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Four Native Designers Will Be Featured at the SWAI
Sep 9th
A handmade, one-of-a-kind necklace will be the signature item at the Southwest Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) Live Auction Gala at the August Santa Fe Indian Market. The collaborative work is by four award-winning Native American artists. The Auction Gala, sponsored by Carolyn Pollack Jewelry, is a benefit for SWAIA, presenter of the world-renowned Indian Market held each year in Santa Fe.
The SWAIA Live Auction Gala, August 21 at the La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe, is one of the most sought-after tickets of Indian Market weekend. This year, the auction will conclude with an opportunity to purchase a sensational necklace created by renowned Native American designers Roderick Tenorio, Veronica Benally,tiffany Pendant, Fritz Casuse, and Cody Sanderson.
Valued at $39,000, the necklace is being donated for the benefit auction through the generosity of the four artists. The inspiration for the finely crafted necklace comes from nature and features butterflies created by each designer mixed among flowers and Native American symbols. Created from finely wrought sterling silver, gold and precious and natural gemstones, the necklace is a unique piece of handcrafted art. It is expected to generate significant interest by collectors.
The collaboration by the four designers was first suggested by Dr. Bruce Bernstein, executive director of SWAIA, and supported by Bill and Carolyn Pollack of Carolyn Pollack Jewelry. The butterfly necklace is the latest example of a recent tradition to bring a group of artists together to work on a collaborative piece of art for the annual Auction Gala. In prior years, teams of Native American artists have customized a motorcycle, a decorative box and a concha belt with their designs.
"We provided the environment where the collaboration could blossom," Carolyn Pollack said. "As longstanding supporters of SWAIA and the Presenting Sponsors of the gala auction, we wanted to offer an outstanding piece of art for the auction. This year’s collaboration was a true group effort with the four Native Designers brainstorming together and bouncing ideas off each other. I believe the depth of collaboration resulted in a truly unique, outstanding piece. There certainly is not another one like it."
Carolyn Pollack Jewelry is the presenting sponsor of this year’s gala and the award sponsor for Best in Classification for Jewelry, the top jewelry award given at Indian Market. Carolyn Pollack Jewelry’s sponsorship of the auction gala and jewelry award is part of the company’s mission to promote innovation in Native American jewelry design and to introduce a new generation of collectors to contemporary Native American artists.
"Although a collaboration, the necklace has a unique contribution from each of the designers,tiffany money clips for sale," Carolyn Pollack said. "Each of the four artists designed one of the butterflies and they each have their own style, and yet they all came together in this piece. Fans of each designer will recognize instantly the butterfly that designer created, and yet everyone’s work is integrated into the whole. It was truly a creative collaboration, and I think the end result is a stunning work of wearable art."
Through a partnership that stretches back as far as 10 years, Carolyn Pollack Jewelry licenses and manufactures designs from all four Native American designers–Tenorio, Benally, Casuse and Sanderson–and introduces their designs to millions of viewers nationwide by featuring their work on QVC(R),shop for tiffany, QVC.com,key rings, in their own retail stores, and online at www.CarolynPollack.com.
"We’re excited to see iconic American Indian jewelry of New Mexico evolve in an exciting direction and become an international sensation on television," said Dr. Bruce Bernstein, SWAIA executive director. "The collaborative piece brings attention to the four Native American designers whose success stories include the way they’ve launched successful businesses and partnered with Carolyn Pollack Jewelry to license their designs."
All four artists will have booths at Indian Market where they will have one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces inspired by the necklace available for collectors to purchase. A limited quantity of reproductions of these jewelry pieces manufactured in the company’s Albuquerque, New Mexico production facility are also scheduled to be available for purchase through QVC during a broadcast in August for customers who can’t make it to Santa Fe for Indian Market.
"We are honored to have the opportunity to interpret the artistic elements of the auction piece in manufactured reproductions available on QVC and in our retail stores," Carolyn Pollack said. "It brings the collaboration to a new level."
