09/07/2008
Fantasy Shop Celebrates Birthday (FOX 7 News Austin)
Comic and fantasy store The Dragon's Lair is celebrating its anniversary with an around-the-clock gaming party all weekends. Hard-core fans can play video and board games at the landmark shop.
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09/05/2008
Video: ‘Trivial Pursuit: America Plays’ (TV Week)
One of the biggest franchises in the world of board games hits the small screen on Sept. 22 with the launch of “Trivial Pursuit: America Plays” from distributor Debmar-Mercury.
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09/07/2008
Ralph Kovel, Antiques Writer, Dies at 88 (New York Times)
Mr. Kovel was a nationally known writer on antiques, who for more than half a century put prices on the stuff of life, from baseball cards to bottle caps to Barbie?s lucrative girdles.
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09/08/2008
Oro Valley collecting donations for troops (FOX 11 Tucson)
During the month of September, the town of Oro Valley is working with the Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars to collect donated items to send to U.S. troops overseas. The donated items will be sent to a military hospital in Germany that receives wounded soldiers.
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09/08/2008
CARE House seeking volunteers (Royal Oak Daily Tribune)
Mary Jo Joseph loves every Wednesday. "The reward is one that you get in your heart ... one that you can't put a price on," she said of her work as a volunteer with children at CARE House of Oakland County.
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09/07/2008
Md. School Creates Classes For Asperger's Students (FOX 29 Lake Charles)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- When children who have behavioral quirks or who are lacking in social skills are also bright and capable, schools tend to assign them to regular classrooms. But that can lead to student meltdowns when even little things go wrong.
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09/07/2008
Too few male role models a problem for mentoring programs (Republican-American)
Boys make up more than half of the children in mentoring programs across the state, yet only 30 percent of mentors are men. This has the leaders of several mentoring associations across Connecticut — even Gov. M. Jodi Rell — concerned that many of the boys will grow up without a positive male role model.
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09/07/2008
Couple's candy board-game goes national (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
By Taylor Barnes McClatchy Newspapers MIAMI| Eric and Monica Ash moved to northwest Broward, Fla., from Alexandria, Va., in May with a newborn, a toddler and no regular paychecks to cover the mortgage or employers to subsidize the health insurance. Eric says they're living a dream. It's a sweet, if risky, dream that has turned drives to the supermarket into business trips for Monica and the ...
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09/07/2008
Quirks (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
The summer travel season may have come and passed, but with leaf peeping and the holidays still ahead, here are some products that can help you make the most of your trip: Photo by Live Luggage
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09/07/2008
Helping Hands (North County Journal)
- A Soldier's Wish List, a local nonprofit organization that collects items to send to troops overseas, has begun collecting Christmas wish list items.
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