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Operation Baking GALS (Give A Little Support) was started by fellow Daring Baker Susan of She's Becoming Doughmesstic back in July. She wanted to send some homemade baked goods to her cousin stationed in Iraq and asked for some volunteers to help her out. Little did she know the positive response she would receive from friends, family and fellow bloggers. So she decided to make this monthly event. Teams of 25 make care packages filled with baked goodies for a specific soldier and the soldier shares the goodies with his/her fellow troops. The kicker is that we all mail our packages at the same time so that they are bombarded with them all at once. You can read all about the operation on the website.
For this third round of Operation Baking GALS I'm proud to be part of the team hosted by Fran of Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie. Fran and the rest of the team are baking for Richard Martin of the 10th Mountain Division - Army Light Infantry. He mentioned to Fran that he will be sharing the care packages with a lot of soldiers so I wanted to fill my box with as much as I could.
I've never sent anything to the Middle East before so I did some internet research to find out more about how best to do it. Even when using USPS priority mail, it could take up to 14 days for the package to arrive so I was a bit concerned about freshness. I don't know if this is true or not, but I read that using vegetable shortening is better than using butter since the baked goods can stay fresh a bit longer with shortening. I'm not in the habit of buying shortening and was actually surprised by the cost. I usually pay around $2/pound for unsalted butter. The Crisco shortening cost me $3/pound. Why would a manufactured food like shortening cost more than a real food like butter? But I digress.
There are some restrictions when sending packages to the Middle East. No pork products and no alcohol seem to be the most important things to know. So soaking cakes in booze to keep them fresh was out of the question. I even read somewhere that vanilla extract should be omitted from recipes because of the alcohol content.
Other ladies mentioned that sending anything that can melt (like gummy candies or chocolate) is not advisable. But then I read on the Nestle website that chocolate chip morsels are okay if they are baked into a cookie or brownie. Of course I don't know if I can believe Nestle since they are the maker of chocolate chips and they want us to buy and use as many chocolate chips as possible.
I decide to throw caution to the wind and make some cookies bars with chocolate chips. I figured if I wrapped them really well then the chocolate chips would be okay. My cookie bar recipe is based on this one from the Nestle website, but I made some modifications.
I wanted to fit as much as possible into the flat rate shipping box, so I measured the disposable plastic container that I planned to place the wrapped cookie bars. I made a 4x6 inch template out of foil and I cut the cookie bars to size. I was able to fit almost the whole pan's worth of cookie bars into my one plastic container.
I also baked some snickerdoodles for the troops. I normally use an all butter recipe, but for the reason I mentioned above, I used an all shortening recipe this time. The snickerdoodles made with shortening tasted a bit more "old-fashioned" than the ones with all butter, but they were still really delicious (especially hot from the oven!). I just love that smell of warm cinnamon sugar. Yum.
I was pretty amazed at how much I managed to fit in the flat rate 12x12x5 priority mail shipping box. I didn't have to use much padding or bubble wrap since all the food was packed well and jammed into the box tightly. The clerk at the post office was impressed that I could fit 11 pounds of goodies in the box. The contents: 3 dozen snickerdoodles, oatmeal chocolate chip cookie bars (five 4x6-inch pieces), 1 pound beef jerky, 2.5 pounds trail mix, instant oatmeal packets, tea bags and Jelly Belly jelly beans. I hope Richard and his fellow soldiers enjoy this small token of gratitude for their bravery and service.
If you want to participate in the next round, please visit Operation Baking Gals for all the details.
(makes about 4 dozen)
Cookie dough:
2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp cream of tartar
1 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract (I omitted this since I was sending to the Middle East)
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 375F. Lightly grease cookie sheet pans or line with parchment paper.
Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cream of tartar in small mixer bowl to combine. Set aside.
Beat shortening and sugar in large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Add flour mixture and mix until combined.
To make the coating, mix the sugar and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
Roll cookie dough into 3/4 inch balls. Roll the balls into the sugar-cinnamon coating and place them 2 inches apart on your prepared cookie sheet pans. Using the bottom of a glass, flatten each ball to about 1/2 inch thick.
Bake at 375F for 8-10 minutes, or until they're just golden brown around the edges. Cool on a wire rack.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars with Dried Cherries
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(makes one 15x10-inch tray)
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
2 large eggs
2 tablespoons water
1 tsp vanilla extract (I omitted this since I was sending to the Middle East)
12 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chip morsels
2 cups quick-cooking oatmeal, uncooked
1 cup chopped dried cherries
Preheat oven to 375F. Butter and flour a 15x10x1-inch jelly roll pan (or line pan with parchment paper).
Whisk flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in small mixer bowl to combine. Set aside.
Beat shortening, sugar, and corn syrup in large mixer bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs, water and vanilla.
Add flour mixture and beat until flour is barely incorporated. Mix in chocolate, oatmeal and dried cherries.
Spread batter into your prepared pan. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack before cutting into bars.


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Gera to have knee scan
West Brom midfielder Zoltan Gera is to undergo a scan to determine the extent of the knee injury suffered during the FA Cup tie at QPR as the club's injury list continues to mount.
Gera had to be substituted during Saturday's 1-1 draw at Loftus Road, with his replacement, Marc-Antoine Fortune, also sustaining a hamstring injury.
