Christmas - - Crystal Gavel goes to Vacherie lawyer

Crystal Gavel goes to Vacherie lawyer
WBRZ - his volunteer work with a Christmas toy drive and high-school mock District Bar Association's annual Christmas toy drive -- officially called the Jude Gravois Christmas Toy Drive

Hero Keane gets his own action figure
Irish Post - in a new action figure aimed at capturing the Christmas toy market.Keane's replica is part of the Kick-O-Mania

Warehouse sales gear up
Calgary Sun - It's official -- with the arrival of the Samko and Miko toy warehouse flyer, you know Christmas toy shopping has arrived

Vacherie lawyer honored for volunteer work
Herald Tribune - Vacherie lawyer honored for volunteer work The Associated Press VACHERIE, La. -- A St. work with high school mock trials and a Christmas toy drive.Jude Gravois of Vacherie won the association's now called the Jude Gravois Christmas Toy Drive, which gets presents to

An early Christmas for young patients
Yorkshire Evening Post - By Louise Male CHRISTMAS came early at a Leeds children's ward and brought with it a sackful of smiles. to be accurate when it comes to predicting Christmas toy sales. Patient Christina Chisadza gave Dr Dreadful Freaky Food

Christmas - - Hegewald, co-founder of Helping Hands Outreach, dies at 60

Hegewald, co-founder of Helping Hands Outreach, dies at 60
Imperial Valley Press - FAIRFIELD - Dean Hegewald, who lost an arm and a leg in a train accident at age 12 but devoted his life to giving to others, died this week from cancer. to do,' Lorrain said - distributing food, clothing and Christmas toys to needy people, often at Lee Bell Park.Hegewald

Bikers raise toys for charity
Times-News - AMEE SMITH/The Times-NewsBikers roll through Twin Falls Saturday during a charity ride to raise money for Christmas toys for children.

From coffee to winter heating bills, consumers to feel Katrina's wrath
Detroit News - transportation routes' for everything from commodities to Christmas toys, now arriving at West Coast ports from China

Christmas - - Car dealers booted

Car dealers booted
Rocky Mountain News - to suspend the dealership licenses of Public Auto Auction at 4039 S. Santa Fe Drive and Family Trucks & Vans at 2440 S

Voice over Internet both simple, complex
SiliconValley.com - We're helping people connect emotionally, and that leads to happiness,' he said. Santa Rosa, Calif.

Convict directed soccer coach's abduction, Mexico official says
SignOn San Diego - MEXICO CITY A man already imprisoned for kidnapping was behind the seizure of a prominent soccer coach, federal Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said yesterday. Argentine coach Rubn Omar Romano from within Mexico City's Santa Martha prison, where he is serving decades-long terms

It's Oktoberfest time of year again
SignOn San Diego - It offers ethnic cuisine that includes Santa Maria barbecue, Mexican and Chinese food, and Italian ice.

Preserving Broadway Two historic buildings are being renovated
SignOn San Diego - taken a number of years, but it stretches from the Santa Fe Depot and goes east,' said Beverly Schroeder, a senior

Christmas - - An early Christmas for young patients

An early Christmas for young patients
Yorkshire Evening Post - By Louise Male CHRISTMAS came early at a Leeds children's ward and brought with it a sackful of smiles. to be accurate when it comes to predicting Christmas toy sales. Patient Christina Chisadza gave Dr Dreadful Freaky Food

Crystal Gavel goes to Vacherie lawyer
WBRZ - his volunteer work with a Christmas toy drive and high-school mock District Bar Association's annual Christmas toy drive -- officially called the Jude Gravois Christmas Toy Drive

Vacherie lawyer honored for volunteer work
Herald Tribune - Vacherie lawyer honored for volunteer work The Associated Press VACHERIE, La. -- A St. work with high school mock trials and a Christmas toy drive.Jude Gravois of Vacherie won the association's now called the Jude Gravois Christmas Toy Drive, which gets presents to

Warehouse sales gear up
Calgary Sun - It's official -- with the arrival of the Samko and Miko toy warehouse flyer, you know Christmas toy shopping has arrived

Christmas - - Study: Old military rule resists 'don't ask'

Study: Old military rule resists 'don't ask'
Gay.com - a think tank at the University of California at Santa Barbara, discovered the document while doing research for the ABC

State farmers donate despite narrow profits
SignOn San Diego - of a farmer-to-farmer aid program based in Santa Barbara. In San Diego County, the farm bureau to-farmer aid program based in Santa Barbara. In San Diego County

Food industry's appetite for change to bill means schools can serve canned produce rather than fresh
San Francisco Chronicle - Sacramento -- Surrounded by schoolchildren and lawmakers at a summit on obesity this week, Gov. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, said he did not want to accept the changes to his bill but feared the measure would not

Fresh
San Francisco Chronicle - Pleasures' (Columbia). Maroon 5, 'Live at the Santa Barbara Bowl' (Octone). Shaggy, 'Clothes Drop' (Geffen). Jamiroquai

Home sales for 5 business days
San Francisco Chronicle - 19 204 Median price $771,000 Santa Clara County Total sales as of Aug.

