| DARE exits Mason City schools
MASON CITY — After more than 20 years as part of the fifth-grade curriculum, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is gone from Mason City public schools.The program was suspended five weeks ago when the officer teaching the course was placed on medical leave.The absence left the district with a choice: Use one of its two school resource officers to teach the program or discontinue the program. All of the officers are employees of the Mason City Police Department.Ultimately, said Superintendent of Schools Keith Sersland, choosing to keep the resource officers’ schedules intact was more important.Officer Larry Carroll is located at Mason City High School and John Adams Middle School while Officer Steve Shrader is at Roosevelt Middle School and is also available at the elementary level.Sersland said administrators wanted to use resources as wisely as possible.
300,000 more foreign workers than believed, as Cameron vows to limit migrants
PETER Hain apologised last night after admitting there were 300,000 extra foreign nationals working in the UK than the government previously believed. The revelation means foreign nationals have taken 40.7 per cent of the 2.7 million new jobs created since 1997. .
Your guide to today, tomorrow and beyond
Robert Mirabal: Native American artist Robert Mirabal will perform his new stage show "In the Blood" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the Rio Grande Theater, 211 N. Downtown Mall, Las Cruces. $25 general, $20 students with valid ID. 505-523-6403.
El Paso Wind Symphony: The El Paso Wind Symphony's concert of holiday favorites, "Tis the Season," will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Magoffin Auditorium, UTEP. $12.50 adults; $7.50 students, military, seniors. 747-5234 or Ticketmaster, 544-8444.
Vicente Fernandez: Mexican singer Vicente Fernandez will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at Anitas convention center, Ramon Rayon at Waterfill Highway near the Ysleta bridge in Juárez. $35 at Sounds Music Stores. 011-52-656-682-1486.
FREE -- El Paso Civic Orchestra: The El Paso Civic Orchestra and the El Paso Community College Chorus will present the annual fall concert at 8 p.m.
Your say: All Blacks' World Cup dream over
Stuff.co.nz readers have their say on the All Blacks' shock loss to France at the Rugby World Cup. What did you think of the game? Send us your feedback and we'll publish your comments. Feedback (latest posts at top): A large proportion of the media, high profile rugby players and administrators need to adjust their headspace. New Zealand lost a game, not a war. They retreat with disappointment, not bloody wounds. They (the ones that stay, at least) will live to play again. Rugby is a game. If you lose, as we used to in the 60s, you get on with it and try again. We need to keep the importance of rugby in its true perspective.
-Robert John Shewry Lets hope that as a nation we have matured over the past four years. This All Black team is one that we have been immensely proud of for the past four years.
A Top Gun Takes Aim at Strokes
Jackson Streeter left his dream job as a fighter pilot to tackle the second leading cause of death
Dr. Jackson Streeter once held the ultimate cool job. In the mid-1990s he was the first medical doctor to be a pilot in the elite U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School, more commonly known as TOPGUN—the same group immortalized by Tom Cruise in the 1986 movie. Streeter, now 46, had wanted to join ever since high school. .
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