| Students create mosaic table for auction | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 3:02:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Armed with wooden mixing sticks and a bucket of grout, nearly a dozen middle school students during a first-year art class Tuesday filled gaps between tiles carefully laid on a refurbished coffee table. It looks like Cool Whip, one student said as they all collected smudges of the white paste material. Once the grout has dried and sealed the tiles in place, another of Lyn Golds art classes will wipe the table top clean and assemble it for auction at the Kerrville Public School Foundations sixth annual Reach for the Stars gala on Saturday. The table decorated with donated tiles is one of hundreds of unique items that will be auctioned. Gold said she never misses an opportunity to help with the gala, because she and her art students are direct beneficiaries of the funds raised.... | |
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| | | A Telegraph Avenue Holiday Shopping Guide | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:02:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Holiday shopping unfinished? Unwilling to make one more trip to a multitude of malls or to … Emeryville? Let me suggest where to shop locally this season and also feel good about it. Come down to Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Maybe you're terrified of Telegraph? Worried you'll find only empty storefronts, aggressive panhandling, no parking, tumbleweeds in the streets? Settle down. You probably read too much campaign literature during the last election. Toss those screeds in the trash, and visit the real Telegraph where you'll find the picture implied wasn't, and isn't, true. Endless vacant storefronts? I've counted. There are 63 commercial storefronts on Telegraph from Dwight to Bancroft, and only four appear both empty and unrented. Panhandlers are few and actually pretty polite, and regular pedestrian traffic is heavy, although with students now leaving town after finals it should tail off in the next few days.... | |
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| | | | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:15:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Needed for a part-time or full time job in a Japanese restaurant in the Keserouan area: Supervisor with expe-rience, waiters for the service area, cashier. Please send your resume by fax on 01/888000 or call 03/417999 Reputable Specialized Contractor recruiting for its operations in Lebanon:Civil Engineer 0-3 Years Experience. Geotechnical Engineer 0-5 Years Experience Fax CV to: 04/544269 Urgent Required: A four stars hotel in Beirut is seeking for a restaurant manager, waiter and waitresses with 2 Yrs. experience. (English and French is a must). Send CV at:cv.mail.to@gmail.com A large company is recruiting now to Nigeria for the accounting department. Candidates must have BA degree in Finance or TS in Accounting and must have at least 2 years experience.... | |
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| | | SES still cleaning up Newcastle storm damage | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:02:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | State Emergency Service (SES) crews will continue mopping up today after the severe storm which swept through Newcastle yesterday afternoon. The violent storm hit the Lower Hunter about 4:00pm AEDT, before moving over Newcastle, bringing with it hail stones - some the size of cricket balls. Thirty-five suburbs in six council areas were affected, but Wallsend, Shortland and Merewether were the hardest hit. SES Hunter region controller Greg Perry says 80 volunteers worked until midnight responding to 132 calls for help. "Mostly broken skylights, some cracked tiles and a lot of blocked drains, obviously with size of the hail and then water entering into houses," he said. About 40 of those jobs will be completed today.... | |
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| | | Hundreds held in Joburg crime sweep | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:56:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | South African Rugby Union acting managing director Basil Haddad has quashed speculation of a Springbok players' strike a few days before they jet off to Europe for their end-of-year tour. It had been reported on SABC radio yesterday that the Springboks could go on strike over the appointment of the team manager, with the team reportedly preferring former SA Rugby managing director Songezo Nayo to Saru's favoured man, Zola Yeye. Haddad said the speculation was just a rumour and that he had confirmation from the South African Rugby Players' Association that there was no players' strike planned. - Sapa More than 200 people were arrested during an anti-crime operation in Johannesburg, police said yesterday. Inspector Kriban Naidoo said 238 people were arrested in Saturday's swoop that started at 4am, for crimes including rape, armed robbery, housebreaking, shoplifting and assault.... | |
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| | | Carving out a niche | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:10:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | In less than two years, Barry Eyre, 40, and his partners have established a solid foundation for their business, SaintJohnStone, in North Kingstown. There are now 12 employees, up from the original 3. They recently moved to a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in the West Davisville Industrial Park, after outgrowing a 10,000-square-foot building. Sales, which were $500,000 in 2005, are projected to reach about $3 million by year's end. The company imports and distributes slabs of polished granite, marble and onyx, plus jade and other semiprecious or exotic stones. Eyre said that SaintJohnStone's indoor "stone gallery" of 3,000 pieces, some 6 feet by 10 feet and weighing about 900 pounds each, makes it the largest stone yard between Central Connecticut and metropolitan Boston.... | |
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| | | Art's the draw on this tour | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 7:09:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | HOME VOYEURS can rejoice when owners of five Orinda residences open their doors Friday and Nov. 4 as part of the Junior League of Oakland-East Bay's third annual Artful Living Home Tour, benefiting children at risk. The committee-chosen homes are selected for their unique architecture, distinctive landscaping or because they contain an exceptional art collection. To be considered for the tour, the homes also must have been built within the past five years. Previous tours were in Lafayette and the Danville area. "We wanted to elevate the tour beyond the standard home tours," says Dana Young, League spokeswoman. "We want to spark conversations on how people live with art and architecture." Steven Kubitschek is a homeowner who is succeeding at just that.... | |
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| | | Home Demolition in East Jerusalem: Hate Does Not Come Easy | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 10:59:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | JERUSALEM, October 22, 2006 (WAFA)- "I tell my children it's my fault that our house was demolished. I say that because daddy didn't have a building permit, I broke the law and so they had to tear it down. I would rather they believe this than that they be angry about the truth. I want them to grow up without being full of hate so that they can concentrate on school and on building a future for themselves," International Solidarity Movement (ISM) quoted a Palestinian teenager as saying. . The ISM story reads: The 15-year old house of Hani Totah, proud father of six children and one Arabian thoroughbred mare, was demolished upon orders by Israeli police in November 2005. A year later, he now sits in his brother's living-room explaining why he feels compelled to lie to his own children.... | |
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| | | Read Steve Coad's football picks in our Sports pages | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 10:57:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | London city hall will restore Wonderland Gardens without the original bandshell, a late casualty to a fire last year whose complete devastation wasnt apparent until recently. In the aftermath of the fire city officials said they could restore the bandshell and restaurant but further investigation has shown thats not the case. The bandshell, which dates back to the 1930s, was not salvageable, its structure of chicken wire and plaster damaged beyond repair. Its very unfortunate we lost the bandshell, Andrew MacPherson, the city parks manager, said today. While the city will rebuild the Gardens to reflect its art-deco heritage of the 1930s, it will do so with scant tangible links to the past: a few clay roof tiles and inlaid stones. The demolition of the bandshell was OKd by the London Advisory Committee on Heritage, whose head, Joe ONeil, was stunned to learn of the flimsy structure holding it up.... | |
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| | | Thorny problems: roses, recycling, weeds, and algae | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 12:58:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | When we moved into our new home last year, it was too late to prune some tall hybrid tea roses, so we left them alone. Now the bushes are virtually leafless and full of dead branches. Is it worth trying to revive them? The Boulter family, by email Roses cling on for grim death and I am sure it will be possible to renovate some of yours. However, I would issue a word of caution: when we take on a new garden, we have a rare opportunity to remove shrubs and roses planted by previous incumbents that are not precisely to our liking. Once we have knocked the garden into shape and gone through that initial upheaval, it is unlikely that we will ever be so decisive again. .... | |
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