Sponsored by The Virginia Dare Business and Professional Women's Club:The 2010 Women's Expo aims to offer interesting, informative, and educational programs and workshops that enrich women's skill sets and confidence levels while providing an opportunity to network and market their products and services.

 

 Kathy Burrus will present "Survival Skills for Parenting your Teens" on Friday, March 19, at 6:30-8:00pm. Guiding your child through the preteen and teen years can be a bumpy ride. Attend this workshop and you will learn to avoid power struggles by using effective communication, limit setting, anger management, supervision, and other survival skills for parenting adolescents. This workshop is free of charge and is part of the Parenting Enrichment Program's "Family Fun Nights" series held at the Outer Banks YMCA in Nags Head. Child Care is provided for a fee of $3 per child. Register online at www.darekids.org or call Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County at 441-0614.

The overarching theme for March 2010 is Writing Women Back into History. The history of women often seems to be written with invisible ink. Even when recognized in their own times, women are often not included in the history books.
When National Women's History Project began its work in the early eighties, the topic of women's history was limited to college curricula, and even there it languished. At that time, less than 3% of the content of teacher training textbooks mentioned the contributions of women and when included, women were usually written in as mere footnotes. Women of color and women in fields such as math, science, and art were completely omitted. This limited inclusion of women's accomplishments deprived students of viable female role models.

Today, when you search the Internet with the words "women's +history + month," you'll find more than 40,500,000 citations. These extraordinary numbers give testimony to the tireless work of thousands of individuals, organizations, and institutions to write women back into history. We are inviting other women's and educational organizations as well as women's history performers, authors, historic sites, and museums, unions, military units, universities, and women's history programs and parents, grandparents, and interested individuals to join us in recognizing the importance of women in history. Now, more than ever, the work of this movement needs to continue and expand. Each new generation needs to draw information and inspiration from the last.

Safe Kids North Carolina along with law enforcement agencies across North Carolina, State Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration are sponsoring a statewide prescription medication take-back program called Operation Medicine Drop to prevent accidental poisonings and abuse.

The Currituck County Sheriff's Office will conduct Operation Medicine Drop on Thursday, March 18 to collect expired or unused medications. The program is administered by Safe Kids North Carolina and the N.C. Department of Insurance. Local law enforcement agencies participate by staging collection events in their communities.   On March 18, officials from the Sheriff's Office will collect medicines at three locations:

 Used cottage furniture phone auction with all funds going directly to The Interfaith Community Outreach.