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From custom invitations to wedding cakes and DJs to photographers, the second annual Royal Gorge Region Bridal Expo on Sunday was a one-stop shop for brides-to-be planning their special day.
Thirty-one vendors filled the Abbey Events Center, displaying their offerings, giving out free samples and extending discounts on services.
Event co-organizers, Brenda McKay, sales and marketing for the Abbey Events Center, and Gillian Marriott, owner and operator of Sweet Cheek's Cakery, said there was more vender participation Sunday than last year's inaugural event, which featured 22 vendors. About 63 brides had registered at Sunday's event before its half-way point.
"It's been real steady," McKay said before the half-way mark of the expo. "I think we'll have even more brides this year than we had last year."
Vendors featured catering businesses, wedding dresses, carriage services, hair and makeup services and even event planning. Most were local, but there were some from Salida and Pueblo.
Johanna Patterson of Occasions By J, an independent, professional event planner, plans to utilize all businesses and venues for her clients' birthday parties, dinner parties, weddings, corporate events, fundraising events, theme parties and other special occasions. She is still building her new business, but she most recently organized the New Year's Gala at the Robison Mansion.
"A lot of what I am doing here is to connect," she said. "I do need to find the best fit for whatever the venue is. The connections with the other vendors is just as important as the brides themselves here."
Bride-to-be Christa Hansen-Gill on Sunday scheduled a consultation with Patterson. She is getting a head start on her March 2016 wedding.
"I wanted to give myself a year to plan a wedding, that way I am not rushing any details," she said.
As a mother of four children, Gill said using an event planner will alleviate a lot of pressure.
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By DAVID HALLFeb. 19, 2013, midnight
MELBOURNE swimming trio the Salty Seabathers took to the Illawarra and South Coast's ocean pools last week - and are convinced the area has the best ocean baths in Australia.
Ann Paul, Narelle Crux and Lucy Healey, from Victoria, form a group known as the Salty Seabathers. They were at Beverley Whitfield Pool at Shellharbour Village last Thursday. Picture: DYLAN ROBINSON
MELBOURNE swimming trio the Salty Seabathers took to the Illawarra and South Coast's ocean pools last week - and are convinced the area has the best ocean baths in Australia.
Group spokesperson and former Port Kembla woman Narelle Crux said the group's week-long odyssey highlighted things that locals probably don't realise.
"Ocean pools are such an important part of the community and landscape," Mrs Crux said.
"In fact, I think a lot of people who live on the coast don't appreciate just how lucky they are to have such a beautiful facility, often in walking distance from their homes."
She organised the salty adventure as a bit of fun and was joined by two good friends from Victoria, as well as a number of Wollongong swimmers.
They dove into two pools a day, aiming to swim at least a kilometre in each.
The group, who are on holiday in the Illawarra, are visiting every ocean bath from the northern Illawarra to Kiama and never thought they would generate such publicity.
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Spring Hill has been named the fourth best city in Tennessee for young families, according to NerdWallet, a website that promotes consumer financial literacy, giving transparent information to help consumers make big financial decisions.
Spencer Tierney, an analyst with NerdWallet, said, Spring Hills strong performance was bolstered by its high GreatSchools rating of 9 out of 10, as well as its high median family income ($82,378) and the large percentage of its population with children.
The 2015 report and methodology was created by NerdWallets data analyst, Kamran Rosen, who wrote, with over 30,000 residents, Spring Hill is the most populous community in our top 10. Families living here will find a lot of company: Nearly half, 41.2 percent, of the citys population includes families with children. The city just 35 minutes south of Nashville is proud of its industrial sector that it balances with its natural beauty.
He added, for many young couples, buying their first house when they are also starting their family is a daunting prospect. Even though quality of life matters to all future homeowners, young families may have tighter finances that limit their options.
The analysis considered several factors including home affordability, prosperity and growth, quality of education and family friendliness. With that information, they came up with the top 99 placed in Tennessee that they consider the Best Cities for Young Families in Tennessee. While Spring Hill is fourth, Arlington, Atoka and Mount Carmel make up the top three in the list.
Spring Hill Mayor Rick Graham isnt surprised by the ranking, he said.
Spring Hill has long attracted a uniquely high number of young families, he said. People have moved here for affordable housing and good schools in a friendly place where they feel safe raising children while still being close to their jobs in Nashville and Cool Springs. But Spring Hills job landscape is changing, and we are now evolving into a city that offers its own good-paying jobs and quality of life for those young families. That has further fueled the influx of young families.
He said he believes the city will remain at the tops of these types of lists for years to come.
Creating the environment that attracts young families with children is what we have concentrated on for so long, and because of quality of life aspects we are adding each year, I suspect Spring Hill will remain on these types of lists for the foreseeable future, he said.
Key factors make Spring Hill a good place for young families, Graham noted.
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By Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - A slightly fuzzy, zoomed-in screen grab from question period took a brewing controversy for Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq, and crystallized it into a tale of callous indifference.
"Leona Aglukkaq reads newspaper, ignores questions about people looking for food in dump," read the headline last month by Press Progress, a social-media focused news organization funded by the Broadbent Institute.
