Niagara Gazette Niagara Living 2012-02-12T06:55:10-05:00 urn:uuid:ad885ed3-2890-4e50-8f01-ac4ac665ffd8 ADVENTURES OF A MASK MAKER: Letter of gratitude changes the life of a Tonawanda artist By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:ff5a44fd-eeca-4800-927b-6a450fab782f 2008-10-03T16:41:00-04:00 A HOME OF MY OWN: Adopting and foster kids in Niagara By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:1b500541-bdd2-4247-bb35-30a781c041d0 2008-10-03T16:23:00-04:00 LITTLE GHOST: Lewiston home has an etheral visitor By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:b6c43186-ec4e-407a-9cd8-002322268c51 2008-10-03T16:07:00-04:00 DELUCA: This time it's personal By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:37720abf-d276-4ece-adf9-12a46648ef38 2008-09-04T19:24:00-04:00 Writer's friends gather a support network to assist the Hayes family of North Tonawanda. BIO-DIARY: Book helps women track health urn:uuid:81c46a37-31ad-47ee-968c-1660312ae86a 2008-09-04T18:55:00-04:00 Niagara Falls' native Marie Karner's Bio-Diary is a tool to track food intake, exercise, dreams and other matters of a woman's health. MATCHMAKER: Patti Novak is teaching the world about romance By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:41bedbb8-dd63-48a1-8698-83ebc118f862 2008-09-04T18:36:00-04:00 Meet Ken-Ton's Patti Novak, a matchmaker who is earning a national reputation through TV appearances on Oprah and Rachael Ray. UNDER THE SEA: Back to school with flippers and goggles urn:uuid:c6efb602-6ec7-44ed-8a75-43fac8fcc404 2008-09-04T18:23:00-04:00 Mary Akers of Lockport is admissions director for a seaside school for marine ecology in the Carribean. TASTE THE WINE: Ed Adamczyk's summer on the Niagara Wine Trail By Ed Adamczyk urn:uuid:86b115a8-12ce-4cce-acdc-e6a9b92bcb6f 2008-09-04T18:02:00-04:00 Join reporter Ed Adamczyk as he travels to each of the twelve tasting rooms on the NIagara Wine Trail, sampling the wide variety of wines to be found. COVER STORY: Healing Niagara's health care crisis By Michele Deluca<br><a href="mailto:delucam@gnnewspaper.com">E-mail Michele</a> urn:uuid:a2e3a3be-92dc-4bba-a550-f7c7f569d19e 2008-08-19T11:34:00-04:00 The average citizen doesn’t need a medical degree to know the nation’s health care system is fat, sluggish and battling a host of challenges that threaten not only its life but everyone else’s. Some who have health insurance watch helplessly while premiums and co-pays rise at levels never before seen. THE WEDDING PLANNER: Everything but the "I do" urn:uuid:0207d80d-2140-438e-9782-3b4a44942f4b 2008-08-08T17:03:00-04:00