Open Your Heart And Home To An Exchange Student During
31 May 2008, 04:04 No comments
Eveliina is 17 and comes from Finland. Her Dad is a retired truck driver and her Mom is a nutritionist at a hospital. Eveliina’s hobbies and interests include singing in the choir, volunteering with the Finnish Red Cross, playing the accordion and roller-skating. Her family is Lutheran and she attends church with them every week. [...]
Hutton Cranswick Talent Weekend
31 May 2008, 04:04 No comments
The Talent and Hobbies weekend staged at St Peter’s Church over the Bank Holiday weekend brought in visitors from far and wide.
The church was filled with a wonderful show of more than 30 exhibits ranging from fishing flies to china painting.
The bells were in almost constant use as people ‘had a go’ and demonstrations of [...]
Making It Home After The Honeymoon
17 May 2008, 22:10 No comments
If you’re all caught up in planning your wedding and dreaming of a wonderful life together, you should know that at some point — probably within your first two years as a married couple — you’ll feel like quitting.
But if you go into marriage knowing it can be tough, you might be better equipped for [...]
In Paintings By Monet And Manet We See How Mens Hobbies Begin
12 May 2008, 00:12 No comments
A seated young woman with a lapdog looks up thoughtfully from her book. To the right of her, a girl in a pretty dress has turned her back to us and is staring downwards through some iron railings. A cloud of steam is rising from left to right below them. The girl seems to be [...]
Residents Exchange Ideas On Parrish Center
12 May 2008, 00:12 No comments
Residents have longed dreamed about having a community center in Parrish.
Those dreams could come true in the old Parrish schoolhouse located on U.S. 301. Now closed for renovation, the 16,000-square-foot facility will have to meet fire safety standards before it can reopen.
A committee of about eight to 10 people has been formed to determine what [...]
Follow Your Passion Vacations
7 May 2008, 00:12 No comments
From the terrace outside the art school, Ella Yang took in the same sweeping vistas that have motivated artists since medieval times. Historic buildings hug the mountaintop in Italy that she called home for three weeks after taking a break from her high-powered New York life for a vacation to indulge in her passion: painting.
“For [...]
Follow your passion vacations
4 May 2008, 01:01 No comments
From the terrace outside the art school, Ella Yang took in the same sweeping vistas
that have motivated artists since medieval times. Historic buildings hug the mountaintop in Italy that she called home for three weeks after taking a break from her high-powered New York life for a vacation to indulge in her passion: painting.
“For once [...]
New festival is all about celebrating the Foothills and its free
16 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
A new festival celebrating the past and present of the Boise Foothills will make its debut on Saturday, April 12, in the Avimor development north of Eagle.The inaugural Foothills Heritage Festival combines activities like sheepherding and Basque dancing with wildlife walks and mountain bike rides. Food, entertainment and children’s activities also are part of the [...]
Movie review The Rape of Europa
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Austria, the joke goes, convinced the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler German when, in fact, it’s the reverse. A quip of similar vintage came from modernist painter Oskar Kokoschka, who was admitted to Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1907, the same year Hitler’s application was spurned.”If it had been the other way [...]
At the Galleries
5 April 2008, 06:06 No comments
The way Martha Eleen sees it, she’s missing out on just about every art trend going. Things can’t get much better than that. Take her new show, %26Midnight on the Water%26 (Loop Gallery, 1174 Queen St. W., until April 27. Reception today.) It consists of 40 equally sized paintings depicting the play of the Arctic [...]