Jonas Olsson, Goran Popov, Steven Reid and Claudio Yacob are already sidelined while Youssouf Mulumbu has now joined up with DR Congo for the African Nations Cup.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 4 October 2012 My advice to Ed Balls: don't follow Slasher's lead and promise the earth Who has really been telling "shameful lies"? Sign-up In a speech at the 2009 Conservative party conference in Manchester, George "Slasher" Osborne offered a sneering overview of Labour policy with all sorts of claims about how the streets would be paved with gold if only the Tories were to win the next general election and he was made chancellor. The following spring, after an election a ham sandwich could have won but no one did, the Tories had to form a coalition with a turncoat party that for years had opposed austerity but paused a few days and reversed all of that, once ministerial cars were on offer. The Lib Dems banked all on the UK economy rising from the ashes; they hoped that there would be an "expansionary fiscal contraction" and growth would emerge before 2015. The governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, has what must be the worst economic forecasting record of any governor in living memory. He failed to spot the recession and the subsequent double dip; he thought that the UK and the US had decoupled; he thought that there would be a wage spiral as a result of union power and appeared to have no clue that LIBOR (the London Inter-bank Offered Rate) was being fiddled, even though it was arguably his job to know. King told the coalition posh boys to slash away and all would be well. But it wasn't. Some of us even had the audacity to say all of that stuff was for the birds and warned that the government was committing economic suicide; but nobody much listened and on they ploughed. Sadly, the government is now in deep trouble and knows it. It will be interesting to hear how Slasher plans to wriggle out of this mess at the Tory conference in Birmingham. Look back in anger Before that, it seems appropriate to go back and look at the claims Osborne made, in his speech in 2009, about what he would deliver. First, he said that the Tory party would "lead the economy out of crisis". That could hardly be further from the truth, as the coalition has pushed us into an even deeper crisis. We are in the slowest recovery since the Second World War and are perhaps even heading for a triple dip. The chart below shows the current estimates of GDP growth along with the initial estimates, as data gets revised all the time. The economy was growing nicely when the coalition took over; it grew for five successive quarters from the third quarter of 2009 up to the third quarter of 2010, under Alistair Darling's policies. Output is now 4.4 per cent lower than it was at the start of the recession in 2008 and has shrunk in five of the past seven quarters. It takes time for policies to feed through to the data, so if we assume that the coalition owns the data from the fourth quarter of 2010, the economy has shrunk 0.6 per cent. The recession deniers are clueless. The recession hasn't been revised away and isn't going to be; the revisions average 0.1 per cent down over the past 20 quarters. Consumer and business confidence today is lower than it was when the coalition took office. The latest European Union sentiment index for the UK (reported in the second chart, below), which is a combination of business and consumer surveys, stands at 91.9, against 102.4 in May 2010, when the coalition took over. It is markedly lower than in Sweden (100.0), which recently moved to inject a stimulus into its economy. Confidence is especially low in the services sector, with a score of -22, compared to -10 in May 2010. In November 2010, there were 2,477,000 unemployed, with an unemployment rate of 7.9 per cent. The latest data shows 2,645,000 unemployed in July 2012, with an unemployment rate of 8.2 per cent. Over the same period, average weekly earnings rose 3.3 per cent, while the Consumer Price Index has risen by 6.5 per cent, so real earnings have fallen sharply. Far from leading us out of crisis, Osborne has made matters worse and pushed the UK economy into a double-dip recession. The latest UK PMI for manufacturing was disappointing, falling from 49.6 to 48.4 (anything below 50 indicates decline). This is the third month of declines and job losses are beginning to mount. The PMI for construction in September showed the biggest decline in new business since April 2009, so there's little sign of green shoots. I have every expectation that GDP in the next quarter may be positive but the fourth quarter is likely to be negative. Plus, the deficit is up by 22 per cent so far this year. As the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, said in his Labour conference speech, we are seeing "rising borrowing, not to invest in the jobs of the future but to pay for the mounting costs of this government's economic failure. There is nothing credible about a plan that leads to a double-dip recession . . . That's not credible, that is just plain wrong." Holidays in the sun Second, Osborne argued in 2009 that the Tories would protect public services, claiming: "We're all in this together." He had the audacity to repeat this phrase seven times. He then claimed: "Our determination as compassionate Conservatives [is] to protect the most vulnerable." In truth, the poor are all in it together and the rich are holidaying in the south of France. Sensibly, Balls hasn't fallen into the same trap as Osborne did just before the election. He doesn't need to say too much about what Labour would do, other than to reiterate that he will wait and see how serious is the mess he is likely to inherit. He is entitled to say he warned that this economic disaster was looming and things would have been a lot better had he been in charge. My main advice to Balls, though, is to stay away from the pork pies. We all know who told "shameful lies". David Blanchflower is economics editor of the New Statesman and professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. David Blanchflower is economics editor of the New Statesman and professor of economics at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 08 October 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Conservative conference special SUBSCRIBE More


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Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The results of the HPTN Study 052 -- which randomized 1,763 serodiscordant couples to early vs delayed ART to evaluate whether this reduced the risk of HIV transmission -- have just been released:
Findings from the study were reviewed by an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) ... The DSMB concluded that initiation of ART by HIV-infected individuals substantially protected their HIV uninfected sexual partners from acquiring HIV infection, with a 96 percent reduction in risk of HIV transmission ... Among the 877 couples in the delayed ART group, 27 HIV transmissions occurred. This was in contrast to only one (1) transmission that occurred in the immediate ART group. This difference was highly statistically significant.
Full details from the study are of course not yet available, but here are some reasons why the results, if not surprising, are so important, and why this is a huge win for earlier antiretroviral therapy:
We of course await information on adverse effects, quality of life, resistance, and cost, but it's hard to imagine that any of these factors would be of sufficient severity to negate the obvious personal and public health benefits of early ART. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and predict that they won't even come close.
And I'll also express the view that this result is far more important than the PrEP studies, since it's always made way more sense to me to treat the person with HIV, not the other way around. PrEP may have a small role in reducing the spread of HIV -- especially in certain very high-risk individuals -- but is unlikely ever to be widely adopted.
So treatment is prevention. Now we just have to figure out how to pay for it.
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After sitting through the entire first round of the 2013 NFL draft on Thursday night without hearing their names called, the two remaining Seminoles who had first-round aspirations didn't have to wait long to get drafted in the second round Friday night.
Defensive end Cornellius Carradine and offensive tackle Menelik Watson will call the California Bay area home.
Carradine was selected with the 8th pick of the second round, 40th overall, by the San Francisco 49ers.
The 6-5, 255-pound end was a no-brainer for the first round this past November, but a torn ACL suffered in the Seminoles' regular-season finale sent his draft stock plummeting. But as he had already done once during the 2012 college season, Carradine climbed up draft boards again in the months following Florida State's Orange Bowl victory of Northern Illinois.
Originally a JuCo transfer, Carradine credits the time he spent recording 26 sacks at Butler Community College for helping him mature and learn to focus.
At FSU Carradine recorded 5.5 sacks as a junior reserve before an injury to Brandon Jenkins gave him a chance to start as a senior. He earned first-team All-ACC honors, recording 11 sacks and leading the team in tackles until his injury against the Gators.
The 49ers hope he will pair well with Aldon Smith and form one of the most dangerous pass-rushing duos in the league.
Manchester-born tackle Watson is headed to the other side of the bridge. Oakland selected him two picks later at 42.
Watson is raw, having played less than 20 games of football in his entire life. But he might have the highest ceiling of any offensive tackle in the draft. Originally a basketball player, Watson enrolled at Marist before switching sports and transferring to a junior college.
After just a handful of games he was fielding offers from the top programs in the country. He chose Florida State, where he started at right tackle and earned honorable mention All-ACC honors in his only season of college football.
Watson, was so impoverished growing up in England that at times he was forced to eat butter and drink ketchup just to fill his stomach. He left Florida State early to help support his family.
Watson should challenge for a starting job with the Raiders offense immediately.
Carradine, who practiced against Watson every day at FSU, called him beyond brutal and said anyone who can't avoid the force of his initial punch off the snap is likely to get manhandled.
