Courtesy photos. Tia McDonald thanks the Girl Scouts for helping her make presents for hospitalized children.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- When my director told me part of my new title -- Miss Daytona Outstanding Teen 2009 -- would include working with the Children’s Miracle Network, I was so excited as I have worked with children in need all my life.
I’m sad to read about the young man killed at the Medicine Shoppe. Mostly, I am sad for his family. They lost a son, a brother, an uncle. While the news media and townspeople vilify him for having an illness, what some people fail to take into account is that most addicts don’t chose to be addicts but once hooked on something, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and even food which most of us have battled at one time or another, the habits are almost impossible to break.
Photos by Capt. Budd Neviaser. Take a kid fishing as he or she will be a better person from the experience as demonstrated by this youngster, at left. At right, it should not be long before the Cobia start showing up.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Our weather is atypical for this time of the year.
Either we've had a very brief winter and it is time for the snowbirds to go back to the north or more likely Mother Nature is playing tricks on us again, in which case the snowbirds had better sit tight.
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The Bush League boys, clinging to their life-raft obstruction of Obama’s Ship of State, are really pissed off these days.
And no wonder. “Too much government” is threatening them -- too much Democratic refusal to overlook oversight of illegal activity.
The real, on-the-back, governmental interference in the form of wiretaps on private conversations, e-mails, credit information and illegal targeting of journalists and whistle-blowers doesn’t seem to spell “interference” to the advantaged few.
I'll bet some of you were thinking when you saw the passengers being pulled from the wrecked U.S. Airways jet in the Hudson River that you would probably never fly again. I have a different viewpoint.
The day before the Hudson incident, I was talking to a friend who told me that she always flies Delta, but no flights were available so she recently came from Connecticut to Charlotte, N.C., where she would change planes for the final leg to Orlando via U.S.Airways.
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Photo by Capt. Budd Neviaser. Cutline.Wilma Myers holds the first redfish she's ever caught as she stands next to Karl Root with his pompano.
Again we have been blessed with no reports of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide organism, being detected in the samples collected from Mosquito Lagoon, Indian River lagoon, or the Banana River, thus far this month.
Editor's note: This is a courageous topic on the part of the blogger. It's a reminder for all of us to learn as much as we can about the importance of proper nutrition and daily exercise. Please see your physician before undertaking strenuous exercise.
Obesity is epidemic in this country. This is a fact we all know. Some thin people look at fat people with disdain because they feel the fat person has done this to themselves and could just undo it.
This is just not so.
I have fought obesity most of my life and I am currently losing the battle, again.
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Photos by Capt. Budd Neviaser for NSBNEWS.net. Cutline: These wild turkeys are feeding well and should be ready for the Spring hunt. These two bucks hear turn their heads toward noise they've heard.
We swore we’d never do it again! It’s too much trouble! It’s a lot of work!
But there we were again gathering the junk we have collected over these past 10 years since our last yard sale.
What were we thinking?
Unfortunately, we are collectors of "stuff," the preferred verbiage for junk.
Getting rid of stuff is almost impossible for us since “we just might need it one day,”or so we delude ourselves into thinking.
Stuff piles higher and higher in our two houses taking space and collecting dust until we finally decide that something has to be done and soon.
