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A veteran Worcester firefighter who celebrated his 60th birthday two weeks ago died Saturday after he suffered a heart attack while using a snowblower at his home in Webster, fire officials confirmed Sunday.
Firefighter Patrick E. Germain, an investigator in Fire Prevention, was home Saturday morning clearing his driveway with a snowblower, then went inside and took a nap because he wasn't feeling well. He later went back outside to finish cleaning up the snow on his property and had a heart attack, said longtime friend Anthony J. Rossetti Jr., also a Worcester firefighter.
Deputy Fire Chief Geoffrey Gardell said Firefighter Germain was taken to an area hospital, where he died.
"The one thing that he was, more than anything else, was a great father to his four children," Firefighter Rossetti said. "He'd do anything for his children. He loved them more than anything in the world."
Fellow firefighters are stunned over the death of Firefighter Germain, who was considering retiring this year. Firefighter Germain would have celebrated his 33rd year on the job in September.
A father of four grown children, Sara, Daniel, Joseph and Haley, and a stepdaughter, Ally, Firefighter Germain also leaves his wife, Kelly Germain.
"It is a tragic thing," Firefighter Rossetti said. "Too quick, and too fast."
Firefighter Germain was leaving Tuesday for Florida, where he vacationed often. He used to hit the links, but in the past few years stuck to hitting the beach.
Retired Fire Capt. William P. Metterville remembered Firefighter Germain since they were in fifth grade together at Sacred Heart Grammar School in Worcester. Firefighter Germain went to high school at St. Peter-Marian Junior-Senior High School.
"He was getting ready for Florida. Just so sad," the retired fire captain said. "He was a great inspector down in Fire Prevention. He was a great firefighter when he was out on the line. He'd give you that tough-guy attitude but he was always joking."
Firefighter Germain worked out of the Park Avenue and McKeon Road stations during his career. His birthday was Jan. 28.
"Many times I was his golf partner in the Fire Department golf league," said Firefighter Rossetti, a friend of two decades. "He was just a great guy. He has many, many friends. Everybody loved Pat. You could always count on Pat."
Before the golf partners could even hit the first tee, Firefighter Germain was cracking jokes, Firefighter Rossetti said.
Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio, who was Firefighter Germain's chief in the south end section, said the firefighters were notified.
"Pat was a popular guy. He was a firefighter and loved the job," Chief Dio said. "In the end, what you'd really like to say is he gave 100 percent all the time and that was Pat. He lit up the room when he walked in."
City Manager Michael V. O'Brien called the loss tough for the city and the Fire Department.
"We all have very heavy hearts. Firefighter Germain was a 33-year veteran of our amazing Worcester Fire Department," Mr. O'Brien said. "He will be in our thoughts and prayers along with his family, Chief Dio, the department and Local 1009. Very sad news."

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daivid wrote:I am shocked that I did not have the chance to vote for all capitals as Thucydides would have written.
Markos wrote:The orthographic reform I would like to see most is keeping the rough breathing but getting rid of the smooth breathing as unnecessary. The irony is that often if the text is small and blurry, you can not tell if the breathing is smooth or rough, which would not be a problem if you got rid of one or the other.
Scribo wrote:Also I don't think I've seen it outside of France and, oddly, some communist brochures I picked up in Nafplio once when I was accidentally a communist.
mwh wrote:As to the rough, on the other hand, I would like to see aspiration consistently marked, including internally, e.g. εξανἕϲτηκε, προἱέναι (again, as in Latin, as it happens). In my experience most people respect only word-initial aspiration when reading aloud, but obviously they shouldn't. This can aid comprehension too. (And it's even in line with ancient practice!)
Paul Derouda wrote:As to this vote, the results do look like very decisive.
mwh wrote:I guess a name such as Philip is a special case; presumably it was no longer felt as a compound. Evidence would be inscriptional?
Whatever do people have against lunate sigma?
mwh wrote:I guess a name such as Philip is a special case; presumably it was no longer felt as a compound. Evidence would be inscriptional?
