Show i 7 ii&iu — ff "- - -- f” I-- " jar- Mi Mto j Opinion 16 Crossword 17 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday October Try ‘plastic surgery’ for Christmas 0: HOW CAN one learns by nurturing BUDGET FOR J 1 The lessons wtrUy questionlunswer column) (A 2 CHRISTMAS? plants are all Answer by: Liz Gorham Utah State University Extension family resource about survival management specialist — something With about three months to go now is good lime to make a spending plan for Christmas so you aren’t caught in a financial frcnxy in December with which the Consider what you spent last year Was it loo much too Jittle or about right? Have your economic conditions changed since last year? if so you may want to adjust students are certainly well your spending plan from last With year’s acquainted your estimated goal determine how much you wjjj have to save each Also month consider if you want to take on e a job jf other family members can Salvador Detossantos resident erf Sacramento borne!© abetter aloohcrf and drugs hut says the serenity erf work- - part-tim- has had trouble with helped him resist a return ing in the Community Garden Nursery to the street Me Students like Monsanto learn hortio Jtur ai sr-ii- use their talents draw to the additional income needed or if there are things your family can go without If you draw names with your family or friends consider setting a dollar limit Dr try gift giving that utilizes talents rather than money Now is a good time to discuss the options with the people with whom you exchange gifts Co shopping without your checkbook cash or credit cards Make a detailed list of items you want to buy prices and the stores that carry the items Where possible list more than one gift option per person Find out when stores have their bent sales and when the items you want will be on sale Visit the stores regularly to check for prices and availability If you are in serious debt consider seeing a financial counselor and focus on the importance of relationships with your family and friends this Christmas If you are living on plastic be resolved to schedule “plastic surgery" soon The Blooming where they’re planted A Sacramento greenspace nurtures more than flowers SACRAMENTO Calif (A V) — Ed works undvr the gentle shade of the “HandemngSihcd" Jt is here that the plants in the Community Garden N ursery lake tiwir fkut step out of che gree-houoa diva way to being planted in the main garden “i guess you could call it a halfway house between here and gening out in the real world” says Ed as lie pulls a weed from one of the plants under his care ae But (be tbed js more than a halfway house for the shrubs and flowers it protects ft’s also a halfway house fut people finding their own way back to lie real world Ed is oue of 5 1 students — all of them homeless many with drug or alcohol problems or criminal Direct column topic questions to: Julons Reuse Utah State UnumuMy Extenamn Logan Ed — who spoke on Phone tax: 797-142- could earn more later The gardes is run by Volunteers of America a pkulanthropic organ- ization wjih more than bOW employees and about TfUfXi volunteers nationwide After jvmmg learn vocational skills and move back into the job market Ought in a w ave of 0 some training in the hope that less shelter to give people a chance to freedom £4922-050- ’ records — currently working at the garden fjocatcd near a rail y ard on the fringes of downtown the garden was atarted by a nearby home- best gift you could give yourself and your lamOy this Christmas is financial UT with divorce left the 51 year-old his wallet nearly empty Last year be went completely broke He learned about the garden during a slay is the adjacent homeless shelter When he was offered a groundskeeper yh a while back in his nativ e Florida Ed came back to the Sacramento area firsi to gel forces with the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency the group opened the garden m November J Vfi Temperatures under ihe Sacramento sun can easily reach three digits during the summer but that corporate downsizing liie condition that his full name not be used — is not what many people might think of as a lypkal homeless 797-125- Juwner&eMtuauaau doesn't stop the workers from keeping up with the endless watching weeding and watering that tlx person After losing Shutterbugs can hobnob with experts his telephone cable maintenance job a foe H LKT1 RE 4 Fag 24 AFPfjtC Ed waters flowers at the CowKiriri Downtown Garden Ujrwy By flick Sammon The Associated Press For many aspiring photographers the best method for perfecting photo skills is learning directly lrurn working professional photographers and photo experts By participating in photo workshops seminars and discussion panels new levels of creativity and technical expertise can be reached — and new goals can be set Meeting the masters of photography and learning their secrets is easier than you may think Early next year (Jan 2 to Feb’2j for example more than 25 professional photographers and photo experts lroro around the world will meet in Delray Beach Fla for wiiat many consider the photo karmrg higliltghl of the year: lotuFusioo V7 an international event presented by the Falro beach Fholograpiue Center The “Who’s Who” in the world of photography oflerjrg seminars and workshops at Foie-i- usion V7 include Robert farber noted fur I us fashion and beaut v work Jill Enfield and Grace Schaub recognized for their creative hand-colorin- g of black-and-whi- te pic- tures: George Behaub a recognized expert on book publishing and aclhng qlock pliotograph : David friend picture editor of Liie magazine 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