"Over the years we’ve developed relationships with some of the award-winning artists of Indian Market as part of our mission to evolve Native American arts, which you can see in the range of the designers we work with, from Roderick Tenorio’s more traditional styles to the contemporary works of Fritz Casuse and everything in between," said Bill Pollack. "We want to broaden the concept of what Indian jewelry is. This is not your grandmother’s squash blossom necklace but exciting new designs from acclaimed native artists."
About Carolyn Pollack Jewelry
Carolyn Pollack Jewelry features expressive silhouettes and distinctive gemstone color combinations that embody designer Carolyn Pollack’s own lifestyle and fashion sense. This is a fresh, eclectic collection of statement pieces celebrating the natural beauty and spirit of the American woman.
Carolyn Pollack Jewelry is proudly crafted in Albuquerque, NM from recycled silver and gemstones from around the world and is featured on QVC, at the Carolyn Pollack boutique in the ABQ Uptown mall in Albuquerque and at the Southwest Spirit Gallery at the Texan resort in Grapevine,discount tiffany bangles, TX as well as online at www.CarolynPollack.com.
About SWAIA
SWAIA’s mission is to be an advocate for Native Americans arts and cultures, particularly in the Southwest, and to create economic and cultural opportunities for Native American artists by producing the Santa Fe Indian Market; cultivating excellence and innovation across art forms; and developing programs and events that support, promote and honor Native artists.
Zakary Aaron Osiris DeGross dies at 14
Sep 8th
Zakary Aaron Osiris DeGross, a Boys’ Latin School student who excelled in both the classroom and on the athletic field, died June 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a nearly 1 1/2-year struggle against cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 14.
"He was most notably characterized by his broad smile and wide eyes, and his optimism and cheerfulness that abounded in the face of a most difficult medical challenge," said Christopher J. Post, headmaster of the North Baltimore boys private school.
"I’ve known lots of kids over the years,discount tiffany money clips, and Zak sought nothing but unconditional love from those around him. He had an enormous capacity for thoughtfulness and generosity," Mr. Post said. "He was pretty exemplary."
Zak was born in Baltimore and raised in the city’s Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood.
He spent his first five school years as a student at Mount Zion Baptist Christian School, where he received special recognition for testing beyond the 12th-grade level in reading.
He transferred to Boys’ Latin in the sixth grade.
"He excelled in Latin and math and played flag football, basketball and lacrosse," said his mother, Lesli J. DeGross.
In March 2009, Zak was diagnosed with Stage 3 renal medullary carcinoma, a rare type of kidney cancer that is linked to sickle cell trait, his mother said.
Zak then submitted to a grueling schedule of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
"He never complained. He’d get down sometimes, but not complain," his mother said. "After a treatment, he’d be sick for a week and then he’d go back to school. He was determined to go back and make up the work he had missed."
Zak had set a goal for himself, his mother said.
"He loved school and wanted to remain a part of the student body. He was also determined that he’d walk across the stage at his eighth-grade graduation," Ms. DeGross said. "And he did, and he got a standing ovation."
Inspired by their friend’s valiant struggle against cancer,discount tiffany rings, his classmates designed and wore "Strength and Courage" bracelets to let him know they were standing alongside him and sharing his experience.
The school faculty organized a dodgeball tournament as a fundraiser for Zak.
Last summer, Alan Locey who was Zak’s math teacher, adviser and coach at Boys’ Latin, treated him and his family to a week at Keuka Lake in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region.
Mr. Locey said Zak learned to water ski, parasail and swim, and took in the natural beauty of the lake.
"He was determined to get up and ski, and when he fell, I had to yell for him to let go of the rope," recalled Mr. Locey.
Zak was a movie buff and collected movies ranging from classic Hollywood films to the latest sci-fi or thriller. He planned to one day work in film production and as an editor.
"He liked all kinds of movies and could analyze them," his mother said.
Last October, through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Zak traveled to Los Angeles, where he visited the set and met the cast and production crew of "Suite Life on Deck," a favorite TV show.
In March, after more than 50 chemotherapy treatments and 10 weeks of radiation, Zak’s family was told that he had not responded as hoped and his condition was terminal.
