Texas Brigades Seek Adult Leaders (AgNews)
SAN ANGELO Love the outdoors and working with young people? Consider becoming a Texas Brigades adult volunteer this summer. The Texas Brigades are educational programs that focus on specific game animals to teach young people about wildlife conservation.
Half of young homeless abused (Pioneer Press)
Latoya Miller knows the streets of St. Paul like the back of her hand. Perhaps the only thing she knows better is how to fill out a time card.
Black ice blamed in Hingham crashes (Boston Globe)
Black ice was blamed for a series of single-car crashes in Hingham early yesterday that left one woman dead and a van full of students with special needs wedged between a bridge and a tree over the Plymouth River, police said.
Touching 'Winn-Dixie' is an indie film for kids (Boston Globe)
In one scene in "Because of Winn-Dixie," two young boys, all grass stains and whifflecuts, peer through the front door keyhole of a faded Southern mansion. One turns to the other and says with immeasurable disgust, "They're just sittin' in there talkin' about how they feel ." Then the two run off like frightened cats.
Weaver stands out in ordinary 'Heroes' (Boston Globe)
Beginning novelists are instructed to "write what they know," and young screenwriters looking to strike an honest chord often follow the same sensible advice. This results in more first films about misunderstood teenagers and dysfunctional families in suburbia than you can beat with a tiki torch. That may be the audience's problem, but it is a problem, and "Imaginary Heroes ...
Golf tourney will benefit child victims of tsunami (The Arizona Republic)
If raising $1 million for tsunami relief through a single event sounds far-fetched, don't tell Scottsdale businessman Dave Cavan.
Christian ministries turns 10 (Selma Times-Journal)
What began 10 years ago as a fervent prayer and hope in the hearts of some members of a First Baptist Church adult study group has become a vanguard of Christian kingdom-building in the Selma and Dallas County area.
Mary Ellen 'Nellie' Henderson: A Life of Making Differences, Big and Small (Falls Church News-Press)
In 1910 Mary Ellen Meriwether married E.B. Henderson and moved to the City of Falls Church. Both young and educated, the couple built a house on what is now S. Maple Street and began to turn it into a home, complete with children and livestock.
Albright: Self-concept of being a single woman keeps changing (Tri-State Neighbor)
I need to give some serious thought to my self-concept. I define myself as a single woman who lives alone. I arrive at this definition because a) I am not married and b) my only child has reached adulthood.
Film caps (Monterey County Herald)
Because of Winn-Dixie (PG) Based on the perennial best-seller, a lonely young girl (AnnaSophia Robb) adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (so named for the supermarket where she found him), who helps her make friends in the small Florida town.
