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Nowhere was that more evident on Saturday than in the village of Walnut Bottom, where hundreds from the local community once again turned out to support the annual chicken barbecue and Memorial Day parade.
People proudly displayed patriotic decorations down Main Street and waved mini American flags as area veterans marched on by, beginning near Kar-Tunes [...]

Holidaymakers at one of the country’s busiest resorts say it is so filthy and unsafe it should be shut down.
Waingaro Hot Springs, west of Ngaruawahia, has previously been criticised by the coroner and water safety experts after a child drowned there.
Now there are fresh calls for the Waikato District Council which owns the lease of [...]

A Christchurch family are devastated their 20-year-old cat was handed to the SPCA and killed before they had a chance to save it.
The Clarke family of Halswell had Krumpet for 20 years.
Last Tuesday, father Gwyn Clarke was shocked to come home from work and find a note in his letterbox saying their female ginger cat [...]

Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - She’s been nominated for an Oscar,
is busier than many actresses twice her age and has been named
“Female Star of Tomorrow.”
But for Abigail Breslin, the “Little Miss Sunshine” star
who turns 12 next month, making movies is still all about
having fun and just being [...]

By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six Pulitzer
Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public Service
award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war veterans at
America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won for “exposing
the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed [...]

(Adds Washington Post and Reuters comment)
By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six
Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public
Service award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war
veterans at America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 92nd annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced on Monday.
The following is a list of the winners:
PUBLIC SERVICE — The Washington Post staff for exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms.
BREAKING NEWS REPORTING [...]

Re: Mayor Proposes Drive-thru Tax April 1.
I am a young mother of two in a lower-middle income family. Drive-thrus are a blessing to me.
I use the drive-thru teller machine at my local bank almost daily.
As most mothers know, having to drag your children into a bank and then wait in the gruelling line-up with them [...]

As a war veteran, it’s hard for me not to notice the United States has lost 4,000 young soldiers, and not say a word about it. Canada’s mortality rate in the same war on terror is rising as well.
Whether it’s a teenager just out of high school or a seasoned staff
sergeant or officer, one [...]