Carradine has a reputation for abusing whoever lines up in front of him. At FSU, his nickname, Tank, wasn't descriptive enough of the strength and violence with which he plays.


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Many of us fear improbable and uncommon dangers more than everyday ones. This suggests we've got our anxieties backward.
Think of flying versus driving. White-knuckle fliers, haunted by images of fiery plane crashes despite air travel's safety record, are typically unbothered by the comparatively hazardous open road.
Our misinformed perceptions are largely a function of deep-seated apprehension about being powerless in treacherous situations. The same skewed response informs our view of terrorism, that catastrophic menace which renders us helpless when it strikes. What could be more alarming? No wonder we make an "ism" of the scourge from a word denoting bone-chilling fear.
Terrorizing yes, but just how common is terrorism?
For Americans, not very. September 11, 2001 was an outlier. Since that epochal day, several dozen Americans, at most, have died from domestic terrorist attacks (the actual number varies depending on how terrorism is defined).
Meanwhile, in 2010, a typical year in terms of terrorist lethality, 15 Americans were killed worldwide by crazed fanatics, according to the National Counterterrorism Center. Each year about the same number of Americans are crushed to death by falling television sets or furniture — you have as much to fear from your Samsung flat screen or IKEA bookshelf as from al-Qaida.
Of course, relying on body counts alone to gauge the risk from terrorism doesn't tell the whole story, as foiled extremist plots also figure into the equation. But a more thorough accounting does not meaningfully alter the conclusion that terrorism constitutes a relatively minor threat, akin to that posed by anarchists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — an occasionally lethal nuisance, but by no means an existential danger.
Yet, our outsized fear of terrorism has triggered an overzealous reaction. Since 9/11, the annual intelligence budget has ballooned by 250 percent. Counting military intelligence outlays, it now tops $74 billion, or more than the yearly defense budgets of all other countries except China and Russia.
Where does all the money go?
A recent Washington Post expose found that nearly 2,000 companies in roughly 10,000 locations around the country work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence — a reflection of the fact that 70 percent of the intelligence budget is outsourced to private contractors.
Since 9/11, no fewer than 33 massive building complexes for top-secret intelligence work have been built or are nearly complete; their collective acreage is roughly equivalent to almost three Pentagons. The Washington Post quotes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wondering, "Do we have more [intelligence capacity] than we need?"
In a word, yes!
An overabundance of intelligence assets focused on mitigating a relative dearth of terrorist threats creates massive redundancies as supply outstrips demand. Work is duplicated. Waste abounds.
The sprawling Intelligence Industrial Complex also spawns vulnerabilities of its own: The potential for leaks increases as the volume of Americans in possession of security clearances grows — now nearly five million have them. Moreover, the temptation to use the country's formidable snooping infrastructure in ways that endanger civil liberties grows as the intelligence leviathan metastasizes.
Perhaps most problematic, as a result of our obsession with terrorism, a catastrophic, but low-probability threat, we're neglecting chronic, incremental dangers that pose far greater risks. Take global warming. The creeping menace of climate change has the genuine potential to be calamitous, yet we sit on the sidelines as ever-increasing levels of heat-trapping gases accumulate in the atmosphere.
This is lousy risk management. Instead, we should redirect resources misallocated on intelligence toward transforming our carbon-intensive economy. The move would make us far safer from the many worrying impacts that may stem from a warming planet — effects that might even include terrorism.
In March of this year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper issued a report on behalf of the entire intelligence community citing climate change as a national security threat. Global warming, the document said, will test weak governments by negatively impacting food, water, and energy resource availability. Terrorist elements, in turn, may "exploit any of these [climate-induced] weaknesses to conduct illicit activity and/or recruitment and training."
By confronting global warming, then, we would also be confronting terrorism — a rare risk management "twofer" addressing both chronic and catastrophic dangers. Admittedly, the above may be a tough sell when we're unjustifiably panic-stricken by "al-Qaida 2.0" and other extremists groups lurking around every corner, but as Nobel Laureate André Gide observed, "There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
Having just marked the 12th anniversary of 9/11, it's high time we begin assessing risk with reasoned judgment, not irrational fear. To do otherwise would hand a victory to those fanatics whose precise goal is to terrorize us.
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One of the founding members of the renowned salsa band El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico has died.
A daughter of Eddie Perez said he died Friday at a Puerto Rico hospital from a blood infection following a foot amputation.
Mariel Perez said her father made his debut at age 13 and had played the saxophone for more than 60 years. She did not provide his age, and calls to the band's office went unanswered.
Perez was nicknamed "The Bullet" and was known for always shaking his left shoulder before playing.
He was one of the only two remaining original members of the band, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.
El Gran Combo has released more than 40 albums and won a Grammy in 2003 for Best Tropical Album.


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The Bethel Cl rion
Vol. XIX No. 6 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) December 20, 1939
MISCELLANY Have You Ever Thought _ SOCIAL
— Christ Hadn't Been Born
By WALTER JULIEN
" 'Twas the night before Christmas." I slumped down in my easy
chair to relax from the strain of the busy day. At work the customers
had been 'milling about the store, doing their last minute shopping.
By GLENN ANDERSON
Professor C. E. Carlson, presi-dent
of the Southern Minnesota
Junior College conference, called a
forensic meeting which was held
here last Friday. Speech instruc-tors
and student representatives
from each college in the associa-tion
were given invitations for the
conclave. The main purpose of
this meeting was to discuss foren-sic
activities for the conference
during the coming season.
Miss Anne Simley, speech in-structor
at Hamline university,
spoke to the group in the morning
on the subject, "Current Trends In
Forensic Competition."
Miss Coralee Garrison, debate
instructor at the Southern State
Normal school at Springfield, South
Dakota, and representative of the
honorary forensic fraternity for
junior colleges, Pi Rho Pi, gave an
address in the afternoon.
During this session there was
also a panel discussion on the Pi
Kappa Delta question, "Resolved
that the United States should fol-low
a policy of strict (economic
and military) isolation toward all
nations outside of the Western
hemisphere engaged in armed in-ternauonal
or civil conflict." Stu-dents
from the South Dakota
school, Macalester college, and
Bethel took part in the conclave.
At noon a lunch was served the
visiting instructors and teams in
the college cafeteria.
NYA workers have been decorat-ing
the interior of the school build-ings.
The BWA kitchen on the
third floor in the College building
has been painted and fixed up.
Prof. C. E. Carlson's office, sev-eral
Seminary rooms, the Swedish
classroom, and the faculty ladies'
room represent the work put in by
these students.
Bethel-Concordia basketball
game, here, 8 p. m.
Christmas party.
Christmas vacation begins,
5:30 p. m.
MONDAY, January 8
School reopens, 8 a. m.