Paul Derouda wrote:Another thing: why don't we have proper Greek typography? Why is Greek always printed in fancy but not so readable italic sans-serif fonts? Why don't we have the equivalent of easily readable fonts like Times for Greek? Reading even your own language in italic tires you quickly and makes you slower - but that sort of font is about the only thing we have for Greek. The most readable Greek font I've seen is the one used by Budé, and even that is sans-serif, like our Helvetica. Have you ever seen a "real" English book printed in Helvetica? And this isn't just a question of getting used to it, it's for a reason the Germans gave up their fraktur and all the newspaper fonts look the same nowadays all over the Western world.
mwh wrote: And there's no difference in principle between word-initial and word-internal aspiration
Paul Derouda wrote:Typography: I guess you're right, Daivid, that serif or sans-serif is not the point. But I think italic/oblique fonts are clearly more difficult to read. Of course, it depends on the font. But at least I find it annoying to read longer sections of text in italic, even in my own language.
Mark that a readable font isn't necessarily a very beautiful one and vice versa. The Budés are all extremely readable, though I prefer their older font (or one of the older ones, maybe there are several?) The old OCT Plato is nice but it's taxing to read (if we're talking about the same one).
Look at this Hesiod from 1772 I found at an old books store in Lissabon in September, a find for 20 euros. The Greek font is very beautiful, but it certainly illustrates the tradition of frivolous Greek typography we still haven't got rid of. Sure Latin is dull compared to Greek, but you don't have to show it with typography!
Paul Derouda wrote:mwh wrote: And there's no difference in principle between word-initial and word-internal aspiration
But what makes the internal aspiration disappear then once the word "was no longer felt as a compound"?
Paul Derouda wrote:I know there was the phenomenon of intervocalic sigmas disappearing via /h/, but I think that happened too early. And it wouldn't explain phil(h)ippos.


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Accessory dwellings will occupy only about 10 pages in the 400-page, new land-use code, but the issue of how to permit alley cottages is hanging up the City Council, which would like to approve the new standards in April.
Size seem to be the latest point of contention.
Accessory dwelling units are currently permissible as duplexes on lots of 7,500 square feet or more in the historic neighborhoods near the downtown and along Main Avenue north of downtown.
The proposal is to allow accessory dwellings on any size lot in the historic neighborhood near downtown and on lots of 7,000 square feet or more along residential streets on both sides of north Main Avenue, provided homeowners can meet other applicable standards, such as limiting total building lot coverage to 35 percent and requiring a parking spot for an accessory dwelling.
By easing size standards, Mayor Doug Lyon worries the city might be moving too fast.
I think we need to be mindful of the character of the neighborhoods, Lyon said at a recent meeting.
Lyon said there is a distinct side of me thats a little uneasy about making it permissible on any size lot.
The mayor said there is an inconsistency in standards because another standard requires lots be at least 4,000 square feet before any subdivision is allowed.
I fail to see how we can have additional units on a lot that is not even eligible for subdivision, Lyon said. I think we can strike a decent balance with making ADUs on lots of 5,750 square feet, which is the most common size lot in downtown Durango.
Councilor Sweetie Marbury said she also has concerns about going less than 5,000 square foot.
Ive heard comments on alleys not being paved; what an impact it makes when you start adding onto the alleys, Marbury said.
But Councilor Christina Rinderle argued for keeping the proposal as is, noting that concession was (already) made on size to keep them smaller and subordinate to the (principal) structure.
By allowing smaller lots to have accessory dwellings, many of these homeowners could then afford to build garages, Rinderle argued.
I think this is a fantastic opportunity for someone to add a garage onto the back of a lot and offset some of the expense of creating a garage by having a legal apartment above it, Rinderle said.
It also creates storage. Everybody in Durango has gear, whether its kayaks, mountain bikes, camping gear. Right now, there are a lot of homes that dont have a garage. We find that stuff cluttering up the neighborhoods.
