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The second planning meeting for East Price Hill's community mural is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, at the Price Hill Will office, 3208 Warsaw Ave. East Price Hill was chosen as one of 10 city neighborhoods to participate in MuralWorks, a brand new year-round public art program sponsored by ArtWorks in which teenage and professional artists will work with community members to create murals. The first planning meeting took place Aug. 16, and those who attended answered a survey. The purpose of the second meeting is to vote on the two final mural designs, which will be painted on the building at 3206 Warsaw Ave., across from District 3 police headquarters. .
Wednesday Lifestyles Briefs
ROCK � The August SHARE delivery will take place on Saturday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Maple Ridge Community Building.
Orders for September will be accepted between Aug. 25 and Sept. 4. Participants may order from SHARE Traditional and/or Select menus.
SHARE is a nonprofit food-buying club offering nutritious food at reduced costs through a volunteer-run distribution system. The club is open to everyone and there are no membership fees.
To order or for more information, call (906) 356-6104.
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Alzheimer�s caregivers conference in Marquette
MARQUETTE � The Alzheimer�s Association Annual Caregivers Conference will be held Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Marquette. The theme of the conference is �Share the Care: You Don�t Have to Do It Alone.
Start your own girl group
Find a theme, gather some close pals and, voila, you've got yourself a girlfriend group. Here are some ideas from Middle Tennessee women: - Cooking: Every good social event requires great food, so it's no surprise that cooking is a popular theme for girl groups. Jan Boxer, 53, an independent distributor for a cosmetics line, gets her gal pals together for cooking classes at the Viking store in Franklin, which actually has classes called Girls Night Out. "You have a chance to laugh, actually learn something and then get to eat a restaurant-portion meal with a glass of wine," the Forest Hills woman said. "Best of all, you don't have to clean up." .
Indian Schools Asked to Ban Junk Food
India's children are getting increasingly overweight and unhealthy and the government is asking schools to ban junk food, officials said Thursday. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, a government advisory body, has drawn up healthy eating guidelines for both government and privately run schools to follow, said Sandhya Bajaj, a commission member. .
View Points
A state insurance board turned down the Alabama Senate's bid for state-funded health insurance yesterday, the Associated Press announced.In the closing hours of its last session on June 7, the Senate passed a resolution by an unrecorded voice vote to seek coverage through an insurance program operated by the State Employees Insurance Board.Finance Director Jim Main, a member of Gov. Bob Riley's Cabinet, urged the board to reject the resolution, and the board did so without opposition.Board members said they need a resolution passed by both houses of the Legislature for the application for insurance to be official.Sen. E.B. McClain, D-Midfield, said other Southern states provide publicly funded health insurance for their legislators and Alabama should do the same."I don't think we are any less important than any other state," McClain told AP in a phone interview.
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