Leanne Ely: Fiber tips
Column by Leanne Ely
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If you’re looking for a way to bulk up your diet without bulking up your backside, the answer is fiber. It makes all the difference and will keep your body regular (if you know what I mean) and will fill you up so eating less is easier. Here’s how you do it:
Let’s start with breakfast. Look for cereals with 10 grams or more of fiber – it’ll be listed under nutritional facts. Measure out a cup of cereal, throw on a splash of nonfat or low-fat milk, add some fresh or frozen berries and you’re fibered up and ready to start your day. Read more
Nan Russell: What basics?
Column by Nan Russell
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The cyclical and now ubiquitously appearing phrase, back to basics, ignites supporters. The reasonableness of returning to previously successful principles, ethics, systems, accountability, approaches, or you-name-it, appears a tantalizing remedy for our individual or collective woes.
Who can argue with the refocusing trend of business to trim waste or reconnect with customers, or an expert’s approach to help income-starved entrepreneurs at a motivational conference, or a pundit’s prescription for Toyota’s headline woes? Like a dieter refocusing his energy on an intake-to-output equation of eat less exercise more, a back to basics approach works. At least for awhile. Read more
Quiet on the Staunton election front
Column by Chris Graham
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When nine people – yes, nine! – submitted their names for consideration for the six-month appointment to the Staunton City Council seat left open by the election of longtime Council member Dickie Bell to the Virginia House of Delegates, Mayor Lacy King had one word in mind: dogfight.
“I gauged that and thought, We’re really going to have a dogfight for this upcoming election,” said King, whose seat is up for re-election on May 4. Read more
Group puts economic transition at forefront
Story by Chris Graham
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It’s not a Democratic solution that’s going to save us, or a Republican solution. Lindsay Curren learned that on the campaign trail last fall when people who wouldn’t even shake her hand when she told them she was campaigning for her husband, Erik, the Democratic nominee in the 20th House District, ended up engaging in productive discussions of what we all need to do to get the country moving back in the right direction after getting past their partisan hangups. Read more
McDonnell, Bolling: Reaping the Cuccinelli whirlwind
Story by Chris Graham
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It’s Ken Cuccinelli’s world, and we’re just living in it. “He’s just sucking the oxygen out of Richmond,” observed Quentin Kidd, a political-science professor at Christopher Newport University, and it’s not just Richmond gasping for air right now.
Put yourself in the shoes of Gov. Bob McDonnell or Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and imagine competing for the spotlight with the attorney general, who has pushed at the two from the right on gay rights and most recently in leading the effort among Virginia Republicans to make political hay on federal health-care reform. Read more
City still looking for solution on false alarms
Story by Chris Graham
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Waynesboro police ran 633 calls in 2009 for what turned out to be false alarms triggered by electronic security systems. That’s a call or two a day every day for the year. At 28 minutes per call on average spent dealing with the calls, that’s a half-hour to an hour a day wasted.
You’re not going to find too many people who would take issue with the notion that something needs to be done to tamp down the number of false-alarm calls. It’s the what-do-we-do part that people aren’t agreeing on. Read more
Big Brothers Big Sisters: Back in business
Story by Chris Graham
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A budget crisis nearly closed the doors at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge, but several months of hard work from its volunteer board of directors and an infusion of staff talent has the nonprofit thinking big.
“It’s a pretty ambitious goal. This year we want to recruit and match 100 adult mentors with 100 kids,” said executive director Dave Norris at last week’s launch of the 100 Mentors for 100 Kids campaign in Waynesboro. Read more
Walkoff single lifts #1 UVa.
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Stephen Bruno (Fr., Audubon, N.J.) hit a walkoff single to left field in the bottom of the ninth inning to break a three-all tie and propel the top-ranked Virginia baseball team to a 4-3 win over Clemson on Friday night at Davenport Field. Virginia (19-3, 6-1 ACC) won its seventh straight game, while Clemson (17-5, 6-1), ranked as high as No. 5 nationally this week, dropped its third consecutive contest. Read more
Bridgewater profs get published
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Two assistant professors of history at Bridgewater College have published books on topics that couldn’t be more widely divergent – the Yugo, famous as the worst car of all time, and the history of nursing in the Vietnam War.
The husband and wife team of Jason C. Vuic and Kara Dixon Vuic have published, respectively, The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History and Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War. Jason Vuic has appeared on many national news programs, such as Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” and National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” while Kara Vuic most recently participated in a successful book signing at the Smithsonian Institution. Read more
Laurence Verga: Stop the funding
Column by Laurence Verga
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After Sunday’s passage of an unconstitutional government takeover of our health-care system, Republicans are searching aloud for ways to undo this travesty. While I support and have signed The Club for Growth’s “Repeal It” pledge, this couldn’t realistically happen until we have a Republican president and Congress, which at the earliest is 2013. And while I support the State’s Attorneys General’s constitutional challenge to the bill, this can also take years and has no guarantee of success. There is a better and more immediate response to the bill: Stop the Funding! Read more
Ad campaign thanks Perriello for vote on health care
Edited by Chris Graham
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An ad and robocall campaign is being launched by Catholics United to thank Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello for his yes vote on health-care reform.
“By his vote for health care reform, Congressman Perriello has shown that he is fighting for the interests of working Americans, not the interests of corporate lobbyists,” said Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United. “We wholeheartedly thank Congressman Perriello for doing what is right for Virginia’s families, and we condemn the violence and intimidation that has apparently been perpetrated by some opponents of health care reform.” Read more
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Jim Bishop: Thoughts on waiting, anticipating and decelerating
Posted on March 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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I’m sitting here in the waiting room . . . waiting.
I’m not good at doing this, especially if I reflect too long and hard on reasons for my waiting in the first place.
My 32 teeth – give or take a few – those amazing biting, tearing and chewing utensils that served me well for so long, slowly decided they had paid their dues and started to bid adieu – by breaking and requiring crowns, by loosening up as a result of the aging process and gum disease. Read more
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