| ELL students finish program
DALLASTOWN SCHOOLS — The Dallastown Area School District recently finished its summer program for English Language Learner students and their parents. Instructional Program Specialist Alma Row said 13 students, from first grade through high school, and two parents participated in the week-long program. The program helps the students and their parents to connect with the community and increase communication skills in English, Row said. The group took a virtual road trip through the United States to have a greater understanding of the country, she said. The trip started in York County and went to Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Google Earth, literature, games and cooking were incorporated in the activities. "It was tons of fun," Row said.
Dunkin' Donuts joins health craze, but Maple Donuts won't change
Dunkin' Donuts, the food-on-the-go chain whose name celebrates a treat that's symbolic of unhealthy eating, is trying to refresh its image by largely eliminating trans fat across its menu, Homer Simpson be damned. Dunkin' announced Monday that it has developed an alternative cooking oil and reformulated more than 50 menu items -- doughnuts included. The Canton, Mass.-based chain says its menu will be "zero grams trans fat" by Oct. 15 across its 5,400 U.S. restaurants in 34 states. About 400 locations nationwide that took part in a four-month test already have made the switch to a new blend of palm, soybean and cottonseed oils. That includes all restaurants in New York City and Philadelphia, which are forcing restaurants to phase out their use of artery-clogging trans fat. Stores locally do not yet have the new recipe, said Saul Levitt, an owner of three restaurants -- on Mount Rose Avenue in Spring Garden Township, South Queen Street in York Township and his newest store on Cape Horn Road north of Red Lion, which opened July .
North York
Wednesday, Aug. 29 THE JAPANESE CANADIAN Cultural Centre holds encore moving screening of The Cats of Mirikitani, 7 p.m., Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Cr., $8. Call 416-441-2345. Sunday, Sept. 2 FEEL THE CONNECTION, a multicultural show featuring art, music, dance and poetry from around the world that helps highlight the similarities within different ethnic groups, Yorkwoods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch Ave., W., 6 p.m. Tickets $10, e-mail dkanthan@celestica.com or janani.srikantha@gmail.com for details. NORTH YORK SENIOR Walkers, Etienne Brule Park, 9 a.m., Jane and Bloor streets. Visit www.northyorkseniorwalkers.com for maps and directions or call 416-241-2932. FAMILY FEST AT Downsview Park, co-sponsored by the Family Channel, noon to 8 p.m., features musical talent, games and rides, food vendors and exhibits.
Home Builder in Spain Crashes as Ex-Chairman Keeps New York Pad
Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- From the looks of things at the newly built Aparta Hotel Residencia, you'd never know that it's the high summer tourist season in Canet d'En Berenguer, a town of 5,000 just north of Valencia on Spain's Mediterranean coast. The compound's 308 apartments, completed this spring, are all unoccupied. Grass has started to sprout between the red terra-cotta tiles that lead to the empty, peanut-shaped swimming pool. The residence is just one of a trail of buildings dotting the sandy coastline constructed by Enrique Banuelos as he amassed a fortune of more than 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion) over the past 15 years. Banuelos lost much of that money -- and shareholders' -- as the stock market punished the firm he founded, Astroc Mediterraneo SA, amid a rapid cooling of Spain's housing market.
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