| Fredonia Shakespeare Club gathers for last meeting of year on ...
4/18/2007 - Members of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club met last month in the Deland Room of the Fredonia First Methodist Church, where Ms. Joyce Haines was the hostess for the 20th and final meeting of 2006-2007 featuring presentations on The Victorian Age. President Dr. Minda Rae Amiran conducted the meeting with 18 members in attendance.
Mrs. William Parks, president-elect for 2007-2008, announced the memberships choice of topic for the year 2007-2008: World Philosophies and Religions: A Focus on Any of the Great Thoughts and Beliefs that have Impacted the Lives of People, The Arts, International Relations and World History.
Mrs. Charles Erbsmehl, dressed in an authentic black Victorian dress self-made for the occasion, read her paper entitled How Womens Fashions Changed during the Period, and With What Results, which she summarized as follows.
Local energy generation system in Woking, England, draws admirers ...
WOKING, England: Debra Keeble, the general manager of the Holiday Inn in this English town, is an unlikely eco-hero. She endured higher-than-expected electricity bills, a couple of four-hour blackouts and a cooling system that struggled to keep the hotel's 161 rooms air-conditioned in summer. Yet at the end of the day, she still prefers using a miniature heat and power station next door to taking energy from the national electricity grid. "I'm actually quite proud that we're doing this," said Keeble, who cited a recent spate of hot summers as evidence of the need to tackle global warming. "We've got to do something." Over the past decade, Woking, a city of 90,000 people in the commuter belt southwest of London, has developed a radical model for meeting its own energy needs that aims to use less fossil fuel and reduce pollutants.
Green Field Farm’s quest for the perfect egg
Bacon and eggs is an American breakfast tradition. But if you are watching the fat in your diet, eggs are also very versatile. They can be scrambled, poached or hard-boiled, and the assortment of omelets that can be created is endless. Eggs can be the main course at breakfast, dinner or supper. But when the department of health advises not to eat supermarket eggs sunny side up, and for restaurants to fry them at least three minutes to kill any salmonella that might be present, it takes some of the enjoyment out of eating breakfast. Eighty percent of the eggs produced today come from factory egg farms, where the hens are confined in cramped cages stacked up to eight high. Manure rains down on all but those in the top tier. There is in North America and many industrialized countries around the world what some call a "Food Revolution," an "Eat local, eat fresh," movement, a growing discontent with our inexpensive but poor quality packaged food supply from industrial agriculture, and an increasing demand for fresh foods grown locally on fertile soil.
Residents survey tornado's damage
The tornado warning had just flashed on Anne Avin's TV Sunday morning when she heard a "really loud" noise and felt her mobile home begin to shake. She instantly knew what was happening. "I grabbed (my 9-year-old grandson) and hit the floor and put blankets and pillows on top of us," Avin, 49, said as she ate a chicken dinner with her family Monday at a Red Cross service center. Avin gathered with other storm victims at the Red Cross center, set up at Enon Missionary Baptist Church south of Sumter. The tornado knocked her singlewide mobile home off its block foundation and tore off part of its roof. Avin said she felt fortunate to escape unharmed with her grandson. The tornado, which reached speeds of up to 140 mph, cut a deadly, 14-mile path across Sumter County that was 300 yards wide, local and state authorities said Monday.
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