So accessory dwellings above garages are a win-win, Rinderle said.
The council decided to take up the size issue and any other sticking points during workshops planned for the end of the month.
The proposed standards also can be found at durangocodeupdate.com.


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Kamen, DEKA develop pump as alternative to surgery for obeseBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 15. 2013 10:38PM
MANCHESTER - He tackled human transportation with the Segway and global water supplies with the Slingshot purification system. Now inventor Dean Kamen and his team at DEKA Research and Development are helping the world deal with obesity.
A startup company based in Pennsylvania has obtained approvals in Europe and is hoping to get FDA approval in the U.S. for the AspireAssist, a do-it-yourself stomach pump developed by DEKA in cooperation with a team of doctors and scientists who came up with the idea.
Key components of the AspireAssist are now among the more than 400 U.S. and foreign patents held by Kamen and his DEKA associates.
Ventures into health-care devices are nothing new for Kamen, who also holds patents on the widely used insulin pump. So when a group of doctors came up with an idea to help dangerously obese patients avoid bariatric surgery, they naturally turned to DEKA and its engineers based in the Manchester Millyard.
"At least two or three years ago, we were contacted by an investor who worked with a couple of doctors who recognized a clinical need to help people who are really morbidly obese," he said. "The doctors came up with this concept, and they had most of the idea described. They needed us to do the engineering, to make it safe and practical."
The result was a device built around the same type of tubing used to feed patients, only instead of putting food in, it's designed to take food out before calories can be absorbed.
The tube is implanted in the stomach, and leads to a small, low-profile port at the surface of the skin. The AspireAssist device is attached to the port about 20 minutes after a meal to remove about a third of the calories consumed, according to the company's website, which emphasizes that, "the AspireAssist is used in conjunction with a lifestyle modification program, and requires careful and comprehensive medical monitoring."
Katherine D. Crothall is president and CEO of Aspire Bariatrics, a company started last year with $11 million in venture capital and private funding, headquartered in King of Prussia, Pa. "If you look at the therapies available for morbidly obese people, they are not very attractive," she said. "Fewer than 1 percent of the morbidly obese population takes advantage of bariatric surgery in any one year."
The company is testing the market in Europe, where the first patients are already using the device.
"We have patients in Sweden and the Czech Republic," she said, "and hopefully soon in Belgium, France, Italy and maybe Finland. So it's pretty much all over Europe. It should be available in Canada some time by the middle of this year, if not sooner."
Approval by the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. is more challenging, she said, and not likely until 2014 or 2015.
Crothall pointed out that the device has been manufactured so that it can only be used under a doctor's supervision. After one month of use, the pump disables itself, and can only be reactivated by a physician. "It's configured so the patient can't go off and use it willy-nilly," she said.
The company has FDA approval for 176 patient trials at eight hospitals or universities, lasting one year with continued follow-ups. One of the trials will be conducted in Boston, at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
If the device goes into widespread use, it could prove a new source of revenue for DEKA in Manchester.
"There is an agreement between DEKA and the company," she said. "I would prefer to leave it at that."
Kamen said money from the Aspire patents would help the high school robotics competition he developed to foster education in math, science and engineering. "It'll be more money for FIRST," he said.
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Manchester school board waits on HooksettBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 22. 2013 11:24PM
MANCHESTER — School board members are expressing both concern and optimism in response to the news that Hooksett will be entering talks to send all its high school students to Pinkerton Academy next year.
The Hooksett School Board this week gave the go-ahead for Superintendent Charles Littlefield to pursue a contract with Pinkerton to send its 600 high school students to the school. The move comes after Hooksett and Manchester reached a settlement late last month that ended the city's lawsuit against the town and the town's effort to have the city declared in breach of its tuition contract.
