| Fiesta will feature music, food and public services information
Music, dancing, food and informational booths will be part of the 11th annual La Fiesta de Nuestra Communidad set for Saturday at South Albany High School.Everyone, especially Latino families, is invited to the fiesta that will be in the school cafeteria from 1 to 6 p.m. The focus is to have fun, celebrate Latino culture and learn what public and social services are available, said Linda Stensgard, an administrative aide to the Benton County Commission on Children and Families, one of the sponsors along with the Linn Benton Hispanic Advisory Committee.Expected to be on hand are about 40 agencies and groups, including nutritionists, educators, and representatives from housing services and the state employment office."We will concentrate on an educational piece," she said. "We want to parents to know such things as the laws about student attendance and how they can encourage their children to go from high school on to higher education."Oscar Moreno-Gilson, principal at Lincoln Elementary School in Corvallis, will explain his school's bilingual program.Food available for purchase includes tamales, tacos, quesadillas, rice, beans and sodas.Performing will be the Fiesta Mexicana 4-H Dance Club, and door prizes will be given away throughout the day.Originally, the fiesta started as a resource fair.
PROBLEMS AND PET PEEVES
The place was an Italian restaurant in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., and the time was summer, a hot, muggy, buggy summer in my college years. I had three months to kill in a strange, unwelcoming environment, and I missed my school friends in upstate New York and my ole Jersey home. So I waitressed six nights a week, came in early to help with prep and counted the days till I flew back north. The restaurant's owners originally were from New Jersey, as it turned out, and the food was the same circa-1970s-in-Jersey Italian food I knew from back home. I thought I'd been a good waitress � organized, efficient, accommodating � in my previous school-days' stints, but by Day Three, I'd ticked off the hostess who ran the floor show. She was a big-haired blonde named Karen who, as she told everyone, was just touching down in Jax for a brief spell.
Community Milestones
The Fall Creek Gray Eagles of Fall Creek Elementary School, East Bend, came home with a third place in the junior division. The team also placed first in rifle, second in shotgun, third in orienteering and muzzleloading. The team placed first in the district competition at Hunting Creek Preserve in Iredell County and the state competition in Ellerbe. In individual competitions, Ethan Pendry received a third place overall individual finish and first place in orienteering; Thomas Powell placed second in Wildlife ID and Anthony McLelland III placed third in rifle and shotgun. Team members are: Ethan Pendry, Robbie Potts Jr., Andrew Byrd, Nick McDonald, Anthony McLelland III, Elliott Davis, Kurstie Galliher, Garrett Holcomb, Justin Moore and Thomas Powell. The coaches are Vaun and Carson Hobson.
Man, Mango and Mojito
Kapolanialaimaka “Kapo" Kealoha is the Executive Chef at Tiki's Grill & Bar in Waikiki. Since he returned from culinary stints in Wyoming and Northern California to take the top job at Tiki's, he's worked to accomplish three things: create an all-new breakfast buffet service, expand the over-all level of food and service, and teach all employees how to pronounce his first name. We hear he's nailed the first two, but using the nickname “Kapo" just might indicate goal number three is a bit more elusive than first thought. Kapo's a local man, having attended Moanalua High School and then cracking the culinary arts books at the Travel Institute of the Pacific. He's got a ton of local experience under his belt, not including those two sojourns at the Four Seasons Hotels already alluded to in paragraph one.
Cities to turn off taps of those who don't conserve
Mother Nature apparently has confused Middle Tennessee with Arizona. Rain? Five one-hundredths of an inch in August. Temperatures above 100, day after day. Nashville schools send wilting kids home after a few hours. Stewart County schools close today. Pools run low, streams run dry. Water cops cut off water for those who dare to use too much. And just when you think the grass can�t get any browner, it does. When will it end? Residents of Franklin and Portland won't be washing their cars, watering their lawns or filling their pools for a while. Their cities have imposed water restrictions because of the continuing drought. .
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