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.

Home and garden
Home and garden events in the Bay Area

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.

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.

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.

Blast from south puts bite on city
SARAH Seaborn was airborne yesterday - blown back to her Wellington childhood as Toowoomba winds reached 80km/h. The New Zealander, who has lived in the Garden City for 20 years, felt ?right at home? as gusts blasted Picnic Point.

It's simple to add personality to home
Those glossy furniture catalogs in your mailbox offer a pleasant vision of home decorating. They show how easy it is to order up a stylish, thoughtfully designe ...

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

Restored Monet home in full bloom
GIVERNY, France ? ?It took me some time to understand my water lilies. And then, suddenly, I had the revelation of the magic of my pond ...? Photo caption: The entrance of Claude Monet?s home in Giverny, France, is one of the areas of the estate that is covered with gardens. The home was damaged in World War II but has been fully restored. Photo by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Home and garden briefs
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Treat serious misdeeds seriously
Question | Our 4-year-old son has a problem with hitting other children at preschool and has to spend the afternoon in his room for this. We recently signed him up to play soccer and he is pushing kids down and tripping them during the games. My husband wanted to pull him out of the last game and take him home to sit in his room, but I didn't want to teach him to quit on his team in the ...

Have a Green Holiday with Budget-friendly Gifts
(ARA) - 'Tis the season to draft your gift list, and you need something that will suit everyone -- from your always-on-the-go brother to your happy-at-home aunt. You need something special for each and, of course, homemade would be perfect.

State's earmarks are very well spent
Critics call it pork barrel politics when members of Congress send federal dollars back home for pet projects. And when the money is used to study the mating habits of some obscure animal, there may be good reason to call it pork.

A DIY Checklist for Winterizing the Exterior of Your Home
(ARA) -The cold winter season brings destructive snow, ice and freezing temperatures to homeowners in the Snow Belt states each year and proper preparation is essential. There are numerous tasks that you, the homeowner, can do to protect and prepare the exterior of your home before winter sets in.

How to grow your garden with $31 million in earmarks from taxpayers
Earmark became such a dirty word during the presidential campaign.

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.