Submitted by paula on Mon, 01/18/2021 - 11:43pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The following is a list of the long term and short term projects the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has scheduled for the week around Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra and El Dorado County. At this time there is no work scheduled for the South Lake Tahoe area.
LONG-TERM PROJECTS
U.S. Highway 50 (El Dorado County): Work continues on a $55.4 million safety project in the Camino area to replace the existing concrete median barrier and fill in the gaps in the barrier, build an undercrossing, a wildlife crossing, make local road improvements and replace culverts. The project is expected to be completed in 2022. No traffic-interfering work is scheduled on the highway. Westbound Carson Road is closed between Carson Court and Sierra Blanca Road for bridge work. Motorists are being detoured onto westbound Highway 50 and back onto Carson Road.
MLK in Kansas City Share this story Published January 18th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: During one visit to Kansas City during the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr. sat for an interview with longtime Kansas City broadcaster Walt Bodine and his colleague Bill Griffith. (Courtesy | LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC University Libraries)
She had been sent to get an interview and she would get it, but not without some help. Her assignment: talk to the Black minister, civil rights leader and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner – Martin Luther King, Jr. – who had just flown into Kansas City.
“I saw him in the airport corridor,” said Helen Gray, the first Black woman hired as a reporter by the Kansas City Star-Times.
Share this story Published January 18th, 2021 at 11:30 AM Above image credit: This is the oldest known photo of Kelly s Westport Inn, according to the Kansas City Public Library. (Missouri Valley Room Special Collections | Kansas City Public Library)
When Sheree R. was 5 years old, her grandpa would take her to Kelly’s Westport Inn for a cold Coca-Cola.
Her grandpa was a regular there.
“Good memories like that probably influenced my career choice of bartender/server/cook through most of my work-life so far,” she said.
Sheree, who preferred to remain anonymous, is from Kansas City and worked in Westport throughout the ‘90s. This is why she asked Flatland to find the oldest photo that exists of Kelly’s.
PANJIM: Not only film buffs who have arrived in Goa but many across the world will be able to participate in the 51st International Film Festival of India opening on Saturday as the festival is going hybrid this year in view of the pandemic.
India’s marquee film festival will feature 224 films across categories, about 50 films, including those paying homage to stalwarts of world cinema who died in 2020, will be streamed online through IFFI’s website for those who register.
The virtual segment, which Union I&B minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday is the festival’s “real attraction” this year, will also contain the much soughtafter master-classes with celebrated filmmakers and the National Film Development Corporation’s ‘Film Bazaar’. The festival will premier Cannes Best Actor Award winner Mads Mikkelsen starrer ‘Another Round’ as the opening film. Made by Thomas Vinterberg’s, ‘Another Round’ is Denmark’s nominee for the Best International Film at
Four major bridges between Virginia and downtown Washington, DC will be closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic for 48 hours on President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration next week to enhance security measures, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam said on Friday.