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Hoosier Home Cookin'
      Continuing from last week's column, I'm sharing more of my favorite "copy cat recipes" from my growing files. This week's installment will make you think you've just left the interstate and are waiting for your table in a front porch rocking chair! Famous Hash Brown Casserole is not just good for ...
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Garden Fair is Saturday in Flora
      The Carroll County Garden Club is hosting the 11th annual Carroll County Flower and Garden Fair on April 28. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Merchants' Building at the Flora Community Park. Vendors will have flower, herb, and vegetable plants along with hanging baskets, wooden plant...
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What's Happening Elsewhere
      The Kokomo-Howard County Public Library, 220 N. Union St., will have a BOOK SALE Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. The Kokomo Stamp Club is sponsoring a S T A M P SHOW for postage stamp collectors on May 20 at the Johanning Civic Center in the Haynes-Apperson Hall,...
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Announcements
      Carroll County at the Crossroads will present MARKETING CARROLL COUNTY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT April 25 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Canal Interpretive Center in Delphi.
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Births
      Rob and Melissa McKenzie of 203 W. Walnut St., Flora, are parents of a 9-pound, 7-ounce son, Casen Robert, born April 10 at Home Hospital, Lafayette. Maternal grandparents are Linda and John Angle of Lafayette and John and Bette McKinley of Lakeland, Fla. Paternal grandparents are Joyce McKenzie of...
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Spring puts the freeze on gardens
By B. Rosie Lerner rosie@purdue.edu Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulturist
      Indiana gardeners may be used to the ups and downs of spring weather, but spring 2007 has been an unwelcome roller coaster ride! First, March's unseasonably warm weather pushed many plants to break dormancy earlier than "normal." Then, these plants were caught out in Old Man Winter's last gasp whe...
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Looking Back
From the files of Hoosier Democrat, Delphi Journal, Journal Citizen and Carroll County Comet. Photo provided by Carroll County Historical Museum.
      10 YEARS AGO Rail lines through Carroll County could be used as a means to haul nuclear waste through the county on the way to a nuclear waste storage site in Nevada. The U.S. Senate approved the storage site at Yucca Mountain, Nev., last week. There are nine nuclear waste travel routes through ...
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Burlington
Cheryl Milburn Burlington 566-3453
      The clothes giveaway at the United Methodist Church will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church. A wedding shower will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Church of Christ for Chris Dyer and Krystal Henson. Burlington Junior League opened its season last Saturday.
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Camden
Mary Whitfield Camden 686-2553
      Blood pressure checks will be given at 11 a.m. May 1 in the Fireman's Lounge. Mt. Zion Lodge No. 211 will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Masonic Temple. Camden Lions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. May 3 in the Fireman's Lounge. Dorcas Missionary Society of the Baptist Church will meet at 6 p.m. M...
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Channel 2
Programming for April 25- 30 is listed below:
      Wed., April 25 - 7 p.m., 4-H update live in studio; Delphi City Council meeting (taped). Sun., April 29 - 10:15 a.m., Live worship service from Flora Presbyterian Church. Mon., April 30 - 7 p.m., Worship service from Flora First Brethren Church (taped 4/29); Carroll School Board meeting (taped...
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Donnelly visits Delphi
      U.S. Representative Joe Donnelly met with Delphi Democrats Sunday afternoon at the home of Randy and Denise Strasser. They discussed upcoming events and made plans for a town hall meeting to be held May 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Stone Barn in Delphi.
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4-H News
      Poultry Workshop The poultry workshop will be April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the 4-H Community Building in Flora. Members should bring their project books. Those who wish to show broilers should contact leaders by May 1 so the order can be placed.
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Library
Burlington Community
      Burlington Community Library has extended its hours. The library will be open until 7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. Library director, Gina Tull-Nunn, will no longer be in the office in the mornings; instead, she will be at the library from 5 to 7 p.m. on most Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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George Memorial Run/Walk is May 6
      The 6th annual Julie George Run/Walk will be held May 6 at Frontier High School. The run/walk is a celebration of the life of Julie George, who died Jan. 22, 2002, when she was a junior at FHS. Julie was active in cross country, basketball, track, cheerleading, choir and Sunshine Society. Because o...
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Library
Delphi
      Delphi Public Library will present "The Pursuit of Happyness," at 7 p.m. on May 17. The movie is based on the true story of Chris Gardner, a salesman who, when his wife leaves him, struggles with his son through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and despair in a quest for Gardner to make ends me...
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Card of Thanks
      Perhaps you sent a lovely card, or sat quietly in a chair. Perhaps you sent lovely flowers, if so we saw them there. Perhaps you spoke the kindest words, any friend could say. Perhaps you were not there at all, but just thought of us that day.
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