| For the collar-county courts
2nd Subcircuit (A vacancy) Judge Patricia Piper Golden has an impressive resume as an attorney, former prosecutor and founding director of the Kane County Child Advocacy Center. She is uniformly respected as an honest and conscientious attorney. She is endorsed in the Republican primary over attorney David R. Akemann, a former Kane County state's attorney.
18TH CIRCUIT (DuPage County)
(Duncan Jr. vacancy) Lawyers in a poll of the state bar and the DuPage County Bar Association give a clear edge to Judge Blanche Hill Fawell over Judge Rick Stock. Fawell joined the bench in 2001, Stock came on last year. Fawell is preferred in the Republican primary.
(Moy vacancy) Three judges seek the GOP nomination, and all three are strong candidates. Our nod goes to Judge John Demling on experience, but Judges Dorothy French and John J.
Five ways to enjoy winter
Not long afterward, images remembering lost relatives became just as fashionable, resulting in a social and visual tidal wave of works incorporating often intimate expressions of bereavement. This show features 60 examples of this powerful 19th-century trend, including numerous pieces of schoolgirl needlework, as well as professionally produced ceramics, textiles and other objects. It also explores the symbols of mourning, many of which were based on the late 18th-century taste for urns, temples and other neoclassical forms.
Bare Witness: Photographs of Gordon Parks
Friday-March 30. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. Few photographers created such an indelible and varied record of late 20th-century America as the late Gordon Parks. Born in Kansas in 1912, Life magazine's first African-American photographer captured crime, poverty and the civil rights struggle as well as Hollywood celebrities and fashion trends — all with a straightforward yet sympathetic eye capable of creating genuinely revealing pictures.
Faith brings Texas Rangers' Hamilton back from brink
Chadwick once paid a $2,000 debt to stop a drug dealer from harassing Hamilton. He remembers Hamilton's 24th birthday, May 21, 2005, as the "night from hell." Hamilton dug ditches and swept model homes for Chadwick's company during his baseball exile. He showed up at an employees party and quickly grabbed a drink. Before the night was over, he ripped the rearview mirror off his truck, punched out the windshield and was twice stopped by police. Following the second incident, he was taken to jail. When he was released, Hamilton says he ran eight miles to an acquaintance's home. Hamilton cites a day in the summer of 2005 as his lowest moment. He awoke from a crack binge in a stiflingly hot trailer surrounded by a half-dozen unfamiliar stoned faces. His reaction: He loaned his truck to a dealer to get more crack.
Animal shelter to urge dog law
How about something simple, like giving people who own bigger dogs more responsibility? If you have a 45lb dog, for example, you're more liable if it runs free or attacks someone because it's more dangerous? I had a lab/border collie mix once that could get pretty nasty with people, so I don't think breed should be the only determining factor. Granted dogs that have been bred to be fighters should maybe even carry a little more of the burden of responsibility. If you want the tough-guy image, take some of the big boy responsibility. And pull your pants up too, yo. .
Money-saving ideas for family getaways
I have always given our kids a small amount of souvenir money for them to manage on their own. I soon noticed that, very often, they gravitated toward the small, kitschy—dare I say tacky— items with logos or animal characters. A few years ago, we started recycling those Mickey Mouse keychains, 4-inch plastic replicas of Mount Rushmore, and teeny bottles of Vermont maple syrup as Christmas tree ornaments. I simply tie on a piece of ribbon, write the year of our trip on the bottom of the item, and we have a cute memento to help us remember all of our wonderful family trips through the years. It's turned into a great family tradition, and we now always keep our eyes peeled on our travels for small items that would make good ornaments. — Marna from Fort Wayne, Ind. Whenever we go away, I tell my kids to keep their eyes open for coupon booklets in our hotel lobby and at the entrances to restaurants and attractions.
For this woman, life isn't business as usual
A week before Christmas 2007 she woke and recalled her memories of Randy on ventilators. And it's the little things she misses the most. Like Raisin Bran with Randy in the morning before work. Dinner together and watching TV on the couch side by side. His notes that read, "Have a good day. See you tonight." There were nights that she still watched out the window, hoping his truck would pull into the driveway. But she prayed to God. She leaned on friends and family. She let her guard down when she most needed it. "Even when you think you hit rock bottom, there's still hope," she said. The road ahead When Sandy goes for her morning walk or run, she thinks about the day ahead, the road ahead. Daily she thanks God for all she has, despite all she has lost.
The Pecos Independent and Enterprise
Heller and Company Inc., a large finance company, will not be forthcoming until after the Democratic primaries. The announcement was made by District Judge J.H. Starley as a hearing on the citation got underway this morning in 143rd District Couret. Judge Starley made the announcement after H.W. strasburger, attorney for the Heller interests, asked that politics not be made an issue in the hearing. One of the attorneys representing Heller is M. Warlick Carr of Lubbock, a brother of Waggoner Carr who is seeking the state's attorney general post. Opposing Waggoner Carr is Tom Beavley. Cited for contempt April 25 were Walter E. Heller and Company Inc., Robert I. Livingston of Chicago, Sidney Bloom of Chicago, Hilbert Kreeger Jr. of Chicago, Jules Green of Houston, John Foringer of Chicago, Frank Cole of Chicago, Warlick Carr, Marion T Key of Lubbock and R.B.
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