01/17/05 News

For many ski resorts, a last-minute
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... "People are still going on their ski vacations," said Chris Ellms, director of ski area operations at Bretton Woods Mountain Resort. ...

Slopeside vacations
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... The joy of pointing your ski tips down a beautiful snow-covered mountain that you've never skied before transcends all cautions.

A New Yorker looks at New Hampshire
WEBCommentary - USA
... our family had traveled often to New Hampshire on summer vacations, frequenting Manchester ... engendered a feeling of being drawn to the Old Man of the Mountain. ...

At least 34 whales die on North Carolina's Outer Banks
The Malaysia Star - Malaysia
MANTEO, North Carolina (AP) - Scientists and National Park Service workers were working to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 34 of the marine ...

North Carolina Dental Professionals Team Up to Treat Needy ...
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung) - Heidelberg,Germany
17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 2,500 dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants and other volunteers in all 100 counties in North Carolina will be taking part ...

Amber Alert Update North Carolina Missing Children
Team Amber Alert News - TX,USA
Americas Amber Alert News Center(Atlanta GA USA)TAA--An Amber Alert remains out for 2 abducted child this monday morning who where abducted from Watauga County ...

North Carolina State 76, Georgia Tech 68
WTOC - Savannah,GA,USA
RALEIGH, NC - Ilian Evtimov led a balanced attack with 17 points, including a clutch late three-pointer, and North Carolina State beat Number Eight Georgia ...

Wind chill advisory issued for Western North Carolina
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
A wind chill advisory was in effect for much of Western North Carolina this morning with wind chill values dipping below zero in some areas, according to the ...

NORTH CAROLINA STATE 76, No. 8 GEORGIA TECH 68
WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA
Halftime_N.C. State 37-27. 3-Point goals_Georgia Tech 2-15 (Jack 1-4, Morrow 1-4, Muhammad 0-1, Schenscher 0-1, McHenry 0-1, Bynum ...

Cherokees pursue poker for their North Carolina casino
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... wants to bring poker to its Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel but first must overcome strict federal rules and strong opposition to gaming in North Carolina. ...

North Carolina Contractor wins December Lawn & Landscape Online ...
Lawn & Landscape - Cleveland,OH,USA
Madison, North Carolina contractor Douglas Dalton started his own lawn care company three years ago to supplement his income from working as a mill supervisor. ...

Patagonia: See wonders at the bottom of the world
USA Today - USA
... Borges & Alvarez Libro-bar, a literary refuge from the town's smoky restaurants crowded ... We took a tour through mountain passes that included a stop at a lodge ...

Two veteran hands offer up a pleasing show
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... He commanded emotional ballads (a formidable "Smoky Mountain Rain") honky-tonk shuffles ("I'mA Stand By My Woman Man") and doo-wop rhythms ("Lost In The ...

FujuFilm Pro Anglers To Help Educate School Children About Fishing ...
FishingWorld.com - Lindale,TX,USA
... program demonstrates Fujifilm's commitment to and support of fishing while also ... Brady of Hixson, Tenn.; Joel Richardson of Kernersville, NC; Sean Stickler of ...

Speaker brings tsunami struggle home
Asheboro Courier Tribune - Asheboro,NC,USA
... visited a refugee camp where they delivered school supplies, which NC Baptists helped ... North of Galle, in the fishing village of Dodanduwa, PH Piyarangth told ...

Wildlife in danger - From blazing stars to big-eared bats ...
MSNBC - USA
... and threatened species. These are located at the highest elevations, like Clingman's Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. ...

Wind chill advisory issued for Western North Carolina
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... chill advisory was in effect for much of Western North Carolina this morning ... to call off school today, while other districts including Asheville and Buncombe ...

Kudos To You
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... of student activities and recruitment at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, was selected as a participant in the North Carolina Community College ...

Wildlife in danger - From blazing stars to big-eared bats ...
MSNBC - USA
The Tennessee and North Carolina border, including national parks and forests, is home to ... US Fish and Wildlife Service working out of the Asheville, NC, office ...

WNC livestock auction shuts down amid lawsuit, embezzlement ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... have bought and sold them at the Western Carolina Livestock Market in Asheville. ... and that means trips to Shelby or Statesville in North Carolina or Chesnee, SC ...

Students, volunteers work fast to get quilt made
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... There are lions from the North Carolina Zoo, the longleaf pine, Pinehurst's famous golf courses and Asheville's sprawling Biltmore mansion. ...

Progress Energy Names Lloyd Yates Senior Vice President for Energy ...
dBusinessNews Triangle (press release) - Raleigh,NC,USA
... a territory encompassing over 34,000 square miles including the cities of Raleigh, Wilmington, Fayetteville, and Asheville in North Carolina and Florence and ...

