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\"For the most part, they're doing just fine,\" says Ed Hibbs, a landscape architect for Caltrans, which oversees the freeway medians, and a Fresno County Master Gardener in Clovis. \"We're not typically bringing in any new ones. Most of the oleanders on 99 have been there a long time. They've been there at least maybe 40 years. You can grow them in a mass planting to have lots of color, \"but typically, I've seen them used as a background plant if you do layers,\" says Mariette Olsen, a landscape designer and owner of Olsen Consulting in Fresno. \"I've also seen them used to line driveways. It's like you're in a tunnel. It's a cool effect.\" \"All the oleanders tend to want to be a bush form, so it's all in the training and forming,\" Olsen says. \"They get suckers, like roses, and if you don't remove them, they will get more bushy.\" Prune in the fall after they finish blooming.

Whereas chrome could seem cold and clinical and gold signalled 'a bit of bling', copper provided a warming, sophisticated glow that could be easily incorporated into interior schemes to add an element of understated, cool lux. The copper 'moment' shows no sign of slowing down - its affordability has led to a huge resurgence on the high street and at Habitat we're seeing a real demand for copper products and more understated, warming metals such as brass and rose gold across accessories, furniture and, most notably, lighting where the materials warming glow really comes into its own. Copper's versatility has really allowed our design team to experiment with a lot of new looks and in the past few seasons we've been moving designs on from just 'pure' copper to mixing it with vivid block colour and contrasting materials such as wood and smoked glass to create a variety of feels from mid-century cool to Scandinavian luxury. Copper is still a very desirable material and I don't see any sign of its appeal fading over the next few years.\" Sam Hood, founder and creative director of Amara, the luxury homewares store, said: Metallics have, over the past few years, become really popular in statement pieces. Interior trends tend to mimic the catwalk and the copper and metallic trend has leapt from the clothes rails straight into people's home dcor inspiration. The warm copper and brass shades are easier to incorporate in the home, and people tend to link them to the warmth it brings.

'Considering Lehman's collapse in 2008, I'm glad I got out when I did,' says [Andy]. 'But over the past six years, I have had plenty to worry about with our home. When we moved here we thought we were far enough away from the airport not to be affected by noise.' After verifying in 2007 that their property fell inside BAA's adjusted noise boundary, the first step was to have two local estate agents assess their home's value estimated for 2002. If the difference between valuations was less than ten per cent, a mid-point would be agreed with BAA, but due to the uniqueness of their home, a third valuation was needed. The final figure, Pounds 1.4 million, was then pegged to an index tracking price rises in detached Essex homes since 2002 and the couple had to market the house for a year, changing the asking price each quarter to match the index. 'It was as if the light went off in that area for two years and nobody would touch properties in Takeley, for example,' he says. 'Today, homes in that village are worth at least 15 per cent less than they would have been, even after the recession is factored in.' BAA's Debbie Fazan says the company has bought 130 properties under the noise blight scheme for about Pounds 50million. 'We are letting them until the market recovers,' she says.

\"For the most part, they're doing just fine,\" says Ed Hibbs, a landscape architect for Caltrans, which oversees the freeway medians, and a Fresno County Master Gardener in Clovis. \"We're not typically bringing in any new ones. Most of the oleanders on 99 have been there a long time. They've been there at least maybe 40 years. You can grow them in a mass planting to have lots of color, \"but typically, I've seen them used as a background plant if you do layers,\" says Mariette Olsen, a landscape designer and owner of Olsen Consulting in Fresno. \"I've also seen them used to line driveways. It's like you're in a tunnel. It's a cool effect.\" \"All the oleanders tend to want to be a bush form, so it's all in the training and forming,\" Ms. Olsen says. \"They get suckers, like roses, and if you don't remove them, they will get more bushy.\" Prune in the fall after they finish blooming.

