| Family Dinner Is Important -- Urban Bistro Can Help
"We are very serious about creating a 'home away from home' with Urban Bistro," Chef Avner Samuel said. "Both restaurants are designed to be family places, which was my vision for the restaurant all along." Samuel insists that a restaurant can be both a place children like and their parents like - without tipping too far into primary colors and outdoor play rooms or too far the other direction - haughty and austere. Urban Bistro offers two locations - one in Park Cities on Inwood Road, and one in Addison at Frankford and the Dallas Tollway. Both offer the same signature dishes diners have come to love - and both now offer a very special children's menu specifically designed to bring families back to basics - and back to the dinner table together. To learn more about Urban Bistro, visit www.urbanbistrodallas.com.
As son lies stricken, family's resolve tested
BROOKSVILLE - Tania Burns says she doesn't question the ways of God - she believes there is a plan for everyone and everything. But sometimes she wonders where she will get the strength to go on caring for her 16-year-old son, Joey, who lies in a comalike state in the living room. She tries not to think too much about why Joey was injured that day in October after a game of touch football turned tackle. She steers her mind away from the burdens of money and what she has been putting on credit cards just to get Joey what he needs. "God gives you strength you don't know you have," said Burns, 45. "I can't be in a corner crying all the time, even though my heart hurts. I get up, talk to him and keep going. I have to take care of my family." After months at St.
Conley brings 20 years experience to Indian River hospice
VERO LAKE ESTATES Marilyn Conley, who joined the Visiting Nurse Association as director of professional services for its hospice division two months ago, is settling in to her new position. Conley, a registered nurse, has the proper attitude, a well-buttressed aptitude and an easy-to-take chuckle. Still, showing her mettle involved enduring a litany of telephone and face-to-face talks, a veritable gauntlet. "It was a very intense process of multiple interviews," spread over a couple of months, says Conley. .
Watch for those pork-barrel items
The least lawmakers can do is "acquit" us of being financially liable for medical expenses of "idiots" who are out late at night and get shot with a gun. This is an election year, so everyone please "watch" any "item" with your eyes and "listen" to "them" with your ears. James H. McNain Belzoni .
Aged find equal dissatisfaction in work, retirement
South Koreans aged 50 or older are less satisfied with their job or life after retirement than their counterparts in the United States or Europe. According to a survey of 10,255 adults aged 45 and over across the nation, conducted by the Korea Labor Institute from July to December last year, 58.2 percent of respondents aged 50 or older were satisfied with their current work, compared with 89.9 percent in the U.S. and 93.1 percent in ten European Union (EU) nations in 2004. Of South Koreans 50 or older, 55.8 percent felt happy about their lives after retirement, while 90.6 percent of their U.S. counterparts replied the same way. When comparing pre-retirement and post-retirement living in South Korea, 55.8 percent were dissatisfied with their lives post-retirement. Those who were satisfied with their post-retirement lives accounted for 8.1 percent of Koreans over 50.
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