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A “Bring Brody and Nathan Home” golf tournament to help raise legal funds for Ash mom Amy Smith has been scheduled for 1-7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 15, at Leopard’s Chase Golf Links at Ocean Ridge Plantation.

Needed are 36 four-man or woman teams, 144 players. The cost is $75 per player, which includes golf, golf cart, range balls and food. Hole sponsors are also needed.

 Each year during the third week in July youth from throughout North Carolina meet on campus at North Carolina State University to celebrate. The event is known as North Carolina 4-H Congress. 

Youth ages 9-19 make presentations on a number of topics and compete to represent the state in several national competitions.

Last week, a delegation from Brunswick County included Justin Simmons of Supply, who made bid for state president. Simmons, a home school graduate,

 If you haven’t already figured it out, Southeastern North Carolina is one of the worst places in the world to grow turfgrasses. We sometimes have winter temperatures that cause injury to warm-season grasses like centipede and St. Augustine. It’s just too blasted hot in the summer for even the most heat-tolerant, cool-season grasses like tall fescue to survive. Throw in weeds, ground pearls, high pH, large patch, dollar spot, chinch bugs and all of the other issues and you have tough turf growing conditions.

 The first time I had Steak Diane was years ago at a fancy restaurant. Popular back in the ’50s and ’60s, when and where it actually came about is unknown.

New York City is probably the best candidate for the source of Steak Diane, but which restaurant was the birthplace would be difficult to identify. 

The top culinary trend of that time was dishes that could be flamboyantly prepared tableside. I remember being really impressed with the theatrical antics arising from the flambéing of the cognac that was used to make the sauce.