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GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP: 7 p.m. Mondays, North Morganton United Methodist Church, 990 Sanford Drive and U.S. 64 North, across from Kirksey Funeral Home, Morganton. Sponsored by Burke Hospice and Palliative Care. Chaplain Ted Swann is facilitator. 828-879-1601. ATHLETIC PHYSICALS: 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23, Carolina Orthopaedic Specialists, 829 W. 25th St., off U.S. Business 321, Newton. High school physicals for the spring athletic season. Physicals for middle school athletes will be held Jan. 25 at the Newton office. If students cannot make it to the assigned physical for their age group, they can go on the other date. Cost is $15, and cash is required. 828-324-2800. STROKE SEMINAR: 2 p.m. Jan. 25, West Hickory Senior Center, 400 17th St. S.W., Hickory. Dr. Geoff Coates-Wynn, of Frye Regional Medical Center's Inpatient Rehabilitation Center, will discuss causes of stroke and what to do if you or a loved one suffers a stroke.
Activist: Cities offer lessons for Paratransit
Paratransit's 6,000 eligible riders require an average of 3,780 rides a day, DART's executive director said, with each ride requiring subsidies of more than $25. Officials say demand for the service is increasing 10 percent to 12 percent a year. News Journal file/JENNIFER CORBETT .
Windham event gives 'warriors' sense of pride
Last weekend (Jan. 19-22), the Adaptive Sports Foundation (ASF) at Windham Mountain hosted the third annual Wounded Warriors Weekend. Sunday, the final day of the event, was a crisp, sunny day. Windham's trails were well covered with white. Winter had arrived in time for the soldiers, amputees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who were learning or re-learning how to ski or snowboard. The ski lodge seemed much like any base lodge on a busy day: clatter, ruddy faces, boot buckles snapping open or closed, coffee, rest room signs, benches, tables, trays. In the handsome, Adirondack-style building of the Adaptive Sports Center, the high-fives were at least as abundant as in any ski lodge, but there were far more wheelchairs, crutches and other assistive devices. I maneuvered myself around a handsome pair of prosthetic legs, complete with sneakers, to join my husband at a table where he had already begun a conversation with Shon Holler from Nashville, Tenn., who had completed his first adventure on the slopes.
Various News Items - 9/2/07
Busier than a Nymphette in Antarctica at the moment, so heres an abridged look at some of the stories that have crossed the wire, today. From the trades (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter) Lee Unkrich will direct Toy Story 3, due out in 2009. Tim Allen and Tom Hanks have agreed to come back. Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Carrie-Anne Moss and Emily Watson will headline Firelies in the Garden, about a family torn apart by unexpected tragedy. Michael De Luca will produce a big screen version of the videogame Metal Gear Solid for Sony. Patrick Fugit, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins, Jr. , Barry Shabaka Henley, Neil McDonough and Peter Stormare have joined the cast of the new Dennis Quaid serial killer thriller Horsemen. William H.Macy will star in and direct Keep Coming Back, a drama about a boy with a weak heart who takes a shine to an alcoholic stripper (Salma Hayek).
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