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Boy Scout Steve Stulock is making good on his promise to spruce up a veterans’ memorial in Washington Township.

About a year ago, Stulock met township supervisor Jamie Miller during a safety day at the community fire hall.

The two spoke about ways to improve the area. Upon Miller’s request, the 16-year-old Lynnwood resident promised to enhance the war memorial in the township’s Gillespie section for his Eagle Scout project.

Andrea Hanson scored three goals and Erin Booth had a goal and three assists to power the Bemidji girls soccer team to a 6-1 home victory over Little Falls Friday in the season opener.

BHS resumes its schedule 1 p.m. today at Walker-Hackensack-Akeley and Tuesday it will visit Moorhead.

"Offensively we dominated and we were able to manufacture many good shots,

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The Consumer Specialty Products Association is firming up plans for its September 23-24 conference,pendants, "The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPS

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New Jersey residents have an ally in the fight against rising healthcare costs. A statewide discount prescription drug card program, called New Jersey Drug Card,earrings, is now being sponsored by Mercer County and is free to all residents, Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes announced today.

This program will provide discounts on both brand-name and generic medications, and average savings per purchase are estimated to be around 30 percent. There are no restrictions to membership, no income requirements, no age limit and no applications to fill out. The program is not medical insurance, but provides for substantial discounts for services that may not be covered under a person’s regular insurance or Medicare.

"The New Jersey Drug Card can be used by anyone for many of their medical needs, from prescription drug purchases to eyeglasses and contact lenses to dental care," said Hughes as he announced the new program alongside Hamilton Mayor John F. Bencivengo at the Hamilton Township Senior Center. "It really is a tremendously valuable card to own. It can end up saving our residents quite a bit on medical costs, whether or not they already have health insurance."

The New Jersey Drug Card was launched to help the uninsured and underinsured citizens of New Jersey afford their prescription medications. However, the program can also be used by people who have health insurance coverage with no prescription benefits, which is common in many health savings accounts (HSA) and high deductible health plans. Additionally, people who have prescription coverage can use this program for non-formulary or non-covered drugs. The New Jersey Drug Card can also be used by individuals who do not qualify for publicly funded programs such as Medicaid and Medicare.

The card can be used anywhere in the country with participating providers. To take advantage of these discounts, all a person has to do is present the discount card to the health provider or pharmacy. Most major pharmacy chains such as CVS, Walgreen’s, K-Mart,watches, Rite-Aid,Charm bracelet, and Target all accept the card.

There is absolutely no charge for the card or to participate in the program. The program was designed to help everyone reduce high medical costs.

Discounts range from 10 percent to 50 percent and major health service providers, including 55,000 pharmacies, across the country are participating in the program and making discounts available to those who have a card.

Covered are:

* Prescription drugs;

* Hearing exams and hearing aids;

* Vision exams, eyeglasses, contact lenses and Lasik eye surgery;

* Dental care;

* Diabetic supplies; and

* ProSmile

The New Jersey Drug Card is a solution to the confusing maze of discount programs that have appeared in recent years. Many of these programs only cover certain drugs, charge fees, and some have membership restrictions such as age and income requirements. The New Jersey Drug Card provides the residents of New Jersey with a simple solution. The New Jersey Drug Card has an "open formulary" which means that all drugs are included, has "on-the-fly enrollment", which means that no eligibility data is required to process a prescription, and everyone is eligible to participate in the program. Furthermore, the New Jersey Drug Card will not share, sell, or distribute personal information for any reason. New Jersey residents can download a free card and search drug pricing and participating pharmacies at http://www.nj.gov/counties/mercer/wellnessdiscount/. One card covers all the members in a family.

Because the businesses participating in the program are seeking more business countywide, there is no administrative cost associated with the program aside from printing costs, which can be recouped.

Information brochures and discount cards are also available through County Connection, located in Hamilton Township at Route 33 and Paxson Avenue in the Acme shopping center. Additionally, most Mercer County libraries and senior centers will also carry the cards.

Mercer County receives 50 cents for each prescription filled, money used for community outreach and to print brochures and discount cards. The program is administered by the county Office of Shared Services.

Mercer County is participating in the Shared Service Agreement along with 8 other counties: Bergen, Essex, Gloucester, Monmouth, Passaic, Union, Hudson and Salem. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com

When Teri Blevins told her family recently that she successfully concocted an apple pie cupcake recipe, she remembered her son turned to her and said: "I’ve never loved you more than as much as I love you now."

Blevins, who as a hobby bakes and sells cupcakes out of her St. Albans home,Charm pendant, is used to the accolades. Usually, someone is on hand to eat a cupcake or three.

"When you come bearing cupcakes, you are instantly popular," she said. "Everybody is glad to see you."