"Zak came from a wonderfully supportive family, and he had a wonderful compassionate relationship with his mom who was there at his bedside until the end," Mr. Locey said. "He was a fighter in academics and sports. He tried to hold on and fought his cancer to the end."
Zak spent the final weeks of his life in the pediatric oncology center at Hopkins.
One of Zak’s final wishes was to go to the movies and see the debut of the remake of "The Karate Kid," which was being released June 11. But because of his illness, he could not leave the hospital. One of his doctors had a contact at Sony Pictures in Hollywood. Some 18 hours later, a representative from Sony’s East Coast office was aboard a train bound for Baltimore carrying a copy of the film to be shown in Zak’s hospital room.
Family,thanksgiving key rings, friends and schoolmates jammed the hospital room.
"They brought in a large-screen TV. The hospital provided nachos and cheese, soda and popcorn, just like the real movies,thanksgiving bangles," Ms. DeGross said.
The Rev. Stanley Fuller, formerly pastor of Grace Baptist Church, where Zak was a member, was also a friend.
"The thing that stands out about Zak was that he was a respectful kid — he could be mischievous and do all those things kids do — but he was wonderful. He had balance," said Mr. Fuller, who is executive minister at Mount Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church in Towson.
"He always had deep thoughts that he’d share with me. He loved school,discount tiffany bracelets, and he loved church. He was a sheer pleasure to be around," he said.
"I watched Zakary as he got sick, and he never complained because he didn’t want to worry his mom. He wanted to make sure that she was OK," Mr. Fuller said. "He had the poise and dignity of a person well beyond his years. He had a special grace, and I thank God for that."
Mr. Fuller said he wanted to remember Zak’s smile, his love of education and sports, and his enthusiasm and courage.
"Those moments will never die," he said.
Mr. Post, who spoke at Zak’s funeral Saturday at Action Ministries at Lutheran Church of the Holy Comforter, said Monday that he "will live on in each of us because of the way he lived his life."
Also surviving are his father, Troy Lee Sr.; a brother, Troy Lee Jr.; a sister, Adonekka Lee; his paternal grandmother, Sharon Barnes-Thomas; his maternal grandparents, Steven and Geraldine DeGross Sr.; and aunts, uncles and cousins. All live in Baltimore.
fred.rasmussen@baltsun.com
Lady Dragons earn second win
Sep 4th
They’re only three matches into the season,thanksgiving day celebration, but the strides the Monte del Sol Lady Dragons (2-1) made in Wednesday’s 15-25, 25-12, 25-7, 19-25, 15-13 win over Santa Fe Waldorf in volleyball was enough to impress head coach Emily Carlson.
"This was a very intense win for us,tiffany cuff Links clearance," Carlson said after her team’s nondistrict match at Fort Marcy. "The girls,thanksgiving cuff Links, they were getting everything down and making plays when they had to. As a coach it was fun to watch. It was amazing, actually."
Monte del Sol had only five missed hits all night. Its efficiency was key as Waldorf extended the match to a decisive Game 5.
"We pulled together and didn’t give up," Carlson said. "Each time they got close,thanksgiving bracelets, we pulled out a big play."
Seniors Monique Lujan and Kamille Archie-Payne — the only upperclassmen on the Monte del Sol roster — led the way with a combined eight service aces.
Lujan added two kills and four blocks while Archie Payne chipped in with a kill,tiffany, a dig and two blocks.
Freshman Erin Brooke finished with three aces and three kills, helping Monte del Sol keep the ball in play with a solid night as the back-row specialist.
Outside hitter Aisha Herrera helped the Lady Wolves storm back to force a decisive fifth game with three aces and three kills.
Women prisoners spend time with their children at
Aug 31st
"I did not sleep all night after learning from my grandmother that I was going to visit my mother at prison the next day.",bracelets
This is how 12-year-old Hanan described her feelings when she was told she was going to see her mother during a special iftar at the Jweideh Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre (JWCRC) on Wednesday.
"I miss my mother and wish that I could visit her more often," said Hanan, as she played on a swing with her sister in a special playground prepared by the JWCRC to host the inmates’ children at a Ramadan iftar.
