Charleroi farmers market blooms anew
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- Charleroi farmers market blooms anew
- A ‘swimming hole’ at home
- Catholics in Green Bay have grown to like Bishop Zubik’s common…
- Nicaraguan coffee growing a labor of love for Austin couple
- FDA in crisis: Tobacco is the last thing it needs
- Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach & Treasure Coast news, sports,…
Charleroi farmers market blooms anew
pittsburghlive.com - Jul 22, 2007
The market is held in Magic City Square in Charleroi, near the entrance to Chamber Plaza. The farmers only accept cash and vouchers as payment. “The Farmers Market is a chance to get fresh, home-grown produce,” Volker said. “The flavor is much fresher. ”
Skokut agreed. “People want fresh produce. Here the price is lower and the service is better,” he said.
A ‘swimming hole’ at home
Providence Journal - Providence Journal (subscription) - Jul 22, 2007
The pools have skimmers and pumps that circulate the water through the regeneration zone and draw it across a wall of rocks, loose gravel or tiles, to which friendly bacteria attach, serving as an additional biological filter. Unlike artificial ponds, which tend to be as murky with groundwater runoff and sediment from soil erosion as the natural ponds they’re modeled on, in a natural pool the water is clear enough to see through to the bottom. The pools, which cost about the same as or slightly more than conventional ones, depending on landscaping, appeal to gardeners because of the great variety of plant life that can be grown in them, as well as to green advocates and others who don’t want to swim in chlorinated water. “Many, many people don’t like chlorine,” said Bryan Morse, who runs a landscaping company in Vista, Calif. , called Expanding Horizons that builds water features and branched into natural pools five years ago. Taking advantage of southern California’s climate, Morse created a sort of jungle lagoon in his own backyard, building a natural swimming pool with a thatched “palapa” and a regeneration zone filled with tropical foliage like Madagascar palm and varieties of canna lilies. The business is hardly a growth industry, at least in the U… homeowner who has such a pool, Jim Smith, a 45-year-old computer programmer who lives in a suburb of Wichita, Kan. , said he learned about the pools in a sales pitch given by Hilleary at a home show in 2002. Smith and his wife, Susie, who is an experienced gardener, decided to build a natural pool with a miniature waterfall, plants like hornwort and anacharis and a 40-foot recirculating stream that would run past their living room windows. (Smith said he spent about $50,000 on the pool, or $20,000 more than he estimates a standard pool would have cost; he attributed the higher cost in part to elaborate landscaping. )The couple, who have two daughters, had a chlorinated pool at a previous home, and Smith said the transition was difficult. “It took us the first year to learn how to deal with the water,” he said, referring to the way natural pools can become overgrown with algae.
Catholics in Green Bay have grown to like Bishop Zubik’s common…
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Jul 22, 2007
When the bishop travels, the Homans bring his father food from the Mill Town Cafe. A nun who works for the diocese stops in to visit. When the bishop is home, there are frequent gatherings at the house. Recently the bishop held a dinner for priests ordained for fewer than 10 years. They sat on the living room floor to talk about current issues in the church. “Every single one of them is outstanding,” Bishop Zubik said. He believes such men will inspire others to consider the priesthood… “The bishop was happy here. I think that going home means the most to his dad,” Mr. Recently the bishop baptized their third grandchild. He drew other children into the sacrament, with one holding his book, another the cruet of holy oil. Afterward he joined the family at a supper club, where alumni of a Catholic high school were coincidentally holding a reunion.
Nicaraguan coffee growing a labor of love for Austin couple
Austin 360 - Austin 360 (subscription) - Jul 22, 2007
Fara Café, a sumptuous estate coffee grown in Nicaragua and sold in a few local retail outlets, is owned by an Austin couple. For Maria Cisne Farahani, coffee is a family legacy. For her and husband Manouchehr “Manny” Farahani, a real estate investor, it has become a family affair spanning cultures and oceans and generations. Maria was born in Nicaragua, Manny in Iran.
FDA in crisis: Tobacco is the last thing it needs
seacoastonline.com - Jul 22, 2007
In recent weeks, we have learned that the FDA actually inspects less than 1 percent of all imported food. The FDA is overwhelmed. Its mandate calls for it to ensure the safety of the nation’s entire food supply, including home-grown and imported. It’s responsible for 11,000 drugs in the marketplace. It’s supposed to examine the safety and efficacy of proposed new drugs, including the burgeoning class of bioengineered pharmaceuticals, and monitor the safety of drugs after they are placed on pharmacy shelves. Additionally, the agency has been charged by the president to play a key role in the administration’s national bioterrorism defense initiatives. The FDA is buckling under the strain.
Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach & Treasure Coast news, sports,…
Palm Beach Post - Jul 22, 2007
I remember when I first moved to South Florida I visited BRITT and was surprised to see that its auditorium was named for Charles. Hmm, I wondered, did The Match Game pay that well that he could underwrite a playhouse? I later found out that it was not his wallet, but his generosity of spirit and devotion to training young actors that got that theater named for him. At the institute, he would instill young performers with his manic life force and an appreciation of the importance of grounding even the most outrageous stage work in reality.