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A hard-to-shake story of a massive monster squeezing the Big Apple to its core with bone-crushing apocalyptic attacks, “Cloverfield” taps into primal fears of twisting, shifting nightmares. Whether its exhaustive thrills play on a small screen remains to be seen, but it’s a great B-movie.
Using a hand-held-camera structure, this movie from the J.J. Abrams (“Alias,” “Lost”) crew follows a handful of New York yuppie 20-somethings that flee from a party in terror. That’s because the city is being decimated by something that’s every animal and no animal all at once, classifiable only as a behemoth your brain might conjure in REM sleep.
Extras include commentary, featurettes, additional scenes, alternate endings and Easter eggs.
‘Charlie Wilson’s War’
In the 1980s, long before terrorism’s permanent stamp on American life, Kabul easily could have been mistaken for a city in Uzbekistan or even India. Yet for Charlie Wilson, a Congressman from a rinky-dink Texas district, helping Afghanistan rebels in Kabul to fight the Soviets became his mission — one conceived while sitting naked in a Vegas hot tub filled with strippers and cocaine.
Mike Nichols’ tale is a cautionary one of political playmaking amid international tensions — a story of how a playboy politician (Tom Hanks), a rich Texan belle (Julia Roberts) and a misanthropic CIA agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) increased America’s aid to Afghanistan by almost 10,000 percent. But this crackling, acidic and sharply scripted satire is more comic than condemning.
Featurettes and interviews with Nichols, Hanks, Roberts and the real Charlie Wilson are offered.
Also next week
Produced and presented by Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), “The Orphanage” boasts an intriguing subtext, an ending that achieves everything the overrated “The Others” failed to do and, best of all, a fierce lead performance by Belen Rueda. She’s Laura, an adoptive mother whose young, HIV-positive son Simon goes missing amid supernatural happenings at an orphanage Laura is rehabbing into a home. DVD and Blu-ray releases include featurettes, stills and more.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It’s a tiny, unassuming but immaculately maintained church, with thin plywood walls, a modest flower garden — and a gun rack where soldiers can check their rifles at the door.
Perhaps nowhere else is the notion of faith more important than in a war zone such as Afghanistan, where life itself can be a fragile commodity and a day’s work is often shrouded in violence and death.
On this Easter Sunday, the pews at Kandahar Airfield’s Fraise Chapel were filled with a multinational cross-section of Catholic and Protestant faithful as American padre Rev. Jim Connolly reminded the congregation that the work they do is for a greater good.
“You’re living on the edge of life and death, and you’ve got to ask some hard questions,” Rev. Connolly said after Sunday’s Easter service.
“On many occasions, people are saying, ‘Is it really worth it? Is it really this important?’ My basic hope is that I can help them come to a sense that yes, it is important, it does matter, because every single one of us counts.”
Sunday’s services capped a difficult three weeks for Canadian forces in Kandahar province where three Canadian soldiers lost their lives in three separate incidents.
The ramp ceremony commemorating the most recent death, that of Sgt. Jason Boyes of 2 Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, was one of four this past week alone for the multinational NATO coalition known as the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF. Two Americans and a Romanian also died.
“Every time that we lose soldiers … the whole coalition is losing soldiers,” said Rev. Bastien Leclere, who’s originally from Edmonton and who assisted in Connolly’s Sunday service.
“We’re all in this together, and we all pray together, and we keep up each other. It is important that we support each other in this journey. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

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Thousands of Girl Scouts and Brownies turn out, as well as the marching bands from Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe high schools and Kyrene Akimel A-al Middle School.
“Marching bands make a parade,” Schmitt said.
Other returning favorites include the Sun City West Jazzy Poms, a group of showy seniors, and Center Pointe Dance Studio of Ahwatukee, which won “best of parade” last year for its entertaining choreography and tumbling.
“They were really impressive,” Schmitt said.
Center Pointe Dance Studio owner Kim Lindsey said this year’s float is going to be especially festive.
“It’s a 20-foot-tall Easter Basket and it’s about 40 feet long and we’ll have about 40 dancers on the float and about 60 on the street,” Lindsey said.
Schmitt also said both the Legislative District 20 Democrats and the Republican Women of Ahwatukee registered for the parade. “This is a political year, so we’ll have a political touch,” he said.
Morning television anchor Scott Light of 12 News Today will be the grand marshal, riding in a Cadillac from Coulter, a major sponsor. Also riding in the parade will be Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
The Kiwanis Club is excited to have a grand sponsor this year with Freeway Chevrolet. The company will cover many parade expenses and the Spring Fling, Schmitt said.
The parade lasts about an hour, and afterward, the Spring Fling will start at Ahwatukee Park. More than 40 crafters’ booths will sell everything from cosmetics and jewelry to artwork and children’s items.
Photos with the Easter Bunny will be $7 and an Easter egg hunt will require three tickets ($3). Rides, games, food and drinks will be available, too. From 3:30 to 5 p.m., Ahwatukee blues band Blooster and the Mighty, Mighty Hot Wings will perform.