WEDNESDAY, January 10
Alexis Literary society.
FRIDAY, January 13
Bethel-Waldorf bask e t b a I I
game, here, 8 p. m.
Picking up the evening paper, I
began to read the headlines on the
front page. Suddenly, the page
seemed to become alive, and the
articles stand out dramatically be-fore
me. War, nothing but war and
crime. Disgustedly, I threw down
the paper. I reached for the family
Bible; it's pages would calm my
fevered spirit, but the Bible was
not in its : usual place. I searched
the room, but there was no Sacred
I walked over to the piano
to play some Christmas carols
—I had always enjoyed songs
of the Nativity. There was no
hymn book. That's right, I had
never seen a hymnal.
I decided the best course would
be to go out for a drive. I could
look at the Yuletide decorations. I
would drive by the stores and see
beautiful Christmas scenes in the
windows. I drove, and I saw none
For instance, C. E. Carlson says
that he is going to spend his vaca-tion
playing with his children. Prof.
Theodore Bergmann indicated that
he is going to rest, hoping to go to
his cabin on the North shore of
Lake Superior. On the other hand,
Adolph. Olson will fulfill pastoral
duties for the Baptist church in
Ashland, Wisconsin during his two
Miss Enid Platts is tentative.
ly planning to spend Christmas
at her home in Steamboat
Rock, Iowa. Following a few
days rest, she will attend a
convention of the National As.
sociation of Speech teachers in
Chicago, Illinois, on December
Also, Chicago visitors will be
Prof. and Mrs. George Hultgren,
who will spend a portion of their
holiday season in the metropolis
of these—only houses, people, and
The expressions on the faces
of those I saw were bitter and
hard. There was no note of
joy written there. I drove by
the corner where the hospital
stands. Where was the hospi.
tal? All I saw was an apart.
ment house and more people.
I reasoned that it must soon be
time for the midnight service at
the church. I turned down the
next street and headed for the
church. There was no church-ly
edifice, just more buildings.
Suddenly, I heard a bell ringing.
I sat up with a start. The clock
was striking 11:30 p. m. I guess I
must have fallen asleep. The serv-ice,
yes, it was to begin in 15 min-utes.
I hurried out of the house,
half ran, half stumbled to the
church. I was muttering under my
breath: "What if! What if Christ
had not come!"
Coach Bill Adam will be en-gaged
part-time in attending a
coaching school at the Univer.
sity of Minnesota on December
27-29. During the second week
he will be occupied by resting
and playing with his son, "Tim-my,"
he said.
Prof. E. A. Finstrom proves to
be a busy man. He will dispense
administrative duties as Executive
secretary of the Twin Cities Baptist
union in the mornings. Afternoons
will be spent visiting missionary
projects and making pastoral calls
in the Eastern Heights chapel
Students are similarly taken up
for the two weeks alloted them. A
group of students, including Franc-es
Otto, George Ohsberg, Bertil
Friberg, Viola Waihela, and Mari-am
Johanson, will travel to the East
Christmas Party
By GENE NYMAN
A Christmas party for all stu-dents,
faculty members, and their
families will be held in the College
chapel tomorrow at 4:30 p. m. The
Christmas story will be read by
Carl Lundquist at a candle-light
service. There will be numbers by
the A cappella choir, a string trio,
a women's trio, and a male quar-tet.
After a dinner which will be
served in the College building, all
will gather around a Christmas
tree while Santa Claus(?) distrib-utes
"goodies." The students have
been asked to bring ten-cent gifts
to send to Rev. Ernest Lundeen
for distribution among poorer fam-ilies
in Northern Minnesota.
Freshman Party
By SARA MAE SWENSON
Hey Kids!
Have you heard? The fresh.
men are going to have a "Kid"
party after Christmas, and the
committee wants all freshmen
to be sure to ask their mamas
and papas if they can attend.
There will be a prize for the
best dressed "little" boy and
"little" girl. Keep watching for
further announcement.
"Silent night, Holy night,
All is calm, all is bright."
To the women who attended the
B.W.A. meeting last week, the spir-it
of Christmas became a reality.
An impressive candlelight worship
service was held. Musical num-bers
were furnished by some car-olers
and a vocal trio.
Miss Enid Platts told of some of
the Christmas customs which have
been observed in the war-torn
countries of Europe. Henrietta
Carlson and Mildred Lovegren add-ed
inspiration to the meeting.
"Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
Let earth receive her King."
Sophomore Party
Thirty-eight second year students
responded to a party given around
an old-time theme when a social
was held recently at the Minne-haha
Tourist camp.
A variety of costumes were seen..
Constance Swanson came as an old
lady. Immigrants were Leone
"Snuffy" Smith, Pearl Peterson,
and Elizabeth Larson. The squire
was represented by Bob Paulson,
grandpa by Francis Otto. In Bob
Hovinen and Don Johnson, there
were a dude and preacher, respec-tively.
Eunice Eimgren and Gladys
Hanson dressed as little girls.
By CLARION WRITERS
Faculty members and students when asked what they were going to
do during the approaching Christmas holidays had a multitude of an-swers.
Some are traveling, others visiting homes or friends, and a few
resting and studying.
attending a number of outstanding Grant Samuelson is also go-concerts
of the Christmas season. ing to his 'home in Pennsylvania
Hultgren recently directed "The with his brother and family.
Messiah." Continued on page 3)
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
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Thrill of Good Reading
In the hustle and bustle of life most of us
are prone to forget that books and reading
exist. Yes, we read for school and work, but
much of that is academic and technical. All
of reading does not consist in merely that.
The world of books opens a multitude of
openings to an individual. One can scarcely
realize what may lie before him if he could be
consistent in his reading efforts.
There are three types of reading which we
do. They are: inspirational, informative, and
Of course, the first is by far the most valu-able.
Such reading pursuits lie in the Bible,
classical literature, devotional material, poetry
—things that will lift and elevate one's soul.
But haw often we neglect this very thing
which would do much to make us happier in
life, which could make us see and face our
situations with greater ease and discernment.
The average college student is engaged in
informative reading. His studies are so in-tense
that he has not time for much else. Yet,
reading in scientific, technical, . and practical
fields is altogether admirable.
And then, one can read to escape from his
present situation—fiction and drama. Even
reading in this sphere can prove beneficial if
pursued along elevated lines. Oh, how careful
we need to be though, for there is much of-fered
that is not good.
Our libraries, both in Junior College and
Seminary, have added a considerable number
of volumes to our reading lists this Fall. It
would do the students good if they would take
time to examine some of these works, read
them, and assimilate their contents.
