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A Night Made for Reading
Fire district takes on complaints
Garden opera is filled with divas, villains and heroes.
By Kevin Hanson Editor
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Weather Today, Wednesday, should bring cloudy skies, a 50 percent chance of rain and a daytime high temperature near 50. Thursday brings the best weather – partly sunny and a high of 53. A good chance of rain persists Friday through Sunday with nighttime lows of about 36. Daytime highs hover around 50 degrees.
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Cindy Clark read Andrew Clemens’“The Jacket” to fourth-grade student Michael Thursday evening during Mountain Meadow Elementary School’s Literacy Night. Later, Andrew read Bob Hartman’s “The Wolf Who Cried Boy” to his mother. Down the hall, Clark’s older daughter Leslie, 11, was reading to kindergarten sister Melissa. Principal Adam Uhler said there were 250 RSVPs for the evening, but the parking lots and hallways suggested many more showed up. The first part of the evening was designed so teachers could meet with parents to discuss reading while students were read aloud to by special guest readers like Deputy Superintendent Janel Keating, School Board Member Jean Lacy and Glacier Middle School Principal Greg Borgerding. The following 20 minutes, everyone was asked to DREAM – DRop Everything And Read. Photo by Brenda Sexton/To view or buy photos go to www.courierherald.com.
Attempting to gauge the attitudes and expectations of the region’s residents, local fire commissioners have sponsored a pair of The full story public sessions and 4Read about the had one pair of public more on meetings at www. tap. courierherald.com A third and final open house, planned for Thursday evening, was cancelled Monday. The first two meetings, one on Jan. 30 and the other Thursday night, had a common theme: first, attendance was poor; and second, those who showed up asked pointed questions and expressed serious doubts that their tax dollars were being spent as efficiently as possible. District representatives – in the form of Chief Joe Clow and elected commissioners David Hannity and Ryan Terhune – countered complaints lodged by city businessmen Mike Qualls and Ted DeVol. “We all love firemen. Who doesn’t?” DeVol said. “All we’re doing is begging you to be as efficient as possible.”
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Westminster show awaits for Cooper and Kathy By Brenda Sexton Staff Writer
Cooper enjoys the limelight, so when he and Kathy Lockyer step onto the green carpet at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Monday in Madison Square Garden in the heart of New York City, the 4-year-old wirehair standard
dachshund should be a hit. “He is just a wonderful ambassador for the breed,” Lockyer said of her mustached, longbodied dynamo. “He likes people and people like him. I like to see the smiles when they see his face.” Cooper will compete with 21 other wirehair standard dachshund entries, one of the largest
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groups at the prestigious show and part of the hound category. Like the other 4,000 dogs at Westminster, Cooper was invited. “To go to Westminster; to be seen at Westminster; to get invited to Westminster is a
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