Under the settlement, Manchester agreed that this school year would be Hooksett's last in the 20-year contract the two parties entered into in 2003. Hooksett students would be allowed to continue to attend city high schools through 2018, when incoming freshmen this year would graduate. At the same time, Hooksett would pay a higher tuition rate for these years, starting at $10,200 in 2014 and rising to $10,824 for 2017. The town currently pays $8,500 per student. The town would also continue to pay capital costs totaling $792,000 through 2018, and it would pay the city an additional $200,000 through 2015.
The Manchester school board approved the agreement unanimously, while the agreement was only narrowly approved by the Hooksett board, and it continues to generate dissension among its members.
The Manchester board approved the agreement partly out of the recognition that a large number of Hooksett parents had already sought to pull their kids from the district. An estimated 60 to 70 students had sought alternative placements this year, close to half the incoming class. It's not clear at this point how many Hooksett students will be part of the freshmen class at Manchester high schools.
"We can only do so much. They're going to do what they do," said at-large school board member Kathy Staub. "We wanted to let them know their high school education is not going to be interrupted, and we'd love for it to continue .... In five years, we're planing to have the best high schools in the state."
Staub added that some Hooksett parents may have doubts about Pinkerton, which is in Derry. "They may not have an idea what it's like to send a kid so far away," she said.
Other board members echoed the view of Mayor Ted Gatsas, that many parents in the town feel a loyalty to Manchester.
Ward 10 board member John Avard questioned how much support there was in Hooksett for a switch to Pinkerton. If all the students go to Pinkerton, Avard said, "that's going to be a school that would be in the range of 3,600 students. That's a huge difference. To me, that takes opportunities away — athletics, clubs, student council. You're going to be competing with so many other students."
The issue is particularly important to Avard, who represents the West Side and whose children have attended Manchester High School West, where most of the Hooksett students go. Even without the departure of Hooksett, there has been discussion of closing or converting West High because it is under-capacity. But Avard said he was confident West would stay open.
"Even if Hooksett left, you'd be losing 500 of their students. There will still be 1,000 West Side kids. You're not going to be able to make that room available in the other schools," he said.
Other board members, however, have raised concerns about the impact of Hooksett leaving, particularly the lost revenue. If all of Hooksett's students leave, it could cost the district $500,000 to a $1 million a year in tuition.
"The more I read this, and see nobody coming out to push them to stay in Manchester, I'm very pessimistic," said Ward 9 board member Art Beaudry. "We're going to need to start looking at future revenues."
Beaudry added that he thought keeping West High open would be a challenge. "I can't see how we're going to do it," he said. "We still got to teach the kids and heat the building and keep the lights on."
Still, Beaudry conceded that "hindsight is 20/20."
"To try to force (Hooksett) to stay, I don't know what good that would've been," he said. "We would've been spending hundreds of thousands on attorneys fees. At this point, I'd rather spend the money on the schools."


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"I'm doing science and I'm still alive."--J.C.
It sounds like you certainly have some good reasons to be upset. Is praying and asking for an explanation on the table, or has that ship sailed?
And do you have any kind of support system?
distant family members,
perhaps even a counselor?
That's an awful lot to face alone.
Lori, I am so sorry. I cannot imagine facing so many huge crises and losses at the same time. I don't know what state you are in, but I know that there are a number of organizations that are dedicated to helping prevent evictions. Do you own your home?
Is there any equity you can draw on?
Can you get any resources from your ex? It sounds like circumstances have changed from the original agreements. Is he paying child support?
If there was ever a time for alimony, this would seem like the time.
Honestly, I think you need a good lawyer.
You might be able to save your home, or you might be forced to sell it, and use equity to rent or buy another space.
And you might be able to hold on to custody of your son. And your pets.
Is there a legal aid office near you?Also, are you getting all of the public benefits that you are eligible for? You've worked and paid taxes and FICA and you have the right to draw on the resources that you have put into the system.
And are your medical expenses being covered?
Prayed and prayed. Read and read. Nothing, nada, complete emptiness.
QuoteAnd do you have any kind of support system? No
Have you tried asking for help at your church? Many church congregations are able to pull together a surprising amount of support when a member is in need. Or are you concerned they might spend more time worrying about your spiritual attitude than helping with actual problems?
