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Coupon Crazy!!!

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Crazy Couponing

If you ever watched the TLC show called Extreme Couponing you probably wondered if the people were for real.  The people on these shows, mostly middle aged women literally get obsessed with using their coupons to stock up on 500 tubes of toothpaste, 50 packs of diapers, 80 bags of potato chips and hundreds of toothbrushes.  Most of us wish we could get free or almost free items but wonder why these people need these huge stockpiles, some have things like diapers without a baby in sight.  It is great and very rewarded to be a smart shopper but...

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Artist reception for Judy Nemer Sklar at Images by Gideon Fine Art Gallery Feb.19th in Palm Springs

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Artist reception for Judy Nemer Sklar at Images by Gideon Fine Art Gallery Feb.19th in Palm Springs

PALM SPRINGS (Calif.) – A new solo exhibition by fine watercolorist Judy Nemer Sklar will be held at Images by Gideon Fine Art Gallery at 2682 Cherokee Way at the Palm Springs Backstreet Art District on Feb. 19th from 6pm to 9pm. A percentage of the proceeds from this night will benefit The Ophelia Project of Coachella Valley, a program of the Healthy Family Foundation (501 c3 non-profit charitable organization). The Ophelia Project encourages teenage girls to stay in school, pursue higher education and career options, and to set positive goals for their future. As a figurative artist, Judy...

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Go-Kart Excitement at Adams Motorsports Park

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Go-Kart Excitement at Adams Motorsports Park

The Beginning, The Growth, The Success The Beginning In 1959, a Go-Kart was purchased as a Christmas gift for three of the niece and nephews.  After purchasing the kart, the brothers, Chuck, Jerry and Tim, rode it, just to make sure it would run – you understand.  The week before Christmas, the first kart was torn-up.  They had to get the manufacturer to repair the kart in order to have a kart ready for the kids on Christmas morning. On Christmas morning, December 25, 1959, a bright red Go-Kart with a Clinton motor was under the Christmas tree for...

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Passing the Passion for Fashion

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(Pomona,CA) The Stephanie Johnson Fashionplate Scholarship Fund Foundation was formed in honor of Stephanie Johnson.  Stephanie Johnson was a dynamic, innovative young woman with a passion for the fashion industry whose life was cut short by an untimely death. Stephanie was attending courses studying fashion design while also working alongside her former employer and dear friend, Ms. Helen Smith-Draper at Ms. Smith’s Xcessories-N-Things in Pomona, California. Stephanie’s nickname was, “glue gun” because she was often known to spontaneously redesign her friend’s outfits with sparkles and jewels using her famous glue gun.  Ms. Draper and a host of other supporters...

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Kansas Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church and Riverside Medical Supply, Inc. Organizing Haiti Relief Effort

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Kansas Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church and Riverside Medical Supply, Inc. Organizing Haiti Relief Effort

(RIVERSIDE, Calif.)  A local group of volunteers is collecting medical supplies desperately needed by residents of Haiti, and will travel there personally next month to make sure the supplies are delivered. The group consists primarily of members of the Kansas Avenue Seventh-day Adventist Church in Riverside.  For some of the group members, this will be their second trip to Haiti since the Jan. 12th earthquake. The first trip to Haiti consisted of nine volunteers from varying professional disciplines:  Nyron McLean, a residenti al and commercial mortgage broker residing in Riverside; Nirma Usher, a nurse practitioner residing in Riverside; J. Francis,...

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God's Basic Design for a Successful Marriage

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By Connie Baber My husband and I were married at an early age. Everyone said it wouldn’t work, because we were too young. When I walked down the isle, I said in my heart, if it did not work, I would get a divorce. We had children right away and we fought all the time. Many times I took my children and left. He would call and ask me to come back. We would talk and felt we knew what our problems were so we would try again. We realized neither of us had really changed. Upon coming back...

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