| MATAMOROS — While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
MATAMOROS � While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary school in Matamoros, moms are brought to the school to make students meals. �Who better to make them lunch,� reasoned Principal Maria de Los Angeles Galvan Tapia. �They�re cooking for their kids, so obviously they want to feed them well.� Out of necessity more than careful planning, moms at Franklin, as the school is known across the city, take turns cooking lunch for 550 hungry children. Without government funding for a school lunch program, schools in Mexico employ a variety of low cost alternatives, usually on the parents� dime. At Franklin, parents have taken up the cause of organizing meals for their students. Responsibilities for the week rotate among parents, mostly mothers.
New VA Director Oversees Expansion
FAYETTEVILLE -- Kathleen Fogarty is quick to point out she doesn't want to fight Washington County for control of 9 acres on the south end of the Veterans Administration Medical Center campus."If they own it or we own it, we want the same thing ... to bring UAMS here," she said. "This fight for control, I hope we are done with it."Fogarty became the medical center's first female director in June. On a summer day that threatened triple-digit heat, she wore a blue dress that made no compromise for comfort over professionalism."Isn't it stately?" she asked while walking the tree-lined grounds of the medical center campus. The consistent red brick design lends a university air to the federal facility.Fogarty inherited a power struggle between Washington County Judge Jerry Hunton and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over ownership of the old Washington Regional Hospital building and grounds on College Avenue.Both sides agree the land should house a satellite medical school campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
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Lu Wen-hsueh, a 47-year-old man who is switching professions mid-life, and his 12-year-old son, Lu Shih-wei, who graduated from elementary school a couple of months ago, decided to spend the summer vacation taking a walk around Taiwan. The father and son pair set out from the seaside town of Danshui, which is northwest of Taipei, on July 13. The pair spent 50 days walking over 1,200 kilometers, visiting many of the highlights that Taiwan has to offer. Along their journey, they encountered typhoons three times and one earthquake. The Lus are set to arrive back in Danshui on Saturday, completing their long journey. When the father and son pair reaches their destination in Danshui on Saturday, Lu Shih-wei plans to mimic the scene of American soldiers planting the United States flag on Iwo Jima during World War II.
Pitcher Bannister continues streak as Royals dismantle Twins
Kansas City pitcher Brian Bannister won for the fourth straight time, limiting the Twins to six hits in eight innings. He improved to 12-and-7 and hasn't allowed more than three runs in any of his last seven starts. Kansas City won two of four games against Minnesota. The series started Friday. .
Around Westland
Flu shots The Village of Westland will again offer flu shots to seniors age 65 and older 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at the senior community, 32001 Cherry Hill, west of Merriman, in Westland, Call (734) 762-8926 to schedule an appointment. .
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