MY EARLIEST memories of Santa Rosa are framed in the window of a southbound Greyhound bus. It was a most welcome sight. I loved coming into this town from the north, where the Redwood Highway became Mendocino Avenue, nose to the glass as we passed the green lawns and gnarled oaks of the junior college campus, holding out its promise of an education in ivied halls. Santa Rosa's merchants worried about the traffic around the courthouse. As trucking increased on the San Francisco-to-Portland route, more and more semis rumbled through the heart of town, sometimes crunching cars parked where the courthouse hitching rails used to be. And there was the occasional local trucker, driving a flatbed loaded with squawking chickens, who ended up on the courthouse lawn. IN 1951, Santa Rosa's new city manager, Sam Hood, made a speech at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club about 101. Hood blamed \"selfish interests\" for ignoring the state's expertise. Col. [John Skaggs], he said, had been \"a voice in the wilderness\" warning of the very consequences that resulted -- increased speed that created a \"Blood Alley\"; five deaths and 47 injuries in less than two years, and more cross traffic than on the state highway. Said Hood: \"If the Highway Commission were to recommend a freeway outside Santa Rosa today, I doubt there would be one voice raised in objection.\" But it took 20 years, and the route stayed the same.

The plan for Jack Straw's hot dog and pizza restaurant at 1124 N. Milwaukee Ave. involves a hefty investment to include a complete remodel and upgrade of the building and grounds. It would be the second Jack Straw's store, which has operated since 1982 in Wheaton. \"I've been looking to open a second location for some time,\" said Sam Hood, who has run the operation for his father, Bill, since 2002. \"I've looked at many sites but nothing stood out like Libertyville.\" Bill Hood opened for business in 1982 after remodeling a former bank building on Naperville Road in Wheaton across from what then was the DuPage County courthouse. The name was chosen as a reference to the song \"Jack Straw\" from the Grateful Dead's Europe '72 album, according to Sam Hood.

The Wildcats became the first team in seven games to score a goal on Huntington St. Joseph's, but still dropped a 2-1 decision Saturday afternoon in the boys Region 4 championship match at Generals Stadium. St. Joe's won the first Secondary School Activities Commission state title in 1988 and has appeared in the title match five times since then, but lost each of those games. The Irish lofted a free kick toward the goal from about 25 yards out on the left sideline. The ball ricocheted off a pack of players and Matt Welty knocked home the rebound for St. Joe's.

They are the small companions which provided, in [Patricia Miles]'s words, \"a focus for the softer feelings\" of the hardened crews. Sailors and skippers purchased copies of their photographs from [Sam Hood] and many of them sent the pictures home as postcards and keepsakes for their loved ones. \"None of them do -- not with quarantine regulations being so strict throughout the world nowadays,\" [Craig Jackson] says. \"You might get the odd bird, but that's about it.\" \"They learned all the ways of the ship and became very popular with the men,\" Miles says. \"They learned the routines of the ship, what the different bells meant, and would wait outside the galley door when they knew they were likely to get something to eat.\"

Courtesy of Grayslake This is an artist's rendering of an Italian steakhouse proposed for Center Street in downtown Grayslake. Courtesy of Grayslake This is an artist's rendering of an Italian steakhouse proposed for Center Street in downtown Grayslake. This is an artist's rendering of an Italian steakhouse proposed for Center Street in downtown Grayslake. It would be operated by the [Bob Bowes] family, which owns [Emil]'s Tavern on Center nearby. Contrary to the image, a name has not been selected for the eatery. Courtesy of Village of Grayslake An artist's rendering of a restaurant proposed for Center Street in downtown Grayslake. It would be operated by the Bowes family, which owns Emil's Tavern on Center next door.

Robert Klages, who owns Fly by Night Promotions, a Westminster talent agency, said, \"We started our songwriters' showcase this past March on the third Sunday of each month at the Westminster Inn. The showcases are an opportunity for area songwriters to perform original compositions that would otherwise not be heard.\" Other locals scheduled to perform include John Kraus of Westminster, Bob Evans of Hampstead, Lisa Lopatta of Sykesville and Sandy Leishear of Westminster. With Sunday being Father's Day, it is appropriate that [Roy Hood] and Sam Hood, a Westminster father-son act, will perform three original bluegrass songs following [Richard Taylor]'s performance.