| WHEATFIELD: Save-A-Lot opens at The Summit
A 17,000-square-foot grocery store is the latest addition to The Summit mall in Wheatfield.Save-A-Lot opened its doors to the public Jan. 9. John Hedlund, the store's manager, lives in Wheatfield and operates two other stores — in Salamanca and Bradford, Pa. — with business partner William Larson.Hedlund said he told company officials that if they ever opened a store in Niagara County, he'd be interested in running it. The opportunity arose earlier this fall when Save-A-Lot announced interest in The Summit.Hedlund said the store serves a need in the community. "I feel there's an opportunity here. There's a niche that needed to be taken care of in the area (especially with senior housing nearby)," he said. "It's a long time coming to get a (grocery) store here is what I've heard from customers." The store has drawn shoppers from Wheatfield, Lockport, Lewiston and Grand Island, he said.
Lifetime Pulls Out All Stops Advocacy Initiative
The campaign, featuring such notables as Fran Drescher, Daisy Fuentes, Whoopi Goldberg, Patti LaBelle, Ricki Lake, Reba McEntire, Mya, Holly Robinson Peete, Ronde Baarber and Jake Delhomme, is designed to encourage more women and men to become part of a support system to promote early detection, donate to or volunteer for local charities and offer hope and friendship to those facing breast cancer. All three creators appear in the public service announcement spots, as well as other survivors, activists and celebrities. In addition, the advocacy effort includes its first-ever theme song, "My Bra," recorded by Grammy Award-winning singer Mya, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor. The song, written specifically for Lifetime’s effort by multi-platinum songwriter Kara DioGuardi (Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion Faith Hill) and Grammy-winning producer/songwriter James Poyser (Common, The Roots/Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill), is being featured in various on-air and online elements, including the Lifetime original movie Matters of Life & Dating, which premieres Oct.
EU Proposes New Simpler Food Labels
Kyprianou said it would take another five years to produce a report on how the alcohol industry should regulate its labeling.
So-called alcopops, which mix fruit juice and soft drinks with alcohol, are included partly because they target the key market of teenage consumers.
The proposals will now be taken up by the European Parliament and must win approval from member nations before they can be turned into law.
All packaged foodstuffs from outside the European Union would have to meet the labeling criteria. In the U.S., food labels list serving size, calories and nutrient information, including fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate and protein content.
Current labeling systems in the EU, some going back 30 years, are considered too perplexing or downright illegible for the consumer.
Radio & TV Talk
She clearly isn't ready in terms of her experience in fine dining but she has great instincts and Ramsay not only gave her a free ticket to culinary school but a return invite to "Hell's Kitchen 4." Of the final three, it will likely come down to Jen and Rock. Not much new coming up on TV this week. "The Two Coreys" on A&E tonight at 10, is purely a diversion only if you really gave a dang about Corey Haim and Corey Feldman, who co-starred with former 99Xer Steve Barnes in that classic film "No Witness." Haim ends up coming across as pathetic and desperate. If you are into reality, though, check out Bravo's "Flipping Out" starring Jeff Lewis, an obsessive-compulsive real-estate flipper who has an interesting cast of characters surrounding him. But like a lot of these reality shows, his friends are his paid staff.
Today on the presidential campaign trail
The man released at least three hostages, but was still holding one person at nightfall, nearly five hours after the ordeal began, according to a law enforcement source who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the situation. Clinton was in the Washington area at the time, but the confrontation brought her campaign to a standstill just five weeks before the New Hampshire primary, one of the first tests of the presidential campaign season. She canceled all appearances, as did her husband, and the security around her was increased as a precaution. In an early evening news conference, Capt. Paul Callaghan repeatedly refused to say how many hostages had been taken. The man entered the simple storefront office along the town's main street around 1 p.m., ordered people onto the floor and then let a mother and her baby leave, said State Police Maj.
Collier agencies to lose $20.9 million if reform passes
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