Business
Cops Save Struggling Doughnut Shop
Posted: 08/08/2009 9:56pm
Business Is Booming in Small Michigan Town as Police Force Embraces Old Stereotype – 07/25/2009
By JEREMY HUBBARD and JAKE WHITMAN
On McEwan Street in downtown Clare, Mich., a half-dozen stores have recently closed their doors. The state's slumping economy has hit businesses hard in this town of 3,000.City Bakery, the local doughnut shop, was set to be the latest casualty. The owner planned to shutter the shop after 113 years in business. But at the last minute, a group of loyal customers stepped in to save the place: The Clare Police Department. You've heard the one about cops and doughnut shops, right? Well, this is ...
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By JEREMY HUBBARD and JAKE WHITMAN
On McEwan Street in downtown Clare, Mich., a half-dozen stores have recently closed their doors. The state's slumping economy has hit businesses hard in this town of 3,000.City Bakery, the local doughnut shop, was set to be the latest casualty. The owner planned to shutter the shop after 113 years in business. But at the last minute, a group of loyal customers stepped in to save the place: The Clare Police Department. You've heard the one about cops and doughnut shops, right? Well, this is ...
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Rapping Flight Attendant
Posted: 08/08/2009 9:53pm
At Work Rap Act – 08/08/2009
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Here's a good way to keep your job interesting!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVcnJ5iLqs ...
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Here's a good way to keep your job interesting!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVcnJ5iLqs ...
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Adam Williams: Restaurateur reinvents himself in hard times
Posted: 08/08/2009 9:13pm
After close call in Mississippi, he finds a new life in northern Indiana – 07/15/2009
By Mike Stuckey
ELKHART, Ind.—Adam Williams’ improbable journey to Elkhart began in a hail of bullets on a dark road in the Mississippi Delta at 2 a.m. one morning in 1992.“I just didn’t even believe it was happening,” said Williams, 35, who with his wife, Maggie, 31, now owns two popular Elkhart restaurants and is planning to open a third.Leaving a nightclub with his brother, sister and sister’s boyfriend, Williams watched what seemed like a surreal slow-motion video as two ...
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By Mike Stuckey
ELKHART, Ind.—Adam Williams’ improbable journey to Elkhart began in a hail of bullets on a dark road in the Mississippi Delta at 2 a.m. one morning in 1992.“I just didn’t even believe it was happening,” said Williams, 35, who with his wife, Maggie, 31, now owns two popular Elkhart restaurants and is planning to open a third.Leaving a nightclub with his brother, sister and sister’s boyfriend, Williams watched what seemed like a surreal slow-motion video as two ...
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Getting everyone aboard The Smile Train
Posted: 08/08/2009 9:08pm
The charity is successful in large part because it's run like a business – 05/04/2009
By Jennifer Wang
The Smile Train, founded in 1999 by Brian Mullaney, 49, and Charles Wang, 64, operates a little differently than your average charity. The difference is that Mullaney runs the nonprofit organization — which is making enormous strides in eliminating cleft lip and cleft palate among children in developing countries —like a for-profit enterprise and draws on his former experience in the corporate world to maximize efficiency and effectiveness."We pay market salaries," he says....
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By Jennifer Wang
The Smile Train, founded in 1999 by Brian Mullaney, 49, and Charles Wang, 64, operates a little differently than your average charity. The difference is that Mullaney runs the nonprofit organization — which is making enormous strides in eliminating cleft lip and cleft palate among children in developing countries —like a for-profit enterprise and draws on his former experience in the corporate world to maximize efficiency and effectiveness."We pay market salaries," he says....
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We want your Nice News
Posted: 08/08/2009 9:03pm
Business Sucesses, ideas... – 08/08/2009
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We want your nice news!!! Please send us your stories, videos, pictures, cartoons... We would love to hear from you. Email us at info@nicenewsnow.org...
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We want your nice news!!! Please send us your stories, videos, pictures, cartoons... We would love to hear from you. Email us at info@nicenewsnow.org...
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The rewards of volunteering
Posted: 08/08/2009 8:59pm
Doing good for others has mental and physical health benefits, researchers say. – 08/10/2009
By Valerie Ulene
For more than 20 years, Penny and Ted Landreth have been feeding the hungry and homeless. It's not glamorous work. Afternoons, they -- along with a small but formidable group of volunteers -- prepare dinner using whatever food donations they happen to have on hand. The couple then head for the corner of Romaine Street and Sycamore Avenue in Los Angeles, where up to 150 men and women wait for what may be their only meal of the day.The benefits of Penny and Ted's hard work are obvious. The organiz...
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By Valerie Ulene
For more than 20 years, Penny and Ted Landreth have been feeding the hungry and homeless. It's not glamorous work. Afternoons, they -- along with a small but formidable group of volunteers -- prepare dinner using whatever food donations they happen to have on hand. The couple then head for the corner of Romaine Street and Sycamore Avenue in Los Angeles, where up to 150 men and women wait for what may be their only meal of the day.The benefits of Penny and Ted's hard work are obvious. The organiz...
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