Blevins recently sent one of her cupcake recipes to a national contest to compete against more than 200 other recipes from bakers across the country.

Her Devilly Good Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffle was named one of the top 10 cupcake recipes in the competition, which was sponsored by cake mix giant Duncan-Hines.

Once the competition cupcakes were whittled down to 10, critics from magazines like Saveur and Ladies Home Journal sampled the finalists’ creations. Wisconsin native Katie Rousonelos’ Red Carpet Glamour, with chocolate ganache filling and vanilla bean frosting, beat Blevins’ Devilly Good recipe.

As the winner, Rousonelos will pass out her cupcakes to celebrities during this year’s Emmy Awards.

"If I had it all to do over again, I asked myself ‘would you have made a different cupcake?’" Blevins said. "And the truth is, I wouldn’t have."

Aside from her apple pie and Devilly Good cupcakes, Blevins bakes Oreo cream, brownie white chocolate cream,Bead bracelet, coconut cream pie, key lime pie, and especially dangerous death by chocolate cupcakes.

She said her husband’s favorite is her orange Dreamsicle cupcake,rings, made to taste like an orange cream Popsicle.

"When you bite into this cupcake it tastes like you are biting into a Dreamsicle Popsicle," she said.

When Blevins is in her experimental stages, she takes a bowl of batter and a spoon to her husband, Dan, to get a second opinion.

"Here, try it, tell me," she tells him.

He considers her the "cupcake wizard," she said.

Blevins bakes cupcakes only because she said they are easier than baking full cakes. There are fewer ingredients and less of a mess afterward,pendants, she said. She sells six to eight dozen cupcakes from her home every week at prices ranging from $15 to $24 a dozen depending on the cupcake.

Blevins works in customer service for third-party used car financer JD Byrider. She said after a tough day, it’s nice to come home and do what she loves.

"This is why I love baking," she said. "When I come home, I put all of the baking ingredients together and it comes out. It’s very therapeutic for me."

Those interested in Blevins’ cupcakes may call her at 304-421-8640.

Reach Zac Taylor at Zachary.Taylor@wvgazette.com or 304-348-5189.

Hear that tap-tap-tapping at your front door? That’s Cupid reminding you that Valentine’s Day is tomorrow.

Hopefully, your plans for the evening have already been made.

But just in case, Tucson’s arts community has a few performances in store:

Ballet Tucson

Ballet Tucson is transforming its annual Roots of Choreography show into a tiffany and co V-Day extravaganza this year.

The series, dubbed “Ballet Tucson ROCS III: Dances From the Heart” this year, is meant to showcase works created by company members and artists around Tucson.

The program will feature choreography by Amy Barr-Holm for members of the Thom Lewis Dance Company and by Ashley Bowman, a Ballet Tucson alumna earning her master’s in choreography from the University of Arizona. The evening will also include a performance by Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers Margaret Mullin and Andrew Bartee.

Patrons will be treated to champagne, chocolate and a chance to win jewelry for their significant other.

The event is at the intimate Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave. Tickets are $25, with discounts available. 903-1445.

Zuzi Dance Company

Modern-movement fans can catch Zuzi Dance Company’s youth night edition of its “Gotta Have pendants HeART! No Frills Dance Happenin’” on Saturday.

The evening, which may or may not sound at all romantic, will include performances by the hip-hop club from University High School, El Graves from the Human Project, acro yoga, belly dancers and the Utterback Middle School dance team. This in addition to performances by Zuzi company members and its “Many Limbs” youth aerial troupe.

Zuzi will host its adult choreographers showcase tonight at 7:30. The evening will feature works by The Human Project, Mirasol, The Movement Salon, Elizabeth Breck and Carie Schneider.

Saturday’s performance also begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for either show are $10. 629-0237.

Tucson Jazz Society

If music is more your thing, the Tucson Jazz Society is hosting smooth-jazz sax players Marion Meadows and Jessy J at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive.

Meadows lives in Phoenix, so it is not uncommon to see him playing Tucson. Jessy J, on the earrings other hand, brings a new flavor to the Old Pueblo.

Jessy grew up in California with a deep admiration for artists such as John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. She went to USC and earned a degree in jazz studies as well as the title of Most Outstanding Jazz Student in her class.

Her official career as an artist began on Valentine’s Day three years ago when she performed as part of guitarist Paul Brown’s band at a festival in Fresno.

Jessy has performed and recorded with the likes of Michael Buble, The Temptations and Jessica Simpson, as well as Mexican artists Gloria Trevi and Armando Manzanero.

Doors for the show open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $35, with discounts and specials available, through the Tucson Jazz Society, 903-1265.

Contact reporter Gerald M. Gay at 573-4137 or ggay@azstarnet.com.

