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Lifestyles November 7, 2009

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John Dorroh
Adele Elliott
Anne Freeze
Rob Hardy
Birney Imes
Jay Lacklen
Bert Montgomery
Steve Mullen
Betty Stone
Jan Swoope
Roger Truesdale
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At Emerson Preschool in Starkville, young Josiah Smith industriously digs a hole for spinach, working alongside Mississippi State University senior landscape contracting student Davis Russell of Bogue Chitto. MSU and Emerson partnered to teach the children about healthier eating. Preschoolers helped maintain three gardens and learned about different flowers, herbs and vegetables. Josiah, of Ackerman, is the son of Niyah Smith.
Brian Trader/Mississippi State University
Where does food come from? Preschoolers learn from the ground up

The growing season may have come to a close, but the knowledge gained by a new crop of very young hands-on enthusiasts will hopefully last a lifetime. read more

Entertainment
Get the holiday spirit at the Handworks Bazaar  
If the past three years are anything to judge by, savvy shoppers with an eye to the holidays will be out in force Nov. 7 for the 2009 edition of the Handworks Christmas Bazaar in Starkville.

Nobel Laureate in Economics to speak at MSU Nov. 12  
The 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics who also was lead author of a report on climate change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize will speak Nov. 12 at Mississippi State University.

Saturday walk at Propst Park benefits Life Choices Center  
The Life Choices Pregnancy Care Center will host its annual Walk for Life fundraiser Nov. 7 at Propst Park in Columbus. This year’s event features a walk/run option.

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Anne Freeze: Friends, food and music  
As I emptied my satchel Monday, I wondered how many of my friends attend symposiums (such an educated word) and return with: homemade peppered jerky, individually-packaged cookies from famed Momofuku Restaurant in New York City, a blueberry muffin-shaped kitchen timer, Martha White blueberry muffin mix, harmonicas from the National Peanut Board and the remains of a dark chocolate, grilled jalapeno and salty peanut candy bar? (I could eat another one right now if I had one).

Roger Truesdale: A festival kind of guy  
This past weekend made six for six Great Delta Bear Affairs in Rolling Fork, a festival held to commemorate President Teddy Roosevelt’s bear hunting trip to the south Delta.

Adele Elliott: Death by poverty  
These days it seems that our world is filled with pain. Psychic pain is intangible and private. Who can really understand the agonizing loss of someone dearly loved? American sons and daughters are suffering, bloodily, in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, we do not need to look across the globe to find hearts shattered in ways that will never heal. (Where is Kaila Morris?)

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Food
'Empty Bowls' will benefit Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen  
In a show of community unity, school students, university faculty, area artisans and other caring individuals have pitched in to make more than 500 ceramic bowls for the Nov. 7 “Empty Bowls” event to alleviate hunger.

Mother and daughter partner as wedding caterers — and so much more  
While it’s not unusual for blushing brides and dashing grooms to tie the knot or hold their beautiful receptions in some of Columbus’ gracious antebellum structures, what has evolved at Shadowlawn is a bit out of the ordinary.

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