Groups preparing to help children at holiday Nov 12, 2009
Chamber of Commerce officials have cited liability, waste-related concerns and other issues as reasons for not allowing horses and all-terrain vehicles to be in this years Christmas parade ... The clubs Wish Trees, which allow Brookhavens givers to easily shop for a disadvantaged child for Christmas, have been raised in eight locations around the city ... The children of Lincoln County shall have a merry Christmas. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Jon, Kate to spend Christmas with kids Nov 11, 2009
Jon, Kate to spend Christmas under same roof - Access Hollywood - msnbc ... Jon, Kate to spend Christmas under same roof ... Jon Gosselin and Kate Gosselin are getting back together at least, for Christmas. (MSNBC -- News)
The Best Way to Host an Affordable ... Nov 10, 2009
Christmas Dinner on a Budget Cook Like Scrooge & Eat Like Marley. With US unemployment over 10% and money tight for families, many households are looking at ways to host an affordable Christmas dinner for friends and relatives ... Christmas is often one of the most stressful holidays of the year, especially for families who have experienced difficult economic times due to job loss, wage cuts, or illness. (Suite101.com)
Bell-ringing season begins soon Nov 8, 2009
Wearing Santa hats, Donna Hickman, left, and Bonnie Bockenkamp show their Christmas spirit as they ring bells every time they schedule someone else to ring bells at Wishing Wells for the United Way of St. Francois County ... - Submitted photo The frost may be barely on the pumpkins and the goblins have just made their Halloween rounds, but the United Way of St. Francois County is already scheduling bell-ringers for the Christmas season ... It s never dull ringing at Walmart and JC Penney s just... (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Holiday jeerThe world’s scariest accountant is back. Behold the teeth spaced... Nov 7, 2009
Grotesque flick makes for one wary Carrey Christmas ... This is not the umpteenth remake of A Christmas Carol ... Instead of freshening the setting (; la Bill Murray s Scrooged ), warming up the chilly tone (alas, the perfect title Marley & Me is taken) or making the miser a fashionista (anybody want the film rights to my 2006 novel A Christmas Caroline. (New York Post -- News)
Spitz: It's beginning to look like HallowXmas Nov 7, 2009
But I'd really like to gather the family for Thanksgiving before the Christmas full-court press. If that's asking too much, maybe we could just wait until the day after Veterans Day for Mr. Bluelight to don his Santa cap and tell us about Kmart's Christmas Countdown ... "Tis the Season for bargains" says the Christmas Tree Shops circular, which, to its credit, also includes a few Thanksgiving-themed decorations in the Oct. 26-Nov. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
3 great travel deals Nov 6, 2009
And the hotel can arrange for a fully decorated Christmas tree to be delivered to your room for $175. (Must be ordered seven days in advance. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Helping the troops ... Kovach reflects on OHS job ... Search for man leads to key area arrest ... Officials promote Meridian as health care hub ... Tale of deadly lions still resonates ... Idaho school district to restart copier bids ... Texas vets reunite with rescuers ... ';var marqueewidth="440px";var marqueeheight="25px";var marqueebgcolor="#";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}} Amber Meyer, who works at Intermountain Community Bank in Ontario, loads donated items into a collection box for the Christmas for the Troops program. Helping the troops Nov 4, 2009
Amber Meyer, who works at Intermountain Community Bank in Ontario, loads donated items into a collection box for the Christmas for the Troops program. ONTARIO Members of the administrative department at the Ontario branch of Intermountain Community Bank are putting the finishing touches on a collection effort designed to send Christmas stockings and boxes to U.S. troops in Afghanistan near the middle of this month ... Weve got to get the shipment out by Nov. 13 so it gets there by... (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
Are you already working on Christmas? Nov 4, 2009
Are you already working on Christmas ... Are you already working on Christmas ... Its Nov. 3 ladies, how far along are you on Christmas. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Moms decry child-care aid cuts Nov 3, 2009
Going to parties has put Dorothy Schadegg a little bit behind on preparing the Christmas stockings she sews every year for babies born during the holiday season at United Hospital in St. Paul. EDITOR'S PICKS. (Yahoo News -- Child Welfare)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Nov 3, 2009
A car dealer, Wayne Taylor, has been jailed for 18 years at the Old Bailey for ordering fire bomb attacks on the homes of two detectives who he blamed for "ruining Christmas" ... Join us on a Telegraph evening shopping extravaganza and take the stress out of Christmas. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
St. Bede works on Project Santa Nov 3, 2009
These items will be put in Christmas stockings to give our service men and women overseas a feeling of home. It was also a jean day and funds collected were used to purchase Fulton Sheen wartime prayer books and to provide money for postage to send the prayer books and other items. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Dirty Laundry: Preteen costumes are truly scary this Halloween Nov 3, 2009
