| Saturday breakfast at Mecca
Also downtown, the family behind Neomonde will open an upscale Lebanese restaurant this summer, partnering with developer Greg Hatem. The yet-to-be-named restaurant will open in Hatem's Heilig-Levine building at Hargett and Wilmington streets. The menu will feature items familiar to Neomonde patrons plus other dishes too complex to serve at Neomonde.Two Best Buy stores will open this fall. The first is off U.S. 70 across from Brier Creek Commons in Raleigh. It will anchor the new 107,000-square-foot Alexander Place Crossing near the Carolina Ale House. Other tenants have not been determined. ... And in Knightdale, Best Buy will open in the new Midtown Commons at U.S. 64 and I-540.Ningyo Pearl Bubble Tea House opened at 2526 Hillsborough St. in Raleigh serving bubble tea drinks with tapioca pearls.
Preschool to Grade 4
This title was originally published in 1950, and Yaccarino's new illustrations retain the look of that era. The colors are uniform and flat throughout, and Ollie wears a navy suit with short pants and a bow tie. The illustrator plays with size and perspective; the boy's horn is sometimes larger than buildings. The book is mildly amusing but not an essential purchase.—Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MI BEDFORD, David. Time for Bed, Isobel. illus. by Leonie Worthington. unpaged. Little Hare, dist. by Trafalgar Square. 2008. Tr $12.95. ISBN 978-1-921049-35-4. LC number unavailable.
PreS—Isobel refuses to go to bed. Instead, she wants to join her mother as she exercises, picks up toys, and reads. After each activity, the little panda is put back into bed, but she gets up again and insists on doing what her parent does.
Serving it up
Patience is not a virtue among some hungry customers. “Slow service," Tami said, “is one of the quickest ways I know of to lose a customer. The impatient customer can be a problem, but we all work hard to avoid it." “It is important to acknowledge them when they come in and sit down, especially during the rush hour," Elaine said. “Sometimes customers just want to know that you know they are there, and that you will get to them as soon as possible. “And after you serve them, you take care of everyone in your station," Nev said. “You don't smother them, but you check on them from time to time to make sure they don't need something . . . tea, coffee, water, more chips . . . whatever." One of the hardest things to understand in the restaurant business is how a waiter or waitress is compensated.
Poisoned lives in God's Paradise
Blacksmith experts were back in Haina last week with the same goal they began with 10 years ago: cleaning up a place so contaminated some scientists say it would be better to move the 80,000 neighbors someplace else. "The contamination is unbelievably high," said Jack Caravanos, a Hunter College environmental science professor who collected soil samples for Blacksmith. "You could practically mine for lead there." Haina's story began in the mid 1990s when Null, director of New York-based Friends of Lead-Free Children, was in Santo Domingo giving a lecture, trying to get the government there to stop using leaded gasoline. Null was approached by someone in the audience and told about a company called Metaloxa that was recycling batteries and contaminating kids. Null visited and found a lot with 30-foot high piles of batteries.
Beltway ramp to Eden
Fifty years ago, when construction of the Baltimore Beltway tore through woods and rural villages like scissors through a knitted scarf, disjointed neighborhoods and dead-end streets were often left in its wake.
Eden Terrace, off the Catonsville exit ramp, is one such place. The name Eden still appropriately describes the area that dates to the early 1900s. Towering oak trees grow just feet from the Beltway's concrete barrier walls while winding roads snake through wooded properties with grand old houses.
Attorney Dick Piet and his artist wife Natalie McIntyre desired woods and privacy but with easy access to downtown Baltimore and Washington. They happened upon a granite cottage for sale there. Built in 1945, its 2-foot-thick stone walls are capped by a slate roof.
Policing themselves, prisoners learn the values to make it on the ...
At Larch Corrections Center near Vancouver, inmates in the therapeutic community program close their day with a motivational routine. The program offers offenders a structured "family" environment and plenty of classes to prepare them to make it on the outside. .
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