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2007
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The San Lorenzo Spiritual Center was recently rewarded the Galing Bayanihang Pilipino award (Spirit of Cooperation). This is a national award and Rev. Leo Manalo will go to the Phillipines this week to compete for the international award. We wish him luck. The award is for helping to promote t...
11/24/2007
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Chesapeake city council said no to the ethanol plant Residents from Portsmouth and Chespeake spoke in droves at a recemt council meeting about the proposed plant and not many were for it. The owner of the property was disappointed but will move on. There are plenty of other commercial enterpr...
11/24/2007
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Interstate I664 and the North U.S. 17 exit ramp will be closed for a week. Why you ask? Because the train tracks are being moved just a bit. In fact it is happening in several cities. The tracks are being moved to the median so that that there aren't as many at grade crossings. Why now? Bec...
11/23/2007
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City officials hammered out an agreement with Bon Secours that gives them a 64 bed hospital down from a 238 bed hospital and they are happy. Originally Bon Secours was only going to give 54 beds. Of course these beds won't be lost, they will be transferred to Suffolk and Virginia Beach where th...
11/23/2007
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This is the last rose of the season. How sad but it is the beginning of a new season. I shall see what type of flowers I can find in the cold season around here. Please share your "last of the season" pictures. I did do a bit of photo shopping to make the background darker.
11/23/2007
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First it was no smoking and now its no trucks. Trucks have been banned from Hampton Blvd during certain parts of the day. This is to aid congestion for the residents of West Ghent. It remains to be seen how much relief this will provide. It seems like around here, if there is an open spot for...
11/22/2007
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First its' no cursing, blocking intersections, no feeding the birds, no watering, no smoking and now its no trees. Many years back hundreds of volunteers planted trees along a canal by London Bridge and Lynnhaven Parkway. The idea was to improve the water quality of the canal. The water qualit...
11/22/2007
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I had a closing today with a gentlemen from London, England and he said he was glad he wasn't Gazumped. I said no one sneezed. No he said Gazumped. We were stumped so we asked for an explanation. Gazumping is when a buyer has an offer accepted by the seller but is then outbidded by a rival b...
11/21/2007
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Do you know where Little Creek is or what it is supposed to be? Today it is an amphibious base, an elementary school in Norfolk and a creek that meanders through parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Originally it was the creek that through which the boaters from the Lynhaven River reached the C...
11/13/2007
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Do you know where Little Creek is or what it is supposed to be? Today it is an amphibious base, an elementary school in Norfolk and a creek that meanders through parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. Originally it was the creek that through which the boaters from the Lynhaven River reached the C...
11/13/2007