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Lady Buffs volleyball team drops pair of matches

Garden City High School volleyball coach Bob Schmitz knew his team’s season-opening matches on the road at Salina Central would be an eye-opener for some of his newer varsity players.

He just didn’t know how much until the Buffs headed home Tuesday night on the heels of two losses to Central (25-22, 25-17) and to Top-10 ranked Class 5A Newton (25-12,cheap tiffany jewellery, 25-14).

Wooden taught Tucsonan how to be true ‘gentleman’

The timing couldn’t have been any better than to grow up 15 miles from UCLA’s campus and to be a high school basketball star in the winter of 1963-64.

The Bruins won their first NCAA title that season, 30-0, and if you were Don Saffer, averaging 26.1 points for Westchester High School, you could look into the bleachers some nights and see UCLA’s John Wooden or USC’s Forrest Twogood and sometimes a coach from Stanford and Cal.

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College Dreams Come True for Three Outstanding Boy

What do a girl from New Mexico, a boy from Kansas and a girl from Germany all have in common? These three teens from various Boys & Girls Clubs across the world have all received the opportunity of a lifetime – four-year, full-tuition scholarships from Marquette University. Marquette, located in Milwaukee, Wis., partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America last year to offer scholarships to Club teens who have been selected as Youth of the Year winners.

Auburn men, Georgia women lead: Vols, Lady Vols have long haul at SEC meet

LSU threw down the challenge early in the men’s team race as the SEC Outdoor Track discount tiffany Field Championships heated up Friday at Tom Black Track.

When an answer came late, it wasn’t from defending champion Arkansas but, rather, from Auburn.

And in between, Florida’s hopes were boosted by Gray Horn’s come-from-behind [...]

Ladies Lunch for Women In Science at Rockefeller

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One of the more interesting and no doubt informative events on the ladies-who-lunch merry-go-round is the annual Women & Science Lecture and Luncheon at Rockefeller University on the Upper East Side.

This year’s [...]

Fox Fine Jewelry’s New Free Necklace Campaign Raises Money for Charity

Participating businesses will give away two free necklaces to each jobless person–one to keep and one to give away. The jewelry is designed to be given to family, friends, people in need, or people who do a good deed, uniting the employed with the unemployed because it is worn and given away [...]

Bridge beween what is fashion and what is fine

Claire Adler on the delicate process of quietly pricing down

Earlier this year, nearly two-thirds of respondents to a Luxury Institute survey, agreed that pricing of exclusive brands is too high for the value they deliver.

Then last month, the institute released research confirming that jewellery is the category on which wealthy consumers are [...]

The Economy: Zale Corp. to Resume Tanzanite-Jewelry Sales

Zale Corp. said it decided to resume sales of tanzanite, after the jewelry industry and Tanzanian government implemented plans that they say should prevent trading in the popular gemstone from benefiting terrorists.

“We have given the green light to our divisions and buyers to go forward with tanzanite orders for the coming [...]

Prickett’s Fort Offers Glimpse of Christmas on Frontier

Prickett’s Fort State Park, the historical and recreational park in Fairmont, is planning its annual 18th century Christmas Market one weekend only this year – and that’s not all that’s different.

It has been scheduled for Dec. 11-13 to coincide with Main Street Fairmont’s Feast buy tiffany of the Seven Fishes Festival [...]

Christmas tree permits now available

Permits to cut a Christmas tree on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest are silver jewellery available for sale at local Forest Service offices and several commercial outlets.

Permits cost $5 each and are valid for the cutting of one tree up to 20 feet tall on national forest land. The permit does not authorize [...]