The Seminary library has added such titles
to its shelves as : "Through Tragedy To Tri-umph:
The World Church In The World Cris-is"
by Basil Matthews, "The Pastor In Ac-tion:
Tested Ways To Ministerial Success" by
Ambrose Moody Bailey, "The Religion Of A
Healthy Mind" by Charles T. Holman, "The
Minister: His World And His Work" by Will-iam
Adams Brown, "The Making Of The Min-ister"
by William H. LeaCh, "The Faith We
Declare" by Edwin Lewis, "Goforth of China"
by Rosalind Goforth, "Dr. Ida India" by Mary
Pauline Jeffery, "The World's Religions" by
Charles S. Braden, "The Dynamic Of A Dream:
The Bethel Clarion
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Official school paper of Bethel Institute.
Published by students bi-weekly except July,
August and September.
Glen Anderson, Dale Bjork, Caroline Dilgard, Carol
Jane Engwall, Betty Danielson, Dalphy Fager-strom,
Elna Finstrom, Bernard Hammerbeck,
Gladys Hanson, Gunnar Hoglund, Archie Johnson,
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, Harold Mickelson, Gene
Nyman, Vernon Pearson, Muriel Petersen, Lloyd
Shold, Leone Smith, Sara Mae Swenson, Martin
Toews, Viola Waihila, Robert Wallin, Dorothy
Webster, and Grace Widen.
Miss Enid Platte Editorial Advisor
Stanley Rendahl Business Manager
Doris Jane Eggleston Circulation Manager
Dean Emery A. Johnson Business Adviser
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935 at
the postoffice at St. Paul, Minnesota, under the act
of March 3, 1879.
104 Betteit 04 ica Veipie
By SARA MAE SWENSON
'Twas on a still night long ago,
That Jesus .came to earth;
Within a stable meek and law,
His mother gave him birth.
The story of His lowly birth,
The angels sang that night;
To shepherds on the hillside there,
They sang the song of light.
The wise men from the far off land,
A lovely star did see,
And traveled many miles to find,
The Christ for you and me.
Gold, frankincense, and myrrh they brought
To Him in Bethlehem,
But little did they know how. great
Was His true love for them.
Tho' this was many years ago,
The Christ child lives right now;
Within the secret heart of man,
If we before Him bow.
Now as we celebrate His birth,
What do you offer Him,
Does .not His love mean ought to you,
Can you not sing a hymn?
For He has died to give you life,
To save you from all sin,
Now won't you simply trust in Him
And let Him come within?
The Question:
Does the study of foreign languages accom-plish
anything except credit toward gradua-tion?
The Answers:
Truman Halvorsen—It all depends upon, the
motive—whether you are earning the credit or
learning the subject. It does help—some.
Gordon Larson—It creates a greater appre-ciation
for people of other nationalities.
Bert Friberg—Swedish helps me in prepar-ing
my sermons. The Swedish translation of
the Bible often reveals a different and a richer
meaning in some passages.
Carl Young—I find my knowledge of Hebrew
Winston Sherwick—It has given me a better
understanding of our own language.
* * * *
Definition of a man (Ed. note: with apolo-gies
to the male sex)—A man is a worm that
crawls around in the dust until a hen comes
along and gets him. (Ed. again: Seems that
sometimes the "hens" are plenty worried about
the "worms" they try to get.)
* * * *
Gussie Ferre: How does the moon affect the
Carol Engwall: It doesn't—only the untide.
(And on such evenings as we're having now.)
Certain couples seem to be planning to spend
the holidays together. They're doing all right
for themselves.
The Life Story Of Dr. W. B. Riley" by Marie
Acomb Riley, "George Truett" by P. W. James,
"The Business Administration Of A Church"
by Robert Cashman, "If The Minister Is To
Succeed" by U. S. Brown, and "Ten-Minute
Sermons" by Lewis H. Chrisman.
There are other volumes also in the Junior
College, all of which should be used.
Spat:tad aoci
By CARL LINDMAN
A velvet-black night mantling the hills near
Bethlehem; a brilliant star breaking the mid-night's
darkness; the tinkling of bells among
the flocks; the calm broken by a glorious
melody sung by heavenly beings; a Babe, born
in the straw and warm pungent odor of an
inn's stable—new light, life, and happiness
came into the world. "Peace on earth, good
will toward men!"
Today, many are peering over the trenches
at the muddy shell-scarred battlefield; some
are weeping as they stand in the midst of
ruins that once made a home; others, taut
and nervous are awaiting the dreaded screech-ing
sirens announcing the approach of enemy
aircraft with its load of whining death. Did
Christ fail in his mission of bringing "Peace on
earth, good will to men?"
In the midst of a world over-run with tur-moil
and tragedy, for many this question is
answered in the "sweet old story translated
by men, but writ in the long, long ago. Re-gardless'
of station in life, poverty or riches,
suffering or rejoicing, these redeemed souls
can read again the lovely Christmas story, and
joyfully through tears read the words of the
Master as he says, "Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth
give I unto you." Though the world may be
torn from its moorings we can give thanks for
the "peace that passeth all understanding."
Truly Christ came to bring "Peace on earth,
good will to men!"
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By SQUINT AND SQUAWK
Mary had a baby lamb
A cutish sort of beast
It ate 'n grew—became a "man."
"Whee," said Mary. "Feast."
Take Heeda
Car speeda
Train meeta
Next stoppa
Saint Peta.
Some people make use of everything. For
instance, one gal uses a pill to get rid of a
headache, while another gal uses a headache to
get rid of a pill.
* * * *
To the right we see hitch-hikers.
To the left we see hitch-hikers.
Everywhere we see hitch-hikers
Thumb fun!
Ambrose Collins seems to have the most
well-appointed trysting place. All couples take
notice. He meets his wife (we hope) in her
letters—more mornings than not—in the front
hall way as he stands by the radiator.
A girl can be very sweet when she wants.—
Jaysee Echo.
Vivian Fons seemed to express more truth
than maybe she realized when she said: "Last
year was a matchin' year; this year is a break-in'
up year."
What's the matter? Isn't Cupid working
right this season?
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By ETHEL RUFF
The pilgrim woke to find his vision
Naught bu the amber hues of early
Were seen where angels had trav-erse
the night
Upon a ladder built from dark to
The stone, his pillow hard, was ly-ing
And as he viewed it, felt a holy
Of fear, and cried with wonder
"This is none other than the House
of God."
How blest are we if in these Bethel
We too envision some of Heaven's
Building our school a better House
of God,
Whose reach is Heav'n, tho its base
be sod!
