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Peggy Williams was the guest speaker at the Plantation Garden Club meeting recently. (Photo by Lyn Gates)

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Plantation Garden Club News
By LYDIA DUNAVENT
Thu,01/19/23-12:07PM , 816 Reads
The Plantation Garden gathered on Jan. 11 in the family home of Sara Flautt Wilson. I was giddy getting to return to this comfortable home designed with large rooms, tall ceilings, and wall and hall space aplenty for artist husband Geoff’s massive art collection.
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A worker transports a slab of raw rubber at a rubber industrial plant of the cooperative called Cooperacre, in Sena Madureira, Acre state, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. The shoe manufacturer Veja works with Cooperacre, reenergizing the production of a sustainable forest product and improving the living of hundreds of rubber tapper families. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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Fashion sneakers propel sustainable rubber in Brazil Amazon
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE, TATIANA POLLASTRI AND ERALDO PERES
Thu,01/19/23-7:02AM , 344 Reads
XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — Rubber tapper Raimundo Mendes de Barros prepares to leave his home, surrounded by rainforest, for an errand in the Brazilian Amazon city of Xapuri. He slides his long, scarred, 77-year-old feet into a pair of sneakers made by Veja, a French brand.
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A lone passenger walks outside the main entrance of the Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Thailand ushered in a new age of train travel on Thursday when what’s said to be Southeast Asia’s biggest railway station officially began operations. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Train station's opening in Bangkok ushers in new travel era
By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and JERRY HARMER - Associated Press
Thu,01/19/23-6:54AM , 196 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand ushered in a new age of train travel on Thursday as Southeast Asia’s biggest railway station officially began operations. The government says the huge, modern development on the edge of central Bangkok will bolster the country’s position as a regional hub and boost its economy.
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A Chinese tourist in traditional Thai costume poses for a photograph at Wat Arun or the "Temple of Dawn" in Bangkok, Thailand on Jan. 12, 2023. A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Lunar New Year tourism hopes fizzle as Chinese stay home
By TIAN MCLEOD JI, ELAINE KURTENBACH and KANIS LEUNG - Associated Press
Thu,01/19/23-2:01AM , 360 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere.
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