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An inspiring development

Tony Alderson (left) and Chris Hoffee (right) of Alderson Commercial Group in Greenwood using past experience to grow in the future

It’s a ‘classic’ for Center Grove Choirs

They came from Indiana and Ohio, 42 high school choirs gathering at Lawrence Central High School for The Classic 2010.

Local Olympic enthusiasts make the trip

While the south side was covered in ice and snow, locals Jerry Karwowski and Bud Darland were thawing out in the 50-degree temperatures Vancouver had to offer.

My first Senior Moment cost me an extra hundred bucks

By Mike Redmond

I believe I just had my first Senior Moment. Could have sworn I was still a junior. It happened during a brief weekend jaunt down to Nashville — the one ...

Spring break’s the default stopping point

By Kevin Kane

Things are going pretty well with my New Year’s Resolution. But it’s time to quit. At the start of 2010 I issued myself a challenge to include a ...

Handing down a dream

By Sherri Coner-Eastburn

Something I always wanted — more than lots of other things I thought I wanted — was the chance to buy my own home. I spent years day dreaming ...

Anti-Aging

Beans: A toot-orial

Published March 11th, 2010

By Wendell Fowler

Don’t say you didn’t chuckle when in Blazing Saddles, Gov. Le Petomane served baked beans around the evening campfire inspiring a prodigious, albeit side-splitting cowpoke cacophony.

Admitting to it or not, humans expel ozone-depleting methane gas several dozen odiferous times daily. Not an appetizing contemplation, but, for gosh sakes, it’s a biological fact of life. If cheeky explosions didn’t occur, my snickering grandkids assert we’d explode. Hoochie mama, the humanity! Gas in our intestines comes from several sources: swallowing air, seeping into our intestines from our blood; chemical reactions, aging food and unwelcome bacteria colonizing your inner ecology. Understandably, gastrointestinal maintenance seems germane.

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