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Harrietta Fossum is going
home to "Del" everyone about
the new "Ray" of light. (Ed.
note: The editor absolves all
Carl Lindman expects to get
home to Duluth for part of the
holiday season, while Rawlin John-son
will be with his family in Hen-ning,
Minn. Truman Halvorsen
and William Hagstrom will spend
Christmas in their Minneapolis
Corrine Swanson said, "I'm going
home and get caught up on the
sleep I missed while studying(?),
make some fudge, and sew—cause
I'm getting too fat for all my
Virgil Olson will be engaged
in religious work in Dalton,
Michigan, where he worked the
past summer. Visiting the "in-laws"
in Chicago, will occupy
Gordon Peterson for a few
days, besides resting and
studying. Other students re.
maining here are alre'ady for.
mulating plans for a Christmas
service and social fellowship on
Monday evening, according to
Doris Jane Eggleston intimates
that she is going home for a wed-ding.
Whose???? Not hers! ! (she
says.) And Ethel Ruff declared
that she was going home to "re-new
acquaintances!!! !»
Earl Sherman will make a
trip to Roseau, Minnesota,
while Hilton Hanson will visit
his home at Britt, Iowa. Again,
Ned Holmgren will go to his
church in Isle, Minnesota. Carl
Young indicates that he will
also be at his church in Cush-ing,
Minnesota, with a few
days at his home in Kenosha,
Wisconsin. The Paulson broth-ers
will journey to their home
in Anoka.
Hazelle Fossum is "just going to
`loppa' round the whole time." And
Elna Finstrom is going to walk
home. To get letters from Johnny
Valine is why Grace Widen is going
home to Minot, North Dakota. Del
Ray Peterson, according to a staff
correspondent, is going home and
"Harrie" up and "ette."
Wheaton, Minnesota, will furnish
a stopping place for Gerald and
Sydney Larson. Kermit Johnson's
itinerary will take him to Michi-gan.
Paul Lundgren said he could
be contacted in Dalbo during his
vacation. Robert Perrin will take
up parish work in North Dakota,
which field he served last summer.
College students expressed a
variety of destinations for their
holiday plans. Bernard Ham.
merbeck confided that he is go.
ing to Flint, Michigan, to get a
new automobile for a friend
and will drive the car to his
home at Warren, Oregon. Dean
Berry imparted this informa-tion:
"Though I intend visiting
relatives at Fort Dodge, Iowa,
the most of my holidays will
be spent at home in Windom,
Minnesota." Robert Wallin will
be visiting his home near Cam-bridge,
he revealed.
Gene Nyman will make his vaca-tion
headquarters at Fergus Falls,
his home town, but he also intends
visiting his brother in Milan, Min-nesota.
Cambridge is also attract-ing
Dale Bjork and Wilbur Ogren,
who both originated there. To
quote Ogren: "I shall be isolated
from the hustle and the bustle of
the big city."
Gunnar Hoglund, Swede at
heart that he is, came forth
with, "Jag skall ga hem och
soya." Lemuel Petersen plans
trips to Racine, Wisconsin, and
Long Prairie and Little Falls,
Minnesota, besides spending
several evenings in committee
meetings in the Twin Cities.
It seems that there will be no
rest for Miss Edith Larson and
Walter Julien, who must work in
the office during the approaching
(Ed. note: But for lack of space
and time, we should like to include
an account of every student's holi-day
Boarding Club
By ARCHIE JOHNSON
The Penny-a-Meal project came
to a close in the dining hall on De-cember
6 when the contents of the
boxes were counted. The total con-tribution
from the Boarding club
was $89.12.
Table B had contributed the larg-est
amount per member, $1.52. On
December 12 a special treat was
enjoyed by the members of this
table. Included here are: Virginia
Carlson, Dorothy Hademan, Glenn
Anderson, Roger Goodman, Bernard
Hammerbeck, and Gordon Peter-son.
In the way of improvement, the
installation of new tables will ndd
to the appearance of the kitchen.
Religious Council .
By DALE BJORK
Students receiving points for par-ticipation
on gospel teams and yet
showing no active service presented
reason for a discussion at a recent
meeting of the Religious council.
It was questioned whether or not
these students should be dropped.
George Ohsberg, vice-president
of the council, reports that the gos-pel
teams have been busy minister-ing
through speaking, singing, and
passing out tracts. Souls have
been won into the Kingdom in this
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up in Canada.
2. Ad: Expert posters made with
a smile.
3. Tall, dark—good-looking—but
he's taken by a maid from North
Dakota. Our basketball flash.
4. She can giggle, can tell jokes.
Gets many, many letters from St.
Cloud. Works in the library.
For those who need prompting,
here are the answers: Leonard
Hultgren, Betty Danielson, Del Ray
Peterson, and Eunice Elmgren.
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RESERVES VARSITY COED SPORTS By BERNARD HAMMERBECK
Monday, December 4, the com-bined
freshman and sophomore gym
squads suffered a severe beating
at the hands of Bill Adam's Cen-tral
Baptist outfit by a score of
71-44 in a lengthy scrimmage on
the local court.
Sidney Carlson bucketed 10 points
and Dallas West 12 for Bethel. The
Central aggregation was paced by
Ralph Anderson with 26 counters
and Ralph Doble with 19.
* * * *
Wednesday, December 6, the
freshman gym squad downed the
Prospect Park Baptists, 43-17 in a
basketball contest on the local
court. Gunnar Hoglund carried the
brunt of the frosh offensive with
19 markers, while C. Olson gar-nered
10 for the losers.
The sophomore gym squad tri-umphed
over the same hoop team
on Wednesday, December 13, by a
score of 37-34. Dallas West and
.Sidney Carlson led the sophomore's
attack with 11 and 13 points, re-spectively.
C. Olson potted 10
points, and C. Dickau 12 for the
* * * *
In a preliminary to the Bethel-
Farm school varsity tilt the Bethel
reserves downed the Aggie jay-vees,
The Bethelites gained a half-time
lead of 18-11, but a belated Aggie
rally narrowed the margin of vic-tory
to three points as the gun
ended the game.
Leading scorers for the Indians
were Dean Berry, Mike Shendel,
and Bernard Hammerbeck with 5,
8, and 9 points respectively.
* * * *
Coach Adams reports that his
gym classes are progressing rap-idly
and he has divided them into
teams for intra-school competition.
A schedule will commence short-ly
after Christmas vacation and
will continue until the latter part
of February. A playoff is also
planned for the first part of March,
Adam says.
This competition will engage all
freshmen and sophomore boys ex-cept
those on the varsity ten and
the varsity reserves.
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By CLARION SPORTS STAFF
With two victories and no de-feats
so far in their conference
schedule, the Bethel varsity bas-keteers
meet a strong Concordia
quintet tonight on the local court
at 8 o'clock.
This is their last game before
disbanding for the Christmas holi-days.
Already, the Bethel Indians
have defeated the Luther and Al-bert
Lea hoopsters in conference
The latest victory came last
Friday night when the Bethel-ites
trounced the Albert Lea
Golden Eagles by a score of
39.29. It was on the whole a
closely fought battle with plen.
ty of room for any surprises.
