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ANDERSON The Anderson Museum of Art Womens League will host a Mad Hatter Tea Party from 3 to 5 p.m. April 30 at the downtown museum. The party will include tea, light hors doeuvres and entertainment.

The Womens League encourages those attending to wear your maddest hat for a chance to win a prize.

Tickets are on sale for $20 at the museum and from Womens League members. Event proceeds will benefit the museum and its programs.

The Womens League is open to all women interested in increasing the museums effectiveness as a cultural center. Meetings are at 10 a.m. the fourth Wednesday of each month at the museum. Annual membership is $30.

To learn more about the group, visit https://andersonart.org/womens-league/.

The museum is at 32 W. 10th St.

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Efteling theme park in the Netherlands has announced an interactive Alice in Wonderland pop-up tea party will help celebrate the parks 70th anniversary.

The temporary experience opens on March 28, 2022 and runs each day through October 3, inviting visitors to play a role in a mad tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. The party will be located on the Speelweide playing field, and it will take place all day long.

Efteling is celebrating its seventieth anniversary in turbulent times, so the importance of being together and escaping reality once in a while is more important than ever, said Fons Jurgens, Eftelings CEO. We have consciously chosen to create a temporary but innovative fairytale that is about celebration.

Inspired by British novelist Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland story book for children, the party begins as visitors descend into a rabbit hole, where theyll encounter the March Hares vegetable garden filled with family-friendly activities and cheerful music.

A table laid with teacups, cakes, and party hats also features seven chairs reserved for Eftelings residents, who join with guests in a jolly good time, telling rhymes, singing, and dancing.

In addition, the vegetable garden will include a souvenir stand, a welcome section, snacks, and drinks. Scenes recalling the famous childrens book make magical backdrops for photos.

The fairytale-inspired jubilee year will see the world of wonders park hung with garland, while party music plays throughout each land. The big celebration will begin at 4 p.m. each day.

Here, our visitors will be the guests of honor and play an active part in the fairytale with the help of the Mad Hatter and March Hare, Jurgens added. Efteling will always remain true to the fairytales, but is also looking for different and unique ways to innovate throughout the years, ensuring [the park will] celebrate another seventy years.

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PENDLETON Republican Anthony Emery seeking the party's nomination for Sheriff outlined proposed changes to the department.

Emery is one of three candidates seeking the Sheriff's nomination along with Kim Stigall and John Beeman. The winner in the May primary election will be running against Democrat Joey Cole.

Emery has served on the Madison County Council since 2017 and is a 30-year member of the Indiana State Police.

Appearing at the Tea Party meeting Thursday, Emery asked what the county was doing to combat crime.

The job of a police officer is to enforce the laws, he said.

Emery said the drug problem in Madison County is increasing the numbers of other crimes like theft and burglaries.

We can't ignore the drug problem, he said. Once a person is incarcerated we should get them help with addiction problems.

Emery said those programs should be used to reduce the number of repeat arrests.

He also would bring the Drug Task Force back under the control of the Sheriff's Department.

Emery said currently there are only four members of the task force, two from the Anderson Police Department and two from the Sheriff's Department. He noted there used to be six members.

There should be a county-wide drug task force run by the sheriff and not the Anderson Police Department, he said. The chief of police has to answer to other people. The sheriff answers to the voters.

Emery said he would like to renew the department's community outreach program and contact elderly residents on a regular basis to check on their welfare.

He said the years serving on the county council has provided a lot of opportunities to learn the ins and outs of county finances.

Concerning the construction of the new county jail, Emery said he has been working with officials in the criminal justice system since joining the council on the overcrowding problem.

The decisions on the jail will be made before the next sheriff takes office, Emery. There will be a ground breaking in August or September. As a councilman, I've been a part of the process.

Councilman Jerry Alexander is seeking election to a second term and is being opposed in the Republican Party by Bethany Keller for the District 1 nomination.

When I decided to run I started attending council meetings to learn the process, he said. Historically the budget is prepared by office holders on their anticipated spending needs.

It's a frustrating process, Alexander said. The council is responsible for finances.

He said it takes time and experience to understand the council's budget making process.

Expenses exceeded revenues not too long ago, Alexander said. Auditor Rick Gardner has done a good job of working with the council to tighten the fiscal process.

During the last budget cycle, Alexander said, the council looked at spending by each department over several years and set the budgets on the average.

The process worked, he said.

Alexander said the county is in good fiscal condition with an operating balance of $9 million and Rainy Day fund of $5.4 million by the end of the year.

We've done a good job of managing finances, he said.

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Andrew CuomoAndrew CuomoAndrew Cuomo open to running for New York governor again New York lawmaker: Cuomo should be 'held accountable' for concealing nursing home deaths Andrew Cuomo: TimeWarner, Discovery afraid of 'cancel culture' MORE on Thursday during an address delivered at a church said he's open to mounting another run for New York governor.

