| School fights to save art program
The half position was the school's music teacher.
"Everyone was happy. Everyone loved her," Deborah Bright, grant manager for Project CREATES, said of Leslie Alden, the school's former art teacher. "She filled the school with the most incredible art."
When her position was cut, parents decided to do something.
"That was the catalyst to our parents coming together," Bright said.
Since 2000, Project CREATES, a nonprofit, has worked with seven schools in Tulsa to bring arts education into classrooms.
"We provide community artists to work with our teachers," Bright said.
The goal of Project CREATES is to bring the arts, both visual and performing, into everyday lessons to encourage and facilitate student learning.
Dream a little dream: Orangeburg Civic Ballet brings classic Christmas ...
In just under two weeks, a cast of more than 40 company dancers and extras from Orangeburg and the surrounding area will present the 16th annual Orangeburg Civic Ballet performance of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker."Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Auditorium on the campus of South Carolina State University.This year's production will feature colorful new costumes and exciting choreography by Assistant Director Ginny Hunt-McElveen, Cammie Reed, Jennifer Shull, Ann Marie Holstad, Adolfina Suarez-More, The Royal Ballet and Ann Brodie.In the classic story of young Clara's Christmas dream filled with visions of danger and delight, Carly Harward will dance as Clara Silberhaus with Matthew Waters returning in the role of the Nutcracker Prince.The Arch Angels -- Amy Funderburk, Christie Gonzalez, Emily Thompson, Shekinah Thompson and Marissa Southerland -- introduce the pair to the Kingdom of Sweets, where Allison West and Erica Walters share the roles of Sugar Plum Fairy and Arabian Coffee.
O'Malley backs limits on pollution
But business groups and many Republicans are fighting the proposal, saying mandatory caps on carbon dioxide could drive businesses out of the state and derail the economy.
More regulations on pollution from power plants are likely to further drive up the cost of electricity and a wide variety of products and services that depend on electricity, the critics argue.
Republican Sen. David R. Brinkley, the Senate minority leader from Frederick County, said that voters still smarting from O'Malley's recent tax increases will perceive this legislation as yet another tax.
"It's not going to be at all positive for the economy, but this legislature and this administration [don't] care," Brinkley said. "They are more interested in making political statements about saving the Earth than saving Maryland jobs."
Environment Maryland and other advocacy groups pushing the legislation counter that mandates for more alternative energy, such as wind and solar power, could create "green collar" jobs.
Obviously: Kareem's Opportunity
It's amazing what a little time away from the NBA will do for an NBA player. After being on the elite Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs (briefly) and then spending some time riding the bench in Charlotte, Kareem Rush is back - and has a new appreciation for the chance he's been given. Rush had to come back the hard way, playing in the Orlando summer league after doing some time in Europe, trying to prove that he still has something to contribute at the top level of the sport he so enjoys. Last night he scored 25 points to lead the Jermaine O'Neal-less Pacers to a surprising win over the Philadelphia 76ers, but it wasn't an altogether uncharacteristic showing for Rush. In 11 of the Pacers' last 14 games Rush has scored in double-figures, and he has now scored 19, 22, and 25 respectively in his last three games, two of which the Pacers won.
Monday wild card
I'm putting my money down on Howard, all the way. (BTW, you can read GoZZZer Ranch propaganda about the project, which was named after homesteader John Gozzer here, about company HQ in the old Blackwell House here, and about its Arrow Point impact here.) .
Big pants save the day
A family home was saved from burning down when a pair of giant knickers were used to put out a fire. Jenny Marsey's size 18-20 cotton pants were grabbed to cover a frying pan fire at her home in Hartlepool. Her son and nephew were trying to fry some bread when the blaze broke out, reports the BBC. They grabbed the knickers from a pile of washing, doused them in water, and threw them over the fire. Mrs Marsey, 53, said: "My 4.99 parachute knickers have come in handy for something. We've had a good laugh that they were a bit like a fire blanket." Her son John and his cousin Darren, 23, were cooking, when they went to answer a knock at the door, only to return to a blazing kitchen. Mrs Marsey said: "When they found the pan on fire they did what most people do and panicked.
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