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    THUMBS UP, THUMBS DOWN

    The Fresno Bee (California)
    July 1, 2006 Saturday

    Jul. 1--Thumbs down to former candidates Alan Schroeder and Larry
    Wilder who still have campaign signs from the June primary scattered
    around the community. Schroeder, Wilder and others with campaign
    signs still up are littering Fresno. Ignoring an ordinance that
    requires campaign signs to be removed after the election says a lot
    about candidates' commitment to doing the right thing. Why is it so
    difficult for some candidates to take down signs that they put up?

    Thumbs down to Richard E. Hoagland, America's next ambassador to
    Armenia, for picking his way around the word "genocide" in describing
    the mass slaughter of Armenians between 1915 and 1923. This was a
    "well-documented" genocide and Hoagland should have told the Senate
    Foreign Relations Committee just that on Wednesday, This is not a post
    for someone who refuses to acknowledge the truth. "It's almost absurd
    to sit here, and you can't utter the word 'genocide,'" Republican
    Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota told Hoagland. "We have ambassadors
    who can't use a word, just a word."

    Thumbs up to Amy Adams of Bakersfield, an "American Idol" contestant
    in 2004, who's starring as the narrator in the national touring
    company of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." The show
    is now in California, at the Pantages in Los Angeles through Sunday,
    then in Costa Mesa from July 11-23. No Valley appearance with a local
    star? What were the producers thinking?

    Thumbs up to Mary Funk, a teacher at Burrel Union Elementary, and Wayne
    Garabedian, a teacher at Clovis West High School, the first recipients
    of the Met Award for Science Education. Each will receive $2,000 to
    use in the classroom. The Fresno Metropolitan Museum teamed up with
    the Fresno County Office of Education and the Reveas Foundation to
    create the award.
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