The State Security Court convicted Hanan’s mother, Noor,cuff Links, of smuggling hashish into the country from Syria almost three months ago and she was sentenced to seven-and-a-half-years in prison.
"I was framed by my friends who used my car without my knowledge to smuggle hashish. I hope the Cassation Court will declare me innocent," the 40-year-old told The Jordan Times.
Nonetheless, she said, Wednesday was a very special day for her.
"I did not expect to have iftar with my two daughters and spend some time talking with them and watching them play on the swings’ in front of my eyes," the mother of four said.
The JWCRC organised the special iftar for half a dozen inmates,money clips, either convicted or awaiting trial, and their children.
The prison administration also distributed gifts to the inmates’ children and organised a comedy play in the dining hall shortly after iftar that was watched by over 200 cheering prisoners.
JWCRC Director Lt. Colonel Hana Afghani said the Ramadan iftar idea aimed at reuniting detained or imprisoned mothers with their children.
"This was a gesture by the prison administration to show the inmates that we really care for their well-being and that of their children," said Afghani, who has headed the JCWRC for the past 11 years.
"This activity is one of many that will help inmates’ rehabilitation and their future integration into their communities,Atlas charm bracelet," she told The Jordan Times.
The centre currently houses 262 women, but the full capacity of the premises is 450.
Fifty-year-old Shrouq expressed her gratitude for the prison administration in allowing her to see her 10-year-old son face-to-face and have an iftar meal with him.
"I could not hold back my tears when my son walked through the prison gates and ran towards me screaming ‘mom’ mom I miss you’," the mother of eight said.
Shrouq has been in prison for 10 months while on trial for murdering her neighbour, a charge she strongly denied.
Shrouq’s son Nidal said he was very happy to see his mother,tiffany, especially since he is used to seeing her only "from behind glass during the prison’s short visiting hours".
"I wish that the prison administration would organise more visits like this one so that I can see my mother in person and hug her," said Nidal.
Woman accused in Bi-Mart pharmacy robberies
Aug 31st
After a Vancouver pain clinic lost the ability to prescribe painkillers, Larae Corzine a year ago said her family was in dire straits.
Her husband, Steve, was a longtime patient at the Payette Clinic,tiffany, which forfeited its rights to prescribe opioids last year after federal agents linked the clinic to the overdose death of an Oregon teen.
Corzine told a newspaper reporter in April 2009 that other doctors in town wouldn’t see her husband, who she said suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, because they were afraid he was addicted to Oxycontin. She said her husband was in pain, was not an addict, and needed help.
"The pain is 10 times worse than it’s ever been," Corzine told The Columbian last year. "He’s vomiting and shaking. I’m surprised he hasn’t gone into seizures."
Now, the distressed wife is behind bars and charged with three Vancouver pharmacy robberies and an attempted robbery on a fourth occasion. The alleged drug of choice: Oxycontin.
The 39-year-old Vancouver woman was arraigned Thursday on the most recently filed charge of first-degree attempted robbery relating to a June 18 holdup attempt at the Vancouver Clinic pharmacy, 501 S.E. 172nd Ave.
Corzine also is charged with three counts of first-degree robbery relating to the April 20,bangles, June 14 and June 18 holdups of the Bi-Mart pharmacy, 11912 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd.
She is being held in the Clark County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail.
Trial has been set for Oct. 18.
Corzine was first arrested after the June 18 Bi-Mart robbery when a suspect sped away from police in a green Ford Taurus and crashed into an SUV at Northeast 63rd Street and 58th Avenue. In the collision, both cars were knocked off the road and the Taurus caught fire, deputies said.
After taken to Southwest Washington Medical Center and later jailed, investigators allegedly linked Corzine to the other robberies through surveillance video and witness identifications,money clips, according to court documents.
In each robbery, the bandit had a black gun tucked in her front waistband and made threatening requests for Oxycontin. In the Vancouver Clinic Pharmacy holdup, the robber said, "Give me Oxycontin 80 (mg) — I have a gun,earrings," according to court documents. She then counted down from 10.