I guess I still have a little fight left in me.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions & concerns. I promise to reply to anyone who sent me a PM when I am up to it. Went to to VA today for the "Environmental Exam" so they can decide whether my health issues may be related to any exposure I may have had in the Persian Gulf. I'm not getting my hopes up. Some guy from a Credit Counsellor called me; said he got my number from my mortgage company. I have a phone appointment to talk to some other person to see if there is anything they can do to help me. I called the disability attorney and raised a fuss about needing to speed up my claim and actually got to speak with an attorney instead of a secretary this time. I guess I still have a little fight left in me.
Proving I have pain to doctors is about as easy as proving there is a god to atheists. All the papers are normal -- the MRI, EEG, EKG, CT, CXR... (Don't ask me why I had an EKG and CXR for a headache, I'm still trying to figure that one out.) The only thing that come up abnormal on my labs was my cholesterol was too high which hardly explains chronic headaches. I had a sleep study which resulted in a diagnosis of Restless Leg Syndrome - again no explanation for constant headaches. So according to them, and the way I get treated, my headaches are "all in my head." Since my symptoms are consistent with what their pieces of paper tell them is migraine they give me prophylactic medications which do nothing but cause me crappy side effects which may or may not be permanent. But nothing for pain - because that isn't on their list.Enough griping... I want to be at peace with my life. I want to accept what I cannot change or control and just try to live. To find some way to focus on something other than constant pain. I have very few memories prior to adulthood of my mother not being depressed and I don't want to do the same to my son.
As a vet, you have been exposed to environmental conditions that are not common among members of the general population, and as someone who lived and worked in a very different ecosystem, you have been exposed to potential diseases or parasites or god-knows-what, that most western doctors are not trained to look for.


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LONGMONT -- Democratic candidates continued to prevail in most Boulder County election contests this year, but Republicans maintained footholds in some pockets of northeast Boulder County.
The latest and still-unofficial post-election counts from the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall's elections staff show that Democrat Barack Obama was the choice of nearly 70 percent of Boulder County residents voting in the 2012 presidential contest. Republican Mitt Romney got about 28 percent of the Boulder County votes cast.
Romney, however, appears to have won as many as 15 of Boulder County's 234 precincts, according to unofficial preliminary tallies the county clerk's office posted on Nov. 7, the day after the election.
Pending final official results expected to be published later this week, Romney may turn out to have been the victor in eight of Longmont's 55 precincts as well as in seven other precincts in unincorporated northeast Boulder County neighborhoods outside Longmont.
The Boulder County clerk's preliminary tallies show that most of the Longmont pockets of Romney wins came in precincts on the city's north, northeast and eastern edges, although he also appeared to have captured majorities in a couple of westside precincts, as well.
The GOP candidate's strongest showings of rural Boulder County support, according to the county clerk's Nov. 7 counts, were in a pair of precincts immediately north of Longmont, although he also appears to have been the choice of a majority of Boulder County residents voting in one of the precincts west of Longmont, three precincts southwest of Longmont and one precinct stretching from outside southern Longmont east of U.S. Highway 287.
Longmont Republican Women president Peg Cage, whose north-of-Longmont Precinct 708 was one of those won by Romney, said the northeast Boulder County precincts that supported Romney and other GOP candidates signals opportunities for the party and its candidates in future elections.
Cage said she and many of her neighbors "in what I like to call the upper right corner of the county" voted for the Republican presidential candidate because "I think we're a lot closer to the ground, to the earth ... We run our businesses, and we understand economics. We know about the law. We understand the Constitution is there to protect our life, our liberty and our property."
Cage predicted that people in parts of the county won by Obama, even if they personally voted for the incumbent Democratic president , will vote differently in 2016 "once they realize that they've been lied to, and I really think they have been, by our president."
Longmont Area Democrats president John Bigger said he's particularly pleased that a majority of voters citywide supported Obama and Longmont congressional candidate Brandon Shaffer, even if Shaffer lost his bid to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, in the overall tallies in Colorado's 4th Congressional District contest.
