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Knitting News Archive21-Nov-2007The East Bay Today: November 21, 2007 (East Bay Express) Brainiac: Learn something new every day. Today's event: Knitting at the Library . All ages welcome to learn Knitting and crocheting at the Oakland Public Library, Golden Gate Branch. Irving Bluestone, 90, Top U.A.W. Negotiator, Dies (New York Times) Mr. Bluestone was chief negotiator for more than 400,000 workers at General Motors in the 1970s and an advocate of worker participation in management. Knitting a recovery pattern (Warrnambool Standard) SIXTY metres down, 40 to go. That's the scenario facing a group of women knitting a 100-metre scarf as a symbol of beating alcohol problems. Western Regional Alcohol and Drug Centre has bought 500 balls of wool so a team, led by worker June Williams, can create the recovery scarf. Mary Walker Phillips, 83, Knitter of Art, Is Dead (New York Times) Miss Phillips took the utilitarian craft of knitting and gave it bold new life as a modern art form to be displayed on the walls of museums around the world. Knitters have warm thanks for troops (phillyburbs.com) MEDFORD - Evesham resident Patty Millar is one of many patrons of a knitting supply shop here who are working to spread warmth to military families this coming winter. Let's celebrate and support our local yarn stores (Anchorage Daily News) I try to keep up on the bigger picture of what's happening in the knitting world, so I read the fiber trade publications, including Yarn Market News. I am always impressed by the business people featured in its articles. Closing of Norwegian consulate upsets Minnesotans (International Herald Tribune) "It's like a slap in the face," said a woman in Minneapolis, of the closure set for next year. Minnesota claims 850,000 people of Norwegian descent, and reminders of their roots are all around. Knitting queen still casting on (Gazette) A KNITTING enthusiast from Yate is about to sell off her year's work of knitted toys for charity. Diana Clark, of Kenilworth, has been busy knitting more than a hundred children's toys this year. 10 Tech Pioneers: Where Are They Now? (PC World via Yahoo! News) These former technology luminaries have all taken different paths. How different? One's a country doctor, one's a budding movie mogul, and one teaches toddlers--and he's not even alive. Hartnell Teachers Celebrate in Salinas (Monterey County Weekly) This Hartnell College election night party looks more like a Knitting circle. Professor Kelly Locke knits in her living room, which has shelves of yarn and a few looms stowed in its corners.
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