| THIS WEEK: FEB. 9 to 15, 2007
Winter in the City with samplings from local restaurants, cocktails and music by Exact Change. Electric City Trolley Museum, off Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton. Tonight, 5:30 to 8:30. $15. 963-5901 or scrantontomorrow.org. Midwinter Ethnic Food and Craft Festival, 14th annual event with cuisines of Russia, Ukraine and Poland. Holy Resurrection Cathedral, 591 N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Also: A performance by the Eastern European dance troupe the Tamburitzans 3 p.m. Sunday at the Mellow Theater in Scranton. 822-5452. Quilt and Needle Show with displays of new quilt and needlework along with antiques. Bay Window Shop, 100 East Overbrook Road, Shavertown. Saturday through Wednesday, noon to 4 p.m. 675-6400. A Day in the Life of a Steamtown Train Crew, an illustrated talk by William Withuhn, Curator of Transportation at the Smithsonian Institute.
Dan Marino Autograph Session at Carousel Center
Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - Hundreds of football fans waited in very long lines at the Carousel Center Friday night, for the chance to meet NFL star Dan Marino. The store "ENV Collectibles" hosted Marino's appearance. Fans paid anywhere from $100 to nearly $500 to have the longtime Miami Dolphins quarterback sign pictures, footballs, helmets and other items. .
Ruby case: His love for antiques led to Pataliya’s downfall
Senior police officials on Saturday disclosed that it was Pataliyas side business, dealing in antiques, that finally did him in. Also, his paramour Jyoti Shah, who surrendered to the police on Friday alongwith the infamous ruby, has told the police that he murdered his three friends in order to sell the ruby and pocket the money himself. However, neither the police nor Jyoti, who also has a three-year-old son called Chikoo, commented on the nature of her relationship with Pataliya for the last few months. .
The guardians of our heritage
I would have expected the guardians of our heritage to declare this a protected area. I also saw that Holland Bamboo was also disappearing and the crayfish at Middle Quarters were now diminutive as a result of overfishing and pollution in the area. The cost is now $1,000 per pound. Guardians asleep We cannot live in the past, but where that heritage is the only thing that distinguishes us from many other places with whom we are competing, I would have expected us to take loving care of what we have. I would not be surprised if some enterprising person in Florida would develop an area which would reproduce many of Jamaica's attractions at a theme park. As my youthful idealism matures, I now recognise why some Jamaicans discarded their family heirlooms and antique furniture to replace them with Formica in the 1960s.
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