BBQ, Robberies, and Diets                                                                                                             August 2nd, 2004

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Neighborhood BBQ A Success

Betty Bright, Strawberry Pines Community Leader, prepares some food for the BBQ. 		"Often people get so caught up... They forget friendships, community spirt, humility, and [their] history... it is my hope these priceless values will be restored through the community effort."

- Sister Rachel
Strawberry Pines BBQ Fun
By Kitty Kat

               "It's about bringing the community together in a relaxed enviroment, where they can get to know neighbors they've lived by for years without meeting and new residents who have just moved into Strawberry Pines." Strawberry Pines community leader Betty Bright states as she wraps some potatoes in tin foil to grill.
                Baked potatoes aren't the only thing on the dinner list tonight- Betty has been at work making food for the proposed neighborhood barbaque all day. Already plates are filled and tables stuffed with dishes such as kabobes made of freash beef, peppers, and potoates, glinstening sausages, salads with all the tossings, and the classic BBQ hamburger. And there is even more food to come- Betty plans on finishing the potatoes and going into... [Continued on page 2A]




The Daily WHAT?!
By Kitty Kat


                Newspapers have many odd names- Times, Gazette, Tribune, Daily This or Daily That and so on. But why pick The Daily Strawberry?
                Actually, it has to do with our concern with our readers diets!
                When The Complete Aksims Diet appeared in book stores over two years ago, it was slow to take off. It had it's momentary fifteen minutes of fame amoung the normal group of diet book fans, but wasn't treated with any special exception from the next book on the shelf.
                That is, until a year ago, when the creator of the Aksims Diet died of clogged arteries. Even though he died of one of the very things that his diet program was said to fight against (which also included fat cells and ageing) his work suddenly became so popular that the book sold millions of copies over-night and resturaunts had to change their ingredients and food in order to keep customers coming.
                Suddenly, everyone was so concerned with their diets! Were they eating too much pasta? Not enough red meat? Calorie counting calculators, Aksims diet tip spin-off books, and Aksims friendly recipies became the must-haves of the moment.



                Even vegitarians joined in, declaring tofu unfit for eating. (Though few saw what that had to do with anything.)
                People became so paranoid with their diets that pshycological problems began developing. The site of pasta caused many women to faint because they feared that by merely looking at it, they'd gained weight.                 It was a case such as this that caused the famous Jole vs. The Daily Biscut case. Sue Jole was one of the many cult followers of the Aksims diet, and she received a local paper to her house on the edge of SimCity called The Daily Biscut. One day Jole walked into a bakery and bought out the entire store, then gorged herself on cakes, pretzels, pasteries... and biscuts.
                Jole sued The Daily Biscut and was awarded §1,000,000 for pshycological trama. Needless to say, that put The Daily Biscut out of business.
                And so you see, we choose the name The Daily Strawberry not because we're the local paper to Strawberry Pines- but because we care about your diets and staying on the market. We hope you enjoy our weekly, fat-free, healthy at only a total of only three calories editions of The Daily Strawberry.                 - Kitty Kat






New Residents With New Hopes
               River Dew has been a fast-growing city ever since it was founded only a little over ten years ago, it's empty acres quickly filling up with towering residental apartments and vast feilds of carefully cut lawns for the more reclusive of our residents. As River Dew filled with more people than the apartments could handle, it's city limits expanded to include a sprawling suburbia with it's share of carefully divided neighborhoods, which are still being developed and filled with new residents at this moment.
               River Dew's population has made leaps and bounds in the past few months. City Planning Advisor Counstance Lee provided us with the figures of the growth.
               "River Dew's population as of last December was 358,384. Our census the next month showed that the population had risen to 364,050 - a rise of 6,666 sims. We tracked the next several months- our lowest figures being 2,034 in the month of April and our highest being 8,357 in the following month. The average number of new sims we recieve into River Dew every month is 6,125.3. Our current population projection for next month is somewhere above 393,000 sims."
               As the figures show, the growth has been tremendous. Ms. Lee and the Mayor both attribute this to both the wonderful programs that HEA Advisor Randall Shoop has been maintaining and the clean enviroment River Dew sports thanks to the hard work of Karen Frawl, the Enviromental Advisor.

Welcoming Our New Residents
By Kitty Kat



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Strawberry Pines is ©2004 to Betty Bright
{Of course meaning that Strawberry Pines is copyrighted and heavily protected by the River Dew Council, who's mayor enjoys the legal rights to all of Strawberry Pines and is willing to sick her kitty ningas on anyone who is willing to disagree or steal any part of the Pines without permission. Meow.}