Top News http://www.dnronline.com/rss_new.php en-us Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 ELKTON — It was a cold day but the sentiments were warm, even emotional. As a light rain fell outside the Monger Shelter in Elkton’s Stonewall Memorial Park, the Veterans Day ceremony, arranged by Haze Crider and the Elkton Neighborhood Watch, honored all American veterans, and in particular fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan Chrobot, w http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42472&CHID=44 Mon, 16 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 On Aug. 27, 2007, local soldier Thomas Wilson of Maurertown was killed during active duty in Afghanistan. His mother, Julie Hepner, and three siblings, Chloe, Chelsea and Ethan, learned of the news the next day. Wilson had decided to join the Army a year earlier and was two weeks away from his return home. He had dreams of returning to W http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42413&CHID=43 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Black Friday: The day after Thanksgiving that kicks off the Christmas shopping season with door-buster specials and mega sales. When aisles are stuffed with irate people and roads are full of even angrier drivers. When genteel women turn into wildebeests for a $5 slow cooker or men lose their religion over an underpriced HDTV. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42486&CHID=5 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 LURAY — A church Christmas pageant, an ailing Santa Claus and three squabbling sisters. That's the recipe for disaster in the PAL Players production of “Christmas Belles,” which premieres this Friday evening, Nov. 20, at the BB&T Center for the Performing Arts, as part of a special "Dinner Theater." This year's prod http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42499&CHID=42 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42546&CHID=33 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The Edith J. Carrier Arboretum is celebrating the season with its Moonlight Holiday Festival from 5-8:30 p.m. on Dec. 5. The event features seasonal foods and beverages, music and poetry performances, arts and crafts and evergreen decorations to browse and buy as well as a horse drawn mile-long carriage ride in full moonlight through the http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42488&CHID=5 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The 130-year musical heritage of Bridgewater College is explored in a new exhibit at the college's Reuel B. Pritchett Museum. The exhibit, " ‘Some Men and Women of Unusual Ability and Accomplishment': The Musical Heritage of Bridgewater College," is on display from 1-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and during select campus musical events t http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42489&CHID=5 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42504&CHID=33 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 LURAY, Nov. 13 — Patients of local doctor Fang “Frank” Horng must now go elsewhere to receive medical care. In an order issued on Friday, the Virginia State Board of Medicine revoked Horng's license to practice medicine and surgery in the Commonwealth. Horng, 69, has had a long documented history of disciplinary http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42500&CHID=42 Mon, 16 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 WOODSTOCK — The two women now convicted of embezzling nearly $1,000 in cash from the New Market Rescue Squad will serve no jail time for the offense. Last week, the second defendant in the case, Shelia Hirsh, 39, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty to misdemeanor embezzlement in Shenandoah County Circuit Court. One week earlier, Nancy Tru http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42415&CHID=43 Mon, 16 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 STRASBURG — One of the town's oldest landmarks now has a new owner. Vienna resident Sam Saliba made the winning bid for the historic Hotel Strasburg at an auction held last month.  The hotel was auctioned off by the Chartwell Group, a Cleveland-based commercial real estate firm, after previous owner Carol Rutherford put the bu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42416&CHID=43 Mon, 16 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 WOODSTOCK – Travelers seeking a warm bed as they venture off Interstate 81 in the Valley now have one more option. The Hampton Inn and Suites broke ground in Woodstock last August, opened last month and will hold its open house this evening, Nov. 13. The hotel is located at 1150 Motel Drive and is the first Hilton property http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42417&CHID=43 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 MIAMI - The James Madison men's basketball team has played only at No. 15 Ohio State so far this season. Its opponents in Miami this weekend have had similarly difficult games: Murray State played No. 12 California on the road, while both North Carolina Central and Florida International faced No. 6 North Carolina in Chapel Hill. