| Officials hear eco-friendly message
Dee Gish has two hybrid cars in the driveway and squiggly bulbs that light her home. She recycles, collects kitchen scraps for composting and uses organic fertilizer for her yard.Truthfully, said Gish, a four-year resident of Lake Saint Louis, "going green" has been on her mind for as long as she can remember.A meeting she organized at Holiday Inn in Wentzville on Tuesday might help her spread the word.Gish's goal is for officials throughout St. Charles County to learn about, promote and possibly require green building in their cities. About 10 city officials and community leaders from across the county attended that evening to hear "green" presentations by representatives from the U.S. Green Building Council and the Sierra Club. Hopefully, the evening would encourage audience members to start the trend themselves, Gish said."If you take the first step - for instance, if Wentzville when building a new City Hall decides to make green improvements - all the residents that come into that building will say, 'This isn't some strange thing.
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If they don't like your post, because it doesn't confirm their misguided and far-left opinions, they just click on "Report to Moderator" at the bottom of the post and you never see it again.Well, we all can play this fascist game, can't we? Ah, yes. The far-left tout the Constitution but they abhor free speech. As I've said here before they're just like the Jihadists. Free speech is their speech. And, they disgust me.You would every post you disagreed with disappear, SR, if you had the cojones to do it.You are projecting. When you use the word fascist, you are referring to large big-government, civil-liberty hating neo-cons like you.Tell ya what. How did the Constitution fails us so that the Patriot Act was required? Give me on single, simple act that showed the Constitution failed to protect us before 9-11.
Jon Wertheim: 50 Thoughts from Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Herewith, 50 thoughts on a strange and captivating Australian Open, trying to incorporate as many of your questions as possible. We'll return to our regular format next week. • All hail Novak Djokovic, who won his first -- and almost certainly not last -- Slam. Hard to recall a 20-year-old with a) such a complete game and b) such unshakable confidence. • Have to think that Maria Sharapova is suddenly the player to beat in women's tennis again after turning in a such a dominating performance. Consider that against the first, third and 11th seeds, she dropped a total of 10 games. Scarier still: Her level was considerably down in the final and she still breezed to her third Slam title. • Ana Ivanovic -- who's replaced Kim Clijsters as the Aussie adopted player of choice -- moves up to No.
Moldy Food Found in Restaurant's Kitchen
Taqueria Las Palmas sits on S.E. Military near Presa, and earned 37 demerits recently. Anything higher than 30 demerits is considered a poor score by the health department. The inspector found moldy food, meat sitting at improper temperature and containers of ingredients without any labels on them. A worker told us they fixed the problems, but asked us to leave before we could check for ourselves. Blue Plate AwardJennifer's Mexican Restaurant1900 PleasantonYou don't have to travel too far to eat at the restaurant earning this week's blue plate award. It's Jennifer's Mexican Restaurant on Pleasanton, just north of Military. Congratulations to Jennifer's Mexican Restaurant for earning a perfect health inspection score! How to report a restaurant:If you would like to make a complaint about a San Antonio restaurant, call the Health Department at 210-207-8853 to let them know what you experienced.
SGPC again expands itself
The SGPC today promoted five employees as assistant secretaries and two as additional secretaries, making the �mini parliament� of the Sikhs top-heavy. Avtar Singh today issued the promotion orders, which were his first order after becoming SGPC president for the third consecutive year. Interestingly, the SGPC had four full-fledged secretaries against one post during the tenure of Gurcharn Singh Tohra, who reigned the SGPC for 27 years. With the new promotions, the number of assistant secretaries and additional secretaries has risen to 15 and eight, respectively. Though the SGPC chief has claimed that the promotions will not put any additional burden on the exchequer of the SGPC, insiders say the newly promoted employees will be entitled to use the additional facilities like telephone, official vehicle etc.
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