1. Find out how many calories you need for a day as a first step in managing your weight. Go to www.ChooseMyPlate.gov to find your calorie level. Being physically active also helps you balance calories.
Is bagged lettuce a safe choice?
SOC (Save Our Community) conducted its fifth Youth Bible Quiz Bowl on Sept. 29 at First Baptist Church in Southport. The program opened with the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with deacon Norman Jones serving as master of ceremonies.
Oct. 23. Hours will be from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Donations of warm, gently used adult and children's coats will be accepted. Vouchers will be needed in order to receive a coat. Make arrangements by calling the church office at 754-9313.
My interest was unending and consuming. I had enjoyed her first work, "Seabiscuit," but this one had me spellbound and deeply saddened. I was totally unaware of the atrocities endured by the POWs during World War II. My respect for and admiration of the veterans of that, and other wars, deepened exponentially.
Country pattie (beef and chicken), oven-stripped potatoes, okra and tomatoes, biscuit/margarine, milk.
Two hot dogs on buns, baked beans, carrot coleslaw, sugar cookie, milk.
Turkey tetrazzini, green peas, Mandarin oranges, dinner roll, milk.
Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of Oct. 31. Most other Western countries have also embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture.
Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the pookah, a mischievous spirit.
Many European cultural traditions believe that Halloween is when the spirit world can make contact with the natural world and when magic is most potent.
Dr. Richard and Kristina Crane of Ocean Isle Beach are the parents of a daughter, Evelyn Helen Crane, born at 9:34 p.m. Sept. 29 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, weighing 6 pounds and 2 ounces and measuring 19 inches long. She joins a brother, Weston, age 2.
Autumn is a busy time of year at Indigo Farms, which is celebrating its annual Pumpkin Day this coming Saturday, Oct. 20, with an array of seasonal festivities.
Pumpkin Day offers lots of old farm games, pig races, a hay maze and rides aboard the wagon to the pumpkin patch to pick a pumpkin.