Not all parents think it's OK for the holiday second only to Christmas in the minds of many kids to be more a celebration of the most deranged characters pop culture has to offer. Discount stores and thrift shops offer outfits for reasonable prices. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Horrors of Dating: Karma Oct 31, 2009
Whether toys/figurines at Christmas, on every dang poster, costumes or the cups/boxes on Burger Kings/McDonald s kids meals lol ... From toys/figurines at Christmas to every dang poster hangable to costumes to the cups/boxes at Burger Kings/McDonald s for the kids meals theme lol. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Author Augusten Burroughs Oct 27, 2009
Q moirist Augusten Burroughs on his new book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas - TIME ... Christmas has not been kind to Augusten Burroughs ... You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas hit shelves Oct. 27. (Time.com)
84 comment(s) Oct 27, 2009
gone wrote on Oct 26, 2009 11:45 AM:" I can't help but feel sorry for the workers and their families, 14 months, another Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner, no income. But guy's; this union is the one who is taking you for the ride. Your union leaders; if you can call them that, are still barking up the wrong tree in asking that GPC negotiate. "Both of us can give a little"! What? Your union leadership has made it completely possible for GPC to hold all the cards. Your union dues... (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Little Bay Primary staff and students collected items to fill 25 boxes for the Bahia Bay (BB) residents Operation Fill a Stocking. Students on hand are, from left, Crystal Bueno, Destiny Bearden, Robert Castellano, Layne Davenport, Carsen Flores, Blake Miller, Stormi Lee and Caitlin Sherman. Standing in back are teacher Toni Martinez, principal Kathy Stephenson, and BB residents DiAnne Lewis, Carla Reed and Jimmie Kelly. Photo by NORMA MARTINEZ Oct 17, 2009
Each Christmas season, the BB residents send more than 700 boxes to servicemen and women ... Last Christmas they mailed 717 boxes, and hope to mail more this year ... The troops love to hear from the people back home, so a letter or Christmas card also would be wonderful, said Reed. (Rockport Pilot, TX)
Dylan Releases First Christmas Album Oct 16, 2009
Folk Legend Covers 15 Christmas Classics ... Bob Dylan released a Christmas album on Tuesday, giving fans more than two months to decide if it's worth stuffing into stockings ... The 15-track disc is the Jewish-born singer's first attempt at a Christmas album. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Stockings for Troops finds new life, new location Oct 15, 2009
Her youngest son Anthony who s done three tours in Iraq spent Christmas there in 2006, so Powers continued to do the project which has averaged 250 to 300 stockings per year ... In 1965, Connelly s aunt submitted his name to a Catholic girl s school that had a program to send Christmas gifts to troops ... Powers is glad not to have to worry about Christmas 10 weeks ahead of time, and feels like she can give more time and energy not only to the troop project, but to her family. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
Local woman sews 100 holiday stockings for soldiers overseas Oct 13, 2009
"Though she has received a number of donations already, Hunkins is still looking for individual-sized toiletries, note pads, tissues, snacks, candy, pens, paper and other items that might come in handy.This isn't the first time Hunkins has sent items to the troops overseas. Her nephew, Lt. Col. Robert Fournier, is a U.S. Air Force commander stationed in Kabul and is a regular recipient of care packages from Hunkins and other family members."The whole family and friends have been pitching in... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Fall in Love With Paramore Oct 7, 2009
The hairdo screams bedroom-door-slammer; the smile is the sort that earns a kid a $25 check from grandma every Christmas. In Paramore's music, the hair battles the smile. (Slate)
Marlborough residents enjoy Heritage Festival Oct 6, 2009
Vendors along the street offered free chair massages, sand art and custom-made Christmas stockings. Attractions for children included a variety of trucks, such as a state police SWAT vehicle, a fire truck and a police car, which kids could climb in and explore. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)
Tradition, not fads, in stores this Christmas Oct 5, 2009
Tradition, not fads are in stores this Christmas - Retail - msnbc ... Upside-down economy right-sizes Christmas ... Traditional Christmas colors red, green and gold are also back in vogue, and on the shelves of this Illinois Home Depot. (MSNBC -- Business)
Christmas Party Planning Ideas for ... Oct 1, 2009
Christmas Party Planning Ideas for Teens. Christmas Party Planning Ideas for Teens ... Christmas ber holiday parties s for teens are fun. (Suite101.com)
A Boston Fashion Week rundown Oct 1, 2009
Tables were covered in everything from vintage brooches to paisley-printed Christmas stockings. It was a glorified craft fair. (Boston Globe)
Kathryn Louise Barron (2) Sep 15, 2009
She was a gifted knitter and created many beautiful Christmas stockings for family and friends. She was a cancer survivor for 6 years and celebrated every day of life. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
On the calendar in Somerville: Sept. 10-16 Sep 12, 2009
