| Changing Courses
TAMPA - It was the new school, the northern school, the rural one on a horse pasture and muddy roads. Chamberlain didn't look like Hillsborough County's established high schools, the stately buildings of Hillsborough, Plant and the original Jefferson. Chamberlain opened 51 years ago with a "maximum efficiency" design: single-story classroom wings that stretched like fingers from the office hub and the auditorium. Little has changed, in many ways. Chamberlain's early graduates still cheer the Chiefs and say they get chills when they sing the alma mater they helped write with band director Robert C. Price. But beyond the trophy cases, the 50 years of class gifts and the black-and-white photographs is a new wood-paneled classroom with a curvy bar, recessed lighting and restaurant booths where Chamberlain is overhauling how it teaches teens.
Community Calendar
Narcotics Anonymous Support Group meetings are held at Christian Living Fellowship Church on Section Line Road in Leesville. Meetings are held Mondays from 8-9 p.m.; Tuesdays, 8-9 p.m.; Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Thursdays, 7:15-8 p.m. and 8-9 p.m.; Fridays, 8-9 p.m., Saturdays, 8-9 p.m. and Sundays 8-9 p.m. For more information please call Ricky C. at 718-6234 or Brian T. at 238-3570. .
Home Cookin'
"You got any strawberries back there?" Don Smith booms loud and clear from a table in the back corner, knowing not only that someone must be in hearing range but furthermore that whoever it is will recognize his bray. Sure, a dozen other people are in the diner, but Smith feels at home here, and he should: He first walked into the place more than 50 years ago. "No strawberries today," comes the response. But that won't keep Smith from returning for lunch tomorrow. The 73-year-old is among a familiar lineup of regulars who haunt the Shanty Cafe daily, or every few days, or on Saturdays, or just every once in a while, for breakfast or lunch. There's the couple that drives in from Issaquah; the walking-distance workmates from F-5 Networks or Holland America; the guy who single-handedly raises the volume at lunchtime; the retired flight attendants who hang out for two hours-plus on Sundays.
On a mission for peace
Josh Hough is headed to the Middle East to work as a peacemaker in the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.Hough is a 1994 graduate of Crescent Valley High School in Corvallis. He attended Oregon State University and graduated from the University of Oregon in 2000. He worked for five years in Albany with the Linn-Benton-Lincoln Educational Service District doing Web site development and technology training. He's given up his 9-to-5 job for a chance to be part of a peace-making team in the Middle East, working in the area of Hebron.Last fall, Hough went to the West Bank to see for himself the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and decided he wanted to get involved full time in promoting peace in the region.Earlier this year, Hough studied Arabic in Syria, returning to the U.S.
"Kid Nation" has CBS on defensive
CBS hopes its awful-sounding new reality show is television's most controversial social experiment yet. It is potentially more grievous than the vicariously disgusting sight of people eating larvae on a dare, and even possibly worse than seeing 20-something housemates drinking, coupling and unraveling on the air. This one involves 40 children, average age 11, who were taken out of school for 40 days and left unsupervised in a ghost town, trailed by film crews. "Kid Nation" debuts on CBS Sept. 19, but promotional clips are everywhere (here's one promo on youtube.com), along with outrage. Even before it begins, producers face allegations of child abuse and endangerment. Documents surfaced last week confirming that the producers were warned by the New Mexico attorney general's office during filming in April that they were in violation of child labor laws.
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