National Oatmeal Day
29. October 2009 | 16:01Georgetown Saloon’s Halloween party benefits Redding food pantry
The Redding and Weston food pantries will benefit from The Georgetown Saloon’s Halloween Party on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 9 p.m., featuring the Soul Daddy Band. The event also celebrates Make A Difference Day, a national day of helping others and encouraging local residents to take the time to give back to their communities. (News Source: Redding Pilot - 04:07:56)
Can you cut your daily food budget to just $7?
Laura Pentz is used to eating on the cheap. In college, her food staples were pasta and baby carrots. Now with AmeriCorps VISTA, the 21-year-old lives in a rented room on a modest monthly stipend, about $900. And she gets $166 per month in food stamps - about $5.50 per day for food. (News Source: Everett Herald - 14:55:59)
Day care kids should eat right from the start, leaders say
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State school officials soon will roll out a plan aimed at tightening nutrition standards in day care centers across West Virginia. In the next 18 months, officials hope to start implementing a plan based on the federal Child and Adult … (News Source: Charleston Daily Mail - 05:03:25)
Please Don’t Quote Me
Well, there’s a month to think about it and decide. In the meantime another “day” approaches before that. Halloween. Besides caramel apples, popcorn balls, cider or brownies is there a traditional menu for Halloween? (News Source: The Prairie Advocate - 05:53:38)
Heading outside? Protect yourself from the sun
(ARA) - On clear, bright days, we all love to head outside to enjoy the sunshine. Those happy rays, though, carry invisible dangers in the form of ultraviolet rays. (News Source: Lexington Clipper-Herald - 06:27:10)
KITCHELL: Fan base erodes for late-night World Series
One sure sign you may be getting old is that you begin boring your children with the notion that life was so much better when you were a kid. A sure sign of being old is that you don’t care that you bore them - because of course, you know you’re right. (News Source: Kokomo Tribune - 03:34:57)
Snively fifth-graders learn botany, horticulture techniques
Norma Weeder, left, of the Gardenia Garden Club shows her collection of native butterflies to fifth graders Daniel Echevarria, Deja Moore, Daisy Solorzann, Yasmeen Becerra and Donta Hogan in the butterfly garden at Snively Elementary School of Choice. Wednesday, October 14, 2009. (News Source: News Chief - 16:17:00)
A few cookies a day to keep the pounds away?
Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 5:19 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 5:19 a.m. COOKIES? On a diet? Apparently so. Just ask Christina Kane, who has tried everything from the grapefruit diet to Atkins, with no success. (News Source: Spartanburg Herald-Journal - 22:23:26)
On The Record With … Toby Smithson
Somewhere between six to eight million adults in the United States are vegetarians - roughly 3 percent of the U.S. population, according to a 2009 national poll given by the Vegetarian Resource Group. (News Source: Lake County Journal - 15:57:55)
Nancy Doyle Palmer: Writing As Therapy: How Three Women Transformed Loss Into Longhand
All three of these women have gone through significant and profound loss and all three are seriously the funniest people I know. Hard to pull off, but they do, in person and in their books. (News Source: The Huffington Post - 13:12:19)
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