People, Places and Things.COLUMN: PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS People, Places and Things is an unpublished collection of short stories by US author Stephen King, written in 1960 together with his friend Chris Chesley and published using their own press. Busy boss roams to Westboro for bison Ted Turner, environmentalist environmentalist a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment. , philanthropist, entrepreneur and restaurateur, did lunch in Westboro yesterday after a guest appearance at the Massachusetts Restaurant Association's breakfast, "The Green Restaurant Revolution" at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Turner and a bunch of his closest and dearest PR people chowed down during lunch hour at a round table near the entrance of Ted's Montana Grill Ted's Montana Grill is one of the largest U.S. restaurant companies to feature bison on its menu. The company was founded by media entrepreneur and environmentalist Ted Turner and restaurateur George McKerrow Jr. as a for-profit effort to stop the extinction of the American bison. , 400 Union St., Bay State Commons. Turner ate crab cakes and bison sliders sliders a species of tortoise kept as pets. They have a black shell and a red stripe behind the eye. Called also Chrysemys scripta elegans, red-eared sliders. washed down with iced tea and lemon. Turner co-owns more than 50 Ted's Montana Grills; the Westboro site is the only one in Massachusetts. Customers apparently thought Turner was just another business suit. No one leaped in front of him even when he got up to ask Telegram & Gazette reporter Barbara M. Houle, seated at the bar, if she liked her salad. He strutted down the center of the restaurant as big as life. A man seated next to the reporter asked, "Who's that guy, anyway?" When the reporter answered that he was Ted Turner, the man replied, "Oh, I thought so." The reporter had hoped to snag an interview with Turner, who is helping to fund a "green" initiative recently unveiled by the National Restaurant Association, but time worked against that. "I'm so sorry," he said, "but we're running behind schedule, and I have to catch a plane." Turner, 69, reportedly was headed for Washington, D.C., where he was expected to attend a United Nations Foundation event. He later planned a little R&R at his 120,000-acre Flying D Ranch in Montana, where the bison roam. Lots of them. Turner, through Turner Enterprises, manages more than 2 million acres throughout the country and a herd of more than 50,000 bison. His friend, George McKerrow Jr., CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of Ted's Montana Grill, said, "Ted even has a few bison in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. that he considers pets." ART; PHOTO CUTLINE: Media modul and restaurateur Ted Turner visits Ted's Montana Grill in Westboro yesterday. PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN |
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