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Visit a Blog for Charity – It’s Buck-a-Hit Day

by Aaron

Today is Buck-a-Hit Day over at Jack Bog’s blog. This is his sixth year of coordinating a charity drive based around traffic on his blog. The basic concept is that he (and some other donors) will donate a dollar to charity for each visitor to his blog today. The charities which will benefit are the [...]

12.17.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

Standby for Buck a Hit, Part Six

by Aaron

Local bloger Jack Bogdanski will once again be hosting Buck-a-Hit Day, where sponsors (and Bojack himself) donate cash to charity based on traffic to his blog for a given day. This year the event will be next Wednesday the 17th. More information will be available as it gets closer, but plan to drop by Jack’s [...]

12.11.2008 See the rest →

Sand in the City

by PAgent

Music is booming across Pioneer Courthouse Square, and teams in brightly colored T-shirts are scooping, brushing, carving, and otherwise shaping more than 450 tons of beach sand into fantastic shapes. It can only be Yoshida’s Sand in the City, one of the nation’s premier sand sculpting events. Every July for more than 12 years, Sand [...]

07.18.2008 See the rest →

Running the Gauntlet

by PAgent

Leaving work the other night, I espied a familiar sight on the sidewalk ahead of me: A group of young men wearing matching T-shirts and carrying clipboards. Solicitors. Before I could look down, the youngest-looking of the three made eye contact, and predictably, nay inevitably, called out to me as I approached. “I hope you’re [...]

07.02.2008 See the rest → 11 comments