TAHOE CITY, Calif. Tahoe City is set to take the plunge with a new lake front restaurant addition.

Located in a new, two-story building at the Grove Street Pier in Tahoe City, Moes Original Bar B Que is scheduled to open by mid-June.

Josh Wallick, Eric Pilcher and Luke Dannals partnered after finding the perfect location for what they call a soul food revival. The boys like to call it a friendchise its mostly friends and family. Moes has restaurants in Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, Tennessee and Maine.

Working practically 24/7 to get the building restaurant-ready, these hands-on guys built their own tables for a totally Tahoe ambiance. All three have extensive restaurant and food and beverage experience: Eric and Josh worked side-by-side at Moes in Vail, Colo. and Luke worked as a beverage captain at the Marriott in Vail, a four diamond resort.

Their philosophy is to provide an affordable meal in a relaxed atmosphere like being at a friends for dinner.

Moes is steeped in the tradition of sizzlin Southern soul food, such as smoked meats with Moes secret rub and slow smoke process.

Fried, sustainably harvested, freshwater catfish are a specialty, along with a fried gulf shrimp Moe-boy and blackened seasonal fish.

Alabama barbecued chicken and turkey, chicken wings and tofu are served with a signature white barbecue sauce. When winter rolls around, warm up with crab or shrimp bisque, sweet potato soup and a variety of chili.

Banana pudding, Mississippi mud pie and scotcheroos (Rice Crispie treats with caramel and chocolate coating) will top things off.

Craft beers and a hand-selected wine list should keep the bar lively and diners satisfied.

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Pollyana #39;s remodeling upstairs
Girls love remodeling, and my sisters and I are no exception! Though really only Rose and I did it, and only our rooms got redone, but Snow Flake likes her room the way it is and she did the camera.

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When remodeling or preparing to sell your home, getting the biggest return on your investment is not always easy to figure out. Deciding what project, budget and scope of work are all things that will determine what value or return you will get from the project.

Some projects make you more comfortable in your home but will not necessarily delivery the same monetary value that you put into the project. Other projects may make your home easier to sell and attract buyers but, depending on the scope and budget, you may not recoup the cost.

However, it may have been a necessary project to sell your home. Lets look at a few cost vs. value examples in the St. Louis market from Remodeling magazines 2014 report.

When looking at cost vs. value of projects in your home, it is important to keep your emotions out of the analysis. The modern, upscale bathroom you have always wanted may not correlate to a big return on investment compared to a midrange remodeling project. For example, according to Remodel magazines 2014 report, if you were to complete an upscale bathroom remodel you would recoup around 57 percent of the projects cost. But if the remodel cost landed in the midrange, your return would be closer to 62 percent. The return on investment of the projects can fluctuate from year to year. From 2013 to 2014, the return value of an upscale bathroom remodel went down, whereas the return value of a midrange bathroom remodel went up.

One of the best cost-to-value projects for your home, whether it is upscale or midrange, is installing modern vinyl windows. With a midrange job that costs around $10,500, you will add around $9,200 to your homes value. This is a cost to value of 87.7 percent, which is among the highest included in the report. If you complete an upscale version of the same project spending around $13,944 it would add a value of $11,291 to your home. This cost to value would be 81 percent.

One thing to remember when tackling any project is excess is not always the best. It is your home, and you can always do what makes you happy so long as you go into it knowing you may not get out what you put in.

Look at your home, as well as the market around you, and try and make an educated decision about what the project will cost and what it is actually worth to the value of your home.

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Inside, Outside, or Poolside? By Rachel Harper

When you own a pool, it becomes the central part of your backyard, and the entire area around it becomes extended living space that can be used throughout the season. To get the most out of your pool and newfound living space, you can extend the season or even allow for year-round swimming by adding a pool enclosure. If youd rather have a separate structure where you can store everything you need, relax in the shade, and enjoy the conveniences of your main house (without having to run back and forth to it), you may opt for a pool house. Both structures allow you to spend more time by the pool and enjoy the beauty of your outdoor oasis.

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Pool Enclosures

A pool enclosure is a great way to achieve the benefits of an indoor pool without feeling like youre stuck inside. Complete with sliding glass doors and retractable polycarbonate or glass-paneled roofs, permanent enclosures function like a sunroom for your pool. They provide UV protection while allowing the warmth and light of the sun to shine through and heat up the pool water. On hot summer days, you can open up the doors and roof to welcome comfortable breezes. When the forecast calls for rain, no need to stay inside the house; having a fully enclosed pool means you can swim rain or shine! Youll also have protection from pesky insects, and you wont have to worry about your picnicware getting blown away while youre dining poolside.

