| What's Happening - Calendar of Events
- Care-a-Van mobile spay/neuter clinic, Thursday, Aug. 23, Harvest Market Parking Lot, Fort Bragg. 961-2526 or 463-4782 for spay/neuter reservations. - Mendocino Coast District Hospital Board meeting, Thursday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., Redwoods Room, Patient Services Bldg. - GED testing in English or Spanish, Thursday, Aug. 23 and Friday, Aug. 24, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., College of the Redwoods, Fort Bragg. 962-2639. - Fort Bragg Lions Club hosts Butler Amusements Carnival, Aug. 23-26, Todd Point, Highway 1 at Ocean View Drive, Fort Bragg. 964-2463. - Vibrant Living Expo, Aug. 23-26, The Company Store and Town Hall, Fort Bragg. For schedule, check 964-2420 or www.rawfoodchef.com. - Mendocino Stories and Music Series celebrate Vicki Fraser's California Rug Project with a Pre-Off the Loom Party, Friday, Aug.
Award-winning plan turns Rio Grande into binational meeting place
Two Californians have come up with a winning idea on how to turn the Rio Grande into a Downtown centerpiece for El Paso and Juárez. The idea is to open up the space between the Santa Fe and Stanton Street international bridges, greatly expand the Rio Grande channel there, and turn that area into a parklike environment with pedestrian bridges and entertainment pavilions, which people from both sides of the border could use. It's called the Rio Grande River Center, and it's the winner of the El Paso-Juárez Binational Arts & Cultural District Design Competition completed last month by the New Texico Creative Cities Leadership Project. The project is made up of a year-old group of El Paso community leaders looking for ways to improve the quality of life here and stimulate economic growth.
Armstrong's glory years recalled
Decades ago, advertisements in Better Homes & Gardens glowed with warmly lit scenes like the one gracing the cover of a new history of Armstrong World Industries just published by the Lancaster County Historical Society.
A cozy eat-in kitchen has pots cooking on a sleek black stove. A child's school books and ball rest on the floor beside an oak chair, which is pulled up to a trestle table. There, a homey soup bowl (spoon inserted) shares space with $100 worth of fresh tulips in a crockery vase.
The main focus on this stage for domestic bliss is the vinyl flooring in the foreground, in all its imitation Colonial cobblestone splendor.
Today, Armstrong's golden era is past. And for the word picture that is "How Armstrong Floored America: The People Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995," focus has shifted from the foreground to the background.
Reynolds district to discontinue overall free lunches
The Reynolds School District will no longer offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students regardless of family income, a change that will directly affect free meal programs at Alder, Davis, Glenfair and Hartley elementary schools as well as Reynolds Middle School. Prior to this year's changes, the district had offered free meals at those schools because the majority of their students, in some cases more than 70 percent, came from families that would have qualified for free meals or meals at reduced prices anyway, according to Don Richardson, director of nutrition services. "There's numerous studies that show that students who have breakfast do better in academics," he said. "This was a way to add a service to the community that would benefit the community." Richardson cited rising costs for food, fuel, labor and equipment and other costs as the reason for the district's decision to end the free meal program.
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