| CandyCot Dried Apricots Prove To Be Especially Sweet: Third World ...
CandyCot apricots, a dried fruit snack made from especially sweet heirloom apricots found in Central Asia, are helping farmers create a brighter economic future. Now these amazing apricots are available online. Each box of apricots help third world farm owners provide stable lifestyles for their families through the planting, harvesting, and natural drying process involved in creating the gourmet dried apricots. As a food connoisseur, Myron Stoltzfus has always enjoyed finding unique, one-of-a-kind foods. Now that he has paired that passion with an online store providing third world relief, his CandyCot dried apricots are truly unique. With the help of these super-sweet CandyCot dried apricots, Central Asian fruit farmers have experienced greater markets for their own farms. They can now make a living planting, harvesting, and naturally drying the heirloom apricots that are enjoyed by people around the world.
Namibia: Mining - is Country a Good Place to Be?
Sherbourne was speaking on Friday at the Chamber of Mines Gala Dinner on the topic "Adding Value to Namibia's Minerals". Namibia is blessed with an abundance of mineral resources such as gold, uranium, fluorspar, zinc, copper, salt, diamonds and lead. And adding value to these minerals, as with other raw materials produced locally, has been the Government's long-standing objective. But since independence, Sherbourne noted, despite the royalties on rough diamonds and generous tax incentives for manufacturers and exporters together with conducive legislation, the country has not done much in stimulating value addition. This is with the exception of a zinc refinery, cutting and polishing and stone processing. Instead of Namibia asking how it could add value to its minerals, it should rather ask whether it could offer the world a good place to process minerals.
Central Park Pizza, a grand slam
Batter up! Spring training is over. The outfield is green. And Major League Baseball has brought back the boys of summer for another exciting season. While everyone's trying to figure out how to get out of the stadium parking lot, why not spend your time improving your swing and catching a great meal? Central Park Pizza may be hidden in the Batcade, but the food is definitely out of the park.On my first visit to Central Park Pizza, I took a group of friends more interested in taking their cuts in the batting cages than eating from what they assumed would be typical concession-stand fare. If your line-up card included over-priced hot dogs and nachos, you should have headed for Chavez Ravine.Central Park Pizza has an Italian-based menu that rivals that of any formal restaurant. Sure, there are plastic tables and chairs, but who needs linen tablecloths and a wine list when you can enjoy fettuccine Alfredo in a splash of white wine or chicken Marsala marinara with fresh basil in a sweet wine, tomato and herb sauce? Plus, they serve gourmet pizzas and sandwiches.We ordered a couple of pizzas.
Gate Gourmet credit improves
The airline caterer Gate Gourmet, which has an operation in Honolulu, has won a credit rating upgrade from one of the major credit rating services. Moody's has affirmed the Reston, Va.-based company's corporate rating at B2 and upgraded two loan facilities one notch apiece, to B1 and B3, respectively. .
Events Calendar for April 19, 2007
Features familiar folk songs such as "Shenandoah,'' jazz selections including Manhattan Transfer's arrangement of "A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square,'' and nursery rhymes such as "Humpty Dumpty'' and "Old Mother Hubbard.'' Tickets $20 for adults, $15 seniors and $5 students. Available at Andover Bookstore, Rogers Center box office and at the door the night of the event.Sunday, May 6March of Dimes walk, 9 a.m. with registration at 8 a.m. at 600 Federal St., Andover. Walk supports the effort to stamp out premature birth, which is the leading cause of death of newborns. Premature birth also poses serious threats to an infant's health. More information is available by calling Elizabeth Blackman at 508-329-2800.Quota International of Andover Walk-A-Thon, 10 a.m. at Old Town Hall, 20 Main St, to benefit service programs.
Red Robin burgers come bobbin' along
A new casual dining restaurant, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, will open next month at Brannon Crossing on Nicholasville Road. The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based chain, with more than 300 restaurants in the United States and Canada, serves 22 burgers with bottomless steak fries. Take a look at the menu at www.redrobin.com. A taste of Thai dancing Taste of Thai, 101 West Main Street, will present a traditional Thai dancer during tonight's Gallery Hop. Juthamard "Loknok" Suan-Udom will perform the candle, lotus and heaven dances from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Suan-Udom is a graduate of the College of Dramatic Arts in Thailand. Call (859) 388-9500. 2nd farmers market reopens The Blue Grass Farmers Market will open Saturday on Richmond Road.
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