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Hampshire Briefs: Chamber offers reduced rate membership (The Courier News)
Anyone who renews membership in the Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce by Jan. 9 will receive a discounted membership rate, and the first 100 people who join or rejoin will receive a holder with the Hampshire chamber's logo that can keep up to 112 business cards. Monday Briefing (The Columbus Dispatch)
Columbus Small-business initiatives include hot line, directory The state has announced several initiatives intended to help small businesses, displaced workers and Ohioans living below the poverty line who might want to start a business. Unwanted Cell Phones Help Troops (East Aurora Advertiser)
Got a new cell phone for Christmas and don't know what to do with the old one? Since May of 2007, the East Aurora American Legion Post 362 has been collecting used cell phones and accessories. They are then forwarded to a recycling center in Michigan, which creates funds to purchase AT&T phone calling cards. These phone calling cards are then distributed to American troops serving in Iraq, ... Busy Christmas for East Aurora Firefighters (East Aurora Advertiser)
Santa Claus wasn't the only one flying around Christmas Eve and Christmas day. The men and women of the East Aurora Fire Department began their holiday by responding to a kitchen fire at the dinner hour on Christmas Eve, and then spent the next seven hours responding to small electrical fires, flooding calls, wind damage, and blocked highways. Wallenwein's Ready to Reopen After Fire (East Aurora Advertiser)
It could have been much worse: As the welcoming neon signs went back into the front windows along Oakwood Avenue and Wallenwein's prepared to reopen for business as usual a little more than three weeks after the Dec. 1 fire that threatened to destroy the century-old landmark, that thought was on everyone's mind. It could have been much worse. Man Reportedly Pointed Loaded Gun at Driver (East Aurora Advertiser)
New York State Police arrested 24-year-old Joshua Hill of Orchard Park on a charge of first degree reckless endangerment on Sat., Dec. 20. Hill allegedly pointed a loaded handgun at another motorist following a road rage incident in which he reportedly tried to run another vehicle off the road. Business Bulletin Board for Jan. 4-10 (Contra Costa Times)
Bulletin board listings are free but limited to nonprofit organizations announcing events costing less than $200 to attend. An expanded version of the bulletin board can be found on-line at www. Business events calendar (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
List of local happenings. Fitness calendar (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Submit entries at least two weeks in advance to Fitness Calendar, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802, e-mail to melmoore@CITIZEN-TIMES.com or fax to 251-0585. Dining Guide (Grunion Gazette)
Editor's Note: Once a month, we present an abbreviated compilation of restaurant listings.
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