Although the St. Paul team did
appear somewhat superior,
they did not play consistently.
Del Ray Peterson was high scor-er
for the Indians with 18 markers,
followed by Don Johnson with 15.
T. Thompson scored 14 points to
make the high for the Golden
Bethel's quintet also smash-ed
through with a decisive 45-
24 victory against the Dr. Mar-tin
Luther college of New Ulm
in their first conference tilt,
played December 9 on the local
The local aggregation started
fast and soon piled up a large lead
with Del Peterson, Johnson, and
Gordon Peterson hitting the hoop
consistently. As a result, Bethel
retired at the half with the score,
27-11 in its favor. The second half
proved to be a repetition of the
first, and Coach Bill Adam was
able to use all ten of his first string
during the onslaught.
D. Peterson was high point
man for the evening with 12
counters, followed by John.
son's 10.
At the initial home game of the
present basketball campaign, Beth-el
was defeated by the Aggies from
the University of Minnesota Farm
school by a score of 53-45. At the
opening whistle, both teams charg-ed
into the fray, but neither was
very impressive. Bethel missed out
on many good opportunities, but
faulty ball handling and bad judg-ment
in many cases, slowed up the
As soon as the second half
started, both teams began a
real battle with the lead chang.
ing hands several times. With
but 6 minutes to play and three
of the starting line-up out of the
game on fouls, the score was
tied 45-45. The Aggies began
to click, and scored 8 points
while holding Bethel scoreless
from then on.
D. Peterson was again the ball
sinker with 12 markers, while Stan
Paulson and G. Peterson tied for
second with 9 each.
The Bethel varsity quintet
opened their season with a con-vincing
53-46 victory over the
Gustavus Adolphus freshmen
and varsity reserves. The In-dians
rolled up an early lead,
but a persistent Gusty five ral-lied
to gain the lead at half.
time, 26-24. As the second half
opened the Gusties continued
their attack and held a 10 point
lead at the end of the third
quarter, the score being 42-32.
Then Bethel came to life with a
real storybook rally. With only
10 minutes left to play, Capt. John-son
and company went to work and
split the hemp for an amazing total
of 21 points while holding the Gus-ties
to 4 points.
By far the outstanding man on
the floor was the Bethel Captain,
with a total of 23 counters garnered
from eight field goals and seven
free throws.
By ELNA FINSTROM
Bethel alumnae came out on top
in a recent fracas with the women's
first string team. It was a 16-13
Opal Palmquist was high scorer
for the Bethel squad with three
baskets. Audrey "Little"' Martin
led the ,alumnae. Ruth Olson was
The graduates led from the first
quarter through the entire game.
The score at half time was 11-7.
Intramural basketball teams have
beer. organized in the gymnasium
classes. The captains for the soph-omore
teams are Doris Jane Eggle-ston
and Helen Heath.
Harrietta Fossum and Doris Mo-lander
captain the first year class-es.
The winners in each section
will play for the school champion-ship,
Coach Bill Adam announced.
Did you notice the gentleman
from Boston at the Farm school
game? His red sox were very con-spicious?
A certain player of the Farm
school quintet was watched closely
at the game. The reason: He was
the star of the Mountain Lake,
Minnesota, high school team which
v'-on the State championship last
winter at the St. Paul Auditorium.
One of the Farm school boys
tried his best to help Bethel. He
tried to "dump one" in the Bethel
bl,sliet, but missed.
Any regularly registered student
of Bethel institute shall be eligible
for interschool competition provid-ing
the following requirements are
1. He shall be registered for not
less than nine hours of ac-credited
2. His work in all courses for
which he is registered shall
be of passing grade as deter-mined
by mid-semester and
semester grades, the latest re-port
being used.
3. He shall not be under discip-linary
action of the faculty
designed to exclude him from
such participation.
4. He shall not have participated
in Southern Minnesota Junior
College conference activities
for more than three years pre-viously.
5. He shall not be a member of
a team outside of his school
while he represents his school
in that competition.
6. He shall not have graduated
from a four-year college.
These regulations cover all in-terschool
activities except compe-tition
in journalism, wherein the
first five requirements only must
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Not so long ago, Lulu Li was in a classroom in graduate school, inspired by her education, the buildings around her, and a childhood dream. Since joining SOM as an entry-level architect a little more than three years ago, Lulu has grown in her role. She?s now a leader of the design team for a new science center at Wellesley College. We spoke with Lulu to learn more about her experience: the opportunities she?s found, the challenges she?s faced, and her advice for new graduates ready to begin their careers.How did you get interested in architecture"Lulu Li: I was born in Shanghai and as a child, I remember watching the first two supertalls being built across the Bund, in Pudong. One was the Oriental Pearl Tower and the other was the Jin Mao Tower (designed by SOM). Those new towers were bigger, taller, more daring than anything previously in the city. To me, it was what the future looked like.
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- Aug 3:
- Family of missing CU-Boulder grad Aubrey Sacco: Recent arrests not linked to murder
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- Officials: 3 arrests in case of Aubrey Sacco, CU-Boulder grad missing in Nepal
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- Aubrey Sacco's father captures spirit of missing CU-Boulder grad in song
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- Aubrey Sacco's father in Nepal leading new search for CU-Boulder graduate
- Apr 21:
- Family still hopeful one year after disappearance of CU-Boulder grad Aubrey Sacco
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- Aubrey Sacco's father derives strength from missing CU-Boulder grad's optimism
University of Colorado graduate Aubrey Sacco's disappearance in Nepal in late April hit home with Laura Cornish, a Boulder stylist who loves to travel and recently spent time in Nepal.
For more information on the search for Aubrey Sacco, visit aubreysacco.com.
Cornish never met 23-year-old Sacco or her family, but as the search continued, she wanted to help. So Cornish organized a fundraiser on Sunday for the family's search efforts at Boulder's Tapestry Salon and Day Spa.
"Her story really stuck with me," said Cornish, who's a stylist there. "You don't have to know somebody to help them."
Sunday's event was expected to draw more than 200 people for haircuts, massages, manicures and other services, with the stylists donating their time. People also bid on silent auction items and bought raffle tickets, baked goods and T-shirts, ribbons and bracelets. The T-shirt design includes a print of one of Aubrey Sacco's self-portraits.
Boulder's Lindsay Unruh, who is one of Cornish's clients, decided to splurge at the fundraiser on a pedicure.
"It's a great cause," she said. "Even though I didn't know Aubrey, I wanted to help out. It could have happened to any one of us. She's someone's daughter, someone's friend."
For Sacco's friends, the event was an opportunity to encourage each other as they talked about a friend described as a free spirit with an adventurous soul.
