Fountain Boat

Olympia's Heritage Park fountain closed for repairs

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“We are losing a significant amount of water out of the fountain, and we have got it isolated” to a moat of water underneath the fountain, which is at 330 Fifth Ave. S.W., said Rhonda Teitzel, parks operations manager.

Fixing the problem involves removing the granite panels at the 1-acre park, draining the moat and finding the leak below, said David Hanna, associate parks director. The fountain holds about 17,500 gallons of water, Teitzel said.

She said the fountain was closed Monday morning and that it’s undetermined how long it will remain closed, adding that it’s unlikely to be open by this weekend’s Wooden Boat Show. It will be missed; dozens of people flock to the park on warm days, and this weekend is expected to be plenty warm, with highs forecast in the upper 70s.

Source: The Olympian

Tending to Business: Le Petit Gateau ('A Little Cake')

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Specializing in sculpted cakes and wedding cakes

Leo Sciancalepore, owner of Le Petit Gateau ("A Little Cake") in Park Ridge , has enjoyed baking from an early age. "I was brought up surrounded with baking," he said. "My parents were off the boat from Italy, [so] I grew up with it in my blood."

Sciancalepore furthered his skills as a student at the New York Restaurant School. "From there I decided that baking was the way to go," he said. Sciancalepore then worked at a series of bakeries in Manhattan.

Sciancalepore opened A Little Cake in 1999. "I decided I wanted to be a boss," he said. "I figured I could do that as well if not better than most bakeries in the area." A Little Cake was originally located on Kinderkamack Road but just recently moved to its new space on Berthoud Street.

Source: NorthJersey.com

Michael Vo's Incredible Journey from Hell to Freedom

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Last week, Fountain Valley City Council members Steve Nagel, Mark McCurdy and Michael Vo attended a ceremony in Westminster commemorating the 37th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. It's a time in history that carries great significance for Fountain Valley's Vietnamese community, and for Vo personally -- because he risked his life to escape from it.

Vo was 12 years old when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975, two years after the U.S. pulled out in 1973, ending its role in the Vietnam War. Within five years, his father, who was a successful rental property owner before the war, had lost everything, and his family of eight had been forced to move out of their three-story house and into an apartment.

Source: Patch.com