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1. “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose” by Eckhart Tolle (Plume) (NF-P)
2. “Change of Heart” by Jodi Picoult (Atria) (F-H)
3. “The Other Boleyn Girl” by Philippa Gregory (Touchstone) (F-P)
4. “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” by Elizabeth Gilbert (Penguin) (NF-P)
5. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet) (F-H)
6. “Horton Hears A Who!” by Dr. Seuss (Random House Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
7. “Three Cups Of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time” by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin) (NF-P)
8. “The Appeal” by John Grisham (Doubleday) (F-H)
9. “Eat This Not That!” by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding (Rodale) (NF-H)
10. “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne (Atria Books/Beyond Words) (NF-H)
11. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-P)
12. “Remember Me?” by Sophie Kinsella (Dial Press) (F-H)
13. “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment” by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library) (NF-P)
14. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers) (F-H)
15. “I Heard That Song Before” by Mary Higgins Clark (Pocket) (F-P)
16. “Atonement” by Ian McEwan (Anchor) (F-H)
17. “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel” by Jodi Picoult (Washington Square Press) (NF-P)
18. “The Audacity of Hope:Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press) (NF-P)
19. “Losing It:And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time” by Valerie Bertinelli (Free Press) (NF-H)
20. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown for Young Readers) (F-H)
21. “The Friday Night Knitting Club” by Kate Jacobs (Berkley) (F-P)
22. “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) (F-H)
23. “Bratfest At Tiffanys” by Lisi Harrison (Poppy) (F-P)
24. “The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett (NAL Trade) (F-P)

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Alli Banning’s second-grade class logs online to www.freerice.com to practice vocabulary. For every correct answer, the United Nations World Food Program donates 20 grains of rice.
Families will be invited to school to play a math activity or game. This is an annual event, but this year there will be new games to play. An estimation station will give students a chance to estimate the correct number of candies in different sized jars. The closest estimate will win the jar and the candy. Students will also register for a drawing for packaged math games. There will be two games given away per grade-level.
Fourth-grade students have been busy learning to write nonfiction. After two weeks of exposure to many nonfiction selections, students chose topics. They then learned how to research their topics and take notes. After note-taking, the fourth-graders wrote their first drafts, revised them and produced published pieces of nonfiction writing.
The kindergartners in Angie Tribolet’s class are doing an author study unit on Jan Brett. They have been reading many of her stories and learning how to draw her characters. They visited her Web site and found many fun games and interesting facts about Jan Brett. They voted on their favorite Jan Brett story and it was “Hedgie’s Surprise.” The kindergartners have also been learning about dental health. They learned what to do to keep their teeth clean and healthy.
On Feb. 13, the fifth-graders went on a field trip to the State Historical Building to see a performance entitled the “Voices of the Civil War.” Afterwards the students participated in workshops focusing on different aspects of the Civil War era.
Metro Waste Management in conjunction with Des Moines Water Works came to the school and did a presentation for the second-graders on littering, recycling and how we can help take care of our water system.

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March 20 Holy Thursday Celebration of Passion of our Lord/Stations of the Cross. 3p.m. Avoca. 3p.m. Templeraine. 3p.m. Ballycoogue. 7p.m. Avoca. 7.30p.m Templerainey. 8p.m Barranisky

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It’s part of the ongoing effort by the organization Global Acts of Kindness.
100 boxes will be sent to the troops in time for Easter.
Anyone whose school would like to get involved in Global Acts of Kindness can call Teresa Leach at 661-393-4471.
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Easter is the time of springtime festivals, a time to welcome back the Tulips, the Crocuses and the Daffodils. Its a time of new suits, new dresses and patent leather shoes. A time for Christians to celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Christ. And a time of chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and coloured eggs! And climbing on dry cliffs.

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To continue providing opportunities for Illinois amateur golfers, the Bank of America Open will host an 18-hole Amateur Invitational on Monday, April 21 at Oak Park Country Club in River Grove, Ill. Approximately 60 amateur golfers will compete for an automatic exemption into the Nationwide Tour’s Bank of America Open, May 29 - June 1 and a $5,000 donation to the winner’s charity of choice.
In addition to the Amateur Invitational, an open qualifier offering 14 positions in the Bank of America Open will continue to be organized for Illinois golfers. The open qualifier will again be administered by the Illinois PGA and is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 27, two days in advance of tournament competition.
The Bank of America Open will take place at The Glen Club in Glenview, Ill. May 29 - June 1, welcoming a full field of 156 golfers who will compete for one of the largest purses available on the Nationwide Tour. With the top 25 Nationwide Tour money earners graduating to the PGA TOUR each year, the Bank of America Open is widely targeted by players looking to advance their Nationwide Tour ranking.
There will be a reception for West Aurora High School alumni on Apr. 4 prior to the start of a basketball fundraiser featuring alumni from East and West Aurora high schools.

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