How gulls spurned the seas and got hooked on fast food Urban gulls must be Ireland’s most hated bird, seen as food thieves and noisy nesters
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There she goes, teetering across the pebbles with two boxes of takeaway chips. They spilled out as she screamed and cowered, one gull on her shoulder, another flapping close with outstretched beak.
The scene was in Brighton last summer, on the beach of my childhood ice-creams, and captured for a tabloid front page. But such episodes are old hat now and replicated to some degree from Aberdeen to St Stephen’s Green. A herring gull pictured lifting bags of crisps from a food store on Grafton Street last year was improvising during lockdown.
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by Steve Newton on February 20th, 2021 at 1:24 PM 1 of 7 2 of 7
When Louisiana slide-guitar wizard Sonny Landreth played the Rio Theatre in August of 2019, those who arrived early enough to see the opening act got a real treat. It was a local Mississippi transplant named Robert Connely Farr, who d been blowing people away with his album from the previous year,
Dirty South Blues.
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Turns out Farr had been contacted online a month earlier by the folks at the Canadian Pacific Blues Society who were promoting the show. They wanted their own copy of the album. That was the thing, recalls Farr from his home in East Van, that album just kinda took off; there was so much happening with it.
Updated: 3:19 PM EST February 12, 2021
Mission BBQ announced Friday that its customers donated $362,320 to Wreaths Across America through their support of American Heroes Cups.
The donation will help sponsor more than 36,000 veterans wreaths honoring fallen service members in 2021, the barbecue restaurant chain said.
“We remain proud and humbled to stand with Wreaths Across America and the amazing work they continue to do to Remember, Honor and Teach,” said Bill Kraus, co-founder for Mission BBQ.
Wreaths Across American is known for its annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, their mission is to remember our fallen U.S. veterans, honor those who serve and teach the next generation the value of freedom.