Northwest Missouri State University issued the following news release:

Conference rivals Northwest Missouri State and Missouri Western square off in a tiffany jewelry Valentine’s Day tussle Saturday at MWSU Fieldhouse in St. Joseph, Mo. Tip is 7:30 p.m.

The Griffons (11-12, 8-8 MIAA) can clinch their first MIAA tournament berth since 2006 with a win on their home court and ultimately sweep the Bearcats (10-12, 5-10) for the first time in 10 years. Missouri Western was 1-11 against Northwest since 2002 prior to a 66-63 win in Maryville back on Jan. 7.

It’s nearly a must-win for Northwest, which currently stands one game behind Missouri Southern and 2.5 games behind the Griffons for the eighth and final spot in the tournament. The Bearcats next two opponents hold a combined record of 17-29 (.370). Their final three boast a mark of 54-15 (.783).

Northwest has just one road win this season, that being a 72-63 decision against lowly Truman on pendants Jan. 10. The Bearcats are averaging 11 fewer points and shooting 11 percentage points lower in true road games.

Northwest is coming off a 75-72 home win against Pittsburg State last Saturday and has had a week to prepare for the Griffons due to the mid-week bye. Missouri Western, meanwhile, got just one point from leading scorer Dominique Thuston, but pulled out an 83-77 win on the road at Nebraska-Omaha Wednesday. Marcus Rhodes and Lonnel Johnson combined to score 44 points.

Rhodes had a team-high 17 points in the first meeting between Missouri Western and Northwest. The Griffons saw a 10-point, second-half lead dissolve down the stretch, but held the Bearcats scoreless in the final 97 seconds to earn the win.

Mike Larsen scored 15 points to lead Northwest against Missouri Western. Elijah Allen added 14 and earrings Hunter Henry finished with 12 points and 10 boards.

Henry, the MIAA’s top rebounder, has averaged 18.7 points and 9.3 rebounds in road games this season. He became the second player in program history with 1,500 career points and 750 career rebounds during last weekend’s win against Pittsburg State.For more information about US Fed News contract awards please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, US Fed News, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

After over 200 appearances in major television shows and Hollywood films, actor Kavi Raz is changing direction with ‘The Gold Bracelet,’ his first major directorial debut.

The film is about a Sikh man faced with the post 9/11 realities.

Raz arrived in Hollywood in the mid-seventies in pursuit of a career as an actor, tiffany jewelry an unheard of venture at a time when roles for South Asian actors in Hollywood television shows and films were limited. “People, especially friends and relatives scoffed at the idea of my becoming an actor. They thought it was a passing fancy and would soon be over. But no, I had a dream and take what it may I journeyed on to make my dream a reality,” Raz reminisces.

Raz’s perseverance paved the path and opened doors for many others to follow when he became the first ever South Asian actor to be signed on as a regular in a major television series ‘St. Elsewhere,’ an award winning show that appeared on NBC in the early-eighties. Standing out among the other cast members for his looks and talent, Raz became very popular with the viewers. That landmark appearance opened the doors to Hollywood for many others.

It also led to appearances on other shows such as ‘The A Team,’ ‘Hardcastle and McCormick,’ ‘Hunter,’ ‘Mash’ and many others. Raz starred in the feature films — ‘Night Train to Katmandu,’ ‘Warning Signs,’ ‘Terror Squad,’ — among others.

When Raz first arrived in Hollywood, he took a very pragmatic approach to acting, enrolling at The Lee Strasberg Institute where he embellished himself in the love of his life for four years, training with some of the finest acting coaches in the world.

In line with that training and hard work, Raz furthered his education at UCLA and CSULA, money clips pursuing his post-graduate studies in theater.

In the late 70s, he started a professional theater company, naming it The Wandering Players Theater Company. A befitting name for a company that staged plays throughout Southern California.

The company staged several world and U.S. premieres of plays from India. The works of Rabindranath Tagore were exposed to Western audiences for the first time as well as plays like Sakharam Binder and Shakuntla.

It was the first professional South Asian theatre company in the U.S.

Presently, Raz is busy on all fronts of the film industry, writing, producing, directing and acting.

He recently wrapped playing the lead role in ‘Big River,’ a feature film that was shot in the pendants deserts of Arizona.

Raz will be seen in Albert Brook’s yet untitled film released later this year by Warner Brothers. He is also busy in completion of ‘Rising Shores’ a feature film that he recently shot and is in the midst of casting his next venture ‘Saints No Angels,’ shooting in Arizona.

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Photograph (Kavi Raz)

The Salvation Army held its “Big Ring” event Tuesday, officially starting the tiffany jewellery bell ringing request for donations that goes along with the holiday season.

Officials were hoping to raise $12,000 in just 12 hours, with multiple kettles stationed around the Valley Dairy at North Washington Street and University Avenue. The goal of the kettle drive, which goes until Christmas, is to raise $106,000, plus an additional $154,000 in mail and online donations.