Permanent pool enclosures offer a great deal of versatility. They can be freestanding or attached to your home, and either prefabricated or custom-built, allowing for a wide variety of design options. Most are built from tempered aluminum frameworks with stainless steel fastening hardware, but they can also be constructed from brick, stone, or other materials. Custom structures allow you to choose a color and design that best complements your homes architecture. No matter what style you choose, investing in a pool enclosure means youll have an indoor-outdoor room that you can use as often as you wish.

Photo courtesy of Garden Prairie Pool & Spa Enclosures, manufactured by CCSI International, Inc.

If you live in a mild climate and want to extend the use of your poolside living space, you may prefer a pool house or cabana instead of an enclosure. Large or small, pool houses can provide useful storage space and living areas, as well as an attractive addition to your backyard. Since pool houses can go from basic storage units to grand multi-room guest houses, youll need to decide what kind of structure you want and what will fit into your budget.

Compact cabanas provide a place to store all of your pool floats, toys, maintenance equipment, sunscreen, towels, and other poolside needs. If your space and budget allow, you can opt for a larger structure that includes a bathroom, shower, and changing room. While all these features add convenience to the use of your pool, you may seek refuge from the sun and want a room where you can relax while enjoying the view of the pool. A one-room pool house can function just like a sunroom, complete with a cozy living room set and any decorative accents you wish. If you plan to spend a great deal of time in the pool house, you may want to install heating and air conditioning so it can be used just like any other room in the house.

If you are able to splurge on a luxury pool house, your structure can include all the fundamentals of your home and be used as a guest house, as well as for poolside entertaining. Adding a kitchen, dining table and chairs, bar, large-screen TV, and bedroom opens up your pool house to infinite possibilities.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars are moving from tarps to pools.

The Jaguars provided a hard-hat tour of their $63 million stadium renovation Tuesday, showing off the world's largest scoreboards, a pair of wading pools and a two-story party deck that will include 20 all-inclusive cabanas.

Jacksonville removed 9,500 chair-back seats to make room for the new construction in the north end zone. That allowed the team to remove 12 of 16 tarps around EverBank Field. The tarps have been an eyesore for years and essentially made the Jaguars the brunt of jokes. Maybe more importantly for a small-market franchise trying to change perception after years of futility, the covered sections won't be seen on television.

The Jaguars will unveil the scoreboards and cabanas at a Carrie Underwood concert July 26.

Already, the team has sold 65 per cent of its cabanas for the 2014 season. Cabana seating is sold out for three home games: against Pittsburgh (Oct. 5), against the New York Giants (Nov. 30) and against Houston (Dec. 7).

"We're trying to give fans a compelling reason to leave the comfort of their homes and to come and watch the Jaguars in person," Jaguars president Mark Lamping said. "We have to make sure the experience, when people spend their hard-earned money, is really good. But more importantly, it is unique and distinctly different than what you can get at home."

The Jaguars are selling 12 upstairs cabanas for $3,000 a game, with a maximum of 20 people in each suite. The price includes all-you-can-eat food and all-you-can-drink beer, wine and soda.

The eight downstairs cabanas -- the only tickets that include pool access -- are going for $12,500 a game, with a maximum of 50 people in each suite. Those also are all-inclusive.

Throw in 120 bar-rail seats located in the north end zone and adjacent to the pools, and the Jaguars have completely changed the look and feel of their 20-year-old stadium. Those bar-rail seats cost $150 a game and include food and drinks.

"This starts to give our building character, gives our building a personality that fits this market," said ChadJohnson, the team's senior vice-president of ticket sales. "We're in a great warm-weather market where water, beaches, the river are all part of it. So this incorporates not only what's local, but it incorporates a high-end beach resort. You go to a high-end beach report and sit in a cabana, what do you have there? You have the luxury of the beach but the ability to pull away from it with comfort of shade, fans, televisions that you can't get with your chair parked in that sand.

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Last weekend I went down to, what I have always called, south beach. That beautiful stretch of pristine beach in front of the Hotel Del where I have spent so many wonderful moments from the late 1950s to now. The image of vast open beautiful white sand that leads down to the shore was the picture that I expected. But that was not the sight that I found. What I saw horrified me, and I do not use that term lightly. It also angered me, made me cry, and left me wondering just where I was. This could not be Coronado.