"There's still hope that she will be found," said Jessica Fein, a Naropa University student who met Sacco at CU. "The best thing is to stay positive and stay with other people who feel the same way."
Jennifer Biernat, Sacco's aunt, also came from Florida to help with the event.
"The support here is just overwhelming," she said. "It's just awesome."
Connie and Paul Sacco, Aubrey's parents, said events like Sunday's fundraiser help keep their spirits up as the search for their daughter continues. Though Aubrey Sacco grew up in Greeley, her parents said she fell in love with Boulder.
"She's a child of Boulder," Paul Sacco said. "She really feels at home here."
Paul Sacco and his oldest son spent five weeks in Nepal starting in May, following his daughter's route and making connections with law enforcement, private rescue groups and local families.
He credited the time he spent in Langtang National Park, where Aubrey Sacco was last seen trekking, with giving him a crucial perspective into where his daughter was in the weeks before she vanished. In May, he found her laptop computer, video camera and journal in the last hotel she is known to have stayed at.
After trekking through miles of Langtang National Park, Paul Sacco has said he doubts his daughter would have fallen into a trailside river. And he thinks that if someone snatched her off a trail, Aubrey is strong enough to survive being a captive. His daughter hasn't been heard from since she had lunch at a hotel near the national park on April 22.
Paul Sacco said he's concerned that the FBI is losing interest in the case and that those in Nepal want it to go away so it doesn't hurt tourism. So the family recently upped the reward to 1 million Nepalese rupees -- about $14,000 -- from the original amount of 100,000 rupees. They're working the Nepalese media to broadcast the information about the new reward.
The family also is still searching for others trekkers who may have seen their daughter before she disappeared.
"She's our object of focus," Paul Sacco said. "There's never a rest until we find her."


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Kodiak is composed of mountains, forests, bays, inlets and wetlands. The refuge comprises about two-thirds of Kodiak Island. In addition, the refuge encompasses a portion of Afognak Island (50,000 acres) north of Kodiak Island. Kodiak Island has an irregular coastline of bays, insets, and rugged mountains covered with alpine vegetation.
Spruce forests dominate the northern part of Kodiak Island and all of the Afognak Island portion of the refuge. The interior of the refuge is covered with lush, dense vegetation. Southwestern Kodiak is covered with hummocks (knolls) of grass. No place on the 100 X 40 mile island is more than 15 miles from the sea. Kodiak NWR was established in 1941 to protect the habitat of the brown bear.
Beside the brown bear there are at least five other native land mammals on Kodiak: red fox, river otter, short-tailed weasle, little brown bat, and tundra vole. Black-tailed deer, beaver and several other species of mammals have been successfully introduced to the island. Bald eagles reside year-round on the refuge in such numbers that they are in view continuously. An estimated two million seabirds inhabit the bays, inlets, and shores.
Kodiak is known worldwide for brown bear hunting. Fishing is excellent for all five species of Pacific Salmon. Wildlife observation, photography, rafting, and camping are popular activities. The island is served by commercial flights and the Alaska Ferry system. A limited number of cabins are available.
Frequently Asked Questions About the New Kodiak Refuge Visitor Center
Why is the Refuge constructing a new visitor center?
Environmental education and interpretation are two of the priority public uses of our national wildlife refuges. Given the fact that Kodiak Refuge is so remote, Fish and Wildlife Service managers and staff felt that we could serve a greater portion of the public by constructing a visitor center in the City of Kodiak to bring the Refuge to the public. The Center will also better serve the environmental education needs of the community.
How big is it?
The visitor center will be a two-story structure with approximately 8,000 square feet of floor space.
How much will the new visitor center cost?
The entire project budget is approximately $8.2 million. That includes land acquisition; demolition of the former building on the site; architectural and engineering design work; construction of the building; landscaping; interpretive exhibit design, fabrication, and installation; and furnishings.
Why is it downtown?
Locating the visitor center downtown complements existing education and information venues, such as the Alutiiq Museum & Archeological Repository, Baranov MuseumKodiak Historical Society, the Kodiak Island Convention & Visitor and Bureau, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Office and the Kodiak Maritime Museum. This downtown site also provides easy access to the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry dock at which many summer visitors arrive.
What will I see in the visitor center?
The center will be a welcoming place for both the local community and the visiting public from around the world. The exhibit hall features educational exhibits that highlight the Kodiak brown bear and the wider ecological tapestry on which these complex animals depend. Specific installations will include: a river ecology exhibit featuring the Karluk watershed and all 5 species of salmon; a denning exhibit where visitors can listen to the heartbeat of a hibernating bear; a bird exhibit featuring some of the myriad of bird life that call the Refuge home and their varying habitat from coastal waters to high alpine. The Center will also feature a map room and trip planning area, 700 square-foot multipurpose room, open-air observation deck, an Alaska Natural History Association bookstore and will be the home of the Kodiak Gray Whale Project.
Are there real animals in the exhibits?
Within the exhibit hall, all the animals represented will be sculpted (much like bronze sculptures) from durable synthetic materials. At Discovery Points throughout the Center, visitors will have the experience of touching real skins and skulls from bears and a variety of other mammals, both terrestrial and marine. Also, in the upper lobby, visitors will have the opportunity to look eye to eye with a re-articulated gray whale skeleton which spans 36-feet.
There are many reasons why sculpted renderings were chosen for the many bears, birds, fish and plant life which will fill our exhibit hall. The exhibits tell the life story of the great Kodiak brown bear and the other animals and plants that comprise the biological community within the refuge. With that in mind, there are month-old bear cubs with a lactating mother bear in the den, cubs of the year fishing with a mother bear, and a male bear standing tall in curiosity. To obtain real bear hides for taxidermy mounts, live bears would have been euthanized/killed for the sole purpose of creating these exhibits. Wildlife sculptures are widely used in exhibits that deal with young animals and females of a species. As a conservation organization we choose to contract with exhibit company artists to sculpt very detailed animals for the exhibits, with education the end goal. Secondly, these exhibit elements will be durable and touchable throughout the life of the exhibits (20+ years).
Can I have a meeting there?
Subject to availability and staff constraints, we anticipate offering the multipurpose room for federal, state, and local governments for meetings and public events. Private meetings will be accommodated when space is available and when meeting purpose is appropriate to the Center mission.
When is it going to open?
It is scheduled to open in the fall of 2007. If all goes as planned it may open as early as mid October.
What are the hours of operation?
We anticipate the following schedule. Summer hours (Memorial Day to Labor Day) open seven days a week 9am to 6pm. Off-season hours (fall, winter, spring) open Tuesday through Saturday 9am to 5pm but closed on federal holidays.
Is there a charge to visit the center?
Admission is FREE!
For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com by email, or phone at 907-942-0322.
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