| 4-H courtyard fund drive kicks off
Kittitas County 4-H member Abbie MacRae, 12, holds the clay model of a winning 4-H hog that will be made into a life-size bronze pig by sculptor Paul Crites and placed in the new 4-H courtyard at the Kittitas County Fairgrounds. A fundraising drive is under way for the courtyard and sculpture, and a contest also has started to name the pig. Photo by Mike Johnston/Daily Record .
Use Campus 3 location for business or keep a theater
After opening in 1981, Campus 3 Theaters is set to run its last reel on April 30. As the only commercial theater in the downtown area, its closing continues the disheartening depreciation of the Old Capitol Town Center. This Editorial Board would like to see the space used wisely and, if at all possible, continually used as a commercial destination.
In recent months, Campus 3 has primarily shown smaller, more independent films that Sycamore Cinema 12 and Coral Ridge 10 opted not to screen. The smaller theater was also one of the few theaters in the United States to debut Borat on time, along with displaying more award-considered films such as The Last King of Scotland. However, Marcus Theatres Corp. bought both Coral Ridge 10 and Sycamore Cinema 12 but passed on Campus 3, essentially sealing its death.
Brodhead organizes its first CROP Walk in 30 years
For the first time, walkers will take to the streets on the same day-Sunday afternoon-in Janesville, Milton and Brodhead to raise money and awareness for local hunger-fighting organizations and Church World Service.
Church World Service helps communities respond to disasters, resettles refugees, promotes fair national and international policies and provides educational resources. The organization receives 75 percent of CROP Walk donations to help people around the world.
The remaining 25 percent helps fund local organizations.
"We jump in a car and drive to a doctor's appointment or to the grocery store," Diane said. "Most people in the world don't have that luxury, so they have to walk to gather food, to produce food. Often, people have to walk to a river or hopefully a well-and even that's not as common as you would think-to get water for their family's daily needs."
Area churches organize the walk, but anyone can participate.
ETA Star unveils mall venture
Dubai: UAE property developer ETA Star has launched its first shopping mall in Dubai as part of a Dh1.5-billion mixed-use project in Business Bay. Starhill Towers & Gallery is a twin-tower waterfront development comprising freehold offices, a five-star hotel and a luxury shopping mall. The Starhill mall is being opened under a licensing and management contract with Malaysia's diversified YTL Corporation. YTL's Starhill mall in Kuala Lumpur's famous Bukit Bintang area houses about 100 top luxury brands. Construction work will begin in the third-quarter of 2007 and the project is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2010. Abid Junaid, executive director of ETA Star, said his group will launch similar boutique shopping malls both in the UAE and abroad.
Albemarle man's organs continue to save others
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- More than a year after Jeremy Parr was fatally shot, his mother still sees his friends around Charlottesville wearing his old leather jacket and other clothing that he gave away.
"He'd give anyone anything he had when he was living," said Annie Parr, an Albemarle County resident. "Now that he's passed away, he's given the gift of life."
After Jeremy, 24, died in December 2005 in what his family believes was an accidental shooting north of Scottsville, his heart, lungs, liver, pancreas and kidneys were donated to patients waiting for organ transplants.
Because he had signed up to be an organ and tissue donor, his death saved the lives of six Virginians.
Pecolia DeBerry, a 48-year-old Newport News resident, received Jeremys kidney.
Castlerock Buys San Diego Shopping Center for $9M
Castlerock Property Management Inc. purchased the Lemon Grove Shopping Center, at 3099-3275 Lemon Grove Ave. in Lemon Grove, CA, for $9.15 million, or about $128 per square foot. The seller was Union Bank of California. The sale also included two vacant lots adjoining the center. The 71,640-square-foot, multi-building center is on multiple parcels totaling 6.24 acres. It was built in 1960 and renovated in 1991. Castlerock is reportedly considering plans to redevelop the property, although specifics could not be learned. Christopher Rink, Steve Rowland and Michael Roberts of Grubb & Ellis]BRE Commercial represented both parties. Please reference CoStar COMP #1263831 for more information. .
Aurora Mall Shoppers Claim Racial Profiling
(CBS4) AURORA, Colo. The Town Center at Aurora has denied allegations it racial profiles customers who are minorities or dress in a certain fashion. Several people in their 20s said they've been targeted because of their skin color and have asked the American Civil Liberties Union to investigate. People who said they were discriminated against at the former Aurora Mall gathered at Aurora's city hall Tuesday evening to rally. Some said they were harassed by security guards at the shopping center."We just want to be respected as a human being, not as a color, not as a race, but just people of humanity," said Michael Carter Jr.A shooting in 2005 killed one person at the mall. After that incident, the shopping center implemented a weekend curfew requiring shoppers under the age of 16 to be with a parent or adult after 5 p.m.Last year, a civil rights group known as Acorn surveyed minority shoppers at the mall and found that 48 people claimed racial profiling.
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