| Kings to Kick Off New Season with Rocktoberfest
Events kick off with the team's "purple carpet" walk at 4pm, which will take place at the Staples Center's Southwest VIP entrance. On the plaza, fanfest activities will run from 5 to 7pm, with live concerts from cover bands Which One's Pink? and Led Zep Again. ESPNZone will offer an outdoor beer garden, and most of the L.A. Live restaurants have dining specials for ticketholders. KLOS (95.5) will be broadcasting live from 4 - 7pm, and Fox Sports West will be live from the Plaza from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Kings spokesman Mark Altieri said today that the team expects Saturday's opener to be a sell out, and that season ticket sales are brisk, with the team 6th in the NHL in new business. It's been hard to miss the ad campaign the team is running, which includes billboards, bus benches and TV ads.
What's in Store in Fulton: Your Stories Q&A
Within shouting distance along one of Fulton's main drags, we've got another delay to report on what could still potentially be retail chocolate sales, and much faster movement, happening next door, on a new fast food restaurant. The name's not new, but the restaurant will be. The new McDonald's is coming fairly soon, at the same spot where the old one has been for almost 30 years. The McDonald's along Route 481 originally opened in 1970. An account executive with the company's local ad agency tells us the tentative -- and she underlines tentative -- opening date for the newly renovated McDonald's is November 5th. Just a bit north of where McDonald's is getting some work done, they still plan to make chocolate again someday at the old Nestle plant. New York Chocolate, you'll recall, is the name of the company that now occupies the plant. Operation Oswego County's Mike Treadwell tells us the main hurdle there is a continuing lawsuit brought against New York Chocolate by the former Fulton cogeneration company. At issue is payment for a steam bill from three years ago. Treadwell says the next written and oral arguments in that long-running court fight are expected in late October or early November. That'll take place in a Delaware courtroom, since that's where New York Chocolate is incorporated.
What's up with Vasher? and other great queries
Q: I know the running game has gotten a lot of grief for underproduction recently. Matt Forte, particularly, looks weak as a runner even though his receiving production has been up lately. It just looks to me like he has minimal explosiveness and that he falls down at the slightest contact. Are the effects of his off-season injury still bothering him? It seems like the closest thing we have to a power runner is A.P. Are the Bears looking to make any changes in the backfield? Are there any real options for them beyond the guys that they have? Jay M., Salem, Mass. A: I'd say your evaluation of the running game is pretty accurate, although I wouldn't say Forte goes down easily. That's not fair. He is a tough runner who has a knack for staying up. That being said, he has not looked particularly quick and there were a couple of runs at Seattle that looked like they should have gone for bigger gains.
Collins Democrat Committee announces candidates for Nov. 3 election
Running for the position of Supervisor is Merle Harvey, a lifelong resident of western New York and recently retired owner of Harvey's Farm Market and Greenhouses in Springville. A graduate of West Valley Central School, Harvey attended SUNY Cobleskill and Oswego State University. He is a life member of Salem Lutheran Church in Springville and a member of Erie County Farm Bureau, Erie County Cooperative Extension, a local committeeman for Agway and a former member of the Gowanda Central School Board of Education. Married to the former Diane Baker, Harvey says his goal for the Town of Collins is to make town government more responsive to all of its citizens. Candidates for the two positions as Councilman are Harold "Skip" Rundle, a retired Erie County Deputy Sheriff, and Robert "Rob" Gaylord, former supervisor of the Town of Collins.
In Health Care Ads, Drug Firms Change Their Tune
Turn on the TV, and you'd think someone named "health care" was running for office. The ubiquitous salesman in chief for health care legislation is in one of them running this week on national cable television. "We will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses — because no one in America should go broke just because they get sick," President Obama says in one ad. It is paid for by a coalition of groups supporting a health care overhaul. Another ad, paid for by the conservative group League of American Voters, is against the overhaul: "How can Obama's plan cover 50 million new patients without any new doctors? It can't. It will hurt our seniors and Medicare as we know it; ration coverage and care," a doctor who narrates the ad tells viewers.
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