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Artwork shares program participants Creative Gifts
With strips of tape and layers of acrylic paint, individuals in Peaceful Livings Creative Gifts program produce masterpieces.
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HISD gifts: Rockets tickets, phones, fishing trip
The gifts and offers to Houston ISD employees flowed: fishing on a luxury yacht, tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones. Technology vendors vying for business in the Houston Independent School District peppered staff, including former Superintendent Abelardo Saavedra, with perks over several years, according to a federal investigation.
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Gifts from above: The Lake Elmo Inn's tradition of exchanging a drink for an ornament
The Lake Elmo Inn's Christmas trees begin every year naked. The lonely twinkle lights that adorn their bare branches do little to help them stand out against the holiday decorations that will embellish the remainder of the restaurant once the season begins.
stillwatergazette.com
3 Ways to Promote Planned Gifts
How you promote planned gifts is just as important as identifying and cultivating people who want to make a charitable bequest in their wills. The result can be extraordinary, as The Nature Conservancy , the big environmental group in Arlington, Va., has learned.
philanthropy.com
Housewarming gifts for flood-hit Cockermouth residents
FLOOD-HIT Cockermouth residents who have moved back into refurbished properties have been given a £50 housewarming present from the towns Round Table.
www.timesandstar.co.uk
Clark's Hallmark Reader's Choice to buy gifts
Readers choose Clarks Hallmark as best place to buy gifts
www.northjersey.com
Gifts cost Houston schools funding
HOUSTON (AP) Technology vendors bidding for business with the Houston school district gave free tickets to Rockets playoff games, free cell phones and a fishing trip on a yacht to district employees, a law firm hired by the district has found.
lubbockonline.com
Gal pal of generous Viacom boss says she got nothing
Viacom Inc executive chairman Sumner Redstone's news-making gifts to young women are proving irksome to his longtime lady friend, Christine Peters.
news.yahoo.com
Agnes Thulean dedicates estate to youth ministry
Agnes Thulean's gifts to children went full circle after she died last year. She taught the 3-year-old Sunday school class at Grace Presbyterian Church for 62 years. After she died, proceeds from her estate went to renovate headquarters of the South Side Mission's youth ministries and Sunday school.
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W&M raises $43 million in private giving
Private gifts from alumni, parents and friends exceeded $43 million for fiscal year 2010, which ended on June 30.
vagazette.com
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