| 1 in 5 obese in Garden State
TRENTON, N.J. -- New Jerseyans are eating more and exercising less, making the Garden State one of 31 states in which obesity rates continued to climb last year, a new report shows. More than one in five New Jersey adults -- 22.2 percent -- are obese and 14 percent of children ages 10 to 17 are overweight, according to the report by Trust for America's Health, a research group that focuses on disease prevention. .
SouthCoast scholars
Daniel Bruce, son of Wayne and Kathleen Bruce of Dartmouth, graduated from Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School and will be going on to major in culinary arts/food service entrepreneurship at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island. Daniel was adopted at the age of 5 from the Philippines and is truly living the American Dream. He received many scholarships to help him on his way, including the Johnson and Wales Presidential Scholarship, Skills USA Scholarship, Massachusetts Lodging Association Scholarship, Ladies Branch of the Port Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Scholarship, MOLIFE Scholarship, Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School Alumni Scholarship, Vocational High School Portfolio Scholarship, Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical High School Vocational Scholarship, Tadeusz and Alice Szelag Educational Scholarship, Dartmouth Youth Soccer Association Scholarship, Monsignor Arthur Considine Scholarship, Cushman School PTO Scholarship and the Mr.
Summer movie wrap-up
Like the spider-sequel that spun to the top of the box office, the just-wrapped summer movie season boasted stars, effects -- but shockingly few surprises. As expected, Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End bowed to staggering box office returns -- the Sam Raimi-directed comic-book threequel webbed up a record-shattering $150 million US in its opening weekend. And, as predicted, the biggest non-sequel proved to be Michael Bay's Transformers. Also not a surprise? That the log-jam of blockbusters cannibalized each other to a degree. Or that the studios which didn't overspend outrageously ($175 million on Evan Almighty?!) emerged the season's savviest winners. In fact, the best-received films turned out to be the scant few originals among the legions of franchises -- whether it was Ratatouille, about a rat who wants to be a chef; Hairspray, about a chubby girl who just wants to dance; or Knocked Up and Superbad, both geek-centric raunch-coms about horndogs who just want to get laid.
Rebecca Schmid's family bakery is a heavenly success
It's all in the family for Rebecca D. Schmid of Rebecca's Heavenly Goodies on Main Street in Ephrata. Her husband of 41 years, Hal, is a native of Lancaster and a retired restaurant and convenience store designer. But he still logs more than 40 hours a week behind the counter of the popular bakery named for his wife and at the couple's new-this-summer "Coffee Cove" at Ephrata Community Hospital.
Her only daughter, Susanna, is head floral designer for Rebecca's Garden Room, next door to Heavenly Goodies, and her son-in-law, Kevin Redman, is head baker of more than a thousand servings a week of cakes, pies, muffins, cookies and brownies.
Born in Peoria, Ill., Schmid, 61, grew up in Loma Linda, Calif., and graduated from both business school and the John Robert Powers School of Modeling in Pasadena.
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