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42523&CHID=3 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The old Valley District - or a close approximation - appears to be on the verge of gluing itself  back together. Under the Virginia High School League's proposed alignment plan for the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years, released this week, the current Massanutten District would merge with part of the http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42524&CHID=20 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Turner Ashby High School thinks mistakes cost it a potential victory over Harrisonburg two weeks ago. Tonight, in one of the biggest games in the 52-year football rivalry between the teams, the Knights will get a chance to make amends. Today's 7:30 p.m. Region III, Division 4 semifinal meeting at HHS is a http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42525&CHID=20 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - It was just four weeks ago that James Madison's football team was mired in a four-game losing streak and appeared headed to a disastrous season. But a funny thing happened on the way to implosion - the Dukes rallied. "What did Mark Twain say?" JMU coach Mickey Matthews said this week. "Rumors of our death http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42522&CHID=3 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - A group of students at Eastern Mennonite High School is getting charged up, literally. Three senior students are turning a beat-up 1986 Mazda pickup truck into a modern marvel, swapping its fuel-powered internal combustion engine with an electric-powered motor. The students - Drew Veenis, Ashton Pe http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42535&CHID=1 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Do you hate Obama? Do you hate Bush? Or do you just hate Mondays? We all hate something. Hate is the strongest word we can use against anything or anyone. Yet, like love, it flies out of our mouths and into the air, to do its work. It is surprising that no school, until now, has studied hate. Hatred has been such a force http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42526&CHID=27 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Well, at least momentarily. On Sunday, just as the season was poised to abscond permanently to the nether regions of hopelessness, Washington’s beloved Redskins not only won a game, but http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42471&CHID=36 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - The Spotswood High School football team fully understands what it's walking into. When the Trailblazers travel to Amherst County for tonight's Region III, Division 4 semifinal game - kickoff time has been moved up from 7:30 p.m. to 7 - they'll be facing a team whose dominance they've only heard about, as i http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42527&CHID=20 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community has hired a new wellness director. Jeffery Hersh has been named the new director of the VMRC Wellness Center, according to a press release. He will be responsible for developing and coordinating the center's programs, education, activities and rehab services for VMRC http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42528&CHID=11 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Today's Schedule  BASKETBALL College Men 2K Sports Classic in Miami JMU vs. Murray State, 4 p.m. College Women Meredith at Eastern Mennonite, 8 p.m. Randolph-Macon Classic Brid http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42529&CHID=46 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 TIMBERVILLE - A poultry plant employee died Thursday following an early morning accident in the Pilgrim's Pride parking lot. Bonnie Dellinger, 66, of Broadway, was killed when a delivery truck backed over her as she was walking to the plant, located at 330 Coop Drive, Timberville. Ray Atkinson, the company's dire http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42530&CHID=1 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - A man charged in connection with a March stabbing and robbery outside Dave's Taverna Express on Port Republic Road pleaded guilty Thursday in Rockingham County Circuit Court. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Michael Smith-Barrow, 28, of Franklin, W.Va., pleaded guilty to felony larceny, which http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42531&CHID=2 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 ELKTON — The town council meeting Monday night had several highlights, including a good review of last year’s budget by the town auditor and a strong report of activity by the town’s new Chief of Police Kevin Whitfield. Auditor David Black of the Harrisonburg firm Young, Nicholas, Branner and Phillips outlined the resul http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42473&CHID=44 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 To stay or not to stay, that is the question for several hundred Spotswood High School juniors, who have a choice of staying at Spotswood for their senior year or relocating to the new East Rockingham High School near Elkton. About 80 of those still deliberating students showed up at a meeting in SHS’ auditorium last week to hear S http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42474&CHID=44 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Unemployment numbers released by the Virginia Employment Commission show Page Ocunty finally dropping below the double digits, for the first time since last November. The unemployment rate for September was stated to be at 9.8 percent in Page County — .3 percent less than August. This is still 3.1 percent above the state's http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42503&CHID=42 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 CNN released the results of a new poll dealing with the health care “reform” bill passed by the House earlier this month. The big news, as it were, to come out of this survey is that http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42505&CHID=36 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court, as if he were a garden variety killer and not the mastermind of the