| Bookmakers staff back charity events
BIG hearted staff of Coral betting shops in Ayrshire have been running numerous events in aid of Sue Ryder care. They include four race nights, sponsored walks, sponsored cycle, sponsored slim, live band night and also a Corals got talent night with staff dressed up as famous artists and performing on stage. More than £7000 has been raised to date but it is hoped a lot more will follow by the end of the year. The next event is on October 4 at 7pm in the Ayrshire Suite of Ayr Racecourse. The charity ball will feature Tam Cowan as compere, top Ayrshire band Waterfront performing live, mini casino, rock dancers, raffle and auction prizes. There will also be a diamond dip, a piece of jewellery white gold with diamonds worth £1800 donated by Andrew Strang of Designer Goldsmith.
Food festival is a real feast
Events will take place at cafes, shops, restaurants and delicatessens across Chorlton and many of the independent traders involved are also running discounts and special festival offers to help visitors make the most of the occasion. Festival highlights include sticky toffee experts visiting Barbakan deli to show you how to create your perfect pudding and the chance to try authentic Sri Lankan food at Coffee 'n' Chocolate on Wilbraham Road. Customers as Ostara on Manchester Road will also be able to dine accompanied by Halle Orchestra cellist Raymond Lester and Beech Road Eaterie Beggars Bush are also holding a 'gourmet club' evening with the chance to enjoy a five-course meal for a special festival price. Other events include mushroon hunts with naturalist Jesper Evans in Chorlton Ees, cookery demonstrations at North Star Deli , a cupcake naming competition at The Cupcakery on Oswald Road and a 'Roots and Fruits Roadshow' at Chorlton Library with prizes for home-grown produce.
Archival: Justina and David: As members of Opus Dei, the
Within days of running into each other, Justina and David shared their first kiss in Major's Hill Park, and they soon decided to marry. Justina's parents, John and Alice Antoniuk, arrived from Winnipeg to accompany the couple by train to Montreal so she could buy a dress. She searched the shops on St. Hubert. "I just thought blek," she says of the tacky, satin dresses. Her mom was keen to buy, but Justina did a quick sketch on a scrap of paper. "This is what I want." They went home with metres upon metres of silk. For four months, Justina was cloistered in her attic on Gladstone Avenue. When David entered the room, she covered her creation with a bedsheet. "It was like a big tent. It kept getting bigger and bigger," says David, who was mystified. On the back of the dress, she sewed 250 rosettes she'd made, creating a gigantic heart.
Vancouver library bars assisted-suicide group's how-to workshop
The group's book, however, is banned in Australia. "We have been running these workshops in other countries and are rather taken aback to find the suggestion that simply providing this accurate information is going to be any breach of Canadian law," said Nitschke, speaking by video conference at a news conference at the library's downtown Vancouver branch. Nitschke's group advocates legal reform, but believes that, until that happens, empowering people to take matters into their own hands is the best option. "The strategy that we've employed is to make sure that people have access to the best end-of-life information so that they can make choices and make decisions that are in their own interests." That includes explicit information about how to commit suicide using a deadly dose of barbiturates - from obtaining the drugs to testing them to ensure they will be effective.
Hayden Panettiere and Masi Oka Return for Heroes Volume 5: Redemption
Hopefully they'll give me a costar discount. Because I'm not sure we can afford, you know, some of the big stars we have on our show like Hayden and Zach and (Myra). But when we do that's -- I'm kind of really excited about being in front of the camera and behind the camera. Do either of you ever work with the writers in developing your characters? Masi Oka: Our writers are very collaborative in that (manifest). But at the beginning of the season we kind of talk about the arc and where are characters might go and they're very open to it and, you know, and on set as well as (unintelligible) and stuff. But at the same time, you know, we're kind of respectful for the process that by the time the script comes into our hands it's gone through, you know, hundreds of thousands of (unintelligible) to get that one word, to get that -- you know, and the same time because of many revisions that goes through, sometimes you kind of lose focus of what the original intention was and by the time it gets to us it kind feels (muddled) because we do know our character really well.
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