| Noon Lions help Yucca student with new glasses | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:54:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | I wish to publicly and profusely thank the Noon Lions Club for getting a third grade boy at Yucca Elementary School his eyeglasses. A substitute teacher at Yucca noticed his problem with reading. She asked me if there was an organization in town that would help children who were financially disadvantaged. I called Frank Simpkins of the Noon Lions Club and he immediately got the ball rolling. In a couple of weeks, this child came running up to the teacher sporting his new glasses. He grabbed her around the waist and proclaimed, "I can see the words! I can read! I can read!" Once again, I thank the Noon Lions for their public spiritedness. This organization has transformed this child's school life and made him very happy. His reading is progressing quite nicely. Marolyn S.... | |
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| | | Clean concrete before applying vinyl flooring | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:57:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q. I was wondering if I could lay vinyl flooring on a concrete floor. Or do I need an underlayment before I lay down the squares? A. Concrete floors can be prepared to receive an adhesive rather than installing an expensive underlayment. Generally speaking, concrete floors have damp chalky surfaces that are not friendly to the adhesives used to install vinyl floor coverings. Concrete also has a high pH factor that is not suitable for most adhesives. Some of the experts I talked with say the surface of the concrete needs to be cleaned and sealed before applying an adhesive. Others say a good cleaning alone will do the trick. In my case I knew that there was a vapor barrier under the concrete floor to prevent moisture migration through the concrete.... | |
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| | | Eye-catching eyewear | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 6:55:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | They're part of your face - maybe the first thing people see when they look at you. They're more important to your appearance than makeup or jewelry, maybe even the clothes you wear. And it's time they got the attention they deserve. We're talking about your glasses. "Eyeglasses are becoming the new fashion accessory," said Carol Staats at MyOptix Fashion Eyewear in Wichita, Kan. "A lot of people are liking wearing glasses because they're fun." If you've always thought glasses were boring and unattractive, a visit to eyewear boutiques may change your point of view. Glasses are available now in so many styles, colors, shapes and materials - with embellishments like jewels and cutouts - that some people are finding it hard to limit themselves to just one pair.... | |
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| | | Lack of witness baffles police | | Posted Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:00:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | On a cold December morning in 1988, Donald M. Arm was shot and killed in his TV repair shop in Asbury Park. Years later, the trail of the killer is just as cold. Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 10/29/06 BY KAREN SUDOL STAFF WRITER Donald M. Arm walked into Freedman's Bakery in Asbury Park between 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. A familiar face there, he bought a buttered onion roll and coffee on that bitterly cold morning in December 1988. The married father of twin girls then went to his cluttered TV repair shop up the street on Cookman Avenue. Less than an hour later, a neighboring merchant found the 64-year-old Arm dead on the floor behind the counter of Coast Stereo & TV Electronic Center. He had been shot in the forehead.... | |
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| | | Joint eyeglass effort hits milestone | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:54:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | WESTVILLE - Lions Club members and Westville Correctional Facility inmates have something to celebrate: Through the prison's Eyeglass Recycling Center, they've recycled their 3 millionth pair of eyeglasses for people in need. The Lions of Indiana collect, clean, sort and distribute used eyeglasses to those in need. They have been so successful, the club required additional assistance washing and categorizing the glasses. The Lions in Northwest Indiana recognized Westville Correctional Facility as a source of unutilized manpower and, in 1994, with the support of prison's administration, established the recycling program. Inmates who participate in the recycling program are screened and asked for a six-month to one-year commitment.... | |
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| | | New Tricks | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:55:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | A couple we recently met seemed inordinately self-satisfied with their approaching 30th wedding anniversary. I was unimpressed. "Don't tell me anniversaries," I growled. "Tell me how many dogs you've had." For me, there is a marital corollary to the formula for dog years: One year of dog-couple cohabitation equals seven years of a dogless relationship. Dogs add new dynamics. They provoke heated fights over muddy paw prints; they can cool an argument by pointedly leaving the room when the yelling gets too loud. Dogs provide a test bed for child-rearing theories and insight into how a couple will work as parents. And, in the end, dogs offer hard but important lessons about how the two of you will share grief. Our first dog was Homer, an Airedale puppy my in-laws gave us on our first anniversary.... | |
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| | | Flags that symbolize America | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 2:54:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | One photograph, snapped under combat conditions, came to symbolize the victory of World War II. Five U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman, etched against an overcast sky, are shown raising a Japanese water pipe atop which the U.S. flag is unfurling. It was taken on the morning of Feb. 23, 1945, atop Mount Suribachi during a fierce battle for the volcanic island of Iwo Jima. With the men straining to raise the pipe and embed it into hard rock and black volcanic ash, the photo came to symbolize America's will to win. It was also a reminder of the cost of war. Almost 7,000 Americans died taking that tiny island. The picture became a seminal image in U.S. military history. When the last of the pictured flag raisers, Navy medic John Bradley, died of a stroke in 1994, his son James decided to probe into his father's war history.... | |
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| | | DRY EYES | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 10:55:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Many factors such as allergies, hormones and sunlight conspire to aggravate dry eyes. And if you are a woman past menopause living in the Fort Worth area, experts say you are at especially high risk. In fact, four of the top five dry-eye hot spots in the nation are in the Lone Star State -- Fort Worth/Dallas, Lubbock, El Paso and Midland/Odessa-- with Las Vegas ranking ahead of the Texas pack, according to data released this summer by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. The list of 100 cities was based on wind, temperature, humidity, pollution, altitude and allergy irritants -- like all the ragweed pollen floating around the Fort Worth area right now. You may also suffer from dry eyes if you work at a computer, exercise outside on a windy day, read, travel in a car with the air conditioner on or watch an outdoor football or baseball game, especially at night.... | |
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| | | Police: Man Tried To Bomb House Over Broken Eyeglasses | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 6:55:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | HAMMOND, Ind. -- A man upset that his neighbor's children helped break his wife's eyeglasses is accused of trying to bomb the neighbor's house in retaliation. David Michielsen, 27, of Hammond is charged with detonating a destructive device with intent to intimidate or destroy and manufacturing a destructive device. He faces 58 years in prison if convicted on both counts. The neighbor told police she was visiting Michielsen's wife Sunday when her children and Michielsen's broke the glasses. Michielsen ordered her and her children to leave, a probable cause affidavit said. .... | |
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| | | REGIONAL ROUNDUP | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 10:54:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dallas police are investigating the shooting of a 3-year-old who was taken to a hospital during the weekend. Police said the boy was with his aunt and uncle while they were moving into a house. Police said the aunt told them that she had picked up a gun, which discharged, wounding the child. The boy was taken to Children's Medical Center Dallas, where he was listed in good condition Sunday, police said. Brandon Formby .... | |
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