By MIKE KAYLOR
Times Nightlife Columnist mike.kaylor@htimes.com
How can this be? A bar with no television set.

"It's a totally different kind of concept," Paul Thornton says. "It's set up for couples or groups of three or so to share."

Thornton is explaining the scheme of Vinotini, a new tapas bar added to his Pauli's Bar & Grill. Tapas is a Spanish style of dining on small portions so that customers usually choose several items to pass around.

( http://huntsvillepr.com/article.php?story=20070317074322882&query=Vinotini )

PATRICIA C. McCARTERTimes Staff Writer
Spouses of potential BRAC transfers from the Washington, D.C., area will be courted with a job fair and carnival this week in Northern Virginia.

About 80 business leaders, educators, real estate professionals and government liaisons from the Tennessee Valley will meet with families during a town hall meeting-style event at the Sheraton National in Arlington, Va. The purpose is to recruit federal employees and contractors who work for commands that are scheduled to move to Redstone Arsenal in coming years per the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.

Directions Media, organizers of the inaugural Rocket City Geospatial Conference, October 15-17, 2007 in Huntsville, announced that Dr. John Christy, Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), will be the technology keynote speaker. Christy is an internationally recognized expert on global climate change and a member of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“We are exceedingly fortunate to have a keynote speaker of Dr. Christy’s caliber address the Rocket City Geospatial Conference,” said Joe Francica, Directions Media’s vice publisher and the conference chairman. “His careful research and unbiased assessment of the current debate on global climate change will be of great interest to our attendees.”

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Kommerling USA recently
expanded its operations by adding 100,000 square feet to its Huntsville
plant. This expansion adds freefoam PVC sheet and board to the company's
production capabilities. It also enables increased service levels,
opportunity for operational efficiency, and support for market driven
innovation and product development.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070411/CLW004 )
Marketed as KOMA(MW), the product line extension supports a segment of
the trim market where a fine core cell structure is desired for millwork
and routed applications. Patrick Shabal, sales and marketing manager for
KOMA comments that applications for KOMA(MW) are primarily architectural
panels and CNC routed.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The O’Reilly Supertrucks event that was set for April 21st at the Anderson Motor Speedway in Anderson, SC., has been postponed and will be made up at a later date due to scheduling conflicts with the speedway.

“We were hoping that Anderson would be our first event for the 2007 season and with the response that we were already getting from the drivers from last year and drivers that are coming back an planning on running with the series it was going to be a big turnout of truck, but we understand the situation at Anderson and will work with the Porter’s on getting the event rescheduled at a later date” said O’Reilly Supertruck President Ben Atkinson.

MONTGOMERY – Governor Bob Riley issued a statement on Monday expressing his opposition to the latest attempt to expand gambling in the state of Alabama. The House is expected to consider a proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday that would legalize electronic gambling in Birmingham and Mobile.

“This proposal would overturn the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that any slot machine-style operation is illegal. Enacting this amendment would allow slot machine-style gambling to occur in places where none is currently allowed. Under any definition, that’s an expansion of gambling. Furthermore, this proposal would permit gambling bosses to run their operations 24 hours a day, seven day a week, even on Sundays, Christmas and Easter. I’m totally against the expansion of gambling and I urge legislators to oppose this gambling expansion amendment.”

By Kim Souza
She helps her husband, Robert, run a small trucking operation from the couple’s Huntsville home. With her mobile phone in hand, a fax machine and a computer nearby, she looks after 30 or so head of registered Brangus cattle, keeps watch over 42,000 chickens and still finds time to rock her 6-month-old grandson, Caden, to sleep for his afternoon nap.

This Madison County woman also is president of the 2,000-member American National CattleWomen’s Association.

Wendy Pettz, 47, didn’t grow up on a farm, but 15 years ago farming became her life. The couple took over the day-to-day farm operation when her father-in-law fell ill in 1992, she said.

Universities to work together in on-site counseling services

Under a new agreement among Alabama A&M University, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce, both universities will add staffed small business development centers at their campuses and maintain a presence at the chamber.

The arrangement will take advantage of the expertise, advice and economy of campus-based business graduate students and faculty to help provide small business support.

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$2.7 million site shows progress since it began with John Kinzer in '80 Monday, April 09, 2007By WENDY REEVESTimes Staff Writer wendy.reeves@htimes.com
Huntsville Emergency Medical Services Inc. has a new $2.7 million building for the ambulance service's operations and training.

The 33,000-square-foot building on Oakwood Avenue, a couple of blocks east of Memorial Parkway, was recently dedicated in memory of John R. Kinzer, HEMSI's founder and executive director for its first 20 years. He died in 2003.

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