That, and the majority of Longmont voters' ballots cast for Democratic candidates for other offices up for election this year, "makes me proud and underscores the changing face of Longmont," Bigger said.
Bigger said that when he moved here 20 years ago, "there was no way we could have seen these results." But he said Longmont has changed politically and is continuing to be "a changing city in terms of its demographics," including "other folks who have moved here from other parts of the county, the state and the country."
The latest unofficial results posted by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office for the 4th Congressional District race show Gardner getting 59 percent of the votes cast in the 4th CD, with Shaffer supported by 37 percent. The 4th District extends into Longmont and a pair of Boulder County precincts to the city's north, a northeast county area where the latest results from the county clerk's office report that Shaffer got nearly 57 percent of the votes, and Gardner 38 percent.
The Boulder County clerk's unofficial preliminary Nov. 7 election reports show, however, that Shaffer didn't collect majorities of the votes cast in several of those Boulder County precincts. Gardner won in the two rural Boulder County precincts north of Longmont -- the same two northernmost county precincts where Republican Romney beat Democrat Obama -- as well as in six of the 55 precincts inside Shaffer's home city. Republicans Gardner and Romney both won the majorities of votes cast in five of the inside-Longmont precincts, while Democrat Shaffer won three precincts where majorities had picked the Republican presidential contender.
Louisville Democrat Matt Jones, meanwhile, won election to eastern Boulder County's state Senate District 17 seat, defeating Longmont Republican Charlie Plagainos and Longmont Libertarian Ken Bray in their contest to represent a legislative district stretching from Louisville, Lafayette and the Boulder County portion of Erie on the south to Longmont on the north.
While Plagainos lost, he did win majorities of the votes counted as of Nov. 7 from eight of Senate District 17 precincts, including six of Longmont's precincts. Romney also won five of the eastern Boulder County precincts where voters picked Plagainos over Jones. Democrat Obama and Republican Plagainos shared victories in three precincts, while Republican Romney and Democrat Jones shared wins in four precincts.
Cage said she and fellow Boulder County Republican activists intend to keep pushing their candidates and causes in what's currently a Democratic-dominated county because "you don't give up when you're right."
Bigger said that partisanship aside, "overall, I am pleased with the voter turnout" this year. "That transcends party lines, ideologies. Longmont has become a strong political force in the state, regardless of the way it votes."
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For the second year running, Pleasant View Elementary School has been recognized for making academic strides.
Tiny Pleasant View - with its two classrooms and 25 students - sits just off Highway 491 about 20 miles northwest of Cortez. It is one of 145 schools in Colorado to win a Distinguished Improvement Award from Gov. John Hickenlooper, and the only 2012 recipient from San Juan BOCES, a network of nine school districts in Montezuma, Dolores, La Plata, San Juan and Archuleta counties.
The award is given to schools that exceed expectations in raising test scores and closing growth gaps.
Pleasant View was also named to the 2011 list, as was Durango's Animas Valley Elementary.
Principal Dan Porter praised the involvement of parents, as well as the fluidity a small-scale learning environment allows.
At Pleasant View, kindergartners learn in the same room with first and second graders. Likewise for grades three to five.
"It's a tremendous benefit for children. We can meet (the students) where they are," Porter said. "We still have grades because that's the way our system is set up. But if I have a third grader who is flying, they can be listening to fifth grade math. If I have a fifth grader struggling with reading, they can take it slower. There's no stigma attached."
About seven parents drive their kids from Cortez to learn in Pleasant View's unique setting, Porter added.


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6 Awesome uses for mason jars
I grew up near Boston, and there are a few things you need to know about Boston:
- There really is a Dunkin Donuts on every corner;
- The Celtics is pronounced with a soft C;
- When something is fantastic, it is "wicked awesome".
These Mason jar storage solutions are so so ridiculously great that they qualify as wicked awesome.
