From the monthly archives: January 2010
Decadent in every way. Loaded with rich dark chocolate, white rum, and topped with thick whipped cream. Need we say more?
Continue Reading →Think sorority and the immediate image is a college campus, Greek letters over the entrance of a white columned house, and young women off to the prom. That may be the image, but it is not necessarily the reality.
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Kent Black was the first CEO of the United Space Alliance, a joint venture between Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin formed in 1996 at the behest of NASA to consolidate Space Shuttle programs under one prime contractor. Not bad for a farm boy from Illinois with a yen for electronics.
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After more than 500 shows, Dennis McCuistion and Niki Nicastro still do programs about “…things that matter, people who care…”.
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Call it sawdust in his veins. Chip Piazza had known he wanted to build things since he was a kid. There was no doubt construction would be his future. “My father, Pete, was a residential contractor, so I was around building all the time. I liked drawing house plans in the drafting program in high school. Building picked me, I didn’t pick it,” he said. “I pretty much knew what I wanted to be, being around construction so much as a kid.”
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Waxing Poetic
Literary Lions
Eustis McGurk was a meek little clerk who worked in a local bookstore. When the circus came round to Eustis’s town he decided his life was a bore.
Chocolate Indulgence
CASA of Grayson Co. is a service organization dedicated to area children who have found themselves in the court system, not for what they have done, but as victims of abuse and neglect. The goal of CASA is to represent these children as Guardians ad Litem to protect their rights and to ultimately place each into a loving and protective home.
A Helping Hand
“I’m on a mission,” is not a statement often heard coming from the lips of today’s youth, unless it refers to the latest video game. It appears that young people are not as active in foreign countries as they were in the hippie days. As always, appearances can be deceiving. Do some digging, and you will find that today’s youth are concerned about things besides the latest movie or game.
