| ELL students finish program
DALLASTOWN SCHOOLS — The Dallastown Area School District recently finished its summer program for English Language Learner students and their parents. Instructional Program Specialist Alma Row said 13 students, from first grade through high school, and two parents participated in the week-long program. The program helps the students and their parents to connect with the community and increase communication skills in English, Row said. The group took a virtual road trip through the United States to have a greater understanding of the country, she said. The trip started in York County and went to Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Google Earth, literature, games and cooking were incorporated in the activities. "It was tons of fun," Row said.
Two Sweeping Novels of America
The heroine of Amy Bloom's new novel of historical fiction personifies some very contemporary desires: to be sexually frank, romantically unique, and maternally instinctual. As we learn in the flashback swirls that begin "Away" ( Random House, 240 pages, $23.95), Lillian Leyb is at once a refugee of Stalin's pogroms and a plucky immigrant on the Lower East Side �-- occupying a cultural moment that has not gone neglected, lately. Because she has suffered, Ms. Bloom suggests, Lillian knows the world. She has license to get what she wants. Bold and flirtatious at a job fair, she ignores the women she has superseded and smiles at her new bosses: Lillian has endured the murder of her family, the loss of her daughter, Sophie, an ocean crossing like a death march, intimate life with strangers in her cousin Frieda's two rooms, smelling of men and urine and fried food and uncertainty and need.
Business doubles as a church, for now
SPRING HILL � You snooze, you lose. But not at this new church. As of July 29, the new and independent Cornerstone Baptist Church meets at the Florida Sleep Institute on Mariner Boulevard near Northcliffe, but only until it grows enough to acquire its own property and build a facility. Meanwhile, the Kohler family, who owns and operates the sleep institute, are using the business for Sun-day and Thursday church meetings. �Want to rest in (eternal) peace? Come to this church,� quipped the Rev. Richard Rossiter. One Kohler family member said the Rev. Rossiter, pastor of the church, impres-ses him by the way he gives sermons that �certainly WON�T put you to sleep... He is an enthusiastic, down-to-earth pastor that preaches a practical message based on the Holy Scripture.
This Labor Day, we salute some trades of yesteryear: A Butcher, a Baker and a Candlestick Maker
These days, there are certain trades that have become ingrained into our society -- firemen, construction workers and truck drivers, just to name a few. But what about traditional, old-school trades that were common a few hundred years ago? So this year we took a hint from the children's nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" and asked, "Where are today's butchers, bakers and candlestick makers?" Once all common -- and very necessary -- trades, butchers and candlestick makers now cater to niche markets, thanks to the advent of mass-produced meats for grocery stores and, well, electricity. But then again bakers still abound, with weddings and sandwiches still a part of our daily lives. So meet Mitch Grimes, butcher at Green's Grocery in Gainesville who knows the art of carving the perfect ribeye; Kristen Brousseau who creates custom confections as the owner of Memorable Creations Cake Shop in Gainesville; and Virginia Webb, a third-generation beekeeper in Clarkesville who has been pouring beeswax candles for more than 40 years.
Two years on and New Orleans still a city of homeless
NEW ORLEANS: As New Orleans yesterday mourned the huge losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina two years ago, United States President George W. Bush sought to dispel lingering anger, vowing better days lay ahead.
Scores of tiny blue hand bells tinkled as city mayor Ray Nagin led a poignant memorial service to the 1500 dead across the Gulf Coast and remembered the devastation which destroyed entire communities.
Two years on, much of the city famed for its jazz and Creole cooking still lies abandoned after surging seas whipped up by the hurricane breached its levees on August 29, 2005.
Mr Bush, who was sharply criticised for failing to respond swiftly to the enormous tragedy unfolding before the nation�s eyes, yesterday paid his 15th visit to the city since the storm hit.
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