Spray Painted Mason Jars: DIY blogger Alderberry Hill came up with this wicked awesome way to use Mason jars. She spraypainted them yellow, and tied a cute gingham ribbon around their rims. Clearly, any combination of spray paint and ribbon would work. You could do red with tartan bows for Christmas, orange with black bows for Halloween, hot pink with light pink bows for a bridal shower...really any combination that suits your decor would work. You could use these little guys as vases. Can you imagine how cute flowers in a matching shade would look in one of these jars?
Mason Jar Bathroom Storage: Blogger Lolly Jane posted photos of this project on Hometalk.com, and right away, I put this project on my to-do list. On a board mounted above her bathroom sink, she hung four mason jars by screwing hose clamps into the board, and then she slipped Mason jars into the clamps. Now each one of her children has his own toothbrush and toothpaste holder, which she says has led to a reduction in toothpaste smeared on the sink.
Mason Jar Snow Globes: I wrote a whole post about this. Click over to read how to make Mason jar snow globes.
DIY Pottery Barn-Inspired Lanterns: According to Debbie from the blog Confessions of a Plate Addict, all you need to make these rustic-chic lanterns is Mason jars, wire, dollar store votive candles, and acorns. When I go to the dollar store, I leave with, like, a bag of off-brand cotton balls and a bottle of Windex. This lady leaves with inspiration for lanterns like the ones sold by a high end retailer. The mind boggles.
Hanging Jar Spice Storage: That little lip at the top of a Mason jar comes in really handy. It makes it possible to hang them in so many ways. The lovely DIY blogger Jami from the blog Freckled Laundry built a DIY spice jar "rack" out of spice jars, floral wire, and nails. I'm not sure if the jars she used are truly Mason jars, but this would definitely work with Mason jars.
Bulk Spice Jars with Chalkboard Labels: One might wonder how cute a spice jar possibly could be. Well, let me tell you, the way that the blogger from the DIY blog 'a casarella did it is pretty darn cute. She simply scraped the label off of a soup jar, and then affixed a chalk board label to the jar and labeled it in white chalk. She turned something ordinary into something extraordinary.
Chaya Kurtz is sittin' on the dock of the bay, fishing with a Houston electrician and a tile contractor, watching the tide roll away.


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Middletown Main Street will be holding it's second annual Lamp Post Decorating Contest, which will kick off Nov. 17 and run through Dec. 17.
It's about time to deck the halls – and the polls!
Middletown Main Street will be holding it's second annual Lamp Post Decorating Contest, which will kick off Nov. 17 and run through Dec. 17.
Tinsel, garland, and wreaths are beginning to ring in the holiday spirit along Main Street as local businesses begin decorating.
Twelve local businesses will be participating in this year's competition, said Middletown Main Street director Tracy Skrobot.
"The friendly competition will create a festive atmosphere for down town shopping and dining during the holiday season," she said.
Last year's winner, Dogtown Hotdogs, has already decked their lamppost out.
A hot dog dressed as Santa Clause now stands at the corner of Main and Broad Streets, waving to passersby.
Immediato's Bistro came in second place and Femme Fatale Boutique, third place.
The community will vote on lampposts, and participating merchants will have the rules and voting ballots to be filled out.
One vote can be cast per person, per business – but that doesn't mean you can't vote more than once.
Voters can cast their vote at each of the 12 businesses for their favorite holiday lamppost.
Voting will begin on Nov. 17 at the annual Main Street Christmas Parade and will sunset Dec. 17.
Ballot boxes will be located at Dogtown, Immediato's Bistro, Femme Fatale Boutique, A Creative Edge, CKuz Guitars, Elana's Broad St Florist & Décor by Moore, Fromage Cheese Shop, Gibby Art Center, Louis Marie Bridal, Purple Sage Tea & Gifts, Sully's Irish Pub, Dippold Marble & Granite, and Remax 1st Choice – all located downtown.
For more information, contact Skrobot at firstname.lastname@example.com.