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Golfers get ready to participate in a previous golf tournament organized by the men of St. Andrew United Methodist Church. <br>Special to the MDJ
Church’s golf tourney to help families in need
The men of St. Andrew United Methodist Church are taking to the golf links Monday to raise money to help local families for the winter holidays.
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The garden of Fran Spearman will be featured on the Keep Smyrna Beautiful's Fifth Annual Garden Tour on Saturday. The garden tour will feature five residential gardens as well as the butterfly and vegetable gardens at King Springs Elementary School and the rain garden at Durham Park. <br>Staff/Todd Hull
Five gardens to be featured in fifth annual Smyrna tour
Visitors should be amazed at the lovely gardens on the Fifth Annual Keep Smyrna Beautiful Garden Tour on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to play game music
"Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy" is set to return to Atlanta June 7 and 8 in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.
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Food color can warp time when cooking
Ever tried toasting hamburger buns on a grill? It takes uncanny timing to achieve an even medium brown across the buns. Typically, they remain white for what seems like far too long. Then it’s as i...
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Pain Solutions Treatment Center employee Sandra May and Canvas Food & Bakery COO Mark Herrmann look over some of the donated prizes for a May 18 benefit being conducted for Pain Solutions employee Charles Tumulak. Tumulak sustained an obstacle course injury, leaving him a quadriplegic. <br>Staff/Kelly J. Huff
Canvas Cafe and Bakery serves up benefit for quadriplegic man
Canvas Café and Bakery will cook on to Fight for a Warrior, Charles Tumulak, on May 18. Injured while competing in an obstacle race, 46-year-old Tumulak faces a new battle.
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Kennesaw State University President Emeritus Dr. Betty Siegel holds a copy of her new book, ‘The Decathlon Life —Tools for Crafting Your Retirement.’
Collaborative book by former KSU president discusses life after retirement
In their first collaborative book “The Decathlon Life — Tools for Crafting Your Retirement,” Dr. Betty Siegel and Bill Dyke create a vision for a productive future through embracing retirement.
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Veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters announced on ‘The View’ that she will retire from TV journalism during the summer of 2014.
Walters announces retirement on ‘View’
Barbara Walters said Monday that retirement from her epochal television career is near, but it’s not happening right away.
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Gabon's Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Gabriel Tchango speaks during a press conference to launch a report on edible insects, in Rome, Monday, May 13, 2013. The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. FAO on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets. A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the U.N. agency's Rome headquarters, says 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diets with insects, which are high in protein and minerals, and have environmental benefits. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
UN: Eat more insects; good for you, good for world
Edible insects are being promoted as a low-fat, high-protein food for people, pets and livestock. According to the U.N., they come with appetizing side benefits: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions a...
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Student with cerebral palsy named prom queen
Desaray Carroll, a 19-year-old Coahulla Creek High School student who has cerebral palsy, was recently named prom queen.
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    Five picks for the weekend
    Greek Festival, Relay for Life, Wakeboarders, Songwriters and Mableton Day headline a packed weekend.
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    This is a Oct. 13, 2001 file photo of Soccer player David Beckham during an episode of the German television show in Erfurt, Germany. David Beckham is retiring from soccer after the season, ending a career in which he become a global superstar since starting his career at Manchester United. The 38-year-old Englishman recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain. He said in a statement Thursday May 16, 2013 he is "thankful to PSG for giving me the opportunity to continue but I feel now is the right time to finish my career, playing at the highest level." (AP File Photo/Jens Meyer)
    Beckham to retire from soccer at end of season
    The 38-year-old Beckham, who recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain, said Thursday he will retire after the season.
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    Rome movie filming to involve chopper, road detours
    Filming of the Dreamworks motion picture "Need for Speed" is set to begin Thursday and continue through Sunday.
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    Cecelia Crocker, the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash near Detroit Metropolitan Airport that killed 156 people, shows an airplane tattoo on her left wrist in a September 2011 photo provided by Sole Survivor Film. Crocker, then Cichan, was was 4 years old when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed in Romulus, Mich. Crocker, now 30, breaks her silence in the new documentary, “Sole Survivor,” discussing how the crash of the Phoenix-bound jetliner has affected her. "I got this tattoo as a reminder of where I've come from. I see it as — so many scars were put on my body against my will — and I decided to put this on my body for myself," she says in the film. (AP Photo/Sole Survivor Film)
    Survivor of 1987 Michigan plane crash breaks silence
    At only 4 years old, Cecelia Crocker was the lone survivor of a 1987 plane crash that killed 154 people aboard and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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    Warm weather means it’s party season in Cobb County
    You know spring has sprung because there is a party, party everywhere!
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    In this Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011 file photo, actress Angelina Jolie poses for a portrait to promote her directorial debut of the film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in New York. Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s May 14, 2013 New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. She says she’s kept the process private but is writing about it now with hopes she can help other women. (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)
    Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy
    Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.
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    Lauretta Hannon: On horrible in-laws and golf terrors
    Empathy — With An Edge
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    Massachusetts city puts 'ghost ship' up for auction
    The city Harbor Commission is holding an online auction for the Endeavour, a 37-foot "ghost ship" it took title to after the owner apparently fell overboard in the Merrimack River last November, ne...
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    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. <br> The Associated Press
    Christie: I’m losing weight for my family
    Gov. Chris Christie, who once famously called himself “the healthiest fat guy you’ve ever seen,” disclosed Tuesday he had secretly undergone weight-loss surgery, a major new step by the potential R...
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    Bill Hancock, founder and CEO of FaithBridge Foster Care, meets with Ted and Kimberly Campbell, a Cherokee County family, to discuss foster care and how it works. <br> Special to the MDJ
    Public invited to learn about Christian ministry at information session
    May is National Foster Care Month, and FaithBridge Foster Care is offering information sessions and workshops for those interested in serving children from challenging homes.
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