She Opened Her Heart to Pets
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Josephine Bensack Czapp, 89, who died of kidney failure April 6, grew up on a farm in Manassas and raised many kinds of pets, including horses and goats. In recent years, she became so close to her parakeet, Snookie, that ...
2 NYC Council workers indicted in slush fund probe
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday accusing the former chief of staff to Councilman Kendall Stewart with skimming at least $145,000 from a charity that had received council funds.Called the Donna Reid Memorial Education Fund, the organization was supposed to ...
2 NYC Council workers indicted in slush fund probe
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Pet Games | No Comments »Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday accusing the former chief of staff to Councilman Kendall Stewart with skimming at least $145,000 from a charity that had received council funds.Called the Donna Reid Memorial Education Fund, the organization was supposed to ...
Firefighter dies, seven seriously injured, in deadly blaze
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »In chaotic scenes, bloodied and blackened firefighters were dragged from the fire and lay on the ground as locals raced to help them. The dead firefighter was last night named as senior duty officer Derek Lovell. Late last night Waikato fire chief ...
Isabel Allende - refugee, writer, icon
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Pet Pictures | No Comments »Isabel Allende, the passionate expatriate queen of Latin American fiction writers, lives just as you might imagine - in a film-starrish, peach-coloured, faux Spanish castle, on a wooded hilltop. Aptly named La Casa de los Esp%26iacute;ritus (The House of The Spirits) ...
Bearing up: when holding on to loved ones can help ease the grief
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »IT LOOKS like a teddy bear. Fluffy, cuddly. There's a zip in its tummy where you insert a small pouch containing the ashes of someone you still long to hold in your arms. It's a Huggable Urn.A family in Western ...
Happy campers man the van
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »In front of a Sofala junk shop called Weird Stuff, something weird is unfolding right before our eyes. "C'mon, Henry," says a man with a mullet, pulling a goat on a rope. Toto, we are definitely not in Sydney any more. Sofala is our ...
Happy campers man the van
Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »Two travellers hit the road, going from the Blue Mountains to Mt Panorama, meeting roos, robins and the odd goat along the way. IN FRONT of a Sofala junk shop called Weird Stuff, something weird is unfolding right before our eyes. "C'mon, Henry," ...
Happy campers man the van
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »In front of a Sofala junk shop called Weird Stuff, something weird is unfolding right before our eyes. "C'mon, Henry," says a man with a mullet, pulling a goat on a rope. Toto, we are definitely not in Sydney any more. Sofala is our ...
Bearing up: when holding on to loved ones can help ease the grief
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in Pets Guide | No Comments »IT LOOKS like a teddy bear. Fluffy, cuddly. There's a zip in its tummy where you insert a small pouch containing the ashes of someone you still long to hold in your arms. It's a Huggable Urn.A family in Western ...
