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Learn More about Women in US History.
 US Women's History-Lecture and Film Series, Dr. Lin Logan, Wednesdays on March-9, 16, 23, and 30, College of the Albemarle, Manteo, Twiford Campus behind CVS, Noon to 2 PM - bring a bag lunch.
Session II (March 16) - The Age of Reform, prior to the Civil War, including the Temperance Movement, Abolitionist Movement and Women's Rights Movement. Women's role in the Civil War, the impact of Southern Reconstruction, and renewed drive to the vote
Session III (March 23) - The Progressive Era Session IV (March 30)- Women and the Depression Years, monumental role women WWII, and Black women's role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and the road to the ERA 
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Lunch and Learn Workshop on Menopause
Daniel Dwyer, MD Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Outer Banks Hospital, will conduct a Lunch & Learn workshop on "Modern Management of Menopausal Symptoms: HRT, Bioidenticals, & Alternative
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Therapies" at noon on Friday, March 18th in the Cancer Resource Center. Pre-registration is encouraged and may be made by calling 252-449-9184. A complimentary light lunch will be served. Additionally, Coastal Women's Clinic in Nags Head is providing afternoon consultations for patients and families concerned about menopause. This specialty clinic will be held on March 18, 2011. Appointments may be made by calling (252) 261-4885.
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Senior Games Health Fair
Senior Games begin April 4th to April 16th. On April 5 from 8:30 am to noon, The Outer Banks Hospital, will provide free health screens at The Baum Center in partnership with the Dare County Senior Games. In addition to the screening for glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure levels, the Senior Games health fair will also feature wellness information about programs and services available at the hospital.
To register ahead for the free health screens at the health fair on April 5th, please call 252-449-9184. Registrations will be taken up until 4 p.m. on Monday, April 4th.
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Candyland Fashion Show
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice! That is what Candyland Fashion Show is made of! Please join us for a very SWEET celebration on Friday, March 25th from 6-9pm at the Dare County Youth Center in KDH. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. Dinner will be included in the ticket price and provided by Chilipeppers, as well as musical entertainment provided by 99.1 the Sound. All proceeds will benefit the FC Minton Memorial Fund and the Outer Banks Senior Games. Participating shops include Miss Lizzies, Foxy Flamingo, Gray's, Life's a Beach, Amity, Whalebone Surf Shop, Gap Outlet and Barree Station. You can pick up tickets at Parks and Recreation KDH or the Baum Center. For more information or to reserve tickets, please call Charlotte Midgett at 475-5921 or Emily Karr at 475-5638.
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Gem Yard Sale
 Volunteers and items wanted for GEM Yard Sale Sat. March 12 at the Dare County Center in Manteo. Sale proceeds will help GEM continue its programs of Caregiver Support, Community Education and launch the "SUP+PER CLUB" in September. This 3 hour weekly program will provide respite and on-going support for caregivers of people with memory loss. It will include an hour of entertainment and a delicious supper culminating with educational programs for caregivers and appropriate activities for their loved ones.
