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ABC 33/40 E-FORECAST
Afternoon Edition For Wednesday April 12, 2006
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LEBANESE FOOD AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL
Saint Elias Maronite Catholic Church

April 21-22, 2006 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 21-22 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, back by popular demand 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_2006.html
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FOCUS ON EASTER SUNDAY: Still looks dry. We do not have any rain in
our forecast all the way through the weekend. If you are planning to attend
Easter sunrise services, the temperature should be around 60 or slightly
above at sunrise. Here in Central Alabama, the official time of sunrise for
Easter Sunday will be 6:16 CDT. That, of course, can vary by a few minutes
depending on whether you live on a hill that is exposed to the sun earlier
or down in a deep valley. The sunrise/sunset tables are based on a level
plane for a given latitude and longitude.

THE REST OF THE WEATHER: As mentioned, we think we will stay dry on
through the weekend. Most days will feature predominant sunshine, but there
are always little minor disturbances that can cause some temporary high
level cloudiness like we have seen today. By Friday and on through the
weekend, the old thermometer will reach the mid 80s every single day.

IN SEARCH OF COLD WEATHER: Not a great deal of it around anymore,
especially as compared to a few weeks ago. Even in Alaska, the coldest we
could find this morning was 9 below zero at Point Lay. Down here where 48
states rub up against each other, the low was 20 in Stanley, Idaho. Wish you
could see that town. It is nestled along the Salmon River in the Sawtooth
Mountains. The mountain peaks are real jagged like the edge of a saw.
Strange thing happened once when we pulled in to a riverside campsite. The
space we had chosen was totally littered with a newspaper. I started
scooping up the pages and lo and behold, it was the previous Sunday's
edition of the Birmingham News...last time I was there, I photographed a
street sign in the heart of the
town that said, "Population 35, Speed Limit 35." My kind of place.

SMALL TOWNS AND TORNADOES: They don't have much of a chance
if a strong tornado hits them. There have been some cases in the USA when a
small town was totally wiped off the map and never rebuilt. Saragosa, Texas
was almost totally wiped out several years ago. On this date in 1945,
Antlers, Oklahoma was nearly obliterated by a massive F5 which killed 69
people. There was very little in the newspapers about that disaster because
it was overshadowed by the death of President Franklin Roosevelt at the
time...here in Alabama, 2/3 of Hackleburg was destroyed by an F4 tornado at
1:30 am on this date in 1943. Four persons were killed and 60 injured.
Residents reported being awakened by an unscheduled freight train.

MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Still trying to make it up to Little
Miss Molly for abandoning her during last weekend's long severe weather
event. After hiding under the bed most of Saturday, she has returned to
normal. Translation: a ballgame every time I walk through the living area.
Some great walks over the last couple of days. She always stops in the
backyard of Glenn and Patty's house awaiting a tummy rub from them. She
stops again where Sue and Lisa live with Bridgett (another shih-tzu) at the
far end of the walking track. I almost never get her back home, but I don't
mind. Even strangers we meet on the walking track stop and pet Little Miss
Molly because she is so effervescent. Life goes on and it is most enjoyable
with my little 9-pound goodwill ambassador!

J.B. Elliott
jbelliott@centurytel.net

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TONIGHT
Fair and pleasant.
Morning Low 56
WIND: Light

THURSDAY
Mostly sunny.
Morning Low 56 Afternoon High 81
WIND: SW 5-10

FRIDAY
Mostly sunny. A warmer afternoon.
Morning Low 61 Afternoon High 84
WIND: W 7-14

SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 85
WIND: SW 6-12

SUNDAY
Partly sunny and warm.
Morning Low 62 Afternoon High 84
WIND: SW 7-14

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