Today's News

Many of us are pet lovers.

Calculations using national averages supplied by the Humane Society of the United States stated there are an estimated 16,387 dogs, 17,543 cats, 3063 birds, 2,363 horses, 1,263 pocket pets and 975 reptiles in the Bedford Community. But our animals are often the last members of our families that we plan for when facing an emergency.

I read an interesting article in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. It was at the bottom of Page 6 of the July 24 edition. It was only four paragraph's long but the head "Christian PAC to Run Obama Ads" caught my attention.

The PAC calls itself "The Matthew 25 Network" and the article states that it "is a consortium of Christian faith leaders and activists working to elect more Democrats to office who share the same 'biblical and gospel values'."

The New London Cannery kicked off the canning season with an open house last week.

Located behind New London Academy, the cannery is designed to help people with large gardens to produce in quantity. Gardeners canning in quantity can get the whole job done in one morning.

You buy your cans when you come in. These are regular tin cans, like you see on store shelves. The big difference is that when you're done, you know exactly what's in them because you put it there.

Employers need to be flexible to deal with a changing work force, according to Greg Roth a senior manager at the Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW).

Roth spoke last week at a Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce seminar, part of the Chamber's Lunch & Learn Series. Roth's organization is an affiliate of the United States Chamber of Commerce. ICW, in collaboration with the Families and Work Institute and the Twiga Foundation, did a four year study on workplace flexibility. This study is what got the Chamber's attention and led to the invitation for Roth to speak.