| Loss of jobs should be election issue
At the Hershey factory in Smiths Falls, Ontario, thousands of visitors for decades have stopped by for a peek into the mysteries of chocolate making.
The plant produces milk chocolate bars, Oh Henry bars, Reese's peanut butter cups and Eat-More bars among other products and a million pounds of milk paste a week, a light chocolate mix that's formed into 40 pound blocks and shipped south of the border to create creamier, tastier products there.
Hershey's Canadian plant, the first chocolate factory the company built outside of Hershey P.A., has been producing sweets since 1963. It's scheduled to close within three years.
Hershey is moving production to Mexico, which means not only the loss of 400 to 500 jobs in a town of 9,000 but without the free, self-guided tours of factory operations the company now offers, the loss a major local tourist attraction.
Manufactured housing show set
OXFORD - For the sixth year, a manufactured housing show will held locally, running from Friday, April 27, through Sunday, April 29. Show hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Factory tours are Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Show participants are: Alternative Modular, Burlington Homes, Design First Homes, KBS Building Systems, Keiser Industries, Maine Home Center, Maine HomeCrafters, Martin's Country Homes, Oxford Homes, Schiavi Homes, Twin Town Homes and Turn Key Homes of Maine. .
Antiquing with Austin pros
By Melanie SpencerAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, April 12, 2007 Kate Hersch began collecting when she was a child. At first, it was "typical stuff," such as porcelain bunnies "à la Beatrix Potter" at the urging of her mother, then dolls and shells. At 17, Hersch went through a religious figurine phase, which perplexed her parents. But, as Hersch got older, her passion for collecting grew — and so did her collections. .
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