DECATUR - When Army National Guard Specialist Nicholas Shaw was snowed in for 44 days last winter in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the individually wrapped snacks Americans had mailed made a huge difference. Three or four feet of snow fell where we were," recalls Shaw, 20, of Farmer City.
In still keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving, hundreds of volunteers took Saturday to give a little thanks for the troops, filling care packages full of reminders from home for those deployed overseas during the holidays. As part of Operation Gratitude, volunteers manned an assembly line in a warehouse at the Army National Guard Armory in Van Nuys, packing boxes with donations of lotion, ChapStick, Girl Scout cookies, toothbrushes and toothpaste, energy drinks, knit scarves and hats, books, CDs and DVDs.
Near the end for Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner & Smouse P.A., whenever Robert E. Cahill Jr. walked into his office, he passed lawyers preparing to leave for the last time. You would come in, see a dear colleague or a dear friend packing up to leave," Cahill said. "A whole practice group would be packing boxes.
The summer is almost over and like many parents, we are preparing to send our daughter off to college. This isn't a new experience for us, as we sent our son to school two years ago. We've learned a lot since then and are seasoned veterans at packing boxes, booking plane tickets and saying goodbye. Of course, this time will be quite different than the last time, because this child leaving makes us empty- nesters, the well-known term used to describe parents of college-aged kids who no longer live at home. This term is particularly ironic since my daughter will soon join her brother at the University of Oregon and become an Oregon Duck. She has already traded in her high school uniform for an Oregon sweatshirt. We, of course, are grateful to already have every piece of Oregon attire sold...
C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has resigned, Attorney General Peter Nickles says he will resign, and Fire and EMS Chief Dennis L. Rubin has reportedly filled his office with packing boxes in case he's asked to resign. So what of lame-duck Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's other highest- profile appointee: Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier? Business as usual until someone says otherwise.
SOUTH PASADENA - Volunteers and members of the local women's club were busy Wednesday packing boxes of oatmeal, sugar-free and peanut butter cookies with chocolates for hospitalized veterans. The hundreds of packages will be delivered this Memorial Day from "Operation Cookie," a project of the Woman's Club of South Pasadena.
As soon as cigar manufacturers started packing their product in boxes instead of crates and barrels, people started using the empty boxes for storing other stuff - letters, keys, keepsakes, money, whatever. You can bet that almost as quickly, folks began making musical instruments out of those boxes - banjos, fiddles, guitars, drum boxes. Throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, these makeshift instruments were somewhat common.
Shaw & Sons Funeral Directors YAKIMA - , 86, passed away Tuesday August 30, 2011 at 3:22 a.m. She was born January 23, 1925 to William Oliver Mayer and Mary Louise (Hennessy) Mayer in West Yakima, WA. She began her attendance at Cowiche Grade School at the age of four. During eighth grade, Mary Louise entered the state Bi- Centennial State sponsored essay contest promoting Washington State. Out of over 1,800 entries from across the state, Mary won first place with $100.00 as prize money. She helped her dad buy hay for the cows with her winnings. Mary Louise attended St. Joseph Academy and graduated valedictorian of her class. She was the chief editor of the St. Joseph Academy school's newspaper where she submitted countless poems and essays. She was awarded a fu...
He buUt a reputation that led John CaUpari to hire him at Memphis in 2008. When CaUpari left for Kentucky in March, Pastner was so ready to join him he had turned in his courtesy car and was packing boxes in his office when athletic director R.C. Johnson caUed and asked Pastner to visit his house. Like that, Pastner's lifelong plan had come to fruition.
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