KNITTING CONNECTION Distributes donated yarn to volunteer knitters/crocheters to make hats, mittens, scarves, sweaters, afghans, baby booties, layette sets and Christmas stockings for needy children in metro Boston. Seeking yarn donations and volunteer knitters/crocheters. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Health Notes Aug 25, 2009
Association members also sew large red Christmas stockings in which all babies born at St. Peter s in December are sent home. All the money raised by the association is given to the hospital and every year the association membership votes on how to allocate the funds raised to support priority needs at St. Peter s.. (Helena Independent Record)
Scotland’s misplaced sympathy for an unforgivable criminal Aug 21, 2009
Empty Christmas stockings hung on living room mantles as families gathered to mourn their lost children ... Two days after the bombing, a friend of one of the victims, 20-year-old Stephen Boland of Nashua, recalled how she would always buy him Beatles books for Christmas. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries for Saturday, August 15, 2009 Aug 15, 2009
She made personalized Christmas stockings for all the nieces and nephews. She also made the best Italian risotto. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Grab the eggnog, it’s time for Christmas in August Aug 14, 2009
Grab the eggnog, it s time for Christmas in August ... Don't tell the weatherman, but it's almost Christmas time ... That's right, Graham's Island State Park's annual Christmas in August celebration is right around the corner and State Parks Interpreter Timothy Gulsvig said many campers have come prepared. (Devils Lake Daily Journal, ND)
Talk of the Town: Volunteers give big time, even in the big heat Jul 29, 2009
It s been Christmas in July for members of the Valley Quilters Guild. The group, chaired by Sue Norris, gathered July 23 at American Legion Post No. 66 for a Christmas charity sewing day where they made and assembled Christmas stockings for the children of families aided by Green Valley Assistance Services. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Gladys Rose ‘Rosie’ Ingebritson Jul 29, 2009
In retirement, Grandma Rosie was an active member of a local knitting club, and knitted sweaters, hats and Christmas stockings that she sold at local bazaars. Grandma was proud of her family heritage. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Reality check Jul 24, 2009
In many family businesses, the distribution of ownership proceeds to family shareholders is like unloading Christmas stockings. The president might not be given a round of standing huzzahs, but there's an atmosphere of satisfaction that the business is contributing to everyone's financial comfort and security. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Lots of Bears fanatics; Colts supporters scarce (8) Jul 21, 2009
And at Christmas, yes, his tree was covered with Da Bears stuff ... Jake and Angie Gabriel, Fruitland: Their 2006 family Christmas card featured the Bears pennant hanging with the stockings. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Fiber artist to display her works at Art Fair on the Green Jul 19, 2009
In the winter, she also keeps a large inventory of giant Christmas stockings and wool caps and scarves ... What she will have, however, are some of her brightly colored yarn for sale so you can knit your own giant Christmas stocking. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Nicaragua: Where Every Day is Christmas Jul 18, 2009
Sandinistas celebrating in front of a Christmas tree in downtown Managua, Nicaragua ... In most parts of the world, including the North Pole, Christmas comes but once a year ... But in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, the Christmas trees along the downtown streets are lit festively every night of the year even in July. (Time.com)
Fabric thief steals a little piece of Christmas from deployed troops Jul 18, 2009
The thief who took 500 worth of holiday-themed fabric from the Black Hills Quilters Guild last week also stole a little piece of Christmas from military troops deployed overseas, guild members said. Three boxes of Christmas material that guild members were using to create 200 to 300 stockings are missing from Faith Lutheran Church at 17 Indiana St., where the guild meets ... They're taking Christmas from the troops, said guild member Susan Corbin. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Oregon Recreation Report (3) Jun 24, 2009
Through the end of the season, Denman Wildlife Area Hall tract will only be open for hunting Saturdays, Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, all other tracts on the Wildlife Area will be open everyday through the season ... CHRISTMAS VALLEY GOLF COURSE POND: hatchery rainbow trout ... Fish are still available at Christmas Valley Pond. (Lebanon Express, OR)
Suck it up, Cupcake Jun 23, 2009
Christmas came with stockings loaded with candy canes and ribbon candy, with an orange for luck shoved into the bottom. Birthdays were sugar comas with streamers and presents. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
The case for dress standards in court May 31, 2009
It currently holds about 100 ties -- most sporting the labels of expensive designers, although several feature gaudy Christmas scenes -- collected over what he estimates to be about 28 years. "I realized a long time ago, you don't really need to wear a tie in to work or on the way home," Mr. Teitelbaum said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Coming home to the Valley to honor mom May 12, 2009