http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42475&CHID=36 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 WASHINGTON IMAGINE A TIME when government work was exciting, widely admired, and much sought after. It seems an outlandish thought at a moment when you cannot turn on your television without hearing government spoken of as almost an alien creature. It is cast as far re http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42482&CHID=59 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Just about every sentence of Alan Qambari’s letter was wrong (“Give President Obama A Chance,” Nov. 13). First, it’s not just the Valley on President Obama’s case; it’s the entire coun http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42481&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 With all that is going on in the world, not to mention the demands of the 24-7 news cycle, one might be tempted to think the world’s primary source of information could ill afford http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42507&CHID=36 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - One of five men charged in connection with a 2008 brawl that ended in the murder of a 19-year-old Staunton man will spend the next seven years in prison. Judge T.J. Wilson sentenced Ricky Parrish, 22, of Ruckersville, to 11 years in prison with four years suspended during a hearing in Rockingham County Cir http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42537&CHID=1 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 This responds to the Daily News-Record’s coverage, via the Media General News Service, of my daughter Angela Kania’s automobile accident and death on Oct. 12 (“Teen Dies From Crash Injuries,” Oct. 15). http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42509&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 To the City Council of Harrisonburg and the Board of Supervisors of Rockingham County, I urge you to refrain from all new spending. The depth of the economic downturn cannot be predicted with certainty and many economists are predicting a deepening or second wave of recession. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42510&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 I live in a rural neighborhood, which is about as close to idyllic as is possible. The area is not free from blemishes. The roadsides are used for the deposit of litter. This particular location, however, attracts at this time of year a particular type of litter: deer carcasses. Poachers stri http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42511&CHID=62 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 After weeks of uncertainty, local health officials have begun administering the H1N1 “swine flu” vaccine to Page County Public School students. The Lord Fairfax Health District began administering the vaccine to some 1,000 students in Page last week. The health district is initially targeting students at the elementary school http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42501&CHID=42 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The ballot for Rockingham County featured an issue for approval/disapproval of a meals tax on all county restaurants. Approval of this added tax was based on the Board of Supervisors’ claim that any revenues generated from this new tax would be used for the county school system. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42512&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Is it possible that the internment of Japanese during World War II prevented a tragedy like the one that occurred at Fort Hood in Texas?   http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42513&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 With his bow before the Japanese emperor, President Obama has proven that he is the dumbest president in history. The president should bow before no one!   http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42514&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 By A.J. Morey MY MAMA IS a Southerner. Her daddy was a Free Methodist minister who roamed the coast from Georgia to Florida, moving from one poverty-stricken district to another. His wife, Grandma Myrtle, had a gimlet eye for misbehaving children, and I thought I was a goner the Sunday she caug http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42515&CHID=32 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - About 10 months from now, leaving the bleachers on Bridgeforth Stadium's west side for a hot dog won't be quite as annoying. According to James Madison University officials, the seats in the expanded stadium will have "a few inches" of extra legroom. It's a tiny improvement, true, but for anyone who has be http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42532&CHID=2 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - Administrative hearings slated Thursday for two popular Harrisonburg nightspots charged with violating state liquor laws didn't happen. Owners of The Pub on Deyerle Avenue and the Artful Dodger on Court Square were scheduled to appear before a hearing officer for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Boa http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42533&CHID=2 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG - A trial date for next year was set Thursday in the case against a Broadway man accused of a string of robberies throughout the Valley. A plea agreement for Travis Lam, 29, couldn't be reached in time for his hearing Thursday in Rockingham County Circuit Court, and Judge James Lane scheduled a trial for Mar http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42534&CHID=2 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The