| Huge cheque for cancer charity
A CHEQUE for the magnificent sum of £40,000 was presented to Dawn Harrison, the area fundraising organiser for Cancer Research UK at the Old Bear before the annual dinner of the Taunton Local Committee. Much of the money was from donations, including a number in memory of loved ones who died last year. Many fundraising events were also staged during the year, such as bridge days, coffee mornings, a Big Breakfast Event, a fashion show Manor, an antiques evening and Christmas, concerts as well as house-to-house and street collections. And a share in the proceeds from the opening of the Old Mill in Bishops Lydeard were also donated. .
Feud between neighbors ends in death
About the size of a tombstone and scarred with sledgehammer blows, the rock squats to one side of a fork that divides a steep driveway in a Carmel Valley canyon. The fork to the right climbs to a sprawling artistic home with piles of'60s psychedelic albums and broken antique clocks, collected by a popular lawyer and his wife. The fork left leads to the more austere wooden-framed, book-filled home of an oil geophysicist. The rock stands as a monument to the final moment of their long and bitter feud. It began when the affluent neighbors began arguing over dog poop, a septic tank, a solarium and legal access to a strip of ground no bigger than a surfboard. Deadly arguement It ended Jan. 29, when they argued over the rock and geophysicist John "Jack" Franklin Kenney allegedly shot to death Mel, 58, and Elizabeth Grimes, 55.
Musical genius
One summer day in 1980, a little boy played basketball alone on a court in Arad. When the ball fell out of his hands and rolled off, he ran after it and found it in the hands of an older man, who smiled at him. "I'm a clarinet teacher at the conservatory," the man said, "and I'll give you the ball back if you come and hear one of my lessons." The boy, Chen Halevi, came to listen and was captivated by the magic of the instrument and the teacher. "I had a lesson every day," he says, "and the teacher, Yitzhak Kazap, who has taught generations of students in Israel, taught me everything there is to know about the instrument."
Today, less than three decades later, Halevi is a world renowned clarinetist: an international virtuoso soloist who plays at major festivals on five continents, an innovator who plays works written especially for him, a senior professor of the clarinet at a university in Germany and a chamber musician who works with leading ensembles and musicians.
Missing money, missing merchandise: auction house investigated
Ads for estate auctions pop up in our local papers every week. Fine art, bronzes, furniture and antiques up for bid. Many valley residents hit these auctions in search of a good deal, but as our News 3 Investigators found, the people calling the shots are often up to no good. When you hire an auction house to sell your stuff on consignment, you trust them to unload your valuables and pay you back a portion of the profits. In the case of Premier Estate Auctions, it doesn't always work that way. Some call it bad business and others say it's outright stealing. The sign inside says "Welcome to Premier Estate Auctions: 'Too Good to Miss.'" But former customers say the whole thing is simply too good to be true. "I've clearly been ripped off," That's Ed Wilkerson. We'll get to his story in a minute.
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