The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) back issues from April 2009:
leftovers.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... What's the claim? Features a bold flavor combination of green bell peppers, onions, black beans and spices. Made using free-range organic chicken fed an organic diet, with no growth hormones or antibiotics. Describe the taste Bold is right! This soup was very spicy to me - I ...
Garden clubs awarded by area council.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Mary Sue Floyd Special to Your Corner Churchland Local garden clubs were recognized at the annual awards meeting of the Portsmouth Area Council of Garden Clubs. Green Meadow Point won first place for scrapbook, second place for yearbook and ...
Usher in spring with some of these refreshing whites.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... MARKETING REPS make it possible for me to taste a lot of wines that are new to me or that I haven't sampled in years. This is good, even if it means sitting through a three-hour pitch from a wine salesman who has brought along two dollies full of samples. Friends, including ...
cook it.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... desperation dinners WE FIRST HEARD about making risotto in the microwave 22 years ago, and people are still talking about it. Few recipes excite experienced food lovers to this degree, and in her 1987 cookbook "Microwave Gourmet," Barbara Kafka indeed hit on something ...
happy birthday, alfred e. neuman.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies and neighbors, or ...
Toss in fresh lettuce from farm markets.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Produce Fix a fresh spring salad with Howard Piland's arugula, tender young lettuces and spring onions. Piland also is cutting collards these days. You can find Piland at Five Points Community Farm Market on Church Street in Norfolk, where he also sells Dave and Dee's Homegrown Mushrooms ....
Atlas is now serving in Bennetts Creek.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... got tips? New restaurants, new dishes, new chefs - we want to hear from you when you find a great place to eat. E-mail us at yourcorner@pilotonline.com By Michele Emerick Special to Your Corner North Suffolk Atlas Pizza, in the building ...
Couple opens a cool place to have frozen treat in W. Branch Headline goes here about this long.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Phyllis Johnson Correspondent Western Branch Do you ever find yourself full of indecision? I was in that quandary the day after the grand opening of Rita's Ice at Chesapeake Square Shoppes off Taylor Road. There's a myriad of flavors. They ...
Churchland ties to poetry fest go way back.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Portsmouth played a part in the 16th annual Chesapeake Poetry Festival at Russell Memorial Library. The library began in 1963 in a back room of A.W. Johnson's store in Churchland. A year later, space was leased in the Churchland Shopping Center. In January 1968, 10 miles of Western Branch ...
Brrr. anxiously awaiting spring.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... It seems the weather can't decide if it's spring or winter. During a recent week we had both snow and a day fit for going to the beach. I moved my winter clothes to another closet and brought my spring and summer pieces into the bedroom closet, but I think someone failed to tell Mother ...
Your Corner on the Web; here's where to find us now Local news and fun for Western Branch, North Suffolk and Churchland, distributed every Wednesday. You can help us "co-pilot" the section, too. Send articles and ideas to Ron Crow at ron.crow@pilotonline.com or call 477-5695.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Your Corner is online again. Find stories about your neighbors at hamptonroads.com, or more specifically, hamptonroads.com/tags/yourcorner. If you bookmark this page, you'll see an archive of everything we post from Your Corner. You won't see our blogs there, though. Those will ...
crime report crime report.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... CHURCHLAND March 19 4000 block of River Shore Road, threaten bodily harm March 20 3700 block of Academy Ave., burglary, residential 3600 block of Gateway Drive, larceny from motor vehicle 4000 block of River Shore Road, ...
In uranium study, ensure independence.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... EVERY ASPECT of a study on uranium mining is going to be radioactive, and that's particularly true for the money needed to fund the project. The best option would be for the state to underwrite the $1 million-plus needed to guarantee a thorough analysis by the respected ...
for whiz kid, illness is just another problem to solve.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Pair up, Julie Manthey told the students in her Old Dominion University writing class. Critique your partner's work and discuss it . Manthey walked among the college students as they huddled. Spencer Lane, in his gray ODU sweatshirt, shades perched on his head, blended in. He's ...
around your corner Candidates begin the glad-handing www.yourcorner.com western branch north suffolk churchland.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Pamela Nichols Correspondent Churchland The Portsmouth Democratic Committee invited the public to meet state and local candidates for upcoming elections. It was an opportunity for voters to hear directly from office-seekers on important ...
Portsmouth, Suffolk have two of highest dropout rates.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Officials tracked individual students who first entered ninth grade in the 2004-05 school year for four years. Each student, including those who transferred into a Virginia public high school, was assigned an ID number. Students who left school without graduating or finishing an approved ...
