Leap year stories wanted for Syracuse features
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 2000
Page
8
Readers invited to share unusual leap year experiences and celebrations tied to Feb 29. Email features@syracuse.com or call Jim Reilly at 470-3059 to submit your story for a special Feb 29 feature.
A satirical notice describes a Love Police crackdown on Valentine offenders. It directs readers to a Love Police website to issue playful e mail citations and traffic vouchers for forgotten Valentines, offering 150 "Love Cries" and a humorous Department of Complions for offenders.
The Great Backyard Bird Count runs Friday through Monday with help from the National Audubon Society and Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Families, individuals, classrooms and bird watchers of all ages count birds in back yards and parks and enter data online at birdsource.org. For information call Cornell at 800 843 2473.
The piece notes over ten thousand beauty products are introduced yearly and Chanel Beauty highlights a vast market. It outlines a global beauty spend around 520 billion dollars annually, stressing high value and intense competition in product development and branding.
Camp Good Days campers from University Hospital attended the Backstreet Boys concert at Albany Pepsi Arena with two chaperones. Tickets donated by Dave Pretowska funded the event, and the girls traveled by limousine to the show.
Dinosaurs invade the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse with large animatronic beasts as part of the "Dinomamia" exhibit. The show runs through June 6 with free admission under the museum hall ticket. MAX film tickets cost 9.75 for adults and 7.75 for children and seniors. The MOST is open Tuesday through Sunday 11 am to 5 pm and offers evening films Thursday to Saturday.
Stars magazine previews a multi-image exhibit titled Hair in African Art and Culture at the Museum for African Art in New York City, running through May 28. The piece notes dreadlocks as a global fashion and cultural signifier, tracing history from spirituality to modern pride amid diverse figures and media.
In May 1958 7-foot Walt Chamberlain left college basketball after a standout Kansas career to join the Harlem Globetrotters for a single season, avoiding NBA rules for underclassmen. He toured as America’s basketball ambassador, enjoying a pressure-free year and memories of European cities, before his famed NBA run.
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