| New Exhibition Captures Changing London Landscape in Run Up to the ...
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - London, United Kingdom, 03/30/2007 - Painted Deserts is a photographic installation that responds to the momentus changes taking place within the controversial sites of the London Olympic area of the Lower Lea Valley and the MOMART warehouse fire site at Leyton. .
Gardener of many words: A local free-lancer wields her green thumb ...
Being told "no" is a fact of life for free-lance writers, but Mary-Kate Mackey says years of working as an actress taught her how to deal with rejection. "Hollywood was tough. This wasn't hard at all," says Mackey, who starred in TV commercials, film and television for 20 years before moving to Eugene in 1992. "No just means you can't do it that way," Mackey says. "You're the only one in your life in charge of no. It's not 'no' until you decide it's 'no.' " Mackey's optimism, no doubt, has played a role in her success as a writer, but she also credits her teachers and mentors. Before selling her first article to Sunset magazine in 1999, she took a class at Lane Community College on Magazine Writing That Sells. .
Students Learn to Dig Trees as Part of Earth Week
When James Foster Elementary School students decided to help the environment Wednesday morning, they dug in with both hands - literally - by planting trees in honor of Earth Week. Lifting shovels that were taller then they were, every child from kindergarten through sixth-grade took a turn at scooping soil up from their playground into a hole meant for a sycamore tree. Their effort was part of a weeklong, schoolwide push to help the planet, and students learned about recycling, water conservation and the value of trees. "I care about the Earth a lot," Andy Lenahan, 8, said after he'd shoveled in a pile of dirt. But it wasn't only the children who were pleased with their work. Robert Sartain, urban forestry supervisor for the city of Santa Clarita, saw true value in providing a connection between the students and their school environment.
Grow easy, gardening experts tell first-timers
You bought a home during the winter, and now that the weather is getting warm you're eager to get out in the yard and dig. The only problem is, you know next to nothing about gardening. What should you do? Very little, advises one nationally known gardening expert. "I always tell people that for the first year, they should concentrate on the inside of their home, not outdoors," says Michael Weishan, co-author of the book "The Victory Garden Companion" (Collins, $29.95). But opinions differ: "Dig in," says another national expert. "It's your garden, after all," says Bonnie Blodgett, one of the authors of "Midwest Top 10 Garden Guide" (Sunset, $19.95). "Where else can you do precisely what you want, when you want? When I am handed a plot of earth, I go at it immediately, assuming I can jam a spade into it.
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