Green Pine club members place at district flower show.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Joan Wedgewood Special to Your Corner Churchland Several awards were given to members of Churchland's Green Pine Garden Club at the recent Tidewater District Flower Show at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in mid-February. The theme of ...
Adventures in India.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Editor's note: Remember Geoff Payne, our philanthropic neighbor who ventured to India for six weeks of firsthand experience in microfinance with the Foundation for Sustainable Development? We've gotten e-mail and photos from him that describe his typical day in Udaipur, a city of half ...
Brrraving the chill to finish the race.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Pete Freas Special to Your Corner Western Branch I have discovered a colder public event of marvelous stupidity than the Polar Plunge (which, at its worst, is frigid for but a moment). Yesterday morning (March 22) I awoke at 4 and drove to Virginia ...
WwJE What would jesus eat? What would jesus eat?(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Lorraine Eaton The Virginian-Pilot Easter dinner can be such a yawner. A bowling ball-sized ham decorated with pineapple slices, a bowl of potato salad, a dainty plate of deviled eggs. For those celebrating Easter this year, why not skip all ...
young chef dreams of being the next food network star.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Theresa Curry Correspondent He was only 2 years old when he had a vision for his future. Dylan Ashton-Clabbers saw Emeril Lagasse on television and wanted to be just like him. That's his earliest memory of wanting to cook, says the Virginia Beach ...
chicken salad with a kick.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Stephanie Witt Sedgwick Special to The Washington Post I'm always looking for new ways to make chicken salad, especially ones that don't involve creamy, mayonnaise-based dressings. This salad looks as good as it tastes. The main ingredient, which is ...
Welcome, AL Central.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... If the White Sox follow this division's recent trend of finishing first one year, then watching the playoffs on TV the next, Ozzie Guillen is sure to be muy furioso. Well, he will anyway, because this season could drive him crazy. There are five teams, and five legitimate contenders. Even ...
Fort could be part of 'Historic Quadrangle'.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By STEVEN T. CORNELIUSSEN GIVEN Hampton Roads' evolving Civil War tourism assets, why not expand the Historic Triangle to become the Historic Quadrangle? Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown present America's origins as a nation built on ideas, not ethnicity. But that ...
Humane society has Driver office.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Kay Hurley Correspondent Driver Suffolk Humane Society will open a temporary office at 3118 Kings Hwy. next to Arthur's General Store in the village of Driver. Volunteers will staff the office Monday through Friday. The building, severely ...
The true alpha driver cruises past cameras with skill alone.(Daily Break)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The light at the intersection is yellow as I approach. "Going for it," I bark to whomever else is in the car. I make this declaration to pre-empt any "Are you crazy?" chatter. I am not crazy. I am the sanest person on the road. I am the alpha driver. Other cars follow my lead, ...
Home-schoolers happy to grow and learn together.(YSports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By AnnaLisa Michalski Correspondent North Suffolk In the past, home-schoolers generally were of two opposite groups: those who wanted a strictly religious curriculum, or those who valued liberal, commune-style schooling. Today's home-school population is ...
Don't dismiss private property rights Cape Henry property owners aren't asking taxpayers to pay.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The editorial board of The Pilot recently wrote that Cape Henry Beach properties located in Virginia Beach belong, by deed, to private owners. Yet, amazingly, that same opinion stated that such ownership is a mere technicality regarding private property rights. It appears the ...
Your fabric leftovers could become clothes or quilts for someone in need.(Daily Break)
Apr 01, 2009 ... NEVER should good, unused fabric be tossed, because someone else might want it. I am guilty of this misjudgment and have been wallowing in guilt ever since calls and e-mails started coming in after a readerAEs inquiry about where she could donate her fabric. It may ...
(want to save money) I do.(Daily Break)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Courtney Hollands The Boston Globe Sarah Corente panicked. The budget-minded bride-to-be had just received a florist's estimate on her wedding flowers - and it was about 10 times what she wanted to spend. "I just couldn't justify spending ...
worthy program to benefit veterans.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... AN AMBITIOUS and timely plan to broaden the work of AmeriCorps now includes a new avenue for military veterans to lend a hand to other veterans, active-duty troops and their families. In recent weeks, Congress has been working on measures that would eventually increase the ...
