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1. Booming fireworks can terrify your dog - The Morning Call

   Dear Karen: I adopted ''Daisy,'' a Wwelsh corgi mix shortly after losing my two schnauzers, also adopted.

   
   
2. Five-day trip down Lehigh River wraps up today - Pocono Record

   More than 100 paddlers set out on the 2008 Lehigh River Sojourn on Saturday and will complete their trek in Easton today.

   
   
3. Unemployment soars to 5.5% - New York Times

   The unemployment rate took its biggest jump in more than two decades in May as employers once again cut jobs from U.S. payrolls, according to a government report Friday, showing a job market weaker than ... ...

   
   
4. Blue Ridge Communications Selects InGrid Home Security - Business Wire

   BERWYN, Pa., & PALMERTON, Pa.-- --InGrid, Inc., the leading provider of digital, wireless home security services, today announced that it has been selected by Blue Ridge Communications , a full service ...

   
   
5. Frank V. Beaumont formerly of Flemington - Home News Tribune

   L. TOWAMENSING TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Frank V. Beaumont, 74, of L. Towamensing Township, Pa., formerly of Flemington, and Montreal, Canada, died Saturday in Blue Mountain Health System, Palmerton, Pa.

   
   
6. Arts News - The Morning Call

   2008 REGIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS The Allentown Art Museum will host an exhibition of student entries from Berks, Lehigh and Northampton counties to the 2008 Regional Scholastic Art awards today through Feb. 10. The awards program/ceremony is 1 p.m. next Sunday at Symphony Hall, 23 N. Sixth St., Allentown. A reception follows 2-4 p.m. at the art museum. The Baum School of Art will also host two companion exhibitions -- 30 original National Scholastic award entries Jan. 20 to Feb. 10 and an exhibition of glass art by awards ceremony keynote speaker Jim Harmon opening next Sunday and continuing through Feb. 22. The National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the nation's oldest and most prestigious art and writing competition. It is the most comprehensive assessment of visual and literary arts achievement from secondary education in our country. The Regional Awards precede the National Scholastic Art Exhibition. All regional art entries winning Gold Key Awards advance to national judging. Nine area students won national awards in 2006. 2008 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PROSE AND POETRY CONTEST Catherine Sargeant of Kunkletown and Nicolas Wolf of Bangor won the Northampton Community College Martin Luther King Jr. prose and poetry contest. Both are NCC students. Sargeant and Wolf will read their poems at ''Voting the Dream'' at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Lipkin Theatre, Kopecek Hall, on the main campus of NCC in Bethlehem Township. ART SHOW AND BRUNCH Friends of the Palmerton Area Library will host its second annual Art Show and Brunch at the noon March 9 at the library. The library is looking for local ar tists to display and/or sell their work. Call 610-826-3424 or go to http://www.palmertonarealibrary.com for more information. LATINITAS WRITING CONTEST ''Latinitas'' magazine -- the first digital magazine made for and by Latina youth -- is holding a writing contest for Latina youth ages 14-21 on ''What it is to be Latina.'' Winning articles will be published in the print and online editions. Submissions should be 800-1,000 words in first person or Associated Press style on one of the following subjects: What is it like to be a Hispanic/Latina female in your hometown? What does it mean to be a Hispanic/Latina female to you? As a Hispanic/Latina female, are you doing something in your community to make a difference; if so what? Describe the biggest challenge facing young Hispanics/Latinas today? Submit articles to latinitasawards@yahoo.com by midnight February 10 or mail to Latinitas, P.O. Box 4284 Austin, TX 78765. HOOKED RUG WORKSHOP A hooked-rug design workshop will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, Harleysville. Focusing on fraktur motifs, the workshop will be led by Susan Feller of Ruckman Mill Farm, West Virginia. The fee is $55 ($50 for members of the Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania). A second workshop is planned for Saturday, March 2. Call 215-256-3020 or go to http://www.mhep.org for more information. WATERCOLOR PAINTING WORKSHOP Poconos impressionist Will Daskal will offer a six-week watercolor painting workshop for the Pocono Arts Council. Subjects to be covered include light, form, composition, color theory and developing creative techniques. The class will run 10 a.m.-noon on six consecutive Fridays beginning this Friday. To register, call Carolyn Hetherington at 570-476-4460. COMMUNITY TAP CLASSES Submit Arts News items to Kimberly Quier, Arts News, The Morning Call, Box 1260, Allentown, PA 18105-1260; e-mail kimberly.quier@mcall.com , or fax to 610-820-6693.