11/22/2008
Manila to get new playground (The Humboldt Beacon)
Local AmeriCorps programs are organizing a playground build for the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
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11/21/2008
GET BUTTONED UP (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
One of the easiest ways to get through a holiday without everyone together is to plan to get together in January or February when travel prices are cheaper and terminals are less crowded. Try to schedule trips around President's Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day when children have time off from school. If you ask your bosses for the time off now, you'll be more likely to get it and might even ...
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11/14/2008
Community members join memorial request for the late C.J. Everett (The Alliance Review)
Photo By Kevin Graff/The Review The late Charles J. “C.J.” Everett recites the “I Have a Dream” speech at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day program in Alliance.
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11/22/2008
Inauguration: Tickets and hotels hard to come by (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
WASHINGTON -- Tickets to balls and other events related to the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration will be hard to come by, but you can always join the crowds along the parade route, and Washington tourism officials say it's not impossible to find a place to stay.
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11/21/2008
Competition Is Tight for Obama Inaugural Balls (Washington Post)
Two months before Barack Obama won the election, Dionne Warwick asked the largest hotel in Washington to hold space for her inaugural party. The Newseum, the newest potential party venue along Pennsylvania Avenue, was booked by New York promoter Jay Norris a month before Election Day. Oprah,...
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11/22/2008
Security tight for inaugural crowd (The Columbus Dispatch)
WASHINGTON -- Law-enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security -- thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols -- to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in.
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11/22/2008
LEISD strategic plan picking up steam (The Little Elm Journal)
Little Elm ISD students have collected more than five tons of food for the Little Elm Area Food Bank. At Monday’s regular school board meeting, LEISD Superintendent Steve Murray presented the amount of food each campus collected, adding that it was the district’s most successful food drive.
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11/21/2008
Singers wanted for Carlisle's MLK day commemoration (The Sentinel)
Organizers of Carlisle’s annual commemoration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are already planning for 2009, and they’re seeking some help in the vocal department.
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11/20/2008
Gibbons moves State of the State address to Jan. 15 (Nevada Appeal)
Gov. Jim Gibbons has moved his State of the State address up four days to avoid a conflict with a state holiday and the inauguration of Barack Obama.
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11/20/2008
Details Emerge On Accused Louisiana Klan Killer’s History (Black Press USA)
(NNPA)-Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the Ku Klux Klan leader who was arrested Nov. 11 for killing a woman following a backwoods Klan initiation ritual, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001.
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