From there the story was touched on by mainstream news organizations, who appeared to miss the fleeting visual during the House of Commons broadcast. Aglukkaq had been fending off criticism that the government's Nutrition North program hasn't helped reduce grocery costs in the territories.
Press Progress is snarky, easy-to-read, unabashedly left-wing and opinionated, and part of a new group of digital media organizations covering politics on Parliament Hill.
Vice, The Tyee, the Vancouver Observer, Blacklock's Reporter, and rabble.ca now have correspondents or small teams in Ottawa. The digital outlets iPolitics and Huffington Post were the first of the new wave.
In the United States, such news sites as Politico, Talking Points Memo, Roll Call and Buzzfeed Politics have been making their mark for years.
The new Canadian players with different funding models are filling in some of the empty chairs in the press gallery left by shrinking traditional media outlets. And they're challenging some of the notions about what political reporting looks like.
In the case of Press Progress, the content could be dismissed by some as NDP partisan advertising. It is run within the Broadbent Institute, an independent, non-partisan think-tank founded by former NDP Leader Ed Broadbent and initially run by a former aide to the late Jack Layton.
Founding editor Sarah Schmidt, a former national reporter with Postmedia News, says there is nothing in the content that is partisan, and accuracy is still a central tenet. The outlet is run independently of the institute.
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KANGAR, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim claims he has solid proof of illegal logging and land-clearing activities in Gua Musang, one of the causes for the heavy floods in Kelantan recently.
He said the illegal land-clearing was in black areas which had been undisturbed since the days of the emergency but had been cleared by certain quarters for some time now.
"I have solid proof that they were given the Temporary Occupancy Licence (TOL) to clear the land but the land-clearing has gone beyond the permitted areas. I also have information on who are doing all this.
"Among them are the big businessmen from neighbouring countries. I hope there is a law to take them to court," Shahidan told reporters after chairing a post-flood meeting with state government agencies here today.
He urged that barricades be installed on all roads leading into the forests and intruders be caught and appropriate action taken against them, while conditions imposed on loggers to plant three trees for every tree cut down.
Shahidan said discussions would also be held to appoint the Orang Asli as voluntary rangers.
"This might control the intrusions as the number of those involved in illegal logging is high and it has been happening for a long time, but no action has been taken against them" he said.
Shahidan said the federal government had discussed the illegal logging and land-clearing issues with the Kelantan government as part of efforts to resolve the problem of flooding in the state.
On the flooding in Perlis, he said initial assessments of the losses suffered by padi planters in an area of about 2,335 hectares were estimated at RM2 million and this information had been passed on to the relevant ministries to obtain aid.
"I am satisfied with the service given by the government agencies, non-government bodies and about 1,000 volunteers in Perlis who helped 445 families of flood victims last month, but preparations must be made to manage up to 20,000 flood victims," he said.
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Court quashes land alienation by Sabah government, saying they failed to give sufficient notice to natives claiming native customary rights.
SANDAKAN: Sandakan High Court Judicial Commissioner Douglas Cristo Primus Sikayun has delivered a landmark decision in granting a declaration that the alienation of a parcel of land measuring 500 acres at Kampong Ansuan at Telupid by the Department of Lands and Surveys was null and void.
The Court ruled that the Department had failed to give sufficient notice of the land application to natives claiming native customary rights (NCR) under section 13 of the Sabah Land Ordinance.
The Judicial Commissioner declared that the Director of the Department of Lands & Surveys and the State Government of Sabah had a fiduciary duty to the natives of Sabah in safeguarding their native customary land.
Having considered the evidence adduced at the trial, the learned Judicial Commissioner declared that the native defendants had proved the native customary rights on the land claimed by them.
Under section 13 of the Sabah Land Ordinance, it is specifically provided that upon receipt of any application for unalienated country land, it shall be the duty of the Collector to publish a notice calling upon any claimant to NCR in such land, who is not yet in possession of a registered documentary title, to make or send in a statement of his claim within a date to be specified in the notice, the Court said. If no claim is made the land shall be dealt with as if no such rights existed.
As to the sources of NCR, the Judicial Commissioner referred to, amongst others, Article 9 of the British North Borneo Treaties 1881 which provides that all in the administration of justice to the people of Borneo or to any inhabitants thereof, careful regard shall always be had to the customs and laws of the class or tribe to which the parties belong especially with respect to holding, possession, transfer and disposition of lands and succession.
In 1995, the Department of Lands & Surveys approved and alienated to Sudi Kembang Sdn Bhd, the plaintiff in this suit, with 500 acres of land at Kampong Ansuan in Telupid and a land title in country lease for 99 years was issued to the company in 2001.
Sometime in 2004 when the company started site clearing and developing oil palm plantation in the land, the company found that a portion of the land measuring about 15 acres was being occupied and cultivated by the defendants late father Yahsu Linggis, who was planting oil palm in about 10 acres of the land.
In 2011, Sudi Kembang Sdn Bhd as plaintiff filed this writ action against the defendants Marsius and Alfeus at the Sandakan High Court seeking for an injunction to evict them from the land and claiming damages.
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