JULY 13 - 19, 2010
Local salons and groomers pitch in to contain oil spill in the Gulf
Who’s packing at City Hall?
BY NANCY EAGLETON
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s millions of gallons of oil float toward the Gulf Coast, hair salons and dog groomers from our community have been busy packaging and shipping their own renewable resource to help contain it… hair. Hair, as it turns out, is an efficient and abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills. Jarbas Godoy, owner of The Dog from Ipanema in South Miami, started sending clean hair clippings one week after the oil spill in order support the efforts of Matter of Trust, a San Francisco environmental charity that first started collecting hair 10 years ago to help clean up a series of small spills. “I found out about this effort from other
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OIL SPILL, page 7
BY MICHAEL MILLER <Michael@communitynewspapers.com>
Jarbas Godoy, owner, snapped this photo of his crew from The Dog from Ipanema in South Miami, who are all proud to be doing their part in containing the Gulf oil spill.
High School Musical 2 rocks their summer BY NANCY EAGLETON Broadway Bound campers brought High School Musical 2 to life. Pictured (l-r) are Chloe Settler, Ensemble; Juan Aguas as Troy; Lexy Jacobs as Gabriella; Sandra Real as Sharpay; Jonathan Fleites as Ryan.
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outh Miami resident, Chloe Settler, and her cast mates at Broadway Bound, Miami Children’s Theatre’s summer camp program, brought Disney’s smash hit High School Musical 2 to life on stage at the Alper JCC, Russell Theater July 9 – 11. The musical featured 35 young and talented performers, ages 12-18, and was directed by Christine Vega. The group brought Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and the rest of the Widcats to life as they finished their junior year of high school and blast onto the summer scene. For the participants in the summer program, the production of High School Musical 2 was the culmination of four weeks of
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MUSICAL, page 7
Don’t flip out or s t a r t c h a n t i n g , “It’s my constitutional right to bear arms!” This is about the right for each of us to know who at city hall, if anyone, is carrying a gun. (Besides, law enforcement, of course.) I started thinking about this after being told that at least one elected official has recently obtained a gun permit and is toting the weapon around “like a lollipop.” Quite frankly, I started wondering how many elected officials just might have permits. There are different types of weapon permits, including those that allow you to carry a weapon around with you while you’re shopping or dining or jogging or while you’re at city hall. Oops, Did I say that? Now, I’m not implying that there just might be some gun totin’ folks there, because that’s just a no-no. Maybe it’s a good idea, though, if the staff, elected officials and visitors were reminded about the laws surrounding carrying guns into city hall. Just for grins, I’d just love to hear each of the elected officials and others up on the dais tell us if any of them are gun totin’ Americans.
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AROUND TOWN,
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