| Hands-on with Facebook Marketplace
You can select whether you want the listing to be displayed under the Marketplace page for one or more of the networks you belong to, whether to display the listing in your profile so your friends can see it, and whether to make it publicly visible to Facebook members outside of your networks. As a test, I decided to put Webware's Josh Lowensohn up for sale (for $50! A total steal!) and make it visible only to Facebook members within the CNET network. .
Bushkill students raise money for police dog
The Bushkill Police Department is getting a puppy - thanks in part to Bushkill Elementary School students, who raised more than $3,000. In coins. The "Just Say No Club," composed of 48 fourth- and fifth-graders, spearheaded the "Canine Coins" project, which placed coffee cans in each of the school's 29 homerooms. Over six weeks, children carried change in their backpacks, sometimes soliciting donations from local businesses, according to club adviser and associate teacher Sandy Kresge. The three classes that collected the most were promised a pizza party. Kresge brought everything to the bank one afternoon, where she dumped it all into the coin counter. The total that appeared shocked her: $3,186. "I thought, 'OK.
National Guard Members Transform Quickly to Help Town of Greensburg
The phone rang at 1:45 a.m. and minutes later National Guardmembers from all over Kansas picked up their bags, walked out the door and made the transformation from everyday citizen to community hero. Their training prepared them for the difficult tasks at hand, but not for the complete and total devastation they witnessed when their trucks rolled in to the tornado-ravaged city of Greensburg, Kan. They arrived to find streets littered with family photos and children's toys, large kitchen appliances hanging from atop tree branches, and cars and trucks overturned and lodged inside of staircases and bedrooms. "This is the worst destruction I've ever seen. I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," said Sgt. 1st Class Derwin Worcester of the 891st Engineering Battalion in Iola, Kan.
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