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  • Calendar

    Thursday, March 28
    Weight Watchers, weigh-in at 9:30 a.m., meeting at 10 a.m., Southport Presbyterian Church, 1025 E. Moore St., Southport. For details, call (800) 651-6000.
    MahJong, 10 a.m., Boiling Spring Lakes Community Center, free. For more information, call 845-3693.
    Rotary Club of Shallotte, meets 12:30 p.m. at Starz Grill at Planet Fun, Whiteville Road, Shallotte. Visiting Rotarians welcome.
    VFW Post 7288 bingo, 5:30 doors open, early birds start at 6:30 p.m. Carter Drive, Calabash. Call 579-3577 for information.

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  • Lucius Morse envisioned and preserved Chimney Rock

    This North Carolinian of Note profile was produced by students in Dean Emeritus Richard Cole’s feature writing class in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The profiles were distributed by the North Carolina Press Foundation. For reprint information, contact sandynie@email.unc.edu.

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  • Religion briefs

    Camp UMC sets yard, bake sale
    The ladies of Camp United Methodist Church in Shallotte are clearing closets and cupboards in preparation for their annual spring yard and bake sale from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, April 13, in the church fellowship hall at 4807 Main St. in Shallotte.
    “We will be offering consignment-quality goods,” said Margaret Hardin, one of the organizers.
    The bake sale will feature cakes, pies and cookies, as well as homemade jams, jellies, pickles, granola and more.

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  • Celebrating life in the midst of death: Now is the time to give thanks

    Over the past six weeks, we have been led, step-by-step, into the desert time of Lent.
    We began with Ash Wednesday’s clarion call to repent, to change our mindset, to change our hearts, to turn and return to God. The transformation calls us to be prophetic people. It allows us to ask inappropriate questions, to ask for God’s help and know that God is here with us.

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  • Community briefs

    Class on living with osteoporosis
    Anyone who knows someone who has broken a bone due to osteoporosis understands the pain and potential disability caused by this disease. Characterized by fragile bones, osteoporosis is a major public health problem. Nearly half of all women, and a quarter of all men older than 50, will break a bone because of osteoporosis.

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  • Eggactly what do you want to do with those eggs?

    Seems like people are always coming up with new and interesting ways to cook food, and then they tell everyone on the Internet how to do it. This week, the latest craze is eggs.
    It seems folks on Pinterest and Facebook are offering instructions on how to hard-cook eggs in the oven. I actually heard some of my neighbors talking about this last week, too. Another friend tells me she’s been doing it for years, as when making fancy Italian Easter cookies and breads with decorated eggs baked in the dough.

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  • Planting a garden insectary so good bugs will get rid of bad

    By Judy Koehly
    Master Gardener
    As you plan your vegetable garden, you will choose what vegetables you wish to grow, and you should also choose which plants would attract beneficial insects.
    A garden insectary is a small garden plot of flowering plants designed to attract and harbor beneficial insects. These “good insects” prey on many common garden insect pests and offer the gardener a safer, natural alternative to pesticides.

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  • TiLT welcomes 11 new Brunswick members

    Brunswick County 4-H Teens in Leadership Training (TiLT) have welcomed 11 new youths to its 4-H Youth Volunteer Program. They were trained, along with four other youths, at the weekend training on Feb. 16-17 at Fort Caswell.
    The new youths, all from Brunswick County, are in sixth through 11th grade. They include: Owen Bell, Nikki Cooper, Bryant Holden, Sadie Huntly, Alison Jones, Bethany Jones, Bobbi Jane Lawrence, Breanna Long, Savanna Moore, Katlyn Toney and Campbell Woody.

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  • Southport springs into season

    The historic Brunswick County seaport town of Southport is springing into spring with its 28th annual Spring Festival this Friday and Saturday in Franklin Square Park.

    Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m Friday, March 29, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, March 30.

    Festivities include arts and crafts, a chili cook-off, food and entertainment at the event co-orchestrated by Downtown Southport and the Southport-Oak Island Kiwanis Club.

    More than 130 crafters will be featuring handmade goods.

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  • Peeps lattes celebrate season

    Just in time for Easter, Jumpin’ Java Espresso Co. has unveiled sweet Peeps lattes.

    Available hot, iced or blended as pictured, the tasty vanilla-and-toasted-marshmallow concoction is topped with whipped cream (if you like) and a cute marshmallow Peep.

    Jumpin’ Java owners Sarah and Sonny Moy say as long as Peeps are out, they offer the delectable drink celebrating the season.

    Jumpin’ Java now has two locations, at 4635 Main St. in Shallotte and 4022 Old Bridge Road across from Brunswick County Airport on the way to Oak Island.

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