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Corps of Discovery By Janet Clark

    The first thing a visitor notices when approaching Patty Glisar's Sioux City home might be the profusion of blooming plants that surround the house all throughout the growing season. Or it might be the inviting wraparound porch where Glisar's friends and family like to gather and sit on the white wicker furniture, sipping wine or iced tea and visiting. It might even be the hitching posts in the front parking, original to this 1899 brick house. Less visible but noteworthy is just how solid this structure is.

    "It's solid brick," Patty Glisar said. "The house is 12 inches thick. There

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And That's No Blarney! By Janet Clark

Across the Atlantic Ocean lies an emerald isle, an enchanted land populated by pookas and fairies and leprechauns and other fine folk. In the southern part of this land is a county called Cork, and if you go to County Cork you'll find Blarney Castle. When you get to the castle, climb up the stairs, all one hundred and eleven of them, and if you make it to the top, then you can have a turn at kissing the Blarney stone. Everybody that kisses the Blarney stone receives the gift of gab, the birthright of all true Irishmen and women.

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From the Inside Out By Janet Clark

Phil Stephenson, owner of Atlas Kitchen and Bath, began working with wood when he was still a child.

   "I owned a radial arm saw: I believe I got it when I was 10 years old," Stephenson said. "I sold all-occasion cards door-to-door and saved up enough money to buy a radial armed saw. I built my own dresser." There it started: his life-long fascination with wood.

   "I just knew it was my thing," he said. "I didn't really know that it would be what I would do for a living, but I liked working with wood."

   When Stephenson was in the eighth grade, he went to work for well-known craftsman Curly Rathermel, who owned Custom Builders Supply, now Custom Builders Cabinet Shop. He worked there through high school and later worked at Sears, where he sold cabinets. Then in 1978 Stephenson and his wife JoLynn opened Atlas Kitchen and Bath.

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