| DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN: Obama rocks Vegas faithful Candidate charms ...
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama shakes hands with members of the Culinary union after a rally at the union's headquarters in downtown Las Vegas on Friday. The union endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate on Wednesday.
Photo by K.M. Cannon.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaks to supporters at Del Sol High School on Friday.
Photo by K.M. Cannon.
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Midstate Datebook: Ministry to host free community Christmas meal ...
When: 1 p.m. Where: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, 222 Fifth Ave. S., 416-2096. Why: Learn about letterpress printing from Jim Sherraden, manager of historic Hatch Show Print. Use block images to make your own holiday card or T-shirt. Paper provided. Participants should bring their own T-shirts. Designed for ages 6-18. How: free. Call 416-2001.
Day of Sharing When: noon-3 p.m. Where: Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, 36 Fairfield Ave. Why: Free clothing and toys will be given away for those in need. How: For more information call James Burton at 615-963-7678.
Monday, Dec. 17 Game Time When: 4 p.m. Where: Pruitt Branch Library, 117 Charles E. Davis Blvd., 862-5985.
McLean's wife stays on the move, lawyer says
In affidavits filed in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Eric McLean and his divorce attorney, Steve Sharp, allege former West High School student teacher Erin McLean is embarked on a rootless existence with a 19-year-old paramour. "(Erin McLean) has been to California and then to Austin, Texas, staying in cheap motels and then moving when she is unable to pay the bills," Sharp wrote. Attorney Bruce Poston, who is defending Eric McLean on charges that he killed Sean Powell, his wife's teenage student and lover, in March, said Tuesday Erin McLean has since surfaced in Boulder, Colo. Sharp has been trying to serve Erin McLean with divorce papers since September to no avail in an effort to gain custody of the couple's sons, ages 11 and 8. It was then that Erin McLean fled her mother's Nashville home with the boys after news surfaced that she had lied to get a job as a teacher at a private Christian school and allegedly tried to seduce a 17-year-old student.
Now global warming is even affecting The Rooney Bin
Late-night talk show hosts have had fun spoofing the climate change issue. Jay Leno suggested that global warming was the current administration's way to offset rising heating bills. But I didn't realize just how serious the situation was until David Letterman pointed out that experts "are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice." Well, that certainly could cool down the social scene on Florida's First Coast. - Ponte Vedra Beach writer Pat Bright summed up the controversy in her poem Conference on Global Warming: It was deemed necessary to cancel, The Conference On Global Warming. The reason that they gave: Snow and ice were forming. Pat, whose witty verse is oft reminiscent of the late Dorothy Parker, recently self-published Sailors and Women on the Prowl, No.
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