Life Skills - Home For Disabled Closes

Home For Disabled Closes
Morning News - ROGERS -- Ilene Smith believes closing a group home for severely disabled people creates a "bad situation" for the community. Smith's sister, Brenda Hovey, is mentally disabled and will have to find a new home by June. Hovey is one of five residents

MLK celebration: COMMUNITY MARCH AND cultural FESTIVAL
Austin Chronicle - AUSTIN AGAINST WAR MEETING AAW's work is never done. Help them. 2107 San Antonio, 323-9778. aaw@austinagainstwar.org www.austinagainstwar.org WEEKLY CHESS TOURNAMENT This five-round Swiss system tournament has been ruling the food court for 10 years

Pittsburgh musician mixes up rock and special education
Times-Leader - MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. - The topic during a recent fifth-period English class was linguistics - specifically, synonyms and antonyms. The students rattled off pairs of the former, but for the latter, they needn't look further, metaphorically, than the man

Dear Madge: Offer apology to kids
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Kristina Ide, Correspondent Kid quote: "Every day after school I have a headache and I can't tell if it's because I'm learning too much or too little." - Karen, age 10 DEAR MADGE: I am the mother of four grown children. As my kids were growing up

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Austin Chronicle - WEST SIXTH STREET ARTISTS' MARKET is an outdoor art fair featuring a variety of work by independent artists from Austin and Central Texas. 709 W. Sixth, 698-8099. www.6thstreetmarket.com CHINATOWN RESTAURANT will be ringing in the Year of the Dog