Two pharmacy clerks escaped into an office, called 911 and the robber fled.
Corzine’s case isn’t the first evidence of fallout from the Payette Clinic. Of the 800 former patients,bracelets, the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that half were physically dependent on narcotics. The clinic remains open under a new name, Walnut Grove Medical and Mental Health Clinic.
In September 2009, another former Payette patient, Harold Andres Jr., was sentenced to four years and seven months in prison after pleading guilty to three Safeway pharmacy robberies earlier that year for oxycodone.
Laura McVicker: 360-735-4516 or laura.mcvicker@columbian.com.
Women’s Bureau program helps boys learn respect
Aug 29th
The Women’s Bureau has a new program aimed at student-athletes that’s designed to help young men learn to treat women with respect.
The program, called Coaching Boys into Men, CBIM,key rings, is designed to help prevent violence by teens and young adults toward themselves and others, especially the girls and women in their lives. The program has been around since 2001 and started in North Carolina.
Unlike past programs, CBIM targets coaches and their athletes. Coaches need only spend five minutes a week, for a total of seven weeks, giving a prewritten message to their athletes.
The message for each lesson is broken into points on flip cards in an easy-to-use notebook. Each lesson is one page.
Coaches and players both sign a pledge saying they will show respect toward women, not violence.
Lessons include personal responsibility, insulting language, bragging about a sexual relationship and how disrespectful that is to your partner, disrespect to women and girls,money clips, responsibility with physical strength, when aggression crosses the line, no excuse for disrespectful behavior, and helping your teammates.
According to the program’s website, since CBIM’s start, thousands of coaches have signed up in support.
The program runs in collaboration with the National High School Athletic Coaches Association. CBIM sees it as important to target athletes because so many of their peers look up to them; if they set a good example,tiffany, others should follow.
Principal Matt Stinson and his football coach at Lane Middle School have come on board, but other schools have been slow to join in.
"I contacted high schools in Fort Wayne last year and got little response, so this year I am trying middle schools," said Candice Hall,pendants, Women’s Bureau prevention and outreach specialist.
Hall believes by having coaches deliver the message, young athletes will be more open to the ideas.
The program’s curriculum suggests a game night where student-athletes ask fans to pledge themselves to following the program guidelines.
"CBIM literally recommends only five to 10 minutes a week; the coaches don’t have to do anything but read these cards," Hall said. "If people would take a few minutes to let me show them this, they would see that it won’t take much time."
Hall thinks a younger group will be more receptive to the message. She is working with IPFW in hopes of getting student-athletes involved so they can act as role models and come to schools to spread the message.
"Kids really look up to college athletes," she said.
The curriculum materials are free for the program. The only expense the Women’s Bureau incurs are the hours that Hall has devoted to get CBIM to take off. That cost is covered by a grant to the Women’s Bureau.
"I am really excited to have Lane Middle School doing (this),rings, and we will continue to do this throughout the year," Hall said.
Back-to-school clothing budgets mean saving on sup
Aug 21st
Parents and guardians equipping their children for the upcoming school year say they look for deals on supplies to save extra money for new clothes.
With schools around the region opening their doors within the next few weeks, parents and children are hitting the stores and combing the shelves for the needed gear.
Students from elementary school through high school say new articles of clothing that meet current style standards are just as crucial as new pencils and paper. For parents, that means hundreds of dollars in additional spending this time of year.
"The clothes — that’s what kills you," said Kirsten Edler, a mother of four from Maryland visiting family in Portsmouth. She said that when one of her children wants a certain brand,tiffany, anything else is inadequate.
On Sunday, she was at Walmart in Rochester with daughters Hannah, 17, and Isabella, 14, to pick up some school supplies. Edler also has two sons: Ian, a first-grader, and Nicholas, a 19-year-old college sophomore. Surprisingly, she said it is more expensive to supply an elementary school student with the needed gear than it is to buy what her other children need.
Once they are old enough to work, she expects them to buy most of their own new clothes. Her college-aged son is pretty much set with his Macbook, she said,pendants, but she has to buy for her younger son paper, pencils, markers, glue, a backpack, composition books and more.
