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BP and the Gulf Coast Oil Spill:
Do We Know the Truth?
CBS 11 anchor Doug Dunbar and CBS Southern Bureau chief Scott Keenan will lead a discussion on the challenges of covering the monstrous environmental
disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Dunbar spent several days in the region filing
video and online reports.
Time & date: mingling 6 p.m., eats around 6:30, then the program Wednesday, Sept. 22
Place: Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant, 2201 N. Commerce St.
Cost: $17 members, $25 nonmembers, $10 students, free if you join right then and there
Menu: Joe T.’s renowned family-style enchilada dinner; cash bar
Things got raucous indeed in December 2008 at the John Peter Smith Hospital book
benefit ramrodded by IABC with assistance from SPJ. Here’s the take: 297 books and 310 magazines collected at the door plus another 238
books donated by Friends of the Library. JPS valued the books at $7.50 each and
the magazines at 50 cents each. Throw in $363 net cash, and the readers library
at the county hospital received $4,530 worth of value.
