The Mother of All Birthday Party Plans
A humorous column on how a wife obsessively plans a four year old's party with themed details and a looming clown reveal. The narrator jokes about rival parties, professional planners, and a Yellow Brick Road mishap, noting tensions and chaos at home. The piece, originally from January 25, 2004, reflects a lighthearted view of modern parenting party culture.
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Editorial excerpts on medical isotopes and U S attorneys
In Albuquerque the piece argues a long ago decision to stop a Sandia nuclear medicine project after $30 million research has caused a US isotope shortage. It notes 90 percent of isotopes were made domestically a dozen years ago but now 90 percent are imported, urging federal involvement to protect health care.
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National Perspective: No ignoring protests by David M. Shribman
President Obama returns to a politics remade by a resurgent Republican Party and a robust if noisy public drawn to town meetings and protests. The piece argues democracy is speech, cites mass demonstrations, and weighs health care debates, government size, and national rights amid a summer of big questions in 2009.
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On This Date Aug 24 in Local History
Ten dates of note from the community archives include 10 years ago in 1989 with Taking Off Pounds Sensibly members earning biggest loser Nellie Mekis and runner up Pam Buck plus numerous 10 and 12 week awards. Also 25 years ago in 1984, Clearfield High School Class of 1939 held a 45 year reunion at the Holiday Inn. 50 years ago in 1959, the Clearfield Hospital Auxiliary Social Committee planned its first fashion show, and 75 years ago in 1934 Curwensville marked a birth and local gatherings including a Frenchville picnic.
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Norma Robinson
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Lina Doran
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Clearfield
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Louise Cathcart Thompson
Nina Lockett Bauman
Ethel Lytle Mayhew
Mary Condon Rolley
Jane Barger
T.J. Stoy
Curwensville
William Farwell
Stock prices of area interest
The change figure represents the change from the previous day's close. The closing prices for stocks of local interest or widely held are sponsored by Advantage Capital Corp.
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