HOME AND GARDEN CALENDAR
The Bradenton Herald welcomes information on home and garden events open to the public. The deadline for submitting information is two weeks before you want to see the notice in the paper. E-mail information ? including time, date and place ? to accentbradenton.com; put HOME/GARDEN CALENDAR in the subject line.

Home & Garden Calendar
Send items for the home and garden calendar to Polly McDaniel at pmcdaniel@CITIZEN-TIMES.com two weeks before the event. Or mail to McDaniel, Asheville Citizen-Times, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802.

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Calendar: Upcoming events for the Home & Garden
Community craft fairs are a good place to find holiday decorations or purchase giftsfor friends and relatives. Check the Special events listing in today's calendar. Garden Events Today-Sunday: UCCE Placer County master gardeners will staff an information booth and be available to answer questions at the Mountain Mandarin Festival; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; $5, ...

Quick takes on home and garden: Corn Hill holiday tour; make a topiary decoration
Corn Hill dresses for visitors; Garden Factory holiday event; topiary; botanical illustrations.

Bring Color and Inspiration to Your Favorite Rooms
(ARA) - The most lived-in rooms of the home are the perfect places to express your personal style and creativity.

Disabled but willing worker just needs a ride
Give 21-year-old Steven Kryspin a job to do and he's all over it. For his Eagle Scout project, he raised $1,500 and, with help from his father, built a ramp and planted a garden for the five wheelchair-using residents of a group home in Branchville.

Home for the Holidays tour for Gardeners of the Grove
Once again Karen and Joel French have gone all out in decorating their home for the holidays, and this year Gardeners of the Grove, Elk Grove?s newest garden club, presents ?Home for the Holidays,? a tour of the home on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 4 to 9 p.m.

Garden Party
The Women?s Home in Montrose has branched out. Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday.

Knicks have enough to surpass Wizards / Richardson's 34 lead short-handed N.Y. after trade
Quentin Richardson had 34 points and 12 rebounds in one of his best games since coming to New York, and the short-handed Knicks held on to beat the Wizards 122-117 on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Richardson made seven three-pointers, two shy of...

It's simple to add personality to home
By MELISSA RAYWORTHAssociated PressThose glossy furniture catalogs in your mailbox offer a pleasant vision of home decorating. They show how easy it is to order ...

Author suggests using more foliage
Beautiful photography helps Nancy Ondra drive home the point that flowers alone do not a garden make in Foliage (Storey, $24.95).

Send in your home and garden questions
Got questions about how to fix up your home and garden for the winter and beyond? Is there a project you want to tackle, but don't know how to approach? Send in your questions, and TODAY's home expert Lou Manfredini might answer them on TODAY.

Spring Branch welcomes The Women?s Home to neighborhood
Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday

Home and garden briefs
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Home Front: Thanksgiving Table Decor, Christmas Decorating Without a Fireplace, Shuttered Shelter Magazines, Closet ...
Post Home Section staffers Jura Koncius and Terri Sapienza take questions on your decorating dilemmas. This week they're counting down to Thanksgiving and offering advice on table settings, guest room preparation and more.

Rowan radio staff bring home five awards
The staff at Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS-FM brought home five awards at the Philadelphia College AIR (Achievement in Radio) Awards presented by the March of Dimes.

Obituary: William Banks Alfred
William Banks Alfred, 75, was born May 12, 1933, in Kalamazoo. Bill slipped the surly bonds of his earthly home Nov. 18, 2008, put out his hand and touched the face of God.

Council designates land for community garden
Come next spring, Monticello will become a little more beautiful. At Monday?s city council meeting, council unanimously authorized the use of land located at 407 W. 6th Street for a community garden.

Flames destroy truck, threaten home and pets
SEGUIN ? A passerby who saw a grass fire saved a pair of dogs from an agonizing death and a home from destruction early Tuesday afternoon.