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News Spotlight: Fenner Nature Center Celebrates the Arrival of SPRING, With the 2011 Maple Syrup Festival!
The sweetest time of year is coming, when the sap begins to flow, and Fenner offers it’s Maple Syrup Festival! The celebration of spring and syrup takes place at Fenner Nature Center, March 19 and 20, Saturday and Sunday, 11 – 4. It a fun and educational family adventure!
News Spotlight: The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) is warning people to beware of a new designer drug being marketed by the name “bath salts.”
These so-called “bath salts” are being sold across the country as a
crystalline powder online, at head shops, convenience stores, and on the
street. These are not commercially manufactured bath salts that people
purchase to use in the bath tub. These products are sold with names such
as “Ivory Wave”, “Aura”, “ZOOM 2”, “Zeus 2”, “Cosmic Blast”, and “White Rush.” They may be snorted, ingested mixed with water, injected, or inserted rectally or vaginally.
News Spotlight: The Real ‘CSI’: How America’s Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living at Risk
(Andres Cediel/FRONTLINE)
In detective novels and television crime dramas like “CSI,” the nation’s morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality.
News Spotlight: FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS CONFRONT HIV IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
Ingham County has the second highest HIV rate in Michigan. Only Wayne County has a higher rate. However, the burden of HIV falls disproportionately on the African American community. The rate of HIV in the African American community in Ingham County is five times higher than in the White community. African American men are the only group that continues to experience sharp increases.
News Spotlight: Questions and answers on voluntary recall of certain liquid infant’s and children’s Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products
What products are affected by this recall?
The products include certain liquid infant’s and children’s Tylenol Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benadryl products. For a complete list of recalled products, please see http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/new_recall.inc
News Spotlight: LPD Issues Felony Warrant for Recent Murder of Teen
On December 23, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Quincy Trey Thomas shot and killed Wesley Ellis Glasscoe. The Ingham County Prosecutor issued a warrant for the arrest of Quincy Trey Thomas he is wanted for Homicide – 2nd Degree in reference to the Ray Street Homicide.
Quincy Trey Thomas
Uncovering Latin America’s African Roots
Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. (pictured) in Salvador Carnival in BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA. Courtesy of Jemila Twinch
“Comfort Food for the Mind, Body, and Soul” – OLD FASHIONED 7-UP CAKE
OLD FASHIONED 7-UP CAKE
By Sharon Fox
Ingredients:
3 sticks butter,softened
3 cups white sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all purpose flour
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Mother Flippin’:One Funny Mother – Depression Doesn’t Exist
By Tashmica Torok
There is a commercial about an anti-depressant medication that has the catchiest tune playing in the background. I joke with my husband that if depression had a theme song, it must be that little ditty. While lightly giggling at my own joke, I usually hum the tune for him. It is a remarkably jovial sound bite to apply to such a serious condition.