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Soroptimist hosts holiday gala
Start the holidays with a champagne reception and casino games for charity. Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach is hosting its annual Home for the Holidays Gala to raise money for its service projects. Soroptimist is a volunteer service...Tags: Personal Service
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Seniors get Thanksgiving luncheon
Fountain Valley is hosting a senior pre-Turkey Day meal with food, prizes and entertainment. The Center at Founders Village Senior and Community Center is hosting a Thanksgiving luncheon for those 55 and older. The luncheon will include a Thanksgiving...Tags: Thanksgiving, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Donate snacks, stockings to troops
Help send troops a bit of holiday cheer by donating items for Christmas stockings. John R. Peterson Elementary School, Huntington Beach Cub Scout Pack 290 and the YMCA are partnering with a military-outreach nonprofit to assemble stockings full of treats...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Peanuts, Defense, Armed Forces, Clubs and Associations
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Walk, run, ride for water
There won't be any turkeys in the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving in Huntington Beach.
But as far as organizer Harvey Saarloos is concerned, thanks will be in order — and not just for the holiday meal ahead.
The Seal Beach resident is a member of...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Family, Dining and Drinking, Turkey (animal), Turkey
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DUI suspects don't deserve shaming
Apparently we have a city councilman in Huntington Beach who is unfamiliar with the United States Constitution, much less the concept of "innocent until proven guilty." Councilman Devin Dwyer likes the idea of publicly "shaming" those who drive drunk,...Tags: Thanksgiving, Physical Fitness and Exercise, AAA, Happiness (state of mind), Turkey (animal)
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Greer's OC: Holiday sale at art gallery
Pierside Gallery is celebrating its new location at Bella Terra in Huntington Beach (near Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory) with a grand opening sale. Everything in the showroom is reduced through the holidays! It recently relocated from its longtime...Tags: Plastic Surgery, Macy's, Inc., Gucci Group NV, Music, Surgery
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Natural Perspectives: Life in our urban farm
Thanksgiving is upon us. Traditionally, this is a time to celebrate the season's harvest. In our yard, we grow fruit, vegetables and eggs. But unfortunately, our November garden is not providing Vic and me with the feast that we had hoped for this year....Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Tomatoes, Winter Solstice, Foods and Beverages, Pancakes
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'Thank them really a lot'
Kneeling at a small U-shaped table, Christopher de Lis was silent as he clutched an orange Sharpie and carefully wrote "thank you" on the front of a blank card.
Students around him were chatting and working on various projects, but his concentration...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Clubs and Associations
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City Lights: Physical therapy gets hot
I've gotten used to the concept of art as therapy. I have friends who have led poetry workshops in homeless and battered women's shelters, and I once attended a reading in England by a woman who had been abused as a child and passed out poetry pamphlets...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Lupus, Health Treatments, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Health
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Natural Perspectives: Protecting California's sea otters
Vic and I spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Monterey with our son Scott, his wife, Nicole, and their three little daughters, Allison, Lauren and Megan. I missed cooking our holiday dinner, but Thanksgiving is really more about family than food. We...Tags: Politics, Wildlife, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Water Pollution, Environmental Pollution
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A party for the pooches
The Huntington Beach Youth Shelter will honor some of the most valuable social workers in town Sunday at its annual "Light a Light of Love" celebration.
Their human owners are invited, too.
The shelter, which offers temporary housing to runaway and...Tags: Teen-agers, Animals, Festive Events, Huntington Beach, Music
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Forgoing name brands for charity
A group of Huntington Beach teenage girls learned to appreciate the generic brands as they stretched their dollars for the less fortunate. Pacific Coast, the Huntington Beach chapter of the National Charity League, practiced spending within a budget...Tags: Family, Charity, Social Issues, Budgets and Budgeting
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