| Rebecca Schmid's family bakery is a heavenly success
It's all in the family for Rebecca D. Schmid of Rebecca's Heavenly Goodies on Main Street in Ephrata. Her husband of 41 years, Hal, is a native of Lancaster and a retired restaurant and convenience store designer. But he still logs more than 40 hours a week behind the counter of the popular bakery named for his wife and at the couple's new-this-summer "Coffee Cove" at Ephrata Community Hospital.
Her only daughter, Susanna, is head floral designer for Rebecca's Garden Room, next door to Heavenly Goodies, and her son-in-law, Kevin Redman, is head baker of more than a thousand servings a week of cakes, pies, muffins, cookies and brownies.
Born in Peoria, Ill., Schmid, 61, grew up in Loma Linda, Calif., and graduated from both business school and the John Robert Powers School of Modeling in Pasadena.
We have ways of making you talk
FROM breakfast chats to late-night celebrity confessions, Australian television is awash with talk. It is the medium's most efficient way of filling the hours and most of it happens outside of what we have come to call the talk show. There are game shows, cooking programs, science demonstrations, travel documentaries, comedy panels, quizzes and late-night desk-and-sofa satires where politics is played for laughs. From Sunrise on Seven at 6am to Studio B with Shepard Smith Live on Fox News 23 hours later, TV talkers never shut up. Even big shows that are ostensibly about things other than interviews are filled with chat. Dancing with the Stars, Thank God You're Here, Big Brother and Australian Idol all rely on people talking in encounters shaped by writers, producers and the interviewers, who can offer shoulders to cry on or be acute inquisitors.
Winton Woods teachers win award
Two teachers in the Winton Woods City Schools are being honored for mirroring the kindness and dedication of a speech pathologist, the late Stevie Lawler. Sheri Conrad and Jenni Jung received the Stevie Lawler Memorial Award on Aug. 24, presented by their colleagues in recognition of excellence in teaching and contributions to the district. Conrad has been with the district 14 years. She teaches physical education at Primary School South. Jung is a science teacher at Winton Woods Middle School. She has been with the district nine years. .
This Labor Day, we salute some trades of yesteryear: A Butcher, a Baker and a Candlestick Maker
These days, there are certain trades that have become ingrained into our society -- firemen, construction workers and truck drivers, just to name a few. But what about traditional, old-school trades that were common a few hundred years ago? So this year we took a hint from the children's nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" and asked, "Where are today's butchers, bakers and candlestick makers?" Once all common -- and very necessary -- trades, butchers and candlestick makers now cater to niche markets, thanks to the advent of mass-produced meats for grocery stores and, well, electricity. But then again bakers still abound, with weddings and sandwiches still a part of our daily lives. So meet Mitch Grimes, butcher at Green's Grocery in Gainesville who knows the art of carving the perfect ribeye; Kristen Brousseau who creates custom confections as the owner of Memorable Creations Cake Shop in Gainesville; and Virginia Webb, a third-generation beekeeper in Clarkesville who has been pouring beeswax candles for more than 40 years.
Longview not meeting education benchmark
Longview School District is one of 30 state school districts that could face sanctions for not meeting federal learning requirements, state education officials announced Friday.Longview School District failed to meet "Adequate Yearly Progress" guidelines outlined in the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Specifically, the district failed to meet several targets:� Elementary and middle school special education students performed inadequately in reading and math;
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