| Health Fair a success
Chiropractors, massages and seeing eye dogs could all be found at the annual Community Health Fair held at the Heritage Square Shopping Center.Numerous people showed up to the event, which was designed to promote health awareness in a fun, friendly atmosphere.Dietician Amy Fuller was a site coordinator of the Fair, as was Margarita Chapman, executive director of Create Healthy Lives, who partnerned with the hospital in putting the event together. .
Economy revives Mason Corridor
The Mason Corridor is back again and moving with renewed momentum, thanks to an influx of funding and public interest. Actually, the corridor concept never went away, although some may have erroneously thought so after voters twice rejected transportation tax proposals to finance it. The $68 million project remains an unfunded part of Fort Collins' transportation master plan. It calls for creating a 5.5-mile "backbone" traversing the city's core from Cherry Street to south of Harmony Road. The corridor would be integrated with all other modes of transportation including vehicles, mass transit, existing freight trains, bicycles, feet and commuter rail or other future transit technologies. The goal is to reduce traffic congestion while making it quicker and easier to access jobs, shopping, entertainment, dining and housing located along the corridor's route bordering the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks.
Calendar of events
Spring dog/puppy training classes beginning: Taught by Murfreesboro Obedience Training Club. Registration and orientation at 6:30 p.m. Spring classes will be held indoors at MTSU Livestock Center, Greenland Drive, MTSU campus. Preregistration required, and may be made by doing one of the following: Visit http://community.webtv.net/MOTC/MURFREESBORO; e-mail motc@webtv.net (reference dog classes); or call (615) 849-3400 or (615) 896-2747. .
• Chicago on $40 a day
I tuck the chocolates into my bag and keep heading north. I pass by Eno, a new lounge in the Hotel Intercontinental, 505 N. Michigan. It bills itself as a wine, chocolate and cheese bar. Yum, yum and yum. I get a menu from the concierge and hold out hope that I'll have enough to end my day here. Shopping. What better place to browse than the women's shop department at Nordstrom in the North Bridge shops, 520 N. Michigan. 12:40 p.m. It is possible to browse women's shoes for two hours and buy nothing. Sigh. I am suddenly hungry. But I put a pair of wedge sandals on hold and hit Vosges Haut-Chocolat in the mall. One box of truffles and this assignment is over. I opt for a single dark chocolate cardamom truffle ($2.55) and help myself to a spoonful of spiced Red Fire chocolate chips from a sample bowl.
Colonial Mall's Waldenbooks store will close in May
Borders Group Inc. announced in March plans to close half its Waldenbooks stores but didn't specify which were on the chopping block. The Colonial Mall store's last day will be May 26. Benefit Cosmetics Benefit Cosmetics is coming to Coastal Grand Myrtle Beach mall. The San Francisco-based retailer is scheduled to open May 5 in the Belk cosmetics department on the first floor, said mall spokeswoman Deb Bramlett. The Benefit counter will be the chain's only location in Horry County. The upscale makeup and bath-product seller has a variety of merchandise, which is often sold at high-end retailers such as Sephora. Benefit Cosmetics' offers products that range from medium-coverage Nonfiction Foundation at $30 to Bathina Sweet Satin Shave for $26.
Where wonders never cease
If any country could wipe the slate clean and start again, chances are it would look to Dubai for inspiration. For Dubai is a clever little country. It doesn't think big - it thinks huge. In just 50 years, the tiny emirate has risen from the sand and made sure the world took notice. And, not possessing the security of massive oil reserves like the rest of its neighbours, Dubai took a different course and, by running the country as if it were a corporation, it has gone on to tuck a neat range of bold developments under its belt to earn its reputation as one of the foremost dynamic and prosperous economies in the world. And, by the look of things, there are a few more clever ideas up its sleeve. The first thing Dubai did many years ago was throw out "impossible" from the national vernacular.
49ers stadium plan all about nuts and bolts
No one wore a 49ers T-shirt, cap or jersey. A man in the back of the room had on a Stanford cap, which only supported the notion that this wasn't much of a football crowd. At the end of the meeting Monday night, this reporter's informal stats sheet showed that "An Inconvenient Truth'' got almost as much playing time as the NFL. Somebody was fretting about global warming and the bay sloshing up someday and swamping part of the proposed new housing development. This group couldn't even talk about flooding without making it sound dry. The Chronicle headline the next day read: "S.F.'s GRAND PLAN FOR 49ERS,'' but in the basement of the Bayview's Southeast Community Center, the 40 or so people who came to hear details about the plan thought it was about them, about building 8,500 new housing units and creating jobs in a community facing 3rd-and-10 on its own 1-yard line.
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