GenevaLunch » Community http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Chris McSorley: moving on from last year’s success cigarshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/13/chris-mcsorley-moving-on-from-last-years-success-cigars/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/13/chris-mcsorley-moving-on-from-last-years-success-cigars/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:11:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49969 GenevaLunch.com Interview: Chris McSorley, coach and part-owner, Geneva-Servette Hockey Club “The mission of Geneva-Servette is not to be just a hockey team but a community” Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Chris McSorley says he is determined to sell the best steak and hamburgers in town at McSorley’s Pub, and to have a top-of-the-league hockey team playing just [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/13/chris-mcsorley-moving-on-from-last-years-success-cigars/feed/ 3 Weather and crosswords: GenevaLunch gives you morehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/11/weather-and-crosswords-genevalunch-gives-you-more/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/11/weather-and-crosswords-genevalunch-gives-you-more/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 21:06:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=41800 GenevaLunch.com Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – GenevaLunch is doing more to keep you happy, and among our latest additions aretwo that will please many readers. Starting today we are providing weather forecasts from the Swiss national weather service, MeteoSwiss. You’ll find icons for Geneva and Zurich at the top of the home page. Select either [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/11/weather-and-crosswords-genevalunch-gives-you-more/feed/ 0 Award-winning Russian journalist Igor Sedykh dieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/13/award-winning-russian-journalist-igor-sedykh-dies/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/13/award-winning-russian-journalist-igor-sedykh-dies/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:09:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38571 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Igor Sedykh, Geneva-based Russian journalist who in 2009 was awarded the Swiss-Russian Cooperation award for journalism at the World Association of Russian Press congress held in Lucerne, died Friday 12 March in Geneva, his widow, Barbara Sedykh, announced. Sedykh began his career with the monthly Sa Rubeschom, worked in Geneva as [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/13/award-winning-russian-journalist-igor-sedykh-dies/feed/ 0 Swiss unemployment creeps up againhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/07/swiss-unemployment-creeps-up-again/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/07/swiss-unemployment-creeps-up-again/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:01:53 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29382 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Unemployment in Switzerland increased to 3.9 percent of the working population in September, according to figures released by the  State Secretariat for Economic Affairs 7 October. Almost 58,500 more people were out of work at the end September than a year earlier. Geneva’s unemployment rate remains the highest in the country, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/07/swiss-unemployment-creeps-up-again/feed/ 0 Earth festivalhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/earth-festival/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/earth-festival/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:40:35 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=18879 GenevaLunch.com Title: Earth festival Location: Lausanne, Vaud Link out: Click here Description: Activities for children and adults, all celebrating planet earth. Start Date: 12 Jun 2009 End Date: 28 Jun 2009

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/02/earth-festival/feed/ 0 Neighbour saves teenager in a fire in Grand-Lancyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/01/neighbor-saves-teenager-in-a-fire-in-grand-lancy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/01/neighbor-saves-teenager-in-a-fire-in-grand-lancy/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 13:39:34 +0000 Jillian Hudson http://genevalunch.com/?p=16308 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Tribune de Geneve, Fre) – A fire broke out in a ground floor apartment in Grand-Lancy, Thursday 30 April. The flames in the stairwell trapped an adolescent on the second floor. A neighbour heard the cries and braved the smoke and heat to bring the young person to safety. Firefighters evacuated six people [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/28/lake-geneva-area-where-people-spent-the-weekend/feed/ 0 Geneva airport area shooting was at security firmhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/16/geneva-airport-area-shooting-was-at-security-firm/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/04/16/geneva-airport-area-shooting-was-at-security-firm/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:57:24 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=15355 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (Tribune de Geneve, Fre) – The man who shot his boss, then killed himself in the ICC building near the airport, worked for a private security company, Sigma. Police are seeking a motive for the crime. The Tribune, which carries a long story about the two men, quotes acquaintances as saying the employee, [...]

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