how well they get the crowd to cheer with them. "One of the biggest comments the kids often receive is that they look like they're having a blast," she said. In addition to the competitions and supporting the high school sports teams, the squad also performs numerous community service projects, such working with Easter Seals, and collecting stockings at Christmas. McGowan also requires the girls to maintain a C-average to stay on the squad. "I... (Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA)
Best cities for shopaholics Mar 6, 2009
Each year, the Hong Kong WinterFest, a winter duty-free shopping nirvana, happens just in time for Christmas so you can fill those holiday stockings at a discount. London Whether you choose to shop the trendy boutiques of Covent Garden, follow in the steps of princesses by visiting Sloane Street or pick up a bespoke suit on Saville Row or tailored shirt on Jermyn Street, youre bound to shed a few pounds (of the monetary variety) when shopping in London. (MSNBC -- Travel)
School offers March production of ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Mar 6, 2009
School offers March production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever : Winona Daily News ... School offers March production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever By KRI KNUTSON ... And yet the Christmas spirit is alive in March at Hope Lutheran High School. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Beech Mountain's Land of Oz theme park Feb 17, 2009
With a flick of a switch, Keller turns on cyclone-style sound effects and green Christmas lights while visitors peruse the black light paintings on the wall, including one of the Wicked Witch soaring across the sky writing Surrender Dorothy in clouds of smoke. Next door is a topsy-turvy house made to look like Dorothy s home after the cyclone hit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Mud Puddle Toys to celebrate five years with long list of events Feb 17, 2009
Its two main efforts are distributing back-to-school backpacks each fall and the stockings each Christmas. We at Mud Puddle Toys believe in getting all ages involved by encouraging volunteerism and philanthropy within our own community, explained the Pollards. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Editorial: Happy Holidays Feb 8, 2009
With Hanukkah beginning this Sunday, and Christmas on Thursday it s that time of year again to think of our blessings and look to the year ahead ... My husband and I are just buying gifts for the children in our lives; instead of buying an expensive wreath that we will just throw out the day after Christmas, I had my daughter make one (which I will keep forever); I created my own photo Christmas cards online, instead of paying a photographer to take them and spending three times as much; and my... (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
Teen Q&A: Single mom dreads sex talk with boys Feb 8, 2009
One year when all of the kids in our family were in high school or college I put condoms in their Christmas stockings. My mother-in-law thought it was the smartest gift and wished that she had thought of it. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
St. Nicholas at Church Feb 8, 2009
I was talking with them about Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, as a season of waiting. I suspected that several of the children were thinking about waiting for Santa Claus to arrive but I had not expected the question about Santa Claus and Jesus. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
Weird Valentines Gifts That Don't S... Feb 7, 2009
Lets face it, Christmas was just a few weeks ago and the amount of chocolate that we get in our stockings generally is not wanted on our hips. If you have saved a lot of your candy consider re-boxing them in relevant heart shaped boxes. (Suite101.com)