Local athletes will vie here with best of U.S. best for national titles.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Kyle Tucker The Virginian-Pilot For the next five days, hundreds of the nation's best high school wrestlers will invade Hampton Roads, with dozens of local athletes joining the fray, all in pursuit of national titles and All-America honors. Four ...
WexTrust receiver pitches plan for assets.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Tom Shean The Virginian-Pilot A receiver overseeing the crippled investment company WexTrust Capital and its affiliates is asking a federal court to approve his plan for distributing the companies' assets to investors based on the amounts they put into WexTrust ...
Shorthand for spring.(Daily Break)
Apr 01, 2009 ... FIFTY YEARS WORTH OF CHEERY, campy Lilly Pulitzer prints have become an icon for spring and summer fashion. Some are sweet (flowers and palm trees) and others are sassy (streakers and martini glasses), but there's never been a print repeated for a second season. \uF0CB They're similar ...
Car dealer in chief.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... SOME COMPANIES are in the steel business, some are in the cookie business, but General Motors is in the restructuring business. For 30 years, GM has been restructuring itself toward long-term viability. For all these years, GM's market share has endured a long, steady slide. But ...
Officials seek options besides trash fee.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Mike Saewitz The Virginian-Pilot chesapeake A majority of the City Council wants an alternative to a proposed $16 monthly trash and recycling fee . City Manager William Harrell has recommended the fee to help Chesapeake pay for an expected ...
abuse and neglect charge dropped.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Janie Bryant The Virginian-Pilot PORTSMOUTH A charge of abuse and neglect of an incapacitated adult brought against the daughter of a man with Alzheimer's disease was dismissed Tuesday. Judge Joel P. Crowe dismissed the charge against Lisa ...
your views.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... the new institutions I APPLAUD Sen. Jim Webb's campaign to overhaul the criminal justice system. We need to ask ourselves what is the root cause of the explosion in the jail and prison populations. One cause can be traced to the institutionalization of the mentally ill and ...
Destroyers' role in focus as world monitors N. Korea.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Meredith Kruse The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK Just 18 Navy ships have the ability to destroy a ballistic missile hurtling through the air at thousands of miles per hour. At least one of them is waiting in the Pacific Ocean to monitor the ...
smithfield to use only pigs from the u.s.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Philip Walzer The Virginian-Pilot Smithfield Foods Inc. will soon be able to certify that all of its products are "born in the U.S.A." Canadian-bacon lovers, don't worry: You'll still be able to get your fill. This month , Smithfield will ...
norris hall to reopen.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Denise Watson Batts The Virginian-Pilot The portion of Virginia Tech's Norris Hall that became the site of horrifying violence nearly two years ago will soon reopen with a focus on the study of peace . The west wing of the building's second floor, where ...
Utility proposes boosting its rates.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Carolyn Shapiro The Virginian-Pilot Electricity bills would go down, then up, under a series of rate changes that Dominion Virginia Power has proposed. The changes, which would roll out over 10 months starting in July, would mean a 6.9 percent increase ...
SPSA cleared for work moving dirt at landfill.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Dave Forster The Virginian-Pilot SUFFOLK The city has allowed SPSA to resume a dirt-moving operation at its landfill, ending an impasse that the regional trash authority said could cost it more than $250,000. The city had ordered the ...
Suitcase murder becomes forensic learning example.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Michelle Washington The Virginian-Pilot Virginia beach Elizabeth Dunton idled in her marked Virginia Beach police vehicle at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel toll booth, an entourage of detectives and forensics examiners waiting in cars strung out ...
Kaine pushes voluntary power cuts.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Scott Harper and Julian Walker The Virginian-Pilot richmond Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took action Tuesday on a slate of clean-energy and energy-conservation bills, signing seven into law and amending three others. Collectively, the ...
trio accused in $1.5M Identity-theft scam.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK Three people face a federal indictment charging them with defrauding USAA out of more than $1.5 million in a three-year-long identity-theft scheme targeting service members. Bruce W. Bridges and Pamela ...
kaine to restore some aid to whro.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Philip Walzer The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's budget amendments probably will restore $200,000 in state funding to WHRO next year, its president said Tuesday . "It's a good day," said Bert Schmidt, president and CEO of ...
Landowners dealt a delay in suit against hunting club.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Lee Tolliver The Virginian-Pilot ISLE OF WIGHT county A court case pitting Isle of Wight landowners against a local hunt club was continued by Judge Westbrook J. Parker on Tuesday. No date has yet been set to continue the civil trespassing ...