Christmas - - Santa left Ryan a Rams jersey

Santa left Ryan a Rams jersey
Arizona Republic - Santa Claus must have had an ability to see the future about 15 years ago.

How do you like them Apples?
DiamondbackOnline.com - In the late 1980s, generous parents and Santa Claus brought sparkling new Nintendo Entertainment Systems to kids across the nation, making them the hippest cats on the block.

Report: $87 billion deficit looms for pension agency
Seattle Times - You've got three choices: the taxpayers, the companies or Santa Claus' to make up the shortfall, Elliott said

Trade rankings: Chalk it all up to Hoosier friendliness
Indianapolis Star - Amusement Today trade magazine named Holiday World in Santa Claus, Ind., as the friendliest and cleanest park in the world.

The business of being jolly
St. Petersburg Times - TAMPA - They came in, one by one, and eyed each others' beards. Slowly, the secrets came out. travels around the country offering a daylong University of Santa Claus. Cost: $79 per Santa, $110 for Santa the Red Suit: The Business of Santa Claus. Today, the 57-year

Christmas - - BERNARDINA, Sister Mary, SNJM (Mary Grace Wilson)

BERNARDINA, Sister Mary, SNJM (Mary Grace Wilson)
San Francisco Chronicle - BERNARDINA, Sister Mary, SNJM (Mary Grace Wilson) - Died at the Convent of the Holy Names, Los Gatos, on September 14, 2005 at 95 years of age. for her hospitality and concern for the guests at Villa Maria del Mar, Santa Cruz where she ministered for many years

Luft, ex-husband of Judy Garland, dies
Seattle Times - Luft, who is credited with reviving the Garland's career in the 1950s, has died. He was 89. Luft died Thursday, Sept. 14, 2005, in Santa Monica, Calif., 14, 2005, in Santa Monica, Calif., of an apparent heart attack, John Kimble, a longtime friend and business Born' (1954), died Thursday in Santa Monica of an apparent heart attack

Duke's attorney tries to sell fuzzy math
SignOn San Diego - up for the difference between what Cunningham's Rancho Santa Fe house is worth and what he has been Holscher insisted that Cunningham's Rancho Santa Fe house is now worth at

Sheikh dips into oil; Wygods drip millions
SignOn San Diego - But Wygod, who lives in Rancho Santa Fe, opted instead to put the blue-blooded baby into the Keeneland September sale

Food industry's appetite for change to bill means schools can serve canned produce rather than fresh
San Francisco Chronicle - Sacramento -- Surrounded by schoolchildren and lawmakers at a summit on obesity this week, Gov. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, said he did not want to accept the changes to his bill but feared the measure would not

Christmas - - Milton adopting Mississippi city splintered by Hurricane Katrina

Milton adopting Mississippi city splintered by Hurricane Katrina
AP via The Ledger - Milton adopting Mississippi city splintered by Hurricane Katrina The Associated Press MILTON, Fla. stems from a visit that the wife of James Varnell, that city's police chief, paid to United Way of Santa Rosa County

Politics: House panel OKs Cunningham legal fund
SignOn San Diego - By Joe Cantlupe and Jerry Kammer COPLEY NEWS SERVICE September 17, 2005 WASHINGTON The House ethics committee has given approval for Rep. Defense Criminal Investigative Service, raided Cunningham's Rancho Santa Fe home and MZM's corporate headquarters in

Stankowski moves ahead of Open pack
Arizona Republic - Stankowski of Santa Barbara, Calif., carded a 66 to open up a 4-shot lead heading into today's final round of the Cingular Wireless Arizona Open.

Fresh
San Francisco Chronicle - Pleasures' (Columbia). Maroon 5, 'Live at the Santa Barbara Bowl' (Octone). Shaggy, 'Clothes Drop' (Geffen). Jamiroquai

College allegedly denied tenure to teacher who took off for kids
SignOn San Diego - September 16, 2005 SANTA BARBARA The University of , Santa Barbara, was admonished by federal anti