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Springfield News-Sun from Springfield, Ohio • 12

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NEWS-SUN 1 2 AThursday, January 12, 2006 Associated Press CHICAGO The snowshoes are in the closet, ice fishermen are lingering at the sides of slushy lakes, and at least one snow sculpting event was, quite literally, a washout. Unseasonably warm weather and a lack of snow in parts of the country that usually are covered in white this time of year have wreaked havoc with winter recreation events. Temperatures as high as 50 degrees around Chicago where it is usually closer to 30 in January forced the postponement of Fran popular Snow Visions sculpting contest in suburban Schaumburg this coming weekend. He rescheduled for Feb. 11.

we were shooting the snow gun, all that came down was Volz said. just had water all over the parking Organizers of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in Alaska and Canada may have to send the race participants on a detour or give them a lift by truck for only the third time in the 23-year history. definitely not as much snow as we would like for the said media coordinator Jennifer Gavin. The race runs from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Yukon, in Canada. The warm weather is also putting a damper on winter sports in the Northern Plains, where temperatures have been 15 to 20 degrees above normal for at least the past two weeks.

fishermen are all bummed said Steve Crandall, manager at Turtle River State Park in Arvilla, N.D. Ice fishermen have not been able to safely drive their trucks on the ice or build ice houses. The cold weather season got off to a robust start, with low temperatures and heavy snowstorms across the country in late November and early December. But because of the warm weather of late, the snow did not stick around. general weather conditions have pretty much done a said Tom Niziol, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Buffalo, N.Y.

have a foot and a half to two feet of snow in some of our snowbelt areas, and essentially seeing no snow cover across the western part of New York state, and that is exceptional this time of In Illinois, warm weather led to the cancellation of cross-country skiing and snowshoeing events at the regional Special Olympics. Instead, a lottery was held to decide which 75 athletes would advance to the statewide competition. Forecasters are not expecting conditions to change any time soon. still look to be fairly mild next week, even into two said Mike Halpert, head of forecasting for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric climate prediction center. see the return of that arctic The warm spell is not all negative: Warmer temperatures typically mean lower heating bills and easier travel.

And despite the lack of snow for sledding and skiing, Crandall said his North Dakota park is seeing more people than usual, drawn by the relatively balmy weather. 20s, early 30s feels pretty darn good when the Crandall said. we had the snow really be doing gangbusters No snow means no go for many winter activities Associated Press FRAN VOLZ stands next to his snow gun in Schaumburg, on Saturday. Because of a lack of snow in the area, Volz had to postpone his Snow Visions, a popular snow-sculpting event, originally scheduled for Sunday, until February. Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y.

In the prepackaged, boxed and canned world of American food banks, fresh meat is a luxury. But what to do when two and a half tons come at once? Take it, Amy Gabala says happily. Her Washington, D.C.-area Manna Food Center is used to generous holiday giving. But the annual Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha, on Tuesday brought a gift never seen: an extraordinary amount of Increasingly, American food banks are being presented with chunks of freshly slaughtered goat, lamb and cow as Muslims bring a key religious obligation to a wider audience. Eid, which comes at the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, celebrates the storied test of Ibrahim, or Abraham, who was willing to sacrifice his own son for God.

He was allowed to sacrifice a sheep instead. Each Muslim family is encouraged to sacrifice an animal and split it in three one-third for the needy, one-third for friends and family and one-third for themselves. At Eid, Muslims often contract with local farms and have the animals killed at local halal, or religiously acceptable, slaughterhouses. Ahmed Kobeisy, the director of the Islamic Center of the Capital District in Albany, N.Y., says the center this year is encouraging members to donate meat to non- Muslims and food banks as well. poor includes all the Kobeisy says.

Zahid Bukhari with the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University says a growing number of donations in the U.S. go not just to needy Muslims, but to the community at large. The reason, American Muslims say, is simple. after 9-11, we need to be a more obvious part of says Irma Hafeez, the general secretary for the Montgomery County Muslim Council in Maryland. The group first gave 700 pounds of meat to the Manna Food Center last year.

This week, it hoped to donate 5,000 pounds. The California-based Islamic Relief USA is introducing a pilot project this Eid in Detroit, where meat will be distributed to the needy community at large, said media manager Arif Shaikh. The Queens-based Islamic Circle of New York planned to donate hundreds of pounds of meat to local food banks. In the Los Angeles area, the Shura Council of Southern California, a collection of about 70 local mosques, expected to donate of thousands of of meat to local food banks, said executive director Shakeel Syed. When the practice first started, the council encountered some unusual reactions.

was just a lack of knowledge at the Syed said. think canned food is the Food banks get gifts of meat to mark Muslim feast Associated Press IMAM AHMED NEZAR KOBEISY leads prayer during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, at the Islamic Center of the Capital District in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday. Tuesday P.M. Wednesday A.M. Wednesday P.M.

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