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All presenting donors at an American Red Cross blood drive will receive a 20 percent discount on First Aid/CPR/AED & Babysitter Training courses now through May 31, according to a Red Cross news release.
Blood donors must be 17 years old (16 with written parental consent), weigh at least 110 pounds and be in general good health on donation day.
Visit http://www.redcrossblood.org/ to register.

“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” (James 1:27)
First century orphans were typically the children of widows; they were among the downtrodden of society.
Today the term “orphan” has expanded to include those who have lost their parents, not just to death, but to drug and alcohol addiction, abuse and neglect.

Happy May, let the gardening begin.
There is a chance that we could get another frost or cold snap, but it’s a slim chance. The tender leaves of new plants are the most vulnerable.
It will take seeds a few days to emerge and that’s when you need to have covers available. Just like us, they sometimes need a jacket.

NEW CASTLE – This one could have hurt. Badly.

Clinging to a razor-thin margin that had looked like a sure blowout just two innings before and seeing the tying run ready to charge just 90 feet away and still two outs to go, somehow Anderson County held on.

When Anderson left hander Brandon Eliadis got Henry County batter Dylan Adams on a called third strike to end the Bearcats' 8-7 win, there were simultaneous sighs of relief and shouts of jubilation.