http://www.amandapalleschi.com Online Portfolio Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:02:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=159 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News Hours before President Barack Obama tried to reassure the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans that they haven't been forgotten, Jason Leininger signed in at Cumberland County CareerLink Center and listed "Job assistance" as the reason for his visit. He was one of 77 people who signed in ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=145 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News A group of teenage girls spent a recent Friday evening under the glow of new laptops at the Krux Youth Center just off Dillsburg's town square, doing the sort of things teens mostly do on the Internet: Facebook, MySpace and some Yahoo chatting about cute boys and ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=138 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News Emily Yanich-Fithian was befriended on Facebook by Mia Fleming on Dec. 1. Yanich-Fithian, 35, a Lewisberry mom who recently started driving school buses for the West Shore School District, wrote a quick note back: "I’m sorry, I don’t know who you are," she told Mia Fleming. "And then I ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=134 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News A regular school day at the school on Crums Mill Road in Lower Paxton Twp. has first-grade teacher Janae Cardel logging into a computer screen and employing hats, puppets and "special guest characters" to teach her students things such as how to count in tens. In a nearby ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=131 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News Look no further than Julio Portillo's application to work as a forklift operator at a temp agency for proof the economic recession is still here and its pain still felt in the midstate. The hosts of the second job fair held this year in a Mechanicsburg church say ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=127 I've never done a "blog"-like post here before, but we all know how I get about these stories...*sigh* "At campaign time, they are celebrated as the people who built America. Now they just want to know how much they can get for a wedding band." http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=125 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News He'd walk or hitch a ride to work at McDonald's and lived with his sister in a house on Chestnut Street. She's the granddaughter of the founders of Baker's diner and a Northern High School graduate who once rode horses in the rural hamlets tucked behind the main ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=116 As you may have noticed, amandapalleschi.com isn't quite finished yet. If you've stumbled across it, thanks, I'm flattered.  But it's not quite done yet... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=113 AMANDA PALLESCHI Of the Patriot-News There's air conditioning at the base camp in Taji, Iraq, but it's so hot outside, it feels like someone poured a bucket of sand over your head and then stuck it in an oven.  There's wireless Internet access, but the connection is spotty. It's safer in Taji now ... http://www.amandapalleschi.com/?p=101