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Zumba arrived in the United States from Colombia in 1999. Nationwide, it's exploding in popularity, according to Associated Press reports. "It's a fun way to get exercise without knowing it," Stelling says. One-hour classes are offered at 6:30 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday and 5 p.m. Friday at the Meyer Center. A 30-minute version is offered at noon Tuesday and Thursday at Cox North. Cost for an eight-week session is $25 for members; $65 for others. Volunteer Volunteering is a great way to help yourself and someone else. And the Council of the Churches, an umbrella organization for nine operating agencies, offers a range of volunteer opportunities. "There is such a huge amount of good that is being done through the council that people don't know about," Struckhoff says.
Obituary: Newspaper pressroom superintendent Zoeller, 92, loved to ...
"He was a legend," said San Antonio Express-News Administrative Editor Barry Robinson. "If you worked here in those days, you were like a big family, and he was sort of like a daddy to all of us." He was James "Jimmy" Felton Zoeller, who retired from the San Antonio Express and the Evening News, which were merged into the Express-News, after more than 40 years as pressroom superintendent. Zoeller, 92, died Saturday. Zoeller didn't start working for the papers until the late 1930s, but his service to readers began when he was 14. He spent the early mornings of his teenage years delivering the newspaper to the Boerne/Comfort area, sometimes by car and other times on horseback. After graduating from Boerne High School and marrying his high school sweetheart, Anita, Zoeller started working as an apprentice pressman.
SUSAN TOMPOR: Don't splurge after a buyout
This is a good primer. • Think about taxes. Tax money is withheld from buyout checks. But it might not be enough to cover the actual taxes you'll ultimately owe. Run through some numbers with your tax preparer, and set aside more money to cover future taxes, if necessary. • Check out options for tapping into your 401(k) money. If you turn 55 or older in the year you've left the company, you might want to keep money in the company's 401(k) plan, said Ed Slott, an IRA expert and founder of www.irahelp.com. If you do that, you can take money out of that 401(k) plan and not pay a 10% penalty. You would pay regular income taxes on the money withdrawn. By using this strategy, you can take money out one year, say when you're 56, and you won't be required to take a set amount of money out each year in future years, as you would with some other withdrawal strategies for younger retirees.
Burley's Rasiak dilemma
George Burley could face a transfer window dilemma over the future of Grzegorz Rasiak. Reports suggest the Polish striker is attracting interest from clubs in England and Italy as sides start to make bids for players in the January window. Rasiak is one of Saints' major assets and one of only a few players that could command a decent fee in the transfer window. Since the latest changes at the top of the club Burley will not have to sell regular first team players like Andrew Surman. But he is expected to be asked to trim his squad and to be told he will have to sell to generate funds to bring in new signings. Burley will not be under pressure to sell Rasiak but may decide he has to for cash to spend and to free up the comparatively large wages he earns.
DOUBLE DUTY: Coaching Everett's girls and boys hoops teams ...
Sexton boys coach Carlton Valentine, who played at Michigan State in 1984-88, has known Jones since he enrolled at MSU. This is his third year as a head coach and he is in awe of Jones' ability to coach two varsity teams the same night. "To me, it takes so much concentration, so much effort, so much intensity, when you're preparing one team," Valentine said. "The emotional highs and lows of a game, I couldn't imagine doing two games back to back. But if anybody can do it, it's Johnny Jones." It helps that Jones, 57, retired from teaching almost three years ago after 32 years in the classroom. He does substitute teach a couple of days a week, but no longer has the daily classroom grind. Naturally, people questioned whether one person should coach both varsity teams.
Only a full inquiry can avert another disaster like Iraq
That was in October 2006, and the then foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, used the spurious argument that an inquiry could send a dangerous signal to insurgents that Britain did not have the determination to stick it out in Iraq. It was the worst kind of macho plea: "Don't give aid and comfort to the enemy", an unmerited claim of security in order to censor discussion. .
Binmen to decide next move
Once these latest negotiations are over union chiefs will speak to the crews and hold a mass vote to decide what action should be taken next. Unison branch secretary Dave Smith believes the talks could go either way, saying that there is a 50-50 chance of further strikes. Mr Smith said: "Whatever happens today a decision will be made. Realistically I'd say there was a 50-50 chance of us having to strike again but lets hope we can resolve this without having to do that." Binmen have already taken to the picket line for a total of three days following the introduction of changes to work practices by Eastleigh Borough Council. .
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