Just days from her due date, Hilary Brady stands topless in her kitchen, her breasts and bulging pregnant belly exposed. Lisa Budwig from Lemoyne sent me a video link this week, and I haven't been able to stop watching it since. Don't you wish your trainer was HOT LIKE ME?
Hersheypark, the area's premier playground, celebrates its 100th birthday this year, and The Patriot-News would like to share visitors' memories. These days, jeans are permissible even at the dressiest events, but some trends change little. When he first began his career with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Odin Rathnam used to wear shoes and socks onstage.
Daphney, a 7-year-old Boston terrier from Mechanicsburg, will be appearing on "America's Funniest Home Videos" today on ABC. Applications are available online and by mail for The Patriot-News' 15th annual Best Brightest program. Did you swing in the Hershey Park Ball room during the Big Band era, take a plunge in the swimming pool or scream on extreme rides, including the sooperdooperLooper?
On "Let's Talk Travel with AAA" from 3 to 4 p.m. Saturday, WHP TalkRadio 580 host Sandy Fenton will present a preview of the upcoming 24th annual AAA Vacation Show with Tom Wright, AAA Vice President.
North Carolina, long a premier bastion of barbecue, celebrates its heritage and diversity with a map of the state's perfect pits. Starting in Ayden and finishing in Murphy, the North Carolina Barbecue Society Historic Barbecue Trail spotlights 25 stops that specialize in roasting pig the old-fashioned way -- slowly over pits of wood or charcoal. Many of us would like to improve the looks of our homes and wish we could do it ourselves.
March 5 starts Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, and South Annville Twp. resident Cheryl Lynch wants to clear up the misconception that having MS means confinement to a wheelchair. Timing seed starts The next few weeks are prime time to start the bulk of veg etables and flowers that can be planted outside in May.
Many new home buyers or homeowners looking to remodel their master bathroom are forgoing the formerly obligatory tub, choosing to devote more space to the shower, which is used 365 days a year. Their stories speak of the gut-wrenching pain of coping with the deaths of both parents, of en during the isolation of homelessness and of surviving the unfath omable grief of the murder of a mother. Age: 14 Grade: 8 School: Bible Baptist School, Shiremanstown Title: "Whispering Tears" Why I wrote it: "I wanted everyone else to know what my Lord and savior Jesus Christ has done for me.
I wanted everyone who is going through or has gone through the same thing or something similar to know that there is hope." Background: At age 2, Lydia was living in Peabody, Mass., with her mother and father.
Her world was filled with happiness. A knock on the door brought news that her father had been killed in a traffic accident. It was the first of many tragedies in her life.
Age: 14 Grade: 8 School: New Cumberland Middle School Title: "Domestic Violence -- Don't Say It Can't Happen to Me" Why I wrote it: "I know how I feel inside, and I wanted people to feel what I feel about what happened to my mother." Background: On May 17, 2005, Sarah Keefer's mother, Kim Anne Houser-Keefer, ended a relationship with her abusive boyfriend and moved with her two young daughters to her mother's home. Later that day, Houser-Keefer, 32, was killed in the parking lot outside Highland Elementary School in Lower Allen Twp.
The shooter, her estranged companion, committed suicide after killing her. Age: 15 Grade: 10 School: Northern York High School Title: "Ten Miles of Butterflies" Why I wrote it: "I chose to do the piece because I never got to tell anyone what was going on. I took the criticism from my peers and never once shot back, 'Oh yeah?
I'm homeless.' I didn't want pity, and I thought that writing about it would allow me to tell people, as well as free myself from any harbored feelings of sadness. Writing has always been my way of making something real, and then with every correction to the typos I find a way to fix the problem, eventually.
" Background: When she was in eighth grade, Sara awoke on her birthday to hear her mother say, "We're moving. I don't know where we are going to go." Her mother had used the rent money to repair her car, and their landlord evicted them when she fell five months in arrears.
The four years in that mobile home were the longest she lived anywhere. They moved in with a friend for two months; then into a 12-foot-by-14-foot motel room off the Carlisle Pike. Suvir Saran, a native of New Delhi, has been making waves in the United States with his Indian cooking.
John E. Fleming, the new president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, speaks at 3 p.m.
today in Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Carlisle. On "Let's Talk Travel with AAA" from 3 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, WHP TalkRadio 580 host Sandy Fenton will discuss "The Globus Family of Brands" with Cindy Sullivan, Mid-Atlantic sales director. FACE EAST SHORE SHELTER Information: 7790 Grayson Road, Swatara Twp., noon-7 p.
m. Mondays and Fridays; noon-4 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays; 11 a.m.-4 p.
m. Saturdays and Sundays, www.humanesocietyhbg .
org or 564-3320. Families will find new ways to vacation with Disney in 2007 through an expanded selection of 12 Adventures by Disney experiences, including eight new itineraries. The snow and ice throughout the midstate last week humbled many people with its paralyzing aftermath.
HISTORY: The first Methodist church was built in 1816 on North Union Street. A new church was built in 1856 at Ann and Catherine streets. Union Sunday school affiliated with the church in 1882.
A church was built at the present location in 1884. An education wing was added in 1956 and the present sanctuary was built in 1978. AFFILIATION: United Methodist/Central PA Conference ADDRESS: 64 Ann St.
, Middletown PA 17057 TELEPHONE: 944-6242 E-MAIL: WesleyUMC@comcast.net WEB SITE: www.newspiritnet.
org STAFF: Rev. Robert A. Brown Sr.
, pastor; Robert Ryder, minister of visitation and praise band director; Walter Stiller, music ministry and church secretary; and Bobby Bright, Sunday school and children's choir director. MEMBERSHIP: 420, with 160 average attendance SERVICES: 5 p.m.
Saturday, traditional; 8:30 a.m. Sunday, contemporary; and 10:30 a.
m. Sunday, traditional Dear Rev. Graham: I'm really in shock because the doctor just told me I have cancer and now the surgery is scheduled for early next week.
He says I only have about a 30 percent chance of survival. I've never bothered with God, but is it too late? -- E.
E.
