Local Men Learn About Their Health

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Holidays

South Central Regional Medical Center, Family Health Center and Wesley United Men hosted the event that drew about 100 men in the first 45 minutes of the three-hour event.
Dan Diers, a physical therapist at SCRMC, said the golf swing analysis is a way to assist those with and without medical problems to be able to [...]

Annual village chicken barbecue and Memorial Day parade held on Saturda

Posted on May 27th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Law

Nowhere was that more evident on Saturday than in the village of Walnut Bottom, where hundreds from the local community once again turned out to support the annual chicken barbecue and Memorial Day parade.
People proudly displayed patriotic decorations down Main Street and waved mini American flags as area veterans marched on by, beginning near Kar-Tunes [...]

The Forbidden Kingdom Fun for the family

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Holidays

The Forbidden Kingdom
(out of 4)Starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou and Liu Yifei. Directed by Rob Minkoff. 113 minutes. At major theatres. PG
East meets west in The Forbidden Kingdom, a colourful action comedy about an American kung-fu wannabe’s adventures in ancient China.East meets east, though, in the match-up that [...]

The next China

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Learning

Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

FEATUREUS Iraqi troops face test at battle of Creek Road

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

By Peter Graff BAGHDAD, April 3 (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help them regroup. The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for [...]

Arms supplier in plot on Army base gets 20 months

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

By Jon Hurdle
CAMDEN, NJ (Reuters) - An ethnic Albanian immigrant who supplied firearms to a group of Muslims accused of plotting to kill soldiers at a U.S. Army base was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Monday.
Agron Abdullahu, a former supermarket worker from Buena Vista Township, New Jersey, admitted supplying [...]

Washington Post wins six Pulitzer Prizes

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six Pulitzer
Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public Service
award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war veterans at
America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won for “exposing
the mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed [...]

UPDATE 3Washington Post wins six Pulitzer Prizes

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

(Adds Washington Post and Reuters comment)
By Karen Brettell
NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - The Washington Post won six
Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the prestigious Public
Service award for its reporting on conditions of U.S. war
veterans at America’s flagship military hospital.
The Pulitzer Prize board said the Post won [...]

The real tartan army

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

Glenrothes, you see, is Black Watch heartland. This famous, pursed-lipped, brave regiment, its dour humour and thin Scots faces and 21 Victoria Crosses, is drawn from Fife and Tayside, central east Scotland: there’s a wind, always, from the North Sea, and the men are small, and the memories last, even if the jobs don’t.The regiment [...]

My own cinema paradiso

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

My first movie memory derives from 1937. I’d just started school in Leicester, where my father, who kept being shifted around by the company he worked for, was based. Due to his constant moves, I became acquainted with the cinemas of half-a-dozen towns. Because he was an insurance man, we could never agree about Billy [...]