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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Monday April 11, 2005
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church

April 15-16, 2005 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Located at 836 8th Street South
Near the corner of University Boulevard and 8th Street South

Get Homemade Lebanese Food Lunch and Dinner April 15-16 Easy Friday Lunch --
Fast Service in/out in minutes -- Take out or dine in. For really fast
service come early or late. We serve food the whole day. You can also have
food delivered to your place of business for Friday lunch. Click on our
website below for details.

Baked Kibbee, spinach pies, rolled grape leaves, fresh grilled lemon
chicken, loobia (spiced green beans), and sweets galore.
Have you ever tried Lebanese ice cream or the traditional baklawa?
It is worth the calories. All this and more will be available. Visit the
a-la-carte station - inside only - Meat Pies, Spinach Pies, Grape Leaves,
Tabouleh, and Homus. Stock up.

Take a tour of the church, visit our heritage room and learn more about the
language of Aramaic spoken at our liturgy. See scenes of Lebanon in our
main hall. Silent Auction and Live Band from New York each evening.

All this and there is No Admission Charge. 25% of all proceeds go to
charities other than St. Elias Church.

FOR MORE INFO AND A COMPLETE MENU VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT:
http://www.stelias.org/festival_2005.html
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OVERNIGHT SHOWERS AND STORMS: For Central Alabama, it will be
mostly an overnight deal and we are fairly confident that all the
ingredients in the weather pie will let us get by with "just" a slight risk
of severe weather. Projected dew points will be in the 50s all night across
Central Alabama, which is not really prime ammunition for vicious
thunderstorms. As the storms progress eastward during the night, we believe
the risk will be lower. The better chance of a severe storm will be in West
Alabama and lesser toward the east.

Again for the second event in a row, it looks like Mississippi and
part of Louisiana is in the crosshairs for the main action. The Storm
Prediction Center has placed an area from Central Louisiana into
West-Central Mississippi under a high risk for the remainder of this
afternoon into the evening. Most of the rest of Mississippi is under a
moderate risk.

Back in Central Alabama, showers and thunderstorms will persist
Tuesday morning, but by afternoon most of them should be east of our area.
There is still a chance of widely scattered showers and storms on Wednesday.
At this time, we believe Thursday and Friday will have dry weather with
cooler nights. See our day-by-day forecast.

THE COLORADO BLIZZARD: It pretty much paralyzed the eastern part of
the state Sunday and overnight. As much as 20 inches of snow fell in some
areas. There were 6-foot drifts reported near the Air Force Academy at
Colorado Springs as well as around Pueblo and Trinidad and on Raton Pass.
Raton Pass is on I-25 and is the dividing line between Colorado and New
Mexico. Whiteout conditions were reported on parts of I-25 in Southern
Colorado. Closer in to Denver, 22 inches of snow was reported at Aurora and
22 inches in Littleton. At one time, I-70 was closed all the way from Denver
to the Kansas border.

ROAMING ELSEWHERE: 93 in Laredo was Sunday's hot spot...coldest
this morning, down where the lower 48 adjoin each other, was 8 above at
Yellowstone Lake inside Yellowstone National Park...that blizzard out on the
Plains is not that unusual at all for this late in the season.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: A good friend and a member of my
Sunday School class told me Sunday that if anything happened to little Miss
Molly that they would have to bury me with her. He had read the story of
Linda Knight's experiences in the Thursday edition. He may have a point. It
is possible to get too attached to little creatures. We had bad luck with
three dogs in a row in earlier years and avoided owning a dog for a long,
long time. When little Miss Molly strolled into our living area on a Sunday
afternoon in December 2003, she had just arrived from Salt Lake City. A
number of our family was here. Molly strolled over to me first, stood on her
little hind legs and put her paws on my knee, looked me right in the eye and
slowly wagged her tail. I melted. The rest is history. I suppose she has
done that several thousand times since and I can't resist her. Molly has
also staked out six sleeping stations in our house. She rotates from one to
the other. Her National Geographic blanket (used to be mine) and my recliner
are the same color she is. Last night when I went to bed, it looked like she
had melted and poured herself into the corner of the recliner and became
invisible. I gave her a midnight rub-down and went to bed. She expressed her
appreciation with a low moan and groan. Life goes on.

J. B. Elliott
jbelliott@charter.net

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TONIGHT
Showers and thunderstorms overnight. A few may be severe. Rain locally
heavy.
Morning Low 60
WIND: SE 10-18

TUESDAY
Morning showers and storms decreasing by afternoon. Breezy.
Morning Low 60 Afternoon High 73
WIND: W 10-18

WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny. Widely scattered showers and thunderstorms.
Morning Low 52 Afternoon High 68
WIND: NW 8-16

THURSDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 47 Afternoon High 66
WIND: N 5-10

FRIDAY
Partly sunny.
Morning Low 46 Afternoon High 70
WIND: NE 5-10

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