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Pittsburgh Job Corps Center takes second in culinary competition
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
Food is more glorious than ever when you make it yourself!
Today’s youth are being stereotyped as the microwave kids. But wait, there are some teenagers who like to cook, who feel that their calling is in the kitchen. These are the culinary arts students at the Pittsburgh Job Corps Center.
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| CHEFS OF TOMORROW—The four-member team stands before the judges as instructors and others look on.
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Recently, they competed in the culinary arts competition called Iron Chef, “Eat Right, Cook Light.” The event took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey and pitted teams against each other for money prizes from the Philadelphia Region of Job Corps. Fifteen centers competed and the Pittsburgh Job Corps Center walked away with nine awards and came in second place overall.
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Decorate your dorm room to express yourself
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
(ARA)—Freshmen heading off to college don’t have to over-think decorating dorm rooms. Save all that mental energy for your studies. Creating inexpensive and interesting living spaces is easier than your high school finals.
It’s all about expressing yourself while working with your roommates. According to Keith McCleary, Academic Director of the interior design department at The Art Institute of York - Pennsylvania, “It’s best to have a sense of space before you arrive on campus with a carload of belongings that won’t fit or will look dreadful when combined with those of your roommates.”
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| CREATIVE DECORATING—Yard sales, used furniture stores and vintage shops all have great finds for budget-conscious students.
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Brightest teens ‘SHYNE’
Category: Youth Written by Genea Webb
The air was electric with excitement as Khadijha Berry walked across the Byham Theater stage to accept her SHYNE Overcoming Obstacles Award.
“Thanks to my mom and my friends and thanks to the Lord for helping me through this,” said a tearful Berry to the audience that gave her a standing ovation.
The SHYNE Awards were started by Orlana Darkins Drewery and her husband, Darnell, in 2006 as a way to highlight the positive achievements of teenagers in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas.
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AFS prepares for arrival of exchange students in Pittsburgh
Category: Youth Written by Courier Newsroom
As local high school students dread the end of summer and the ominous “first day of school,” over 2,000 AFS exchange students are anxiously preparing for the year of a lifetime. Students from over 50 countries, including Germany, Thailand and Turkey, will arrive throughout August to spend a year attending high schools in the U.S. and living with American host families. Pittsburgh high schools expecting AFS students this year include Fox Chapel, Keystone Oaks, Pittsburgh Obama, Taylor Allderdice, Mt. Lebanon, Plum Senior, Avonworth, Pittsburgh CAPA and St. Clairsville.
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Review: New choices enliven back-to-school PCs
Category: Youth Written by Associated Press
by Peter Svensson
AP Technology Writer
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP)—Looking at getting a new PC for the fall semester? Here’s a jolt of cheer in these uncertain times: PCs are not only cheaper than ever, there is real innovation going on, yielding interesting new choices.
This is a rundown of options in a couple of price categories.
$300 to $500
There used to be three main choices in this price range: netbooks, which are small laptops; heavy, frumpy laptops; and no-frills desktop computers.
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| NEW MODELS—The HP Pavilion dm4, left, the Sony Vaio, right, laptops and the Samsung NB30 netbook are shown in this photo, in New York, Aug. 11.
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