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NEW WASHINGTON - The wind was not cooperating. As representatives from Apex Clean Energy, Inc., tried to set up displays and a video screen in preparation for a public meeting about the Honey Creek Wind Farm projecton Wednesday evening in the picnic shelter behind the New Washington American Legion Hall, the wind kept blowing everything over. Their problem was met with more laughter than frustration. "Don't you hate it when it's too windy to talk about wind?" asked Ben Yazman, development manager, laughing. The breeze had died down by the time 14 members of the public, county commissioners Ti...

CHICAGO -- When snow blankets the landscape during harsh winter months, Eduardo Vea Keating sees a silver lining. "You have to see the bright side," said Keating, a creative director in advertising and resident of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. "It's a beautiful time of the year." Keating has gained notoriety in recent years for unique murals created entirely from snow. Calling them "snow graffiti," his artwork on brick walls around the Windy City range from geometric patterns to short words and more recently, "totems." "I think they're kind of my personal 'gods of snow,' praying for m...