But today with her children grown, they listen to mom, await her approval and at least twice a year Christmas and Mother s Day make the journey home to celebrate mom. The author from Rehobeth Road. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
Piece Makers Quilt Club Still Stitching Up Fun After 24 Years Apr 28, 2009
"We make Christmas stockings for the children in juvenile hall and those in foster care each year," Nobel said ... Nobel said they planned a big Christmas party last year. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
The secret is out Apr 11, 2009
During a Christmas visit to a friend in Hawai'i, she fell in love with the Islands, especially the Big Island, which she calls "a place of pure nature." She decided to move there and start designing. During a trip home to visit family in Brazil, she and her mother sourced fabrics and found a manufacturer who could make her line of bikinis, bustiers, cover-ups and dresses. (Honolulu Advertiser)
- From the desk of: Have a blessed and eggs-tra special Easter 0 Apr 8, 2009
At Easter we generally had Easter lilies, and at Christmas there were poinsettias. I remember one year before Easter I was in San Diego with Mama and Daddy. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Putting a top on iconic topless show Mar 22, 2009
When it opened on Christmas Eve 1959, the Tropicana's topless review embodied all that was naughty and daring in Vegas. But, in time, Vegas became much racier than the "Folies." Cirque du Soliel performers disrobe in "Zumanity." In the show "Bite," vampires bare fangs and breasts. (Boston Globe)
NPHS Cheerleading wins Suburban One Championships Mar 19, 2009
"It's also the enthusiasm, and overall impression - how well they get the crowd to cheer with them. "One of the biggest comments the kids often receive is that they look like they're having a blast," she said. In addition to the competitions and supporting the high school sports teams, the squad also performs numerous community service projects, such working with Easter Seals, and collecting stockings at Christmas. McGowan also requires the girls to maintain a C-average to stay on the squad. "I... (Doylestown Central Bucks Life, PA)
Best cities for shopaholics Mar 6, 2009
Each year, the Hong Kong WinterFest, a winter duty-free shopping nirvana, happens just in time for Christmas so you can fill those holiday stockings at a discount. London Whether you choose to shop the trendy boutiques of Covent Garden, follow in the steps of princesses by visiting Sloane Street or pick up a bespoke suit on Saville Row or tailored shirt on Jermyn Street, youre bound to shed a few pounds (of the monetary variety) when shopping in London. (MSNBC -- Travel)
School offers March production of ‘Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Mar 6, 2009
School offers March production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever : Winona Daily News ... School offers March production of Best Christmas Pageant Ever By KRI KNUTSON ... And yet the Christmas spirit is alive in March at Hope Lutheran High School. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Beech Mountain's Land of Oz theme park Feb 17, 2009
With a flick of a switch, Keller turns on cyclone-style sound effects and green Christmas lights while visitors peruse the black light paintings on the wall, including one of the Wicked Witch soaring across the sky writing Surrender Dorothy in clouds of smoke. Next door is a topsy-turvy house made to look like Dorothy s home after the cyclone hit. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Mud Puddle Toys to celebrate five years with long list of events Feb 17, 2009
Its two main efforts are distributing back-to-school backpacks each fall and the stockings each Christmas. We at Mud Puddle Toys believe in getting all ages involved by encouraging volunteerism and philanthropy within our own community, explained the Pollards. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Editorial: Happy Holidays Feb 8, 2009
With Hanukkah beginning this Sunday, and Christmas on Thursday it s that time of year again to think of our blessings and look to the year ahead ... My husband and I are just buying gifts for the children in our lives; instead of buying an expensive wreath that we will just throw out the day after Christmas, I had my daughter make one (which I will keep forever); I created my own photo Christmas cards online, instead of paying a photographer to take them and spending three times as much; and my... (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
St. Nicholas at Church Feb 8, 2009
I was talking with them about Advent, the four weeks before Christmas, as a season of waiting. I suspected that several of the children were thinking about waiting for Santa Claus to arrive but I had not expected the question about Santa Claus and Jesus. (Hopkinton Town Crier, MA)
Teen Q&A: Single mom dreads sex talk with boys Feb 8, 2009
One year when all of the kids in our family were in high school or college I put condoms in their Christmas stockings. My mother-in-law thought it was the smartest gift and wished that she had thought of it. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Weird Valentines Gifts That Don't S... Feb 7, 2009
Lets face it, Christmas was just a few weeks ago and the amount of chocolate that we get in our stockings generally is not wanted on our hips. If you have saved a lot of your candy consider re-boxing them in relevant heart shaped boxes. (Suite101.com)