New Businesses: Air tour service starts
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Falcon AirLink, a helicopter tour service based out of the Asheville Regional Airport, provides air service for the Western North Carolina mountains and ...

Authorities continue search for young children kidnapped in Boone
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
The alert was issued in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee for 11-month-old Breanna Genevieve Chambers and her brother, 23-month-old James Paul Chambers ...

Target practice is key in fly fishing
San Mateo County Times - San Mateo,CA,USA
... A fly-fishing enthusiast for more than a decade, Dean shared his casting knowledge Sunday at the Fred Hall Boat and Fishing Tackle Show at the Cow Palace. ...

The new South
Charlotte Observer (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... The NC Division of Parks and Recreation has cut rental fees for cabins at Hanging Rock and Morrow Mountain State Parks. The new ...

State Reduces Rental Fees
Southern Pines Pilot - Southern Pines,NC,USA
The NC Division of Parks and recreation has reduced the rental fees for vacation cabins at Hanging Rock and Morrow Mountain state parks. ...

Airline workers encounter perfect storm of woes on Thursday
Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA
... airlines main hub for flights employs more than 5,000 workers in Charlotte, NC. ... maintenance on certain jets and other jobs like the cleaning of aircraft cabins. ...

More casino profits should go to Cherokees, tribal council
News & Observer - Paleigh,NC,USA
RALEIGH, NC -- Nearly $45 million in profits from Harrah's Cherokee Casino that should ... put it to good use," said Wilma Morris, 77, who rents cabins to tourists ...

Gaming commisson: More casino profit should go to Cherokees
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
RALEIGH, NC -- Nearly $45 million in profit from Harrah's Cherokee Casino should have gone ... it to good use," said Wilma Morris, 77, who rents cabins to tourists ...

Travel briefs - 1/2/05
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
... the country is located 650 miles due east of Cape Hatteras, NC, just an hour ... AMC lodging options range from rustic cabins at the Mohican Outdoor Center in New ...

Antiques market offers alternative
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... the market, Tobacco Road Primitives offers custom-painted signs for vacation cabins and other ... Whitney Mackey of Oakboro, NC, came to the market solely to buy ...

Bucks church exemplifies teachings of Martin Luther King
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Some traveled on but some stayed. Reinhardt said that at one point the black community occupied more than 100 cabins on the mountain. ...

Mix 'n' Match
PisteHors.com - France
... The result is lower visual impact on the mountain. The cabins also fulfil a requirement to offer disabled access to the ski area as well as enabling the resort ...

Winter in Washington: A guide to skiing and snowboarding in the DC ...
GW Hatchet (subscription) - Washington,D.C.,USA
... He said the first event is on Friday to Camelback Mountain in Pennsylvania. The group is renting out two cabins for about 20 people at a nearby resort. ...

Residents of Flooded Town Reflect
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... live mainly in trailer homes and a few rustic wood cabins sandwiched between ... a pet California brown bear, a docile creature who descends the mountain on trash ...

Rocky Mountain high life
Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
... to earn rosy cheeks working up a sweat in the crisp mountain air, to ... resurrected the shacks that were salvageable and trucked in similar-era cabins to replace ...

Rocky Mountain High Life
New York Times - USA
... leaving bullet holes in the bathhouse roof and the charred remains of cabins they set ... fed, to earn rosy cheeks working up a sweat in the crisp mountain air, to ...

Blacks in Colorado dig deep into past to discover their origins
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News. Peeling ... drunk. They'd go to the slave cabins and kick out all the men and have sex with the women. ...

When you drive up to Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World at Discover ...
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
... The fitting rooms are built to look like fishing shacks and hunting cabins. ... Fly rods and line, insulated waders, books about fishing the mountain streams of ...

Carnival fires up 'Apprentice' cruise to Caribbean
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The ship has 1,062 cabins and tickets start at $1,199 per person, based on ... climber who braves a new route up a formidable and treacherous mountain has their ...

Mud Tears Through Cabins in Crestline Neighborhood
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Seele Creek, normally a meandering mountain stream, became a raging waterway during the weekend rainstorms, sending mud, trees and water slamming into the 100 ...

Fire wrecks holiday cabin
Port Macquarie News - Port Macquarie,New South Wales,Australia
By LAURIE SULLIVAN. POLICE are investigating a fire that completely destroyed a holiday cabin at the Sundowner Breakwall Tourist Park on Friday. ...

Stefanoni: Got cabin fever? Head to nature centers
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
By Andra Bryan Stefanoni At Woods Edge. An easy cure for cabin fever that often settles in one's bones this time of year? Pack snacks ...

Crashed plane was special
NZ City - New Zealand
... the ability to land on water. Its powerful engine is mounted on top of a pylon behind the cabin. The plane which crashed last night ...