Please support GEM by donating saleable items. Items may be brought to the DCC on Friday, March 11th between 2-5pm. The sale will begin at 8am on Saturday. GEM is a community based 501 (c) (3) corporation and your donations are tax deductible. Call Gail Sonnesso, executive director of The GEM Center with any questions at 252.480.3354
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Volunteer Opportunities
 Volunteer at the Beach Food Pantry There are many ways to become involved in helping the Beach Food Pantry. We are open Monday through Friday from 2 pm to 4 pm. If you would like to volunteer to help clients during these hours, please contact a coordinator from a participating church listed on the Supporting Members page
Youth Partnership for Dare County is looking for caring volunteers to tutor at-risk preschool children using the WINGS preschool literacy program. WINGS volunteers will play literacy-based games at least once a week, focusing on memory, comprehension, problem-solving, creative thinking, and decision-making. The typical time spent volunteering each week is 1-2 hours. For more information, please contact Carla Heppert at 252-441-0614 or email her at wings@darekids.org. Children and Youth Partnership is a non-profit organization serving children, youth, and families in Dare County. The Partnership administers the state Smart Start program for Dare County for children birth through age 5 and is a central source of information about activities, programs and resources for children
Children at Play - the Outer Banks Children's Museum is looking for volunteers! We are looking for individuals who would be interested in assisting in building, painting or creating new exhibits. Exhibits are designed to teach and inspire young children in our community. This is a fun and rewarding volunteer opportunity. If interested, please contact us at the museum at 261 0290. Children at Play is a locally founded 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
The Dare Literacy Council is looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, administrative tasks, publicity, and tutor/student support. If you have an education background, volunteers are needed to help with assessing students and developing tutor seminars. If you are fluent in Spanish, help is needed communicating with students. The DLC is an all-volunteer organization so as little as one hour is a tremendous boost to helping the DLC continue to serve the community. To volunteer, call Marian at (252) 261-6940, email dareliteracy@gmail.com or visit dareliteracy.orgThe Senior Nutrition's Home Delivered Meals Program serves seniors 60 years or older, homebound and unable to prepare a nutritious meal. The Albemarle Commission needs volunteers to deliver meals to seniors in Manteo and in the beach area, Monday through Friday. If you can share one hour a month to assist with meal distribution, please contact Mary Jernigan at (252)475-5637 at the Baum Center or Sandra Cantrell- Bush at (252)473-9279 at the Dare County Center. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, a partnering church or civic/community organization with Respite Care, please contact, Stephanie Bowers, Program Coordinator at (252) 475-5028.
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A Level Headed Look at the Beach Renourishment Issue
 Marvin Demeuris, Dorothea Ames, Dr. Spencer Rogers
Moderated by Robert Perry, LWV Natural Resource Chair. Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 7:00-9:00PM, Kelly's Restaurant, Dinner at 5:30PM for those interested
Please respond by March 11 for dinner reservation.
Follow up to Beach Renourishment Program, will be a tour of the South Nags Head Beaches, April 15, 2011 with rain date of April 29, 2011. Times and Meeting Place to be announced |
Clear out those BookShelves
Time for spring-cleaning and reviewing all those books you were going to read again but didn't. Donate them to the Dare Literacy Council Book Sale. Couldn't be easier.  Needed are new or used books in good condition, in all categories, including children's books, videos, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks. For more information, contact Ann.
Books can be dropped off at:
- Any Outer Banks Ace Hardware store
- Gateway Banks in Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head.
Dare County Center in Manteo
Check out the sale at BookSaleFinder.com. All proceeds from the book sale will help the DLC buy workbooks for their students and help support the DLC's literacy programs.
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Surfriders Meet March 16
 Food Dudes in KDH, at 6:30pm. Nominating Board members, and going over over the annual scholarship committee and paddle race duties. Proven Surfrider favorites are July 's Paddle Race, October's TrashFest, June's International Surfing Day. These are the opportunities to give back to the community and remind ourselves - and the rest of the Outer Banks -- why Surfrider exists: to protect our opportunities to enjoy the ocean. We're encouraging everyone to stage their own beach cleanup once a month.
The Outer Banks Surfrider Foundation is responsible for coordinating the Adopt-A-Beach program in Dare County. This program involves individual, business, and organization sponsors willing to adopt a local public beach access and keep it clean at a minimum of six times a year.
The towns in which public accesses are available agree to assist in coordination by providing sponsorship signs for the access offering publicity to the sponsor. Sponsors are required to fill out data sheets each time an access is cleaned, and return it to the Surfrider Foundation. The data sheets record detailed information regarding types of debris and quantities found. This information is compiled and sent to each town and may be used in national and regional research projects.
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Community Health Assessment of Dare County
 Over the past year, the Dare County Department of Public Health and Healthy Carolinians of the Outer Banks have completed a comprehensive Community Health Assessment of Dare County. This assessment provides information about what residents in our community live with and die from, and sheds light on areas that need to improve in
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order to positively impact the health status of our community. Healthy Carolinians of the Outer Banks is a partnership as well as a process. The Partnership is coordinated by the DareCounty Department of Public Health with representation and input from over 20 local organizations and agencies. The Healthy Car
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olinians process supports our community in mobilizing peopleand resources to address community health challenges identified in the Community Health Assessment. While you can get the entire assessment and the summary online, CommonGood will publish summary selections for the next few weeks.
