| Paying tuition can pay off in keeping your best staff
With the start of the school year not far off, employees of small businesses might have a hankering to take some courses. And company owners might want to think about paying for them to take some classes: The learning may help their careers and in turn, help the business retain its best workers. Many companies are willing to pay for courses that will help employees upgrade their skills or learn new ones. Others go further, making tuition reimbursement an employee benefit that even covers courses not directly related to the job. .
Tickets Go On Sale August 31 for Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation's Grand Slam for Children Benefit Concert
Tony Bennett, Kelly Clarkson, Matchbox Twenty, Carlos Santana, George Wallace and a special performance by Jerry Seinfeld featured Oct. 6 at MGM Grand LAS VEGAS, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- A stellar line-up has been assembled again by the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation (AACF) for its annual event to benefit at-risk youth in Southern Nevada, where Andre Agassi, the retired tennis champion, was raised. Tony Bennett, Kelly Clarkson, Matchbox Twenty, Carlos Santana, George Wallace and a special performance by Jerry Seinfeld will be featured at the 2007 Grand Slam for Children benefit concert at 9 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 6, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Grammy award-winning producer, arranger and composer David Foster will return for his 12th year as musical director.
As college football season begins, SEC is the talk of the nation
Ah, the sport of kegs is upon us. No league, no sporting endeavor at any level seems to engender as much taproom debate as college football, where the operative slogan is, "Can we talk?" Start with the big one, the absence of a playoff, which regularly inspires the most crackling debate since "Tastes great!" sparred with "Less filling!" Add in the fact there are only a dozen games, leaving a lot more to the imagination than what's in the won-lost column. Throw in some of the other oddities — like teams cooling their jets for 50 days from regular-season finale to title game — and you've got a sport made for another round. College football often seems less dependent on execution than it does on elocution. In the offseason, for instance, we've had Florida president Bernie Machen expressing interest in the "plus-one" playoff format.
Pelser to head Whittier public works
WHITTIER - For the last two months David Pelser has been commuting from Sacramento to his home in La Mirada. That will all end on Sept. 4 when Pelser, 51, will become the new public works director for Whittier. He succeeds David Mochizuki, who retired after 21 years with the city. Pelser and his family moved to La Mirada two months ago in order to allow his 18-year-old twin daughters, Laura and Leanna, to attend Biola University. "We wanted them to be able to go away to school and have that experience, but they have a medical condition called celiac where you're intolerant to gluten," Pelser said. They can't eat food-grain antigens that are found in wheat, rye and barley. "That makes it difficult to travel and deal with institutional food," he said. "If they had to eat in a dorm cafeteria, they would get sick and wouldn't be able to continue." But with Pelser and his wife, Julie, moving to La Mirada, their daughters can eat at home.
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Recalling past vacations when you were younger and raising families, did it occur to you that someday you would be comparing travel notes with other geezers and boomers and find yourself saying, "Been there, done that"? It's a condition we won't complain about, and even if true, the travel industry keeps inventing enough specialty vacations to keep us coming back year after year. Examples are arts and crafts, bicycling, birding, boating and sailing, fishing, food and wine, golf, hiking, hunting, language schools, rock climbing, photography, scuba diving, spiritual trips and wildlife. Food and wine have been atop the list of popularity for a long time, but of late, culinary schools have become hot, especially for retired seniors who want to put a little spice in their lives, both figuratively and literally.
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