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Local produce on menu at Dane Co. jails
Interesting Dane County Press Releases.
Dane County earlier this month began purchasing locally grown produce from the Badgerland Produce Co-Op Auction for use in meals prepared by the county’s food services for the courthouse cafe, Badger Prairie Nursing Home and the Dane County Jail.
Via the Daily Page. I wonder how much difference this makes on a per-meal basis.
∞ | August 31, 2007 in jail library journal | Comments (0) | TrackBack
WiSJ: 'Retire' isn't the final word for James Danky
Saturday's WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL had a story on the retirement of Jim Danky from his job as periodicals librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society. I knew he was a zine's best friend, but I didn't know about the first-offender employment program he supervised that's now in danger of being cut:
He supervises first offenders who are "doing time " at the Historical Society Library. More than 2,600 first offenders, by his count, have been placed in his office to work off their community service sentences by doing mundane chores such as ironing newspapers. Danky reckons the state has saved $942,000 by using first offenders in his office.
∞ | August 28, 2007 in jail library journal, librariana | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"Walk score"
What better way to celebrate a temporary non-ambulatory state than checking my home's "Walk Score"? Via Danny S., Lisa Subeck, and Brenda Konkel.
We got 94/100. To which I can only say, it better be that high, because walkability was our #1 consideration when we chose the place. Too bad our commute is now 40 miles round trip.
∞ | August 7, 2007 in domestic life | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Still so, so sick of this ad in PC World
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Also interesting to note who has a cubie and who's in an office with a door.
∞ | August 2, 2007 in media | Comments (2) | TrackBack
