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...base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors, was done...
Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, "I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
Kitchin said the house office informed him of the fire code violation Wednesday morning in a written memo dated March 21. The cost of installing the alarm was estimated to be $2500 by the house office, Kitchin said...
Kitchin said that Dunster Superintendent James Hayes had told him that the house would try to obtain emergency funding from the University to cover the cost of the fire alarm. Hayes was on vacation and was unavailable for comment yesterday...
...impression I've been given is that [the installation of the fire alarm] is going to happen, but I have not been told very much," Kitchin said...