Im open to all options, Cuomo said,according to Bloomberg, after being asked if he was planning to run for governor again.

Cuomo, a Democrat, resigned in August in the wake of a sexual harassment investigation conducted by New York Attorney General Letitia James.Her report concluded that Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women while in office.

He also implied that he would be open to creating his own political party for a gubernatorial run, saying, Ive done it before. My fathers done it before.

Cuomos address to the church denounced intolerance and extremism on both sides of the political aisle.

We saw it first with the Republicans Tea Party which proclaimed an uncompromising radical position and insisted on compliance and discipline, said Cuomo. We see it now with the Democratic Party with the extremists dictating radical positions which in many ways are driving the Democratic Party.

Cuomo continued: One manifestation of the extremism is this so-called cancel culture. Cancel culture says if you dont agree with me and my point of view you should be canceled. It is communicated through social media quickly and effectively and it demonizes anyone who doesnt agree with their position.

Later in his speech, Cuomo called on his listeners to stand up to the extremists and cancel the cancel culture.

Cuomo made similar remarks in a recent address to Gods Battalion of Prayer Church in Brooklyn, saying that politics and the Democratic Party have become so mean and extreme.

He also hinted at a run for governor in releasing a political ad, alleging that Political attacks won and New Yorkers lost a proven leader in his resignation from office.

Cuomo has repeatedly denied all accusations of sexual harassment and continues to make public appearances including addresses to local churches.

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The 5-year-old leukemia fighter, who is now in remission, finished an eight-week ballerina course on Wednesday and celebrated it with friends and family.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho Not even leukemia can stop Harper Beare from dancing.

The 5-year-old showed off her moves Wednesday shortly before heading out with Lake Coeur dAlene Cruises,as reported by our news partner theCoeur d'Alene Press.

Can you dance? asked her mom, Sydney Reep.

She raised her arms, touched her hands together, and then, despite wearing boots, spun around in graceful circles, her red skirt floating higher.

A minute later she stopped and looked through her red, round-rimmed glasses at the crowd watching her.

You really are a ballerina, said an admirer.

The determined girl with red hair was the belle of the ball on Wednesday, after finishing an eight-week ballerina course, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

She and family members and about 20 friends and their parents celebrated with a Fancy Nancy tea party aboard the Spirit of Coeur dAlene.

When Harper boarded, a tiara was placed on her head. She beamed as she looked around and saw colorful ribbons, balloons and streamers. Plates of cookies, strawberries and chocolate-covered sweets waited on tables. In the corner was a Fancy Nancy cake.

Harper found a chair, sat down and began tasting the treats, friends on each side.

Wearing a blue sash, bright yellow blouse and multi-colored necklace, she offered few words. But her eyes, bright with excitement, said enough.

It was a long road to get here from being diagnosed with leukemia at 10 months old and spending much of her life in and out of regional hospitals.

A year ago, she began walking.

Harper received a cord blood transplant and due to the donor cells, she is now in remission, something the family only learned earlier this month.

Since she is done with treatments, a party was definitely in order.

Oh my gosh, she's so sassy and bubbly, and powerful and intelligent, her mom said. Last night, we were talking about how special this party was going to be. And she told me, Yeah, I wasn't ready to go to heaven yet, so I fought really hard so I could be here with my mom.

I dont even have the adequate words, said Reep, of Harrison. We made it almost five years later. We made it. And she's here.

Lake Coeur dAlene Cruises donated the surprise cruise for the tea party.

We always like to support good causes, said Jamie Cornell, director of sales at The Coeur dAlene Resort, who also greeted Harper along with several other staff members.

Make-A-Wish Idaho serves children throughout the statewith offices in Boise and Pocatello. The organization's goal is to grant every eligible wish and has granted over 1,800 wishes since the chapter was founded.

Make-A-Wish described Harper as smart, empathetic and observant. She loves making people laugh with her bright, bubblypersonality.

Harper likes reading, cats, dogs, spending time with family and helping the nurses at the doctor's office.

She is still recovering from the transplant process, but you couldnt tell that on Wednesday as she posed with family and friends, accommodating photographers with smiles.

Harpers dad, Ty Beare of Silverton, said it was exciting to see his daughter have a day that was all about catering to her.

A day for her to enjoy, he said.

Beare said Harper is doing phenomenal, and has battled back to the point where she is an ordinary kid at this point.

She's happy and healthy, he said.

In ways, Harper is like her hero, Fancy Nancy, a children's bookcharacter. She is young girl with a flamboyant personality who loves dressing fancy and talking fancy.

In one of Fancy Nancys adventures, she learns how to become a ballet dancer.

Harpers wish was to follow in her footsteps, which Make-A-Wish made come true.

Harper is a good dancer, her mom said, and was granted another eight weeks of ballet.

She knows her stuff, her mom said.

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