To save money, she goes through newspaper advertisements to see what’s on sale each week. For a store like Walmart that she visits regularly, she said she can hold off on buying certain items until they go on sale. There was a $4 pack of colored pencils in the store Sunday, but she refused to buy them, knowing they will be on sale later on.
"I will wait for a week because it’s a store I frequent anyway," she said.
Sophomore Isabella said she is not picky about supplies and like other high school students likes to have a little fun with them. She purchased a folder with Toy Story characters on it, and said other girls in school like things with Disney princesses on them.
"I just like to play around a little," she said.
The girls said the "Indie" clothing style is fashionable — plaids, bright colors, retro graphic T-shirts and sun dresses.
At Journeys in Newington’s Fox Run Mall, store employee Chris Musk said Vans, Converse, Osiris and Sperry Top-Siders are the hot brands right now. The top-siders are boating shoes, while the others come in diverse colors and funky designs.
"Colors attract the younger crowd," Musk said, noting it is interesting the brands and styles from decades ago "are still relevant today."
Rachel Feniger, 16, from Hampton, was in the shoe store Sunday trying on gray Vans and pink Converse All-Stars. She could not decide between them and picked them both, saying she was not concerned with saving money.
"They’re shoes that match a lot of stuff," she said.
However, she passed on a pair of pink striped socks that glow in the dark.
At the Macy’s in Fox Run Mall, a mother and daughter from Portland, Maine, came down Sunday to find sales and escape Maine’s sales tax. Linda Olore and her 8-year-old daughter, Sophia, who is entering the third grade, found good deals on a gray dress, pink plaid skirt with matching knee-high socks and a neon green pair of shorts.
"My fashion sense is anything very bright, bold or unique that has its own personality," Sophia said.
Olore said she lets Sophia pick out what she wants to wear as long as it is appropriate. Concerning herself with her daughter’s style is not too important because "there’s bigger fish to fry," she said.
The Olores are fortunate in that Sophia’s school district does not send home a list of required supplies. Usually during the year, the district will ask for some donations, Olore said.
Like others interviewed, Olore said she will look in newspaper inserts for sales on school supplies at Walmart or Target.
At the Somersworth Walmart, Kaylie Sabo, 13, an incoming eighth-grader at Barrington Middle School, and her grandmother, Claire Sabo, looked to buy all the supplies Kaylie’s school district asked her to get.
Since Walmart carries notebooks, dividers, binders,tiffany, pencil sharpeners, white out, calculators and pens and pencils at low prices, it is the most convenient place to shop for back-to-school, Sabo said. Any savings are a help since Kaylie estimated it cost hundreds to buy her new wardrobe as she likes the styles offered at retailers like Hollister and American Eagle.
"And I’m not done yet,necklaces," she said.
Girl aids dad in Lake Holcombe boating accident
Jun 9th
When a boat propeller sliced through James Braaten’s right Tiffany Signature bangle Sunday, the thought he might bleed to death flooded his mind.
“The knee is fine, and the hip is fine, but it ripped everything in between,” Braaten said. “You could see muscle and pieces of meat hanging. The whole leg was a big, open mess.”
The accident happened at about 9 a.m. on Lake Holcombe. Braaten, 31, a financial adviser from White Bear Lake, Minn., has a cabin on the lake, and he, his wife, Julia, and their girls, Rylee, 5, and Carly, 3, drove to Chippewa County on Friday to spend the weekend.
After spending a rainy Saturday indoors, Braaten decided to take his daughters and his 1-year-old nephew, Oliver, for a boat ride.
Oliver was in the boat with Braaten’s two girls while Julia stayed on shore to pack up the car. Everyone in the boat was wearing life jackets.
As Braaten slowed the boat in a no-wake zone, Carly and Oliver got on their knees and looked over the side of the boat at their reflections in the water. Then Oliver stood up and fell over the side.
“He fell over before I could reach him,” Braaten said. “The boat was still moving, slowly. I had a hold of his life jacket, but his face was dragging in the water.”