What I found was this beautiful beach had been confiscated by the Hotel Del and turned into some type of Vegas beach bar. First were the signs that laid claim to at least two-thirds of the beach. These posted signs started at the beginning of the beach walk, all along the walk, down the beach along the palm trees more than half-way to the shore, and across the beach from that point almost all the way to the rocks!

And what did these posted signs say? Welcome to Del Beach, please see an attendant for beach services. They have renamed the beach, and sectioned off the beach with signage, but it didnt stop there. Inside the sign-fenced area was another area with a real plastic fence that enclosed what seemed like hundreds of red and white lounges and some huge cabanas thrown in too. Of course there were more cabanas and lounges strewn within the posted sign area, and a couple of beach shacks were thrown in for check-in and guest services.

Ah, the guest services, now being served on our beach, for those who are allowed in, are cocktails. Yes, alcohol and smoking are allowed and welcome on this beautiful, sectioned off beach.

And you do need to be a guest or member or something. When I tried to walk onto this new Del Beach within seconds I was approached by a man in a white shirt who asked me if I was a guest or member. It was the first time in over 50 years that I was asked for a reason for being on the beach.

When I asked what was going on, and if they had a permit to take over so much of the beach, another man said it was private property! I saw one or two more white shirts (and a red shirt too) coming toward me so I turned and got off their beach.

This is not fair and is not right. The beach belongs to everyone, locals and tourists alike. Is this fair to the tourists that do not stay at the Del? What about all the people that are staying at other Coronado hotels, or all the people that come from all over San Diego County to visit our beaches?

Now dont get me wrong, I love the Del. So many memories from childhood on are centered at the hotel. I use their spa, and encourage friends and family to stay there. I realize that they are a good friend to our city, but sometimes even good friends can go too far and need to be reminded that friendships go both ways, the city does a lot for the hotel also.

This beach grabbing, without letting the residents know and confer on is wrong. It is especially wrong when their posted boundaries are just short of the water so that our Coronado lifeguards are responsible for the safety of these guests. Even if they are breaking our citys laws about drinking and smoking on the beach.

The turning of a beautiful pristine beach into some type of Hollywood/ Las Vegas pool party layout is not only wrong but it is so ugly.

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The Fayetteville City Council on June 5 conducted the first of two public hearings on the Lafayette Square luxury apartment proposal.

Coming on the heels of the opening of Pinewood Atlanta Studios, the $43 million project near downtown Fayetteville would give the city and county a first look at apartment living complete with concierge-level services.

The 11.6-acre property, located on the north side of Ga. Highway 54 between Lafayette Avenue on the east and Sharon Drive to the west, was rezoned in June 2011 under the PCD (planned community development) zoning designation for approximately 192 units that were slated for persons 55 years of age and older. Those plans were later abandoned. The current proposal calls for 210 luxury apartments contained in a gated community with no age restrictions.

The public comments portion of the public hearing included one by Tony Parrott, a resident at the adjacent Villages residential development. Parrott asked that Lafayette Square be limited to the 192 apartments approved several years ago, adding that the annexed area on the citys west side would be the best place for the apartment development.

The other speaker in public comments was Carolyn Cary who asked the developer questions concerning perspective tenants and the terms of leases.

Miles Hill, founder of The Charter Companies of Auburn, Alabama, said aside from a number of corporate apartments, all others would carry a 12-month lease. The corporate apartments would be fully furnished and would include a six-month lease, he said.

Were not interested in less than six months. Well let the extended-stay businesses deal with those, Hill said.

Pertaining to residency at Lafayette Square, Hill said tenants will be required to undergo a police background check, a credit check, a last landlord check and an employment check.

The layout of the property shows four apartment buildings, each with three floors, and six carriage-style buildings. Two of the apartment buildings will border Hwy. 54 with one on the north side of the property and one in the center of the site. As proposed, two of the apartment buildings will contain 39 units each with the remaining two buildings containing 54 units each.

Though previously approved as a PCD project and because PCD approval is project-specific, the current proposal requires rezoning due to several factors. Those include a change in the footprint of the proposed buildings, the change in usage from age-restricted to non-age-restricted and the small increase in the number of proposed apartments.

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