Which Room is Best? Any comfortable room can be made into a safe-room, such as a den or extra bedroom. Most of us dont have extra rooms in our homes, so an asthmatics bedroom might be the best option.

How to Set Up an Asthma-Safe Room A safe-room needs to be prepared in advance and should be kept clean at all times. An asthma-safe room must be free of allergens and other asthma triggers, including dust, cockroaches, second-hand smoke, etc. Here are some steps you can take to prepare your asthma-safe room:

1). Remove any dust catchers, such as knick knacks, book shelves, heavy draperies, carpet, and bed hangings. Keep upholstered and stuffed furniture, pillows, and stuffed animals, etc. to a minimum in the safe-room. Bedding should be simple and not include tucks, swags and other embellishments that can catch dust. Window blinds are a great option to replace heavy drapery and curtains.

2). All bedding should be washed once a week in the hottest water safe for each piece of bedding. A wash temperature higher than 130 F is necessary to kill dust mites.

3). Mattresses and pillows (in a bedroom) should be encased in dust mite-proof covers.

4). The asthma safe-room should be free of carpet if at all possible, as it can harbor dust mites, mold, pollen and dirt. Flooring such as tile, concrete, and wood is easier to keep clean. Throw rugs can be used, but should be washed once a week in order to keep them allergen-free.

5). Keep pets out of the asthma-safe room at all times.

6). You might consider the addition of a HEPA air cleaner in order to keep the air free of allergens and other triggers. These do work well; however, avoid air cleaners that work use ionization. Ionization creates ozone, a known asthma trigger.

7). Do not include wood burning stoves or fireplaces in the safe room, as these put off particulates that can cause indoor air pollution, another known asthma trigger.

8). Keep humidity at about 50%, as this will keep the air comfortable to breathe, while keeping dust mites to a minimum. Dust mites thrive when humidity goes over 50%.

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In a far corner of campus in the Mateer Building, students bustle around for their first-ever restaurant management position at Caf Laura.

Caf Laura, open for lunch and dinner, is an educational opportunity for students to manage every aspect of running a restaurant in preparation for jobs outside of the classroom, restaurant manager Scott King said.

The student-run restaurant is planning for reconstruction that will begin May 1, the first time since 1998, King said.

The restaurant is almost entirely run by students, and it is used as a tool to prepare students for management positions after they graduate, King said. In order to better prepare students, the restaurant has to keep up with industry trends, such as environmental awareness.

The renovations will allow students to practice these industry trends, and they will even try to stay ahead of trends in the restaurant industry with new technologies, lead instructor George Ruth said.

Some of the new technologies include registers that will help the dining experience run more smoothly, he said.

With the renovations, teaching assistant Carly Szyszko said she thinks the restaurant can be more functional.

During lunch time, thats just a mess in there, Szyszko said.

But during the operating hours, students learn valuable lessons about managing a restaurant, King said.

Since the restaurant works with campus food services, students have the pressure of making sure everything finances, customer service, food quality works well.

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Public Kitchen and Bar is expected to open this summer along Sixth Street in Lowertown St. Paul. (Facebook photo)

The space between Barrio and Bin Wine Bar in Lowertown St. Paul will be home to another restaurant early this summer.

Owner Carol March says Public Kitchen and Bar will serve American food with two full bars, one upstairs and one down.

March, a real estate broker, said she's never really left the restaurant business since working in one as a teen, and she's always had dreams of opening her own place.

She couldn't resist the opportunity to open a restaurant in the historic building on Sixth Street.

"I'm from St. Paul originally," March said. "I love history, and I love old buildings. I'm really excited to open my own restaurant in my hometown."

March has already ripped down the awnings that were blocking much of the natural light -- and the view of Mears Park. Interior construction will begin soon.

The inside will retain the integrity of the "historically significant" building, March said.

She just hired a chef, but she's not ready to say who it is just yet. The menu should appeal to nearby businesspeople and condo-dwellers alike. Lunch, served upstairs only, and dinner are planned.

March is hoping for an early-summer opening.

