| Evacuee-specific services closing
In the months after Hurricane Katrina, new programs, social service agencies and grants flowed into northwest Louisiana following thousands of people who left south Louisiana.
Only a few of those programs remain. And the last of them will expire in the coming months, a result of the programs' success and partly because funding was only meant to last 18 to 24 months.
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How dairy herds yield the milk of human blindness
Most mornings, on the way to work, I stop and chat to a herd of dairy calves. Not that long separated from their mothers, they are skittish and curious, rushing to the fence to exhale sweet, grassy breath over me. In the past week or so, I’ve taken to telling them how lucky they are. "The world belongs to you girls," I say. "You may not know it, but you’ve suddenly become one of the most precious commodities on the planet. Not long ago you might have been looking at dog food; now you’re facing a long productive life and lots of children." Here I lean close, and they sway and blink. "And you know what, girls? We humans were too greedy and far, far too shortsighted to see it coming." Should anyone ever want a perfect example of what short-termism has done to the world, they just need to go and look at a dairy cow.
Mark your calendar
The Naperville Jaycees' annual Last Fling celebration runs 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. today and Sunday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday in downtown with music, food, carnival rides, games and more. Also, a craft show runs 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and Sunday and an antique car show runs 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St. Info: lastfling.org. • Theatre-Hikes presents "Little Women" at 1 p.m. most Saturdays and Sundays in September at Morton Arboretum, 4100 Route 53, Lisle. The show moves among settings, taking the audience on a hike. The Sept. 9 show is low-impact on paved trails. The Sept. 16 show is at 4 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner; reservations are due Sept. 13. Tickets: $15 regular shows; $37 dinner show. Info: (630) 968-0074 or mortonarb.org. • Patriot Golf Day at Naperville's Springbrook and Naperbrook golf courses asks golfers to donate $1 to Wounded Warriors Inc., which benefits the Fallen Heroes Foundation to help wounded soldiers and families of those killed in action.
Dorm food can be a delicacy with creative tricks
By all accounts, college dorm food has gotten much better in recent years. But what about those times you sleep through brunch? Miss lunch because you were hanging out at the library scoping prospective dates? Or maybe you were even studying so hard you forgot to look at the clock, and the cafeteria closed. We can't speak to your school's rules on in-room cooking devices (or how strictly you wish to observe them), but we can offer some decent quickie dining ideas. Be warned though: Like wearing the same sweats to class that you slept in or using the same plastic cup to drink beer and brush your teeth, some are ideas only a student could love. RAMEN NOODLES A college student's best friend, they're cheap, easy and you can spruce them up with just about anything, said Toni Patrick, author of 101 Things To Do With Ramen Noodles (Gibbs Smith, 2005).
Cutters eye high school remodel project
The renovation of Oak Harbor High School is already a couple of million dollars over budget — and it hasn't even started yet. Preliminary estimates show the renovation will cost nearly $54 million, which is $1.99 million more than planned. “This is a little higher than expected," architect Greg Stack said during Monday's school board meeting. He was accompanied by a team of designers and project managers who were on hand to explain why the costs came in so high. Stack attributed the problem to several factors. Approximately $1 million came from increases in the scope of the project, ranging from additional requests to extra requirements placed on the school district by the city. He rattled off a laundry list of increases ranging from the culinary arts lab to off-site road improvements.
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