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Hammond Public Library users now need not wait for "Antiques Roadshow" to come to town to get real market-based information about their antiques, artwork and family treasures. The library has now subscribed to the p4A Antiques Reference database and is making it available free of charge at all Hammond Public Library locations through its Web site.The p4A Antiques Reference is used by most leading appraisers. Antiques are organized into 1,280 different classifications on subjects including furniture, glass, pottery and porcelain, paintings, prints, clocks, toys, dolls, advertising collectibles, books, autographs, lamps, silver, firearms and historical documents.The database is unique in having at least one color picture for every record. Library patrons can actually see if the item they are researching closely matches the one described in the database.FYI: (219) 931-5100, ext.
RELIGION BRIEFS
Alzheimer's Association Caregiver Support Group: 2:30-4 p.m. at First English Lutheran Church, 2727 E. Main St., Richmond, IN. Confidential emotional support and practical assistance. Meets first and third Wednesday of every month. Info: (765) 966-5682 (800) 272-3900 Entertainment: Jan. 13 at Solid Rock Cafe, Richmond, IN. Gene Webb Info: Tom (765) 993-9500 .
Shop owner sues tramps 'for being untidy'
The owner of a luxury antiques store in Manhattan is suing four homeless people for $1 million, claiming they make the area look untidy and are putting off potential customers. According to legal documents, Karl Kemp is demanding an order that keeps the four unnamed defendants at least 100 feet away from his shop on Madison Avenue, in the heart of New York's ritzy Upper East Side and yards from high-end retailers such as Gucci, Prada and Cartier. For the past two years, the court papers say, the four homeless people have spent "significant amounts of time" on the pavement, "consuming alcoholic beverages from open bottles, performing various bodily functions such as urinating or spitting on the sidewalk." .
Larue Barnes: Dr. Gale N. Neff was once a high school dropout
This story is a mystery of sorts. How could a high school student who cut classes and wrote his own excuses, experienced school suspension and became a short-term dropout, become the builder of 32 vocational programs at a community college and earn a doctorate degree?Get reacquainted with Dr. Gale Neff of Cleburne. "I hated high school," he admitted. "I considered it all too confining." Gale was born Aug. 9, 1936, to Jesse and Emma Neff, who lived on North Robinson Street in Cleburne. They later moved to a farm three miles south on Farm-to-Market Road 4."I had three sisters, Katherine, Anita and Evelyn, and one brother who lived only a few hours," he said. "I started school at Liberty Chapel when I was barely 6. We transferred into Cleburne when I was in the third grade. I made it fine at Adams Elementary, but when I entered the sixth grade at Fulton, I was eager to get out of school each day."His dad owned a wrecking yard.
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