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The James Beard Foundation announces finalists for its annual culinary awards Tuesday at The Publican, but five restaurant operators already know they are winners.

The foundation's America's Classics honor favors destinations across the country that involve more cooks than chefs, diners than bistros and ethnic than eclectic cuisine.

If this were the Oscars, the honor would be a lifetime achievement award for character actors whose long and steady careers avoid split personalities and outlandish costume changes. The Midwest is well represented in this elite group, which tends to favor blue-collar sensibilities and decor that is vintage.

Consider these past Chicago winners: Calumet Fisheries in 2010, Tufano's Vernon Park Tap in 2008 and The Berghoff in 1999.

Now another Midwestern restaurant takes its place among the Classics winners (see sidebar). Sokolowski's University Inn in Cleveland is a cafeteria-style restaurant that began as a tavern in 1923 and started serving Salisbury steak to bridge construction workers in the 1950s. That entree and Polish foods pierogi, kielbasa, stuffed cabbage rolls still are served and recipes are shared online.

"We've seen the neighborhood change and the city change," said co-owner Mike Sokolowski of the third-generation business. What began as an ethnic mix of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Greeks and Slovakians as neighbors today is "more artsy, kind of yuppie," yet full of the same customer devotion, he added.

"A lot of people have been good to us," Sokolowski said, and it doesn't seem to matter that the business sticks with cafeteria-style service. "We're a dinosaur in that regard. If I had to do it again, I'd do it again."

Sokolowski's University Inn is at 1201 University Road in Cleveland, 216-771-9236; sokolowskis.com.

Earning a Classics award doesn't guarantee an easy future, however. The Berghoff closed in 2006 then reopened. The same happened at Pickwick Restaurant & Pub in Duluth, Minn., an America's Classics winner in 2007 and sold by the founding Wisocki family in 2010.

The Pickwick began serving simple grub as a beer brewer's pub 100 years ago. Now it is known for char-grilled steaks, seafood and pastas. The setting shows off locally crafted, ornate woodwork and murals of brewing and immigrant life.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

A teacher of Eucon International School fell victim to burglars Monday last week.

Darlene Ridenour arrived home on March 10, 2014, at the Eucon Hotel in Papago across the old Botanical Gardens to find that her house had been ransacked.

She said the burglars went through the back door and took almost everything in her apartment and then later went inside another tenants room and took shoes.

Ridenour described the back doors as patio doors that could be popped up.

Among the items that were stolen were her TV set, DVD, camera, laptop, cell phone, a hard drive system and all her jewelry, several pieces of which were worth some money.

Ridenour said that among the irreplaceable items that were stolen was her daughters class ring and pictures. According to the victim, the class ring belonged to her deceased daughter who passed away in a car accident several years ago.

I cannot replace her things, she said. Its very heartbreaking, I feel very violatedstealing pictures that can never be replaced, she said.

She said that police have been notified and have investigated both her room and the other room that was also burglarized. That room is occupied by a student of Eucon International School.

About two Eucon teachers and one student along with other residents stay in the hotel.

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MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) - Construction is finally underway at one South Memphis home.

The homeowner, Patricia Sawyer, has been waiting and waiting for repairs to be made after she says the first city hired contractor left her house in worse shape than when he started.

More than a year ago, Local 24 News exposed the city's shoddy home repair program.

The home repair program known as the HARP program was meant to help low income residents and seniors.

Since we first exposed the situation, contractors have been removed from the program, city employees fired, and a federal audit that found big problems.

All that time, one homeowner has been waiting for her home to be fixed.

That renovation is finally underway.

Im able to wash with running water. Wash dishes like a normal person, Sawyer said.

Sawyer is relived her kitchen is back in working order after more than a year of having water run into bucket underneath her sink. The buckets are gone. She now has a working sink, new cabinets, and a new floor.

Sawyer said the first city hired contractor left her home in shambles and you paid for it. Now taxpayers are paying again for the second contractor to fix the first contractors mistakes. She blames the city for hiring contractors who didn't know what they were doing.

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