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Local churches, businesses, and organizations create floats for the parade based on Bible stories.

Local attractions include Ashdown Forest ( where the Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set ) and the Bluebell Railway, a preserved heritage line with steam locomotives.

Local newspaper stories have noted their activities, which have included raising funds for players fined by the CFL or the team, as well as tailgating more than 12 hours before game time ( uncommon in CFL cities ) with players and coaches frequently dropping by before or after the game.

Local folklore circulates stories that the Capital Mall Complex may be connected to the original Chinese underground tunnels that were used so Chinese immigrants could move goods to buildings, smuggle opium, and travel after curfew.

Local Native Americans have recognized Glacier Peak and other Washington volcanoes in their histories and stories.

Local stories passed down through the generations have attributed the creation of this style of rice preparation to the seafarers ' need to keep cooked rice from spoiling during long sea voyages.

Local historian, Rüdiger Kurth, doubted these traditional stories based on his study of written sources and local factors.

Local office of Gazeta Wyborcza in Wrocław in late 2010 began a Kresy Family Album, collecting stories and photos of those who moved from the East.

Local newspapers ran stories about the unusual cars, and Muntz sold them all within two weeks, still in their original shipping crates.

In December 2001, staff members at The Montreal Gazette launched a Gazette Newsroom web page with an open letter, titled Media Giant Silences Local Voices: Canadian Journalism Under Attack, that got signed by 77 Gazette journalists as of 2002 January 23, opposing the national editorial policy, and the reporters among them participated in a byline strike, refusing to sign their names to their stories in the newspaper in protest.

Local mythology includes the stories of the Santal ancestors Pilchu Haram and Pilchu Bhudi.

Local news services in Christchurch were replaced temporarly with the network news feed which mostly contained news stories related to the quake heard by all of New Zealand.

Local stories tell of a fisherman named Paktani, who was sent by a king from the interior to survey the coast, to find a place for an appropriate settlement.

Local police, town engineering officials and the mall's developers, however, assured the public that there was no truth to these stories, and that the mall was safe, and in no danger of closing.

Local stories twist this system to say that when the pennant was raised the soldiers would have to stop drinking and clean up the streets after running amok in his absence.

Local stories and remote broadcasts were all in 16: 9 widescreen as well.

Local stories were that she did not want to be buried near her husband's mistress.

Local stories said it is named after a noted Subanen chieftain, " Dumi " and his wife, " Ingag ".

Local stories claim the monastery was quite lively and that on several occasions requests came from the mainland to keep the noise down.

Local stories date it back to the time of Sri Nityananda Prabhu.

Local residents of the lake's surroundings still tell stories about certain areas in the lake that are reputed to have sucked boats down-an unfounded claim typical among superstitious locals.

If input tax is greater than output tax the company can claim back money from the Local Tax Authority.

Local nobles resisted the claim, but William invaded and by 1064 had secured control of the area.

The Local Government Board Act 1871 put the supervision of the Poor Law under the Local Government Board ( headed by G. J. Goschen ) and Gladstone's " administration could claim spectacular success in enforcing a dramatic reduction in supposedly sentimental and unsystematic outdoor poor relief, and in making, in co-operation with the Charity Organization Society ( 1869 ), the most sustained attempt of the century to impose upon the working classes the Victorian values of providence, self-reliance, foresight, and self-discipline ".

Section 11 of the 1966 Local Government Act enabled local authorities to claim grants to recruit additional staff to meet special needs of Commonwealth immigrants.

Local legends claim he achieved heavier-than-air flight before the Wright Brothers, though there is no historical evidence.

Local myths claim the head remains in Beddington park or was inherited by his son and buried with him.

Local pundits claim that the first railway in the world ( чугунный колесопровод ) was inaugurated for industrial uses of the Alexandrovsky foundry in 1788.

Those superintelligences claim a domain as theirs, consisting of up to several galaxies ( the entity known as " IT " has the Local Group as personal domain ).

Local legends claim that the idol of Ganesha continuously grows in size.

Local farmers claim that citrus crop yields have been lowered by contaminated dust blowing in.

Local sources claim that it was the first town in the country to have electric street lighting.

Local legend holds that Vyšehrad was the location of the first settlement which later became Prague, though thus far this claim remains unsubstantiated.

Local folk memory would claim that the large stones erected along the avenue from the main entrance were originally from the ancient chapel that O ' Laverty refers to in his History of Down and Connor.

Local iwi objected however, and filed a claim with the Waitangi Tribunal.

Local law enforcement officials claim no recollection of the incident, and there is no record of an arrest warrant against Patton or an actual arrest.

Local villagers, fishers, workers and environmentalists claim that shipping companies should assume their responsibilities, respecting labour and environmental law.

Local legend and Parkhurst's gravestone claim that Parkhurst was the first female in the United States to vote.

The club remains an Open Championship Local Final Qualifying course, and hosted qualifying again in 2011 when The Open returned to Royal St. George's ; Prince's professional golfer Francis McGuirk finished tied second to claim one of the three available spaces.

Local folklore says that royalty may have visited Welton Place but no evidence has been uncovered to substantiate this claim.

Local environmental activists claim that the mining operations, which use large quantities of a dilute cyanide solution, have contaminated the water sources, leading to the disappearance of fish and frogs, illnesses among cattle, air pollution, and loss of medicinal plants.

Local folklore alludes to the belief that the Indians owned the island and used it as a military fort, while others claim the British held control of it until losing it during the War of 1812.

Local people claim that this is a Hindko word meaning " Sir Bahlol ", a prominent political and religious leader of the area.

Local fishermen are also nearly unanimously against the project, citing the fact that for many of them, up to 60 % of their annual income comes from catch caught on Horseshoe Shoals, which they claim would disappear and would have to be replaced by steaming to fishing grounds farther out to sea if the project is completed.