Meteor likely caused 'big bang' heard in region.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... From staff reports THe "Big Bang" on Sunday night appears to have been caused by a meteor, not a leftover bit of Russian rocket. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said Tuesday evening that it believes the rocket booster fell ...
Vick settles with Falcons.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Tim McGlone The Virginian-Pilot SUFFOLK Michael Vick has agreed to pay the Atlanta Falcons between $6.5 million and$7.5 million to settle his contract dispute, clearing the way for his release from the team, according to bankruptcy court filings. ...
transfer has had a ripple effect on monarchs' moves.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... NORFOLK | Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder is convinced that one player has improved the talent level at two positions this spring. Halfway through spring drills and with seven practices remaining, the addition of junior college transfer lineman Jeremy Hensley has had a ripple ...
King's Fork standout to play on national TV.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Rainer Sabin The Virginian-Pilot Sugar Rodgers wowed fans in Southeast Virginia for four years. Tonight, the King's Fork senior will have a chance to dazzle a national television audience. Rodgers will take the court at the BankUnited Center in Miami during the ...
Sports provide a release in the most dangerous of locations.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... Feel free to stop me on the street and complain about your NCAA tournament selections, how they went south faster than General Motors stock, but forgive me if I don't express a great deal of sympathy. All I'm liable to say is, "At least you haven't been fired on." ...
hokies look to bloom in start of spring practice.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Kyle Tucker The Virginian-Pilot Frank Beamer balks a bit when people start talking about his Virginia Tech team as 2009 national title contender. Not that he doesn't have lofty goals. It's just the Hokies have a few questions to answer between now and then. ...
Bennett's pay will be 4th-best in ACC.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Doug Doughty The Roanoke Times Virginia's selection of Tony Bennett as its new men's basketball coach has put an end to speculation that the Cavaliers might be willing to shell out $3\\million per year for Minnesota coach Tubby Smith. That doesn't mean ...
Simpsons to appear on stamps The Simpsons on postage stamps? D'oh!(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Associated Press WASHINGTON Don't have a cow, man! The Simpsons will appear on postage stamps. America's most enduring - or is that endearing - dysfunctional family will be honored on their own stamps, the Postal Service has announced. ...
nation.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... GAO report: Deny AIG $30B bailout The Treasury Department should deny American International Group Inc. a $30 billion "contingency" bailout until AIG agrees to take back millions in bonuses and negotiate cheaper exits from its financial contracts, congressional auditors said ...
bon secours sites now tobacco-free.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Virginian-Pilot Starting today, all Bon Secours Hampton Roads hospitals and outpatient surgery centers are tobacco-free. DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk, Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News and Bon Secours Health Center in Virginia Beach become tobacco-free ...
Board advances with plans for school.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Cheryl Ross The Virginian-Pilot PORTSMOUTH The school division will begin negotiations with developer Concord Eastridge to build a new Simonsdale Elementary School. School Board members voted 5-1 in favor of taking the next step with the ...
Brown's single with bases full lifts Kellam.(Sports)
Apr 01, 2009 ... BASEBALL Kellam 7, Kempsville 6 George Brown's two-out single with the bases loaded in the seventh salvaged a Beach District victory for the No. 6 Knights (4-1) on Tuesday. Brown also smacked a solo home run in the sixth. First Colonial 9, ...
A DWI charge, without leaving his bar stool.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... The Associated Press NEWARK, Ohio Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, said that when they responded to a report of a crash on March 4, they ...
so i was thinking...(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO Opening a car trunk or controlling a home air conditioner could become just a wish away with Honda's new technology that connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics. Honda Motor Co. has developed a ...
SPSA to get new board by Jan. 1 under new state regulatory law.(Local)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Julian Walker The Virginian-Pilot RICHMOND A shake-up is coming to SPSA. The financially troubled regional trash authority is slated to get a new board by Jan. 1 and faces greater state oversight . Those changes, the result of recently ...
AmeriCorps gets big legislative boost.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... By Ann Sanner The Associated Press WASHINGTON Tens of thousands of Americans, from teenagers to baby boomers, soon will get a fresh chance to lend a helping hand in a time of need. The House voted 275-149 on Tuesday for a $5.7 billion bill that ...
Woman in chimp attack is improving.(Front)
Apr 01, 2009 ... A CONNECTICUT woman nearly killed by a chimpanzee is speaking, asking for her daughter and responding to fairly complicated commands, her brothers said Tuesday. Stephen and Michael Nash said they are encouraged by test results ...