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Today's Features

  • What do we believe? I was a stranger and you welcomed me

    A familiar reaction to strangeness is to recoil from it. Whether the foreign entity emerges from within our very being or advances from outside of us, we begin a flight or fight response.
    Our prejudices and biases rise from depths we never imagined. Instead of living in a world where we is the operative word, we reside in a dominion of us and them. Differences divide and diminish us where diversity could have excited and exhilarated us. Instead of opting to live in a brilliant universe of color, we choose to abide in the invisibility of grayness.

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  • Calendar

    Thursday, March 7
    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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  • Community briefs

    Soil and Water board to meet March 12
    The Brunswick Soil & Water Conservation district board will have its regularly scheduled meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Brunswick County Association of Realtors, 101 Stone Chimney Road in Supply.

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  • When preparing chicken breasts, have fun and be creative

    Boneless, skinless chicken breasts are the ultimate fast food for family and guests-quick to prepare and low in fat. But if you’re like me, they can be boring. You throw them in a skillet and then wonder, “Now what?”
    A magazine once published more than 50 ways to prepare chicken breasts. I’ve since decided that figure must be closer to 5,000.

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  • Ocean Isle Beach home wins design competition

    Mayor Debbie Smith of Ocean Isle Beach recently unveiled a winner sign at “Long Isle” as a winner of the 2012 North Carolina Beach Rental House Design Competition for Interior Design conducted by Vacation House Review.
    After enjoying a sunny tour of the oceanfront blue-roofed rental at East 1st 210, the mayor said, “Long Isle is a wonderful beach house on Ocean Isle Beach and the design team has done an amazing job.”

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  • Fike-Bland

    Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Katelyn Marie Fike and Ryan Andrew Bland, both of Shallotte. Celebrating with them will be their daughter, Gracelynn Rose Bland. The bride-elect is the daughter of Teresa B. Fike of Shallotte. The prospective groom is the son of Andrew and Terry Bland of Shallotte. A March 16 wedding is planned at Ocean Isle Beach.
     

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  • Lake-Anderson

    Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Tammy Lake of Holden Beach and Bradley Anderson of Wilkesboro. Together with their children, a beach wedding is planned for the near future.

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  • Sharon Lawrence: A journey to success

    Editor’s note: 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.

    By Kate Farmer
    UNC-Chapel Hill

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  • Coastal Cinemas transforms into Oz

    Wear green and celebrate the release of Disney’s “Oz the Great and Powerful.”

    That’s what Coastal Cinemas in Shallotte invites everyone to do with festivities that started last week and continue this week.

    The film, telling the story of how Oscar Diggs transforms from a selfish flim-flam artist to the great and powerful man who helps inhabitants of the Land of Oz, opens Friday, March 8.

    Planned events include local magician Mark Vann performing at the movie theater at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 9.

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  • Canning class is March 9

    It’s home canning time again. Soon, local kitchens will be filled with canning equipment to preserve fresh produce from gardens and local markets. For those wanting to learn how to “put up” food by canning this spring and summer, come join Sarah Barnwell, extension agent, for a pressure canning class.
    Class will be from 10:30 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 9, in the demonstration kitchen at N.C. Cooperative Extension, 25 Referendum Drive in Bolivia.

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