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Full disclosure: I’m a believer in using nutrition as a healing tool. I take several nutritional supplements, give them to my family, and recommend them to my patients. Because there aren’t as many scientific studies conducted on nutritional supplements, especially in veterinary medicine, I take a lot of flak from my colleagues whenever I espouse trying a different diet, food, or supplement. A new study on cats demonstrates that a popular supplement used to enhance the immune system works.

Veterans Day ceremonies

Veterans Day ceremonies are scheduled for the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month — at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, at Calabash VFW on Carter Drive.

Another Veterans Day ceremony is scheduled for that same time and day at the American Legion in Calabash.

VFW 8866

VFW Post 8866 at 573 Sabbath Home Road in Supply will have a Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Nov. 11.

Franklin Square Art Gallery in Southport will be sponsoring a charity event connected with its First Friday event this Friday, Nov. 1.

Colored wine and liquor bottles with LED Christmas lights in them will be on sale to benefit the Brunswick Community College Food Bank.

“Learning Lights” is the theme of the event, which is from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited to come out and buy some bottles to help future leaders get the food they need to be able to serve the community for decades to come.

The 11th Annual Brunswick County Parade of Homes continues this week.

Hosted by Barker & Canady Custom Homes, homes are open for viewing from noon to 5 p.m. this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 25 through Oct. 27.

Event-goers can tour more than 50 beautiful homes on the 2013 Parade of Homes presented by the Brunswick County Home Builders Association.

It’s the season for crafts.

Local communities are having arts and crafts events and other festivities. It’s a great way to visit a neighborhood and have a firsthand encounter with the creativity that abounds there, as well as sample treats and enjoy some entertainment.

Village at Calabash Craft Fair Nov. 2

The Village at Calabash will host its 18th annual craft fair from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Village’s clubhouse, 1099 N. Clubview Lane off Thomasboro Road, between U.S. 17 and Calabash.

Coastal Water Watch is partnering with the city of Southport Parks and Recreation Department and the Southport Tourism Department to host an educational tour of birds that live in or visit Southport on their way back to their wintering grounds further south.

Mike Campbell, Coastal Outreach Educator with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, will be leading the tour and identifying birds that the casual observer might miss.

The event is open to all who would like to learn about our feathered friends and how to provide for and protect them. 

Local author Anne Clinard Barnhill will be reading — in costume — at Hickmans Crossroads Library at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24.

Barnhill, who lives in Supply, is the author of “At the Mercy of the Queen: A Novel of Anne Boleyn,” published in 2012 by St. Martin’s Press.

Saturday, Oct. 19, is Farm Heritage Day at Indigo Farms, with a farmyard full of planned activities.

Events kick off at 9 a.m. with hayrides that will roll when enough people fill the wagon. Daylong activities continue until 4 p.m.

Other highlights include food, pick-your-own pumpkins, and a hay maze.

Visitors will enjoy viewing Indigo Farms’ scarecrows, a corn-stalk tepee and animals including pigs, sheep, horses, goats, a hinny and various fowl.

Brunswick Little Theatre will hold auditions Oct. 20-21 for “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” a four-person musical presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships.

The play’s tagline is “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.”