funny thing about respect and the Nobel Peace Prize is that they need to be earned! The Nobel Prize has been diminished ever since Al Gore received his. Now, they give them out to anybody for anything — worthy or not!   http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42479&CHID=62 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The recent health care bill passed by the House of Representatives is a huge step in the wrong direction. Whereas we have founded our country upon principles of capitalism and freedom, this bill directly opposes that. By imp http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42480&CHID=62 Fri, 20 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 GROTTOES - Dan Atwell hopes the building that will soon house his and his wife's business will market more than medicine. Dan, 53, and his wife, Cathie, 52, want the new structure for their long-term care pharmacy, Wellness Concepts Inc., to sell others in their community on the notion of using energy more wisely. http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42536&CHID=2 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 12 — The majority owner of a Luray coffee company, Bean East Corporation, has pleaded guilty to an illegal fraud scheme that resulted in illegal proceeds exceeding $16 million. According to a press release by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Virginia, Hanif H. Moledina, 46, formerly of Great Fa http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42502&CHID=42 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Another vigil is took place for an execution. If you don’t want these folks to pay for their crimes, what do you suggest? Maybe you should build a compound and they can all live with you. Would you feel safe with these folks around your children? Life in prison? Why should we pay for th http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42478&CHID=62 Thu, 19 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Thanks for great editorial pages recently. I’m writing about safety at JMU and at U.Va. Because we have a Peeping Tom at JMU and an actual kidnapper at U.Va., it is about time college students were allowed to carry concealed handguns. An armed woman is obviously much more secure in her http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42477&CHID=62 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The following property transfers, for at least $150,000 each, were recorded Nov. 2-6. Harrisonburg Nov. 2Christopher D. and Beth A. Crites to Jose A. Moya Lopez and Blas A. Lopez Rodriguez, 850 North Blue Ridge Drive, $223,000.V. T. Foura, LC, to Peaksview Property, LLC, lot in Harrisonburg, $157,400. Nov. 3 http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42360&CHID=45 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The following building permits, for at least $100,000 each, were recorded Oct. 29-Nov. 4. Rockingham County Oct. 30Bovis Land Lease Inc., elevator for RMH, 2289 Port Republic Road, Harrisonburg, $198,855. Hensley Patrick, single-family dwelling, 211 Ashby Ave., Elkton, $145,000. Nov. 2Heritage Constructi http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42361&CHID=45 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Last Saturday I was sitting in a U.S. Army airplane, circling above Harrisonburg at about 3,000 feet when something struck me:“I want to jump,” I thought to myself. “Right now.”I had just spent the last half hour interviewing Brandie Phillips, a 22-year-old member of the Golden Knights, the Army&rs http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42362&CHID=37 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 HARRISONBURG — Unlike its traditional feasts, the attention given to Thanksgiving in area churches isn’t tied to a menu. While their core themes are the same, clergy in the city and Rockingham County have multiple ways of addressing the holiday. As Thanksgiving Day approaches, pastors from dif http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42367&CHID=14 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 SATURDAY »BRIERY BRANCH CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN, 6494 Daniel Cupp Road, Dayton, will hold a fall bazaar from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the church’s activity building. Event includes arts and crafts, vendors, yard sale items, baked goods, ham pot pie, fried country ham sandwiches, kettle beans, apple dumplings, hot http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42368&CHID=14 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Most people have done it. Maybe you've stopped at a 7-Eleven to grab a Powerball ticket when the jackpot hits $100 million. Maybe you spend your couch-cushion money on scratch-off tickets. Or maybe you dream of what you'd do if you won the big bucks, but never actually buy a lottery ticket - because it couldn't really happen to you. Coul http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42370&CHID=37 Sat, 14 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 The only thing that's permanent is change, the saying goes. I only wish it weren't so brutally true. I don't embrace most change that comes my way very well. I like things to purr along on a steady course, with surprises that pop up being of the pleasurable variety. Particularly difficult for me are the rapid technological changes that f http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42371&CHID=28 Mon, 16 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 By Patrick Lincoln THE CONFEDERATE FLAG dots our visual landscape, but only occasionally breaches conversation in a culture where politics is often avoided in public. After a series of incidents at Broadway High