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India sees Kashmir's storied Wular Lake worth more restored

Edit The Associated Press 12 Nov 2016
WULAR LAKE, India (AP) -- Tucked within Kashmir's Himalayan foothills sits a freshwater lake that was once among Asia's largest. Long an inspiration to poets, beloved by kings, Wular Lake has been reduced in places to a fetid and stinking swamp ... Dar was among dozens of villagers employed in the 1950s by the regional government to plant millions of water-sucking willows in the crystalline lake....

Go for fresh air and breathe in stench at Shahpura Lake Park

Edit The Times of India 12 Nov 2016
Instead of fresh air in the morning what we get is a foul smell emanating from stagnant water and garbage in the lake." ... Another visitor Pragya Lahri, who also lives in the area, said, "Bhopal has two major lakes - Upper Lake and Shahpura Lake - for which Bhopal is known as 'City of Lakes' in the country but at the same time it is sad to see that one of them (Shahpura Lake) has virtually been converted into a nullah."....

Clergy, advocates urge action on affordable housing, homeless shelters

Edit Deseret News 12 Nov 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — Clergy and advocates for low-income people joined in word and prayer Friday, calling on Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and the City Council to move forward on policies and funding to address the city's affordable housing needs ... We need to preserve the livability of Salt Lake City by making it affordable for people to live here," said the Rev. Curtis Price of Salt Lake's First Baptist Church....

Snelgrove takes lead in Salt Lake County Council race

Edit Deseret News 12 Nov 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — Republicans may maintain control of the Salt Lake County Council after all ... The Salt Lake County Clerk's Office counted 38,000 more ballots Friday, and results released at 5 p.m ... However, an estimated 87,000 Salt Lake County votes still remain to be counted, meaning Snelgrove's now 2 percent lead may not hold ... Salt Lake City....

Class 5A football: Spring Lake Park ousts Andover, stays unbeaten

Edit Pioneer Press 12 Nov 2016
Spring Lake Park is on its way to U.S ... With 1.47 left in the fourth quarter, Spring Lake Park (12-0) faced a fourth and 6 on the Andover 23-yard line, and the Huskies held ... Two plays later, the Huskies had the ball on Spring Lake Park’s 21-yard line with four seconds remaining ... Spring Lake Park lost in the state quarterfinals last season with Ojile sidelined because of an injury....

Protesters Arrested at North Dakota Pipeline

Edit Voa News 12 Nov 2016
And it was unclear whether the agency's next action would resolve the question of whether the line can be built as planned under Lake Oahe, where construction ceased in September ... Plans called for the pipeline to pass under Lake Oahe, a federally owned water source, and to skirt the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation by about a half-mile (one kilometer)....

India sees Kashmir’s storied Wular Lake worth more restored

Edit The Seattle Times 12 Nov 2016
WULAR LAKE, India (AP) — Tucked within Kashmir’s Himalayan foothills sits a freshwater lake that was once among Asia’s largest. Long an inspiration to poets, beloved by kings, Wular Lake has been reduced in places to a fetid and stinking swamp. Just the sight of it makes Mohammed Subhan Dar feel sick. He admits he’s […]> ... ....

Civil rights advocate, Deseret News columnist John Florez dies at age 84

Edit Deseret News 12 Nov 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah industrial commissioner and longtime Deseret News columnist John Florez died Thursday at the age of 84 ... He served on the National Urban Coalition in Washington, D.C., taught for the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, and served on the Salt Lake City School Board ... He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Salt Lake Community College....

Prep football playoffs: Regional final results

Edit Detroit Free Press 12 Nov 2016
Tim Galloway Special to DFP). Division 1. Regional Final. Detroit Cass Tech 43, Saline 42 ... Division 2 ... Orchard Lake St ... Hudsonville Unity Christian 36, Lake Odessa Lakewood 16 ... Ottawa Lake Whiteford 38, Climax-Scotts 18....

Taxidermied S.L. police dog is the stuff of legend

Edit Deseret News 12 Nov 2016
SALT LAKE CITY — Decades before highly trained K-9s arrived on the scene, the Salt Lake City Police Department boasted a different kind of police dog. Bunjo was a stray that “just showed up one day” in 1908, according to Judy Dencker, a retired captain and co-founder of the Salt Lake City Police and Fire Museum ... “It’s a very good bond,” Salt Lake police officer Nick Pearce said of his K-9, Otto....

Lake voters want to keep taxing selves for health care

Edit Orlando Sentinel 12 Nov 2016
Lake County voters are generous. And full of contradictions. Voters in the northern section of the county that runs from Howey-in-the-Hills to the Ocala National Forest enthusiastically endorsed a plan to keep taxing themselves to boost the profits of private hospitals. The North Lake County Hospital... ....

The Latest: Wildfire near Lake Lure forces road closures

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 12 Nov 2016
A statement from the N.C ... 9 and U.S. 64/74A, which lead to the lake and Chimney Rock State Park, will be closed to all traffic except emergency personnel until officials deem the area safe for residents and visitors ... State and federal fire officials say portions of Chimney Rock and Lake Lure communities are now under evacuation orders due to the Party Rock Fire ... ....

Hand-holding protest over Trump to ring Oakland’s Lake Merritt

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 12 Nov 2016
[...] one city resident is urging people to peacefully hold hands at Lake Merritt on Sunday in another Trump-reaction rally that she hopes will be different from ......
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