Some cures for cabin fever
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
. Play with your food. If you've got peanut butter and crackers, you have the fixings for at least an hour of edible fun. Build ...

A most civilized stay in wild Jasper park
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... The 1928 Point Cabin has five bedrooms, a stone fireplace and large veranda facing Lac Beauvert. Next door, the six-bedroom, 6,700 ...

Retiring to Cabin 4068 on the QE2
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... A little research found that the woman, 86-year-old Beatrice Muller, pays about $5,000 a month to live in QE2 Cabin 4068, a small, windowless compartment that ...

IN BRIEF Cabin Fever book club
York Daily Record - York,PA,USA
For six weeks, beginning Feb. 1, Glatfelter Memorial Library in Spring Grove and Dover Area Community Library will sponsor their Cabin Fever Reading Club. ...

The gay Lincoln controversy
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
... Having already provided potential talking points for Log Cabin Republicans and sketch material for ''Saturday Night Live,'' Tripp cannot fail to intrigue ...

Cabin crew strike action possible
Travelpress - New Zealand
The Qantas subsidiary's cabin staff has authorised stop work meetings to be called to discuss what further industrial action may occur. ...

Ways to avoid cabin fever
Ames Tribune - Ames,IA,USA
... homes. Too much time hiding inside can leave you with a bad case of that dreaded northern affliction known as cabin fever, though. ...

Mark Your Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Kathleen O. Davis by mail to the Asheville Citizen- Times, PO Box 2090, Asheville, NC, 28802; by fax to 251- 0585; or by e-mail to KODavis@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. ...

Notes From The Flight Deck
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
... Asheville's Ryan Person had the loss with 23 saves on 29 shots. FRI Jan. 14 Winston Salem @ ACES (8-4 WIN) 7:30 pm Asheville Civic Center. [ASHEVILLE, NC] - ...

Wildlife in danger - From blazing stars to big-eared bats ...
MSNBC - USA
... Gary Peeples, an outreach specialist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service working out of the Asheville, NC, office, spoke on Endangered Species in the ...

Parents rethink spanking as a means of discipline
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... Discipline tips The following tips are from Family Nurturing Centers International, an Asheville, NC-based group that promotes nonviolent parenting practices ...

Canton stockyard to reopen, fill void left by Asheville market
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
CANTON - While the Asheville stockyard may be closed indefinitely, another livestock market is opening in Canton. Al Eatmon, who ...

Asheville's Knight Earns GATORADE Call-up
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
GREENVILLE, SC, January 16 -- The Houston Rockets have signed Asheville Altitude guard Brandin Knight to a 10-day contract, making him the fourth GATORADE Call ...

Mark Your Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... present "Implement a WinServer 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts," from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm today and Tuesday at 324 Ridgefield Court in Asheville. ...

Notes From The Flight Deck
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
Asheville and Huntsville meet for the sixth time this season. Huntsville has dominated the Aces, beating them in all five meetings this season. ...

Grrrowl make several roster moves
OurSports Central (press release) - Marshfield,WI,USA
... on the 7-day IR. JOEL PETKOFF (F) and RYAN PERSON (G) have been called up from the Asheville Aces (SPHL). COREY HESSLER (6-1, 205lbs ...

Let's hope cynics will be wrong and plan to `end homelessness' ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Asheville City Council voted Tuesday to adopt the plan, formulated by a joint city and county committee representing businesses, nonprofits and government. ...

AC-T to document Samaritan Purse's tsunami relief efforts
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
Asheville Citizen-Times writer Rebeccah Cantley-Falk and photographer Steve Dixon begin reports Tuesday from Indonesia, where they will document the work of ...

Mark Your Calendar
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... Thursday. Asheville biz before hours: The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its Business Before Hours event beginning at 8 am at Southern Fitness and ...

On the Move
Charlotte Observer (subscription) - Charlotte,NC,USA
... project chairman of the year award from the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce ... completion of the tiltwall construction for the Kohls department store in Asheville. ...

New president seeks to revitalize Fraternal Order of Police ...
Rocky Mount Telegram - Rocky Mount,NC,USA
... founded in 1915 in Pittsburgh, and the state order started in 1954 in Asheville. ... involved in Communities in Schools and the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce ..

New Businesses: Air tour service starts
Asheville Citizen-Times - Asheville,NC,USA
... n Colours & Dezigns For Asheville; new service establishment; 22 Ascot Point Circle ... Natural Impressions Salon has opened at Two Town Square in Biltmore Park and ...

Students, volunteers work fast to get quilt made
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
... There are lions from the North Carolina Zoo, the longleaf pine, Pinehurst's famous golf courses and Asheville's sprawling Biltmore mansion. ...