School, however, there were workplace chats and checkout-line treatises that touched http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42395&CHID=32 Tue, 17 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 By Ben F. Fordney SOME BELIEVE THAT liberalism is in the ascendancy since the election of Barack Obama and a Democratic majority in Congress. More Americans, however, consider themselves conservative, or slightly conservative, rather than liberals. The negative connotation of the word has also led many l http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42424&CHID=32 Tue, 17 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Instead of reviewing a single book for "He Read, She Read," I'd like to discuss three women, each the featured character in a different popular series: Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe and Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. Each of these women is obviously a fictional creation. Nonetheless, each also po http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42425&CHID=35 Tue, 17 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 I am repeatedly asked by some of my readers why I don't write about games. Well, there are a couple of reasons why I choose not to. First, I don't have a lot of time for gaming. Before having kids I used to play a lot of games. Now that my kids are grown up, it seems that life has taken precedence over that excuse. Next, I refuse to purc http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42426&CHID=21 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Veteran Washington Post scribe David Broder is perhaps the closest thing the nation’s media has to a genuinely centrist columnist. Though at times he leans farther left than right, his is usually a voice of reason. Th http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42440&CHID=36 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 If anyone possesses the requisite “street cred” to rebuke the Obama administration for its decision, tendered Friday, to try the most thuggish terrorists — Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his motl http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42441&CHID=36 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Says C.S. Lewis, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42442&CHID=62 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 In this era of bailouts for banks and every other institution, I wish some philanthropist would give me a grant. It would be a tax advantage for that person and I could help the economy by spending what I am granted. It&rsqu http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42443&CHID=62 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 We, the people, can always count on Rep. Eric Cantor. Thanks, sir, for saying “no” to the monstrous health care reform produced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her loyal robots. Hopefully, Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner will follow his good example. If not, our children and gran http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42444&CHID=62 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Don’t you think it is puzzling that the huge building siding both Mason Street and East Market Street was purportedly to be a “green” building, but has not one inch of green space around it? The residents I http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42445&CHID=62 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 ACORN IS DOING what it does best: playing the victim, blaming everyone else for its self-inflicted wounds, perpetuating false narratives and defending the entitlement industry to the death. On Nov. 12, the disgraced welfare rights organization filed suit to fight a congressional funding ban passed in September after http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42446&CHID=59 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Hello! I'm Lovina's oldest daughter Elizabeth. I have not written the column in a long time, so I decided to give Mom a break and take a turn at it again. I'm 15 now and no longer attend school. I do housecleaning jobs sometimes, but mostly I enjoy my days at home helping Mom. There is always plenty to do with cleaning, laundry, etc. This s http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42460&CHID=24 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 I notice when I'm looking around at library sales or used bookshops that there are mountains of used cookbooks out there. I'm guessing that people make a resolution to learn to cook at home, rush out and buy a few well-recommended cookbooks, and then recycle them into the used book stream when they discover home cooking is not for them. Anyone m http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42462&CHID=29 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 With the holidays almost here, I hope we are not too busy to celebrate the true meaning of these special days. It takes advance planning to handle all the meal preparations and perhaps out-of-town guests, plus special time to focus on our many blessings and our thankfulness to God for them. Even though there may be things that have been difficul http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42465&CHID=26 Wed, 18 Nov 09 00:00:00 -0600 Thanksgiving is coming, and you're prepared. You've made an exhaustive grocery list; you've purchased everything on it and a little extra in case you have a kitchen accident. You've checked the guest list (several times!) and you even added in some last-minute guests. You have all the accoutrements that make table warm and inviting. But, http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=42466&CHID=40