Copiague Students Flourish Under Empowerment Program
16 June 2008, 17:05 No comments
In her sophomore year, Jasmin Rodriguez considered dropping out. She wasn’t doing well in her classes, and school never had been a priority. There were bills her family needed to pay, and she had a younger sister at home to care for. Then, she met Jaime Suarez.
Suarez, a social studies teacher at Walter G. O’Connell [...]
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 [...]
Teacher of the Week | Marjanii C. Wilburn
26 March 2008, 21:09 No comments
Reason for becoming a teacher: I have two reasons. The first is helping my mother grade her eighth-grade English exam papers (multiple choice, of course) when I was in third grade until sixth grade and then ninth through 12th grade. I thought that it was fun! The second was when I was [...]
Hobbyists maneuver small aircraft in big hangars, testing skill as builders, pilots
19 March 2008, 18:06 No comments
Magnuson Park’s Hangar 30 is dim, cold and a bit bleak, even after members of the Barn Owls Flying Club shuffle in, power on a few lights, set up tables and unpack aircraft and gear. They don’t come for the ambience. They come in the colder, windier months for the indoor open space.
Planes and ‘copters, [...]
Support Groups
2 February 2008, 04:04 No comments
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Pleshette had beauty talent great voice
31 January 2008, 02:02 No comments
Suzanne Pleshette has always been a particular favorite of mine, a unique actress who gained her greatest fame in the early 1970s as the wife of Bob Newhart in his first TV sitcom.
But major A-list stardom eluded Pleshette especially on the big screen, despite [...]
Deer Valley World Cup skiing #151; Great year for Cook
31 January 2008, 02:02 No comments
Emily Cook isn’t an old woman by any standard.
But the 28-year-old skier is the oldest athlete competing in aerials for the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, which takes to the slopes at Deer Valley this weekend for the FIS World Cup competition. Now the veteran of [...]
`Dr. Phil Regrets Talking About Spears
30 January 2008, 08:08 No comments
NEW YORK - Television’s “Dr. Phil” McGraw says he regrets talking about Britney Spears‘ mental health after visiting her in the hospital, but didn’t violate the family’s trust.”I regret making the statement. It didn’t help. It didn’t work,” the syndicated TV psychologist said Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”Spears, 26, was hospitalized in Los Angeles [...]
