| A 'belle' in bronze
The small, empty bamboo chair was found at an antique shop and sat around for months while Savannah sculpture artist Susie Chisholm awaited inspiration. "I wanted to put someone in that chair. I just didn't know who," Chisholm said. Then it came to her: "My Aunt Polly, she's the embodiment of all that is a Southern Belle." Aunt Polly is Polly Brooks, 92, a resident of Isle of Hope and the inspiration for Chisholm's sculpture of a gentile woman sitting in the chair. The sculptor wanted the subject to look as if she had just come from her garden, so she had Brooks pose for her several times with a gardening hat and flowers in her lap. "She is the figure of true Southern times that are leaving us," Chisholm said. Satisfied with the pose, she took photos of her and came back to her studio in City Market to go to work.
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By now, if it hasn't been already, it's blatantly obvious the shareholders and directors of FPI see the company as no more than a piece of real estate on which to make a return on their investment. It is obvious, the shareholders and directors have no interest in the fishing business in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Then along comes Bill Barry, with a proposal that may be too good for them to resist.
Yet, thank God for the FPI Act. Because before Barry, or anyone else, can make a deal with FPI, the province has to give its approval.
And before they take the “we might as well" approach, there are a couple of very important things to consider.
For one, there's the issue of concentration of ownership in the fish processing industry and how that will affect the ability of harvesters to negotiate a fair price for their catch.
Tennessee hometown rallies for soldier charged with Iraqi murder
SWEETWATER, Tenn. (AP) -- A 6-foot banner hanging from a gazebo in the center of this town of 6,000 reads: "Ray fought for Sweetwater. Now let's fight for Ray." Folks in Sweetwater are standing by hometown soldier Raymond Girouard, raising more than $18,000 for his defense against murder charges. .
Stealer of artifacts gets prison
A 45-year-old Big Island man was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for his part in the theft of native Hawaiian artifacts from a burial cave in Kohala. John A. Carta of Kailua-Kona admitted to leading a collectibles dealer to the cave and assisting him in removing the items on June 17, 2004, in exchange for $200 and an old car. According to his lawyer, Carta made replicas that the dealer sold to tourists. Carta had pleaded guilty in federal court on May 26 to conspiracy to sell or traffic in native Hawaiian artifacts, violating the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren also sentenced Carta to a year of supervised release. Carta, a first-time offender, received the maximum penalty of one year in prison.
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