 Low Infant Death Rate A community's infant death rate (the number per 1,000 who die in their 1st year of life) is considered to be a strong indicator of overall health, reflective of the quality of prenatal and birth care available as well as the health behaviors of pregnant women and parents of infants. Dare County's infant mortality rate is 6.2/1,000 live births, compared with 8.4/1,000 statewide. The percent of pregnant women in Dare County that receive prenatal care in the first trimester is also higher at eighty eight percent (88%) compared to eighty one percent (81%) statewide. Good Surface Water QualityThis shining star reflects beautifully on Dare County. Dare County ranks among the top twenty percent (20%) of counties nationwide and among the top ten percent (10%) of North Carolina coastal counties for surface water quality based on the fact that only two percent (2%) of our surface waters are threatened or impaired. Surface water quality is a good indicator of the quality of our recreational water and our waters are some of the cleanest around. How's that for a news splash! Good Air QualityHere's a breath of fresh air! Dare County lacks the major industries or other sources of toxic release emitters that could negatively impact our air quality. Combined with the sea breezes our location provides, ambient air quality problems are a rare occurrence.  Look for Red Flags next week. |
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2011 Women's Expo - Virginia Dare Business and Professional Women's Club
 Saturday, March 26, 9:00 am until 4:00 pm, College of the Albemarle, Roanoke Island Campus, Manteo. The 2011 Women's Expo offers interesting, informative, educational programs and workshops that enrich women's skill sets and confidence levels. There is no fee for attending these workshops. Available for purchase in the vendor area will be unique gifts, jewelry, art, baked goods and services offered by women for women. Consider being an exhibitor/vendor, workshop leader, or simply attend this exciting, all women's event? As an exhibitor, your organization's name and contact information will be listed in our brochure. We will also be accepting advertisers and sponsors for an additional fee.
For more information on the EXPO or our club, Marty Hamed, VDBPW Expo Chairperson 252.489.9202 |
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HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY (Yom HaShoah)
The Outer Banks Remembrance Day,Roanoke Island Festival Park, April 30, 2011, 7:30 pm,
 Jewish music ... Reading of the Names of people who died in the Holocaust. Special guest Mr. Morris Glass, a Holocaust survivor Add your voice to the commemoration, contact walkwithlight@gmail.com. Endorsed by the Unitarian Universalist and Jewish Congregations
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the Outer Banks,
Outer Banks Ministers Association, the Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition and other community organizations. No charge but please bring a donation for the Beach and Roanoke Island Food Pantries.
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Nature Conservancy and Volunteers
Since 2002 The Nature Conservancy has helped to construct over 65 acres of oyster reef in the Pamlico Sound. It is estimate that today's oyster reefs in the Pamlico Sound only cover about 50 percent of the area where they once existed. Oyster reefs are vital to the Sound's health. 
Volunteers are needed in bagging oyster shells and building oyster reef in the sound. on March 26 and April 9 - 8:30am - 12:30pm. The work days will be held at the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Volunteers should report at 8:30 a.m. to the refuge kiosk located of Highway 64 at Milltail Road. Volunteers can expect to spend three to four hours on site. The work can be hot or cold depending on the season and it does require some lifting. Participants should wear close-toed shoes, long pants, long-sleeved shirts, hats, and bring water and a snack. The Conservancy will provide work gloves and other materials. Contact Kate Murray, TNC Outer Banks Office (252) 441-2525
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Sponsorships and Volunteers Needed for 1st Pridefest.
 OBX Pride celebrates and promotes the history, diversity and future prosperity of the Outer Banks community. It encourages the acceptance of differences in all individuals without bias; to recognize that it is the right of all individuals to receive mutual respect, and to create positive interaction through outreach and coalition building. To provide environments for individuals and groups to learn from each other: to create supportive environments and networks to empower positive change, and to recognize that a denial of equality for one is a denial of equality for all.To support or volunteer. |
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