| Community bulletin: Benefit dinner tonight
The area's League of Women's Voters groups are conducting mock elections for students in San Benito and Monterey counties. Students prepare and vote online or on paper ballots during the week of Jan. 28 to Feb. 1. The groups' are expecting about 3,500 students to take part.
For more information, call Arlene Guest at 595-8253 or e-mail pguest@redshift.com.
Jan 29
Endeavor Program benefit dinner
The Endeavor Program, a new scholarship program, will be hosting a benefit dinner and auction at the Cedar House on Jan 29. The money will go to helping students afford to participate in activities that they might not otherwise have a chance to be a part of.
For more information contact Angela Hagins at (831) 630-6368.
Jan 30
School band mixer
The San Benito High School Band invites all current eighth-grade students to their Middle School-High School Band Mixer 7 p.m.
McCain wins Fla., Romney is second
Obama's aides counter that they have stronger on-the-ground operations in many of those states, and that the campaign will have TV or radio ads airing in all of the Feb. 5 states by today, except Obama's home state of Illinois. Clinton on Tuesday night was in Florida, barely adhering to the letter of a no-campaigning pledge she and other Democrats signed in the controversy over Florida's move to a January contest. Clinton has said she would fight to seat convention delegates from Michigan and Florida, despite national party penalties banning them from this summer's convention; on Tuesday, Obama campaign officials said it's too soon to discuss what the Illinois senator would do if he becomes the nominee. You can reach Gordon Trowbridge at (202) 662-8738 or gtrowbridge@detnews.com.
ILLINOIS STYLE: Couple preach the fresh-produce gospel
To encourage home cooking and family mealtime, the couple prepared dishes on stage while giving tips on incorporating fresh food into any diet. The first step, they said is buying foods in season. "Things are meant to be used at the right time," McGreal said. "When you buy hard pears at the store, let them ripen on the counter." "Buy at the peak of freshness. If you don't use it then, you can freeze it or process it yourself instead of having some processor doing it for you," he added. Brigitta McGreal noted that buying in season is cheaper, too. "When squash is on sale in the winter, I get it for 49 cents a pound. But dont let it rot. Eat it or process it." The second step is preparing vegetables in advance so they are ready to use.
Live updates from todays Chargers-Patriots game in New England
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BEER SNOB: More tart for T-Day — Pairing your beer with the ...
Four beers to consider as possible mates with cranberry sauce this Thanksgiving: (from left to right) Cherish Raspberry Lambic, Brauerei Weihenstephan 1809, Harpoon Raspberry UFO, and Otter Creek's Winter Seasonal: Raspberry Brown. Will Siss Republican-American .
J. Robert Hooper
The couple threw a 50th-anniversary party last month. "It was a remarkably joyous party to celebrate his life and all that he has done for friends and family," Mrs. Ripken said. "He was always a caring, giving, loving and principled man." Born in Baltimore, Mr. Hooper grew up in Pylesville. In his senior year at Bel Air High, he drove a school bus, delivering elementary students to class before arriving for his own courses. Soccer, a lifelong passion, was the game he played long into adulthood. He helped establish Harford County's first youth soccer league. Mr. Hooper founded Harford Sanitation Services Inc. in 1954, and the company grew from two employees to 120 with a fleet of more than 50 trucks. He was a lifelong member of Fawn Grove Church of the Nazarene. "He never faltered when it came to his faith," Mr.
A chronicle of an extraordinary life
In 2005, Dahlberg finally relented and, working with local author Al Zdon, laid down his memories in a 160-page book filled with pictures and memories that comes out this week. "I never thought my life would be a book," Dahlberg said recently from his winter home in Arizona. The self-deprecating and no-nonsense Dahlberg said he won't be bothered if many of the 10,000 copies don't sell. And although the book touches on his involvement with the Watergate scandal, which brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, he said that turbulent time in his life isn't the focus. Dahlberg, 90, was the Midwest finance chairman of Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. He delivered a check to the Nixon campaign that later turned up in a Watergate burglar's bank account.
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