| Teachers' top gift: Thanks
You're in a hurry. So you drop $5 on a trinket for your child's teacher, then move on to the next item on your holiday to-do list. These gifts may be accepted graciously, but be honest: Does the teacher really need a candleholder emblazoned with Santa's rosy visage? Or a reindeer paperweight, or that perennial last-minute gift choice - the "World's Best Teacher" coffee mug? "Sometimes they feel like they need to get something for the teacher and so they buy ... an apple that says 'No. 1 Teacher' or something like that," says Shannon Drizd, who has taught first and second grade in the suburbs of Chicago for nine years. "I'd much rather have something personal from the student." Memo to Santa's elves: So would most teachers. The National Education Association polled more than 2,500 teachers last spring, asking what gift they most enjoyed receiving from students.
Coffee shop aims to kick butt in Austin
Good coffee certainly gives a jolt, but can it kick butt? Thomas Gohring thinks so. He's launching the first location of his martial arts-themed coffee shop, Kick Butt Coffee, on Airport Boulevard in December. Martial arts-inspired artwork will decorate the 1,700-square-foot shop in the Highland Commons shopping center and baristas will wear formal mandarin-collared kung fu clothing. Featured drinks will have martial arts names. The new shop is less than a mile from Master Gohring's Tai Chi & Kung Fu, a Chinese martial arts academy also owned by Gohring. Once the shop opens Gohring plans to incorporate comedy and music performances. The shop will also offer free Wi-Fi. Gohring envisions opening six or more Kick Butt Coffee locations in the Austin area within five years, all of them serving home-brewed coffee.
Calendar of Events
Coffee Bean Theatre presentation: "Luv," a comedy by Murray Schisgal, dinner theater, Homestead Restaurant, Woodhull. Today: meal 12:30 p.m., performance 2 p.m. Tickets, $30 at Homestead or call (309) 334-3480; must be purchased in advance. Parade Veteran's Day Parade, 2 p.m., Main Street in Galesburg. Chicken and noodles Corpus Christi Church's 6th annual Chicken and Homemade Noodle Dinner, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., McAteer Parish Center, 273 S. Prairie St. Chicken and homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuit and drink $5. Homemade pie, cake and other desserts available for additional charge. Eat in, carry-out, drive through. Soup supper Annual Chili/Oyster Soup Supper and Bake Sale, 5-7 p.m., First Lutheran Church of Monmouth. Potato bar Senior Youth Group of the Alexis United and Norwood Presbyterian Churches' Potato Bar and Soup Luncheon, 11:30 a.m.
Calendar of Events
Coffee Bean Theatre presentation: "Luv," a comedy by Murray Schisgal, dinner theater, Homestead Restaurant, Woodhull. Today: meal 12:30 p.m., performance 2 p.m. Tickets, $30 at Homestead or call (309) 334-3480; must be purchased in advance. Parade Veteran's Day Parade, 2 p.m., Main Street in Galesburg. Chicken and noodles Corpus Christi Church's 6th annual Chicken and Homemade Noodle Dinner, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., McAteer Parish Center, 273 S. Prairie St. Chicken and homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuit and drink $5. Homemade pie, cake and other desserts available for additional charge. Eat in, carry-out, drive through. Soup supper Annual Chili/Oyster Soup Supper and Bake Sale, 5-7 p.m., First Lutheran Church of Monmouth. Potato bar Senior Youth Group of the Alexis United and Norwood Presbyterian Churches' Potato Bar and Soup Luncheon, 11:30 a.m.
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