When Braaten couldn’t pull Oliver back into the Tiffany Somerset cuff, he decided to jump into the water, and he then held onto the boat’s edge. Suddenly, the 18-foot-long boat spun backward in circles toward Braaten and the boy.
“I knew if I let go, the boat would come around and hit us,” Braaten said.
Braaten struggled to keep Oliver’s face above the water’s surface, so he let go of the boat and pulled Oliver from the water, pushing him clear of the approaching boat.
A moment later, Braaten braced for the impact.
“The motor went right into my thigh,” he said. “I didn’t feel the pain much, initially.”
Braaten said he looked up at his daughter Rylee and told her to turn off the motor.
“I couldn’t have been more proud of her when she did what I asked her to do,” he said. “They had more confusion on their faces than anything. They weren’t afraid. They weren’t screaming.”
Resort owner Dan McConnell was alerted by a daughter who was on the Isle Bay Resort dock about 60 feet away from the boat. He and a resort guest jumped onto a pontoon boat and approached the boat, which had come close to hitting the boy in the water. McConnell Tiffany Somerset heart ring Rylee for pulling the key out of the ignition.
“She was a pretty smart, smart little girl,” McConnell said.
McConnell and his guest were able to retrieve the boy from the water and the two girls from the boat. Braaten somehow was able to get close to the dock, where McConnell’s daughter and a friend were able to pull him to shore. McConnell brought the children to the resort while emergency workers tended to Braaten.
Braaten was wrapped in towels and a tourniquet was placed on his leg in an effort to stop the bleeding until paramedics arrived.
He was flown to Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, where Braaten immediately went into surgery. He said he remained conscious until then.
Dr. Mark Herr performed the surgery that lasted between three and four hours.
“It was bad,” Herr said. “He was smart enough to take a terry cloth and wrap it around his leg.”
Herr said the challenge was sewing back together the frayed muscles.
“There were a lot of pieces missing,” he said. “There were muscles from the thigh that are just gone.”
Herr said that because Braaten is young and Tiffany Somerset ring, he has a good chance at full recovery.
Braaten said the medical staff did “an absolutely amazing job.”
Doctors will perform a skin graft on Braaten today, and he hopes to return home Monday.
Braaten said he has no regrets about his decision to let go of the boat, saying he was more fearful of Oliver drowning than of injuring himself.
“You go through a lot of what-ifs, and what you could have done different,” Braaten said. “I just reacted at the time.”
The Chippewa County undersheriff, Capt. Eugene Gutsch, was thankful no one was more seriously injured.
“Unfortunately we’re used to a lot more tragic things happening on our lakes,” Gutsch said. “This could have had a terrible, terrible, terrible ending. But with quick action by the people at Isle Bay and the 5-year-old, we had a very good outcome.”
Information from the Minneapolis Star Tribune was included in this report. Vetter can be reached at 715-723-0303 or chris.vetter@ecpc.com.
Missing Dog
In the confusion shortly after the boating accident, Toggle bracelet and Julia Braaten’s 2-year-old dog, Buddy, hopped out of the boat when it got to shore, and the family hasn’t seen him since.
The 50-pound terrier and Shetland shepherd mix is believed to be in the Lake Holcombe area, and the Braatens are hopeful the dog will be found soon.
Anyone with information should contact the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department at 715-726-7701.
India-made Anant diamond jewellery to sparkle in W Asia
Jun 6th
Mr Sanjay Kothari, convenor of promotion, marketing and business Tiffany Cushion Drop earrings at GJEPC, said, “We wanted to introduce Anant in Dubai by April, but it has been delayed due to the recent financial crisis in Dubai. It would now be launched in July.” The Council has already spent Rs 9 crore on various promotional activities including advertisements and refurbishing retailers’ outlets to highlight the brand.
Actor Sonam Kapoor has also been roped in as a brand ambassador, said Mr Kothari.
Retailers stand to gain as the Council will take care of promotional expenses.
RS 11-CR CORPUS GJEPC formed a corpus of Rs 11 crore, with retailers chipping in with Rs four lakh each, and manufacturers Rs 10 lakh each while the Council itself set aside Rs 2 crore for the promotional activities.
