Historic boat set for the trip of a lifetime

Source: This is Oxfordshire

Giles Shearing and his partner Jerry Reilly on board Gaiety IT HAS spent more than 130 years ferrying people along the Thames and has even been used as a floating boxing ring. But next week the historic vessel Gaiety wi ...
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Principal boasts long history with Roosevelt

Source: Iowa City Press Citizen

Sitting in her tiny office at Roosevelt Elementary School, Principal Celeste Shoppa said she has flashbacks all the time. Her office today used to be her kindergarten classroom many years ago. Shoppa holds t ...
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IT BECAME THE JEWEL OF THE CITY

Source: Iowa City Press Citizen

Roosevelt Elementary School has gone through tremendous changes since Lois Peterson began teaching first and second grade there in 1947. She remembers the original four-room structure that stood before thre ...
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Getting to know the neighbours from Myanmar

Source: Winnipeg Free Press

The pink card was homemade and delivered to my door by the neighbour's relative -- a tween who speaks English well. It was an invitation to a birthday party for the little girl next door. My daughter's buddy was turning two years old. My ne ...
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Faith matters

Source: The Springfield News-Leader

A year ago, Moonshine Beach in Branson was shut down because of heavy flooding, and the facility...- 11:23 pm The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the state's new congressional districts Friday, solidifying a...- 11:07 pm Pressed for more information ...
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'That's my dad!': Navy officer's homecoming surprises sons

Source: Detroit Free Press

Aidan Sheriff of Sterling Heights thought his mom was taking him and his two younger brothers to the Henry Ford in Dearborn on Friday to watch the filming of a TV show. There were indeed cameras. But the ...
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Tech entrepreneur secretly lives at AOL HQ for two months

Source: Boing Boing

An enterprising young fellow named Eric Simons secretly lived at AOL headquarter for two months. He was given a badge while working a short stint at AOL's Imagine K12 incubator event for young education entrepreneurs. He really ...
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What Are You Looking At?

Source: The Bookshop Blog

I wasn’t looking *at* anything, I was looking *for* a book. A children’s book that I had vague, but warm memories from owning back in my ancient youth. Weird how as you age, memories of childhood pop up randomly. If they pop up a gre ...
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Ace Canopy Teams Up With Tarps Plus And Will Attend Tarp Donation At Los Angeles Mission For 2012 Thanksgiving

Source: PRWeb

Ace Canopy and Tarps Plus are in the forefront of helping those less fortunate. This fall they will return to the Los Angeles mission for the tarp donation of 2012. This event is planned for this coming Thanksgiving, which is on November 2 ...
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