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Board will learn lesson if the referendum fails
Their current plan is not very different from the similar plans announced for three previous referendums that failed.The board misrepresented the relative cost of large versus small schools by including land purchase in the small-school option while excluding the cost of land from the cost of the giant high school "because we already own it." When board members realized the community objected to double congestion at the existing high school site, they suddenly "found" money to pay a developer for the Dresser Road location. Their plan ignores a working high school that could easily be used as the first of four proposed small high schools with very little cost.The board continues to ignore the community value, and saving of bus costs, possible by moving to K-8 community schools with two classes of 25 at each grade level.
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Flowers we like to grow should have names that please us and its a joy to find them honoring men and women who've excelled in the world of gardens. Weeds, on the other hand, should have names we loathe, so we can go about their destruction with more zest and vim. The process of weeding is more sanative if you name the pests after your own special enemies and pet abominations. Don't bother to learn whether your new intruder is pigweed or horse nettle. Just christen it in honor of some neighbor who you find difficult to 'love as thyself' and, while abolishing it, you also may vent your spleen." -- Julian Meade, Bouquets and Bitters, 1940.***** ***** *****Here's one of those lesser gardening moments: last evening, as I was tucking a few seedlings of white lobelia into this window box, it tried to re-enact the tale of the SS Poseidon, as it tumbled from its bracket and nearly capsized.
Bottum: McCain and the Hoyas
I'd missed it earlier in the week, but over at Salon on Tuesday, Mike Madden noted that after the Georgetown-West Virginia game on January 26, John McCain called Mark Salter, his "longtime speechwriter/Senate chief of staff/intellectual alter ego," to describe the goaltend (er, block, I mean; yes, block) by which Patrick Ewing Jr. had won the game. "A Georgetown alum," Madden notes, "Salter has season tickets in the front row at the Verizon Center; about the only thing that gets him more fired up than Mitt Romney is Big East basketball. (At the bar after the Super Bowl Sunday night, he cursed at the TV when the Boston Fox affiliate compared the Giants' win to Villanova's 1985 NCAA tournament upset win over Georgetown)." Seems pretty newsworthy to me, but Madden pushes it into the mystical territory of the true Georgetown fanatic where my daughter and I dwell when he adds: "The Hoyas have been a near-perfect predictor of McCain's fortunes this year.
GB Special Olympics squad claims nine medals
Having already secured a Men's Doubles gold medal on Tuesday, Leicestershire's Thomas Styles won another gold in his Men's Singles event on Wednesday after defeating Salvatore Famao of Germany 6-1 in his final. Earlier in the week Styles had beaten Youssef Gadalla of Egypt by the same score to reach the final. Scotland's Stephen McEwan, already a Men's Doubles bronze medallist, also clinched a Men's Singles gold medal on Wednesday after defeating Australia's Peter Kerin 6-2. The third gold medal of the day went to Leicestershire's Zara Jurenko. Jurenko added to Tuesday's Women's Doubles silver medal when defeating Karla Galan of El Salvador 6-2 to top the podium in her Women's Singles Division. Having also played off for a gold medal Wales' Lucy Pethig had to settle for a silver after her final Women's Singles match as she slipped to a 0-6 defeat to Yalan Xue of China.
Barnsdall turns back Copan in last-second hoops thriller
Copan (14-6) plays Shidler on Tuesday, which likely will be its regular-season finale, unless it makes up a game with Hominy.Barnsdall hosts Woodland on Tuesday.Both Copan and Barnsdall will host their respective Class A district tournaments next weekend.Barnsdall 58, Copan 57Barnsdal 17 17 9 15 — 58Copan 15 8 11 23 — 57BarnsdallJacob Hansen 12, Tim Wilson 10, Chris White 9, Drew Anthony 8, Corey Anthony 7, Michael Morris 6, Zach Johnson 3, Smith 2, Posey 1.CopanAlex Bryan 21, Hunter Walker 13, Matt Sims 11, Nick Lannan 10, Josh Stanley 2. Print this story | Email this story .
(Photos by JULIAN H. GONZALEZ/Detroit Free Press)
Pavel Datsyuk tipped Lidstrom's shot at 14:16 of the first period, and Ryan Carter redirected Rob Niedermayer's pass at 17:49. In the second period, Schneider scored at 8:28, and Kent Huskins made it 3-1 at 15:40 when he weaved around Brian Rafalski, Johan Franzen and Brett Lebda before flipping a backhand past Osgood. Franzen scored at 6:06 of the third. "We knew that it would be an intense game, and we knew that it would be close," Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. "You get one break or one bounce and it's the difference in the game." .
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