The Council in September had taken upon itself to promote diamond Tiffany Cushion Hoop earrings after De Beers cut its promotional activities in the country, said Mr Kothari.
GJEPC created a new brand Anant Diamond Jewellery by bringing together top 100 retail jewellers including GRT, Khazana Jewellers, Joy Alukkas, Reliance, Tanishq, Orra, TBZ, Rio Tinto, Anmol Jewellers and Carbon.
With the gold prices rising, many people are now considering the single line Anant Diamond jewellery to offer as gift, said a Mumbai- based jeweller.
DIAMOND SHORTAGE Rough diamond prices have risen sharply in the past few months after most miners such as De Beers, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Alrosa cut their production following the economic downturn and financial constraints. De Beers recently revealed that it has Tiffany Cushion Two-row bracelet its first quarter production by almost 90 per cent in 2009.
The De Beers Diamond Trading Company (DTC) has raised the prices of rough diamonds by about five and 10 per cent since March this year, said a Mumbai-based jeweller. Most of the DTC’s Indian sightholders were the worst-affected as prices of smaller roughs being supplied to the Indian market were raised between 3 and 7 per cent. Surat, the hub for diamond processing, imports about Rs 30,000 crore worth of roughs per annum, with De Beers supplying about 60 per cent.
FremantleMedia for Clocks, Jewellery, Paper
Jun 6th
FremantleMedia Ltd., London, has filed the trademark “NO Elsa Peretti Round earrings,NO LIKEY!” (customer’s reference: lighty) on Feb. 1 for clocks, jewellery, paper, cardboard articles, household utensils, containers, clothing and also to provide education and entertainment services.
The trademark application (serial number: 2537743; journal number: 6826) was published on March 5.
The description of the mark registered is: “Clocks; watches; jewellery; imitation jewellery; brooches; key rings; key chains, cuff links; trinkets; tie pins; tie bars; lapel pins; watches; watch straps; clocks; badges.
Paper; cardboard, paper articles; cardboard articles; printed matter; books; annuals; publications; comic books; song books; magazines; newsletters; newspapers; albums; periodicals; journals; catalogues; manuals; maps; pamphlets; leaflets; posters; stationery; office requisites; drawing and painting materials, apparatus and instruments; writing instruments; instructional and teaching materials; instructional and teaching materials in the form of games, book binding materials; book covers; book marks; printing sets; drawings; paintings; Elsa Peretti Sevillana earrings; prints; pictures; calendars; pens; pencils; pencil top ornaments; paints; paintbrushes; paint kits; tags; gift wrap; gift wrap cards; gift wrap tissue; gift boxes; wrapping paper; note pads; decalcomanias; paper napkins and other decorative paper items; paper party goods and paper party decorations; paper tablecloths and table covers; paper mats; paper party streamers; embroidery patterns, decorative transfers; rulers; erasers; greeting cards; stickers; paper signs; banners; charts; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods.
Household utensils and containers; kitchen utensils and containers; glassware, porcelain and earthenware; cruet sets; pepper mills; salt mills; toast racks; lunch boxes; flasks; picnic baskets (fitted); insulated bottles; insulated flasks; portable coolers and portable insulated coolers; brushes; combs; toothbrushes; cosmetic utensils; trouser presses; tie presses; shoe-trees (stretchers); ironing board covers; cages for household pets; parts and fitting for all the aforesaid goods.
Clothing, footwear, headgear.
Education and entertainment services all relating to television, cinema, radio and theatre; production and presentation of films and shows and of radio and television programmes, education by or relating to television and radio; entertainment by or relating to television and radio; organization of competitions (Elsa Peretti Sevillana Mesh bracelet or entertainment); interactive telephone competitions; publishing; production of cinematographic films, shows, radio programmes and television programmes; provision of education and entertainment by means of radio, television, satellite, cable, telephone, the worldwide web and the Internet; organization of shows; rental of sound recordings and of pre-recorded shows, films, radio and television performances; production of video tapes and video discs; radio entertainment; television entertainment; cinema entertainment; theatre entertainment; business seminars and business conferences.”