| Rush, Little Baby
The house, perched in a nice new development in an Interstate 495 belt town, looks like the home of any family of means with a little girl approaching age 3. The den is dominated by a giant, brightly colored sliding structure, the living room art consists of framed photographs of said little girl striking various poses, and the basement playroom is chock-full of stuffed animals, golden-haired dolls, and a squadron of ride-on toys lined up like a Toyota showroom. The little girl, a cutie named Morgan, would blend in easily at any playground. She has sparkling blue eyes, blond pigtails, a high-pitched, singsongy voice, and an obvious love of life. At one point, she flits out of the family room as I am chatting with Gwendolyn Anderson, the girl's at-home mom, who trained as a physician. She returns a few minutes later holding two Disney Princess dolls.
At Auschwitz, confronting the unimaginable
I thought that Auschwitz might explain it. That's why I went. To learn. To know. But nothing can explain what happened here. No building, no picture, no book, no movie, no first-person account, no rooms full of shorn hair, dry as dust, or broken eyeglasses, rusted and entwined, or mounds of shoes and abandoned suitcases. Yet this is all that remains. A platform shoe of faded red, a sandal with an ankle strap, is one of thousands piled behind glass. It tells a story. It's a shoe that a young woman with shiny hair and a zest for life would have worn. I look at it, discolored now, and wonder if its owner wore it on her long transport to this place and in line as she walked to her death. Or if she packed it in her suitcase, with all of her other best things, in hope of a better day.
Rincon's Ga. 21 corridor experiences retail rebirth
RINCON - For years Effingham County's population has been booming, but the number of local jobs and places to shop have lagged behind. With the arrival of a slate of new businesses along Rincon's Ga. 21 corridor, the county's residents may be able to shop and work without heading to neighboring retail hubs. It is a development that officials say will benefit the county economically and socially. A number of national and regional businesses, including Lowe's and Tractor Supply Co., have opened or are set to open along the corridor this year. The new businesses mean more shopping options and local jobs for county residents and additional tax revenue for local governments, said Ken Stoner, Effingham County Chamber of Commerce director. "This is a general expansion I don't think the county has seen before," Stoner said.
Visual arts calendar
To best facilitate publication, send items at least two weeks in advance to Paul Clark via e-mail to pclark@CITIZEN-TIMES.com. Please include the opening and closing dates of exhibits and a number that may be published to call for information. For more information, call 232-5854. OPENING PETER GENTLING: �Solo Exhibition,� Pump Gallery, 109 Roberts St. Friday-Dec. 31. Reception is 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday. ANN VASILIK: �Traveling the World in Watercolor,� Asheville Gallery of Art, 16 College St., Saturday-Dec. 31. More at 251-5796, www.ashevillegallery-of-art.com. GENIE MAPLES: �Explorations in Abstraction,� Studio B, 1020 Merrimon Ave., Thursday through Jan. 5. Reception is 5-8 p.m. Thursday. For more, call 225-5200. �ON THE SIDE�: Black-and-white landscapes by Citizen-Times photographer Steve Dixon, through Jan.
County 'stalwart' leaving at year's end
Incredible as the idea of the Lincoln County commission's office functioning without Martha Guevara at her desk, sorting out documents or backing up County Manager Tom Stewart, everyone is going to have to adjust. She retires as assistant county manager at the end of the year, 28 years and six months after joining the county in July 1979. She moved up to the manager's office in January 1981. "It is with mixed emotions of happiness for Martha, yet sadness at the departure of one of the county's stalwarts that I announced (she) has decided to retire on Dec. 31," Stewart notified commissioners. "She will be sorely missed by this manager in particular and all who have come to depend on her vast knowledge of history of the county." And she will miss her co-workers too, Guevara said Tuesday, choking up a bit during a telephone interview.
Health And Beauty - Tuesday, November 20, 2007
THAIBAIPO SPA at 51, Amery Street in Sliema is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday. The body massage is the stuff of dreams. Also waxing, pedicures, etc. For appointments phone on 2131 3447 or 9924 5690 and say good-bye to aches, pains and stress. .
Architectural community sees merit in concrete
Professor Ken Taylor gives his opinion very decidedly on architecture in the article "Facing the brutal truth about the Modernist urban utopia" (November 8, p19).
One may have expected that Taylor as a landscape architect might instead have addressed the cultural significance of the organisation of the Cameron Offices in Belconnen, designed by John Andrews International, 1968-76, into separate wings connected by open landscaped courtyards that was instrumental to creating the conditions for the symbolic introduction of nature into the city.
The landscaping, designed by one of North America's foremost landscape design practitioners, Richard Strong, had each court depicting a different landscape region of Australia through the use of native Australian plants and water features; a setting based on an emerging Australian school of landscape design, using native plants and bush themes in a naturalistic and informal way.
Jewels inspired by Isles
Fresh from attending a ball at the Aga Khan's posh digs in Paris, New York jewelry designer Christopher Walling is at The Contemporary Museum today and tomorrow with his latest designs. The new collection is inspired by Hawai'i � look for aquatic elements in the form of marine gems, opals, pearls and ocean colors. Sales benefit The Contemporary Museum. Walling's work is included in the American Museum of Natural History show "Pearls," now at the Mus�um National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The sale is by appointment only. Contact Gordon Wong, 237-5210 or gwong@tcmhi.org. BEAUTY NIGHT AT PEARL Social Wahines, a women's network for young professionals, hosts a Beauty Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Pearl Ultra Lounge, Ala Moana Center.
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