Thursday, February 1, 2007

Beef jerky - Marine's family learns kinship of war

EDITOR'S NOTE: The war in Iraq hit home in Lorain County last fall with headlines about a local Marine, Lance Corporal Colin Smith, 19, being seriously wounded by an Iraqi sniper near the town of Fallujah. Smith, a 2005 graduate of Avon Lake High School, was shot in the head.
Road kill We've had bad road trips, but the time we ran short on cash in Wisconsin and had to eat Ho Hos and beef jerky from the Kwik Trip for breakfast, lunch and dinner doesn't even compare to "Arm Soup: the Story of How Five People Went West and Ate Each Other."
Nov. 30 A man at a motel in the 600 block of California reported at 9:30 p.m. he got drunk at a local bar the night before. When he awoke the next morning all his money and his cell phone wer...
An SIUE junior is asking for help to bring a touch of home to those serving overseas. Lori and Jeremy Roberts of Waterloo were married four days before she left in October, 2004, with her unit for Kuwait.
The new sculpture park's front row is occupied by a pair of unlikely (and uninterested) neighbors.
I was 4 years old the first time I tasted beef jerky. I had consumed the slaughtered before, in the form of steak, pork chops and so on, but never before were these sacrificed animals so satisfying.
(Holland, OH) --- On Sunday residents in Holland gathered for a spaghetti dinner to raise money to send care packages to our troops overseas.
The VFW Auxiliary is preparing to ship boxes to troops overseas for Valentines Day. To prepare, they are asking for names and addresses of troops to send the boxes to, as well as donations.
Brier thursday: Officials at Brier Terrace Middle School reported a 14-year-old student was in possession of a knife and fireworks. Police confiscated the items...