| PREP SPOTLIGHT: Meridian, known as a football school, having success ...
Meridian High School has a rich athletic tradition, but like all schools, the level of success fluctuates from year to year, sport to sport. The results are clearly evidenced by championships earned by, among others, the volleyball and football teams. Shane Stacy, in his second season as head coach of the Trojans' boys' basketball team, has been an assistant for the Meridian football team for several seasons, and points to that highly regarded program as model to which the basketball team can aspire. "It's done a great deal of good that I coach football at the school," Stacy said. "It's highly regarded as a football school, and (longtime coach) Bob (Ames) has been very, very supportive of the basketball program. He's dropped a few dates from spring football practices to allow us to do a mini-camp every summer.
African honey partnership empowers teen entrepreneurs
When high school students want to get experience in running a business, they usually take up summer internships or shadow corporate executives. But several Florida students have taken it a big step further - they are running their own honey business and with a global twist. The Honey Project is a program tied to the Junior Achievement Youth Entrepreneurship Program and the Minority E-Commerce Association - also known as MECA. It selects 15 Broward County, Florida, high school students to run the business, which sells organic African honey. Nathan Burrell, founder of MECA, conceptualized the The Honey Project and along with being a partner in the business, he serves as an adviser for the students. "There are many after-school programs that focus on career training or reading or certain things from that standpoint, but we're one of the few unique projects that talk about youth entrepreneurship, in a sense that really gives the students an opportunity to own and manage their own business," Burrell said.
Voice of academia
After a long career in journalism, including stints as head of the Voice of America and host of All Things Considered, Sanford J. Ungar was named president of Goucher College in March. He recently discussed his plans for the school, its role in the life of Baltimore and the rising cost of education.
Are there any parallels between being a college president and a journalist? Did one prepare you for the other?
I think that journalism is good preparation for life -- it is a sort of an ongoing liberal arts education in many respects. So, yes, I think in that sense it is good preparation for running a liberal arts college because it is in itself a liberal arts education. I think that what it takes to do journalism well is to have curiosity, to be able to put oneself in other peoples positions and think about what they would like to know and to have a sort of empathic sense of whats going on in the world.
EDITORIAL: Speak to full scope of crisis
The mayor swore on a Bible, in a courtroom, to tell the truth, then told astounding lies during last year's police whistle-blower trial. Now the people of Detroit are supposed to be impressed that he's using a church for his venue? No one has reason to believe anything the mayor says at this point, no matter where he says it. Only his actions can carry him forward. The church setting also suggests the mayor continues to misunderstand the nature of his misdeeds. Church is where you atone for personal sins; but the mayor's troubles are public, involving lies told under oath, action taken against city employees for personal reasons, and $9 million in taxpayer money spent to make it all go away. The more appropriate setting for his speech would be the public office he has so brazenly sullied, the one to which he must somehow restore dignity and honor.
Burglar strikes again
If anyone comes to my house and gets past the dogs, and the alarm... he's butts going out in a body bag. It sounds like some of these houses have had alarm systems, but they weren't set. They heard the beep of the alarm from when a door is opened. Why have an alarm if your only going to use it when you leave home? That doesn't make sense to me. Is the PD checking past offenders in our area to see what they are up to? I'd bet that they find out that this guy is a past offender who is use to getting a slap on the hand and sent on his way. You know one comes to mind. Do you remember when Beau Pre' was burglarized? He didn't even get a slap on the hand. In fact he was arrested and charged, but it went away. After all that's what happens to the ones who have connections in this town. So don't look for this to get solved unless it turnes out to be someone is conscidered NOBODY.
Another enormous Asian buffet restaurant opens in Newport News
Virginia Living Museum is hosting its fourth Bacchus Wine and Food Festival from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 8.
The museum fundraiser offers microbrews and wines from different countries. There will be dishes from at least 10 participating restaurants, including Carrot Tree, Das Waldcafe, Kelly's Tavern and Schlesinger's.
Live music and a silent auction as well. VIP reception from 6-7 p.m. at $100 per person, $150 per couple, though those tickets may already be gone. General admission is $40 per person in advance, $45 at the door.
Virginia Living Museum. 524 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Newport News. 595-1900. www.thevlm.org.
CHECK, PLEASE
In February, Pier 21 in the Hampton Marina Hotel in downtown Hampton will bring back its pasta bar and offer an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet 5-9 p.m.
Upcoming actions
Monday: The Charter Commission will hold a public hearing on whether county residents should be allowed to vote on electing or appointing their sheriff. The hearing is set for 7 p.m. at the Association of Minnesota Counties building, 125 Charles Av., St. Paul. There also will be hearings in March and April. ST. PAUL Thursday: A community meeting to discuss the implementation of recommendations from the audit of St. Paul's contracting practices with women- and minority-owned businesses will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Hallie Q. Brown/Martin Luther King Community Center, 270 N. Kent St., St. Paul. .
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