Adventure of the Week: Winter camping: Just add snow
Last week, before we featured a book about camping during the winter months, there was a bit of interoffice debate about whether anybody around here would actually do that. Having done time in Minnesota over 10 winters, I became acquainted with a number of folks who couldn't wait for the first snows and subfreezing (even subzero) weather systems. They had new tents, synthetic ...

Winter camping opens this week
MARENGO ? It takes all the courage you can muster to unzip your warm sleeping bag and put on a pair of frozen boots. But for many, battling the elements is part of the challenge.

Homeless preacher camps along 422
MYERSTOWN ? An itinerant preacher is camping just off Route 422 on the perimeter of Layser?s Flower Shop, hoping that someone will give him shelter. Luke Keppley, a Myerstown native, said he?s ?been traveling around the country several years ministering scriptures.?

Local high school students reaching out to the needy
SPOKANE - They're camping out at Ferris High School. North Central High School students are filling a school bus at a Safeway store.

Question of the Week
Do you think Victoria appealing the judge's ruling striking down the city's no camping in parks bylaw is a good idea?

Homeless preacher camps  along 422
MYERSTOWN ? An itinerant preacher is camping just off Route 422 on the perimeter of Layser?s Flower Shop, hoping that someone will give him shelter.

Camping Gadgets
Coghlan's Sight-Grid Signal Mirror - This small mirror slips into any pocket, and it just may save your life. Anything could happen out in the wild that might cause you...

Fire destroys Monroe triplex, leaves families without homes
MONROE ? Three families lost their homes early Wednesday morning when a camping trailer caught fire and spread to a nearby triplex.

Director's Corner
Winter is here, and being homeless in Seattle is hard. The numbers of Real Change vendors have risen by more than 30 percent in just the past year. As rising levels of need collide with the realities of an inflexible city policy on public camping, life on the streets has become much more desperate.

Fishing for the Perfect Holiday Gift This Season?
(ARA) - With more than 50 million anglers and about 21 million hunters throughout the United States, the odds are that there's a special person in your life who loves the outdoors, and enjoys fishing, hunting, birding, camping or some other outdoor activity.

Pearland Lions roar their support for camp
The Pearland Lions Club gave $7,000.00 to the Texas Lions Camp. The camp in Kerrville provides summer camping activities for physically challenged and diabetic children.

Qtel funds medical centre at Sealine
DOHA: Qtel has offered its support to bear the costs of a medical centre in the coastal area during Eid Al Adha holidays and the camping season. The initiative is a step to provide people there with the necessary medical care.

DJ's do their schitck for hunger
For the sixth year in a row, 93.3 WMMR's Preston Elliot and Steve Morrison have been camping out this week in the parking lot of The Metroplex Shopping Center in Plymouth Meeting for the radio station's annual Camp Out for Hunger.

Antlers and S?Mores, for That Urban Ski Lodge Feel
The lounge and restaurant of the Aspen Social Club, which opened this fall, attempt to recreate the upscale Colorado vibe.

RANTS & RAVES: Good homeowners are the real victims
We live next door to an abandoned property. We are the real victims here. The owner refinanced her property every time she needed some extra money. She started out with a mortgage of $40,000 and wound up with a mortgage of $194,000 on a house now worth $140,000. So she packed up and left. Left behind are the broken windows taped up, the weeds knee high and the homeless brother camping in her ...

Cat Lost In Yellowstone Returned To Texas Family
A cat lost in Yellowstone National Park in August has been returned to her family in Houston with the help of some West Yellowstone residents. Philip Wattenbarger and his family were camping in a trailer in the West Yellowstone area when their long-haired tabby, Fluffy, went missing on Aug. 1.

Cat Lost In Yellowstone Returned To Texas Family
A cat that wandered off during a family camping trip to Yellowstone National Park has been returned to its owners in Texas.

FABULOUS LADY STANDS BEHIND SEXIEST MAN
THE wife of the "sexiest man alive" Hugh Jackman on his new title: "Thank God the secret is finally out." On her husband's leaner years and first big break with "X-Men," she said: "He was even sexy then." Her dress? "From an Australian designer...

Cat lost in Yellowstone returned to Texas family
A cat lost in Yellowstone National Park in August has been returned to her family in Houston with the help of some West Yellowstone residents. Philip Wattenbarger and his family were camping in a trailer in the West Yellowstone area when their long-haired...

Thai police tighten noose round protesters
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two thousand Thai police took up positions in and around Bangkok?s Government House on Wednesday, tightening the noose on protesters camping outside the prime minister?s office to try to topple him from power.