Salvation Army Maj. Ed Wilson said volunteers began ringing bells last week, but Tuesday’s event was the official start. “This is really where we get the fundraising going,” he said. “We always look forward to this event because it really does get people excited for the season.”

The snowy weather Tuesday was maybe even a boost to the event because “people are feeling more Christmas-y,” Wilson said.

A big attraction

This year’s “Big Ring” became somewhat of a tourist trap Tuesday with the addition of “Big Sal,” money clips the world’s largest kettle, on loan from Salvation Army offices in the Twin Cities. The 8-foot-by 8-foot kettle is similar in some ways to towns that boast of having the world’s largest bass or largest buffalo, Wilson said.

Weighing more than a ton, “Big Sal” was an eye-catching sight in the Valley Dairy parking lot. He said he got a lot of curious looks from UND students as he drove it down University Avenue early Monday morning after picking it up in Minneapolis.

The kettle will make its rounds around North Dakota and Minnesota the next few weeks.

Wilson said the holiday charity drive is the Salvation Army’s major campaign. “One-third of our budget is raised in a very short six weeks,” he said.

That money is important because of the programs it provides to people in Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and all of Grand Forks County, Wilson said. The Salvation Army offers housing assistance, prescription medicine assistance and youth programs, and also runs a food shelf.

But many in the area associate the Salvation Army with the organization’s emergency disaster assistance, especially important during spring flooding along the Red River Valley.

New this year

Donors may notice a few changes this year — including the switch from metal to plastic kettles, which are designed pendants more securely and make it harder for people to grab a few bills out of the kettle.

And donating will be easier this year, with the addition of $1 “paper kettles” for purchase at local businesses. There are 22 local bell ringing sites this year, more than in the past, with new additions including L&M Meats and all Hugo’s locations. The previous locations will still be involved, including the Columbia Mall, Wal-Mart and Grand Cities Mall.

Some kettles in other parts of the country can even accept credit cards, but those are just on a trial basis and Grand Forks isn’t yet participating, Wilson said. But donors can still give cash, coins and checks at the local kettles, or can donate online by visiting www.thesalarmy.org and following instructions to designate the gift to the Grand Forks Salvation Army.

Wilson said the poor economy has made it harder than ever to get donations. “It’s going to be tough,” he said. “Some of our donors aren’t giving as much as they did last year.”

In fact, many donors only gave 50 percent of the amount they had donated in the past, he added. Still, Wilson seemed earrings optimistic his organization would be able to raise its $260,000 total goal before Christmas.

He’s spent 25 years with the Salvation Army, including about 18 months now in Grand Forks, but didn’t have to think twice when asked if he is sick of listening to the bell ringing each year.

“Never,” Wilson said. “When I hear the bell, it really is ringing in the sound of hope.”

Reach Johnson at (701) 780-1105; (800) 477-6572, ext. 105; or send e-mail to rjohnson@gfherald.com.

A South Lakeland village is preparing for a special pre-Christmas tiffany jewelry cultural weekend which will also puts the spotlight on the environmental challenges facing our rural landscapes.

The Victory Hall in Broughton-in-Furness will be alive with crowds of film, music and countryside enthusiasts – for two days, beginning 5 December – when it hosts a ‘Weekend in the Country’, which has been made possible with funding from Lake District National Park’s Sustainable Development Fund.

The festival will bring together:

*ten films which explore aspects of the rural landscape;

*talks by Northern Art Prize winner, Karen Guthrie and conservationist Bill Shaw; and

*a live performance by songwriter Nancy Elizabeth, who captured the mood of the pendants countryside by recording her first album inside a Welsh farmhouse!

Each element of the festival explores in some way just what it means to live and work in an ever-changing rural environment, and organisers Bric Arts are hoping this will strike a chord with the audience.

“The majority of the films have never been shown in Cumbria before and in presenting them in an informal and enjoyable way, Bric hopes to generate a discussion and to raise people’s expectations in terms of what they can expect from local arts events,” said event organiser Sam Allan.

“We’re delighted to support this kind of village community event, which also has the added value of looking for answers to the kind of environmental and landscape issues that effect so many villages in the Lake District,” added Clive Wickham, the national park’s SDF co-ordinator.

The festival – which will include a ‘village fete’ style food stall and hot mulled wine – has been devised by earrings community arts organisation BRIC with additional funds from CGP Duddon Parish Trust and the Parish Pump. All profits from the festival will be donated to the Victory Hall for its ongoing maintenance.

Tickets and further information are available from:www.bricarts.org.uk or www.skiddle.com (open in new windows) and Broughton Tourist Information Centre 01229 716 115 For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.