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Health Outreach and Community Support Groups
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Support Groups and Community Services are listed below by Date. You can also view these events at the CommonGood Community Calendar.
Free Screening Mammograms
for uninsured and underinsured Dare County residents. Wednesday, May 30, 3:00 - 7:00. This program is funded by the Get Pinked! Campaign. Pre-screening and appointment required. Call 449-5918 for details. Outer Banks Hospital
Caregiver Support Groups
The Second Tuesday of each month
3:00pm (unless otherwise specified)
The Baum Center 252-475-5635
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The First Thursday of each month
11:00am (unless otherwise specified)
The Dare County Center
The groups are open to all Caregivers as they take on the many challenges and blessings of caring for a loved one.
The goal is to provide a safe place to share experiences, express frustrations, gather resource information, while supporting and encouraging one another.
For Information, please contact:
Ann Groves, Coordinator
252-413-8848
ajg2047@gmail.com
Autism Meeting, OBX chapter
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 6:00 pm
Kitty Hawk United Methodist Church
We will be meeting the first Thursday of each month. Babysitting will be provided upon request. Please email Becci at ncslp@aol.com and Lesle at makosmommy@gmail.com a week prior to our meeting if you will need babysitting. Please include the name and age of each child!
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Food Bank Beneficiary of North Carolina Retail Merchants
 NCRMA and 11 of its member companies will present over $300,000 in cash and food donations to the North Carolina Association of Feeding America Food Banks on Wednesday, May 23, at 10:00 a.m. at the North Carolina Legislative Building. NCRMA, who has made similar donations in recent years, worked with the legislative leadership to schedule this year's food drive in advance of National Hunger Day on June 5.
The Food Bank of the Albemarle, one of seven regional food banks in North Carolina, will be a beneficiary of the event. Liz Reasoner, Executive Director, will be representing the Food Bank of the Albemarle. Cash donations for this year's drive include a $137,000 check from Harris Teeter; a $50,000 check from the Carolinas Food Industry Council, a division of NCRMA; and a $5,000 check from Walmart. Truckloads of the food banks' most needed goods such as cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter, rice, paper and hygiene products, and baby formula will be donated from BI-LO/ C&S Wholesale, CVS Caremark, Food Lion, Lowes Foods/ MDI, Rite Aid, Sheetz, and Walgreens total more than $110,000. McDonalds and Yum Brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC) will donate over 3,000 gift cards totaling $6,500.
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Currituck Relay Wrap-up
 Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6:00pm, Calling All Relayers, It's that time of year where we Wrap Up this year's event and get you excited about the up coming year. Won't you join us Tuesday May 29th @ 6pm at Currituck BBQ. Come a few minutes early so you can grab you some delicious BBQ from one of our generous sponsors and meet us at the Pavilion to eat and hear what we have in store for next year....it's something you won't want to miss! Also, if you have aCorporate Sponsors, their items are in and we will need someone from each team to pick them up. |
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Dine Out to Help Out
 Please join us on Tuesday June 12th, 2012 for our annual Dine Out to Help Out fundraiser! Each year, restaurants in our community partner with Food Bank of the Albemarle and donate a percentage of the day's proceeds to the fight against hunger. See the list of participating restaurants below!
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Nags Head Woods Volunteer Opportunity
 The Nature Conservancy at Nags Head Woods Preserve is looking for volunteers to help with our South End Shoreline Restoration Project. Volunteers are needed to bag oyster shells, build oyster mats and oyster reef as well as plant marsh and upland plant habitat. Saturday May 26, from 8am to 12pm. Where: Southern end of Nags Head Woods Preserve shoreline. If you are interested in participating, please email Kate Murray at the Nags Head Woods office at kmurray@tnc.org or call (252) 441 2525. We ask that all individuals sign up so we have a count of how many will be coming.
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 The Town of Duck needs volunteers for summer events series and 4th of July parade. June 9-August 9. Email info@townofduck.com or call office (252) 255-1234.
Creative Choices Crisis Pregnancy Center Volunteers to write thank you cards, fold and sort baby clothes, etc. Volunteers be trained and work with clients. Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-4; special events Lisa DiFilippo Lisa@obxcrisispregnancy.com www.obxcrisispregnancy.com
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SCORE: Volunteers with management and business experience to counsel business startups and on going businesses. Once a month or more. Email rakmeck@aol.com or call 252-261-8213
Guardian ad Litem program in Dare County: Volunteers to train to advocate for abused and neglected children in the court system. Call Ricki Tillett 252-475-5587 or 252-331-4755
 National Lung Cancer Partnership Volunteers to distribute lung cancer information, fund raising Cathy Haldas, haldas@centurylink.net 252-453-6000
Animal Shelter at 475-5620 Volunteers under the age of 16 must be accompanied / supervised by a parent or guardian. Corrie Smith, spcaevents@embarqmail.com
Monthly Mobile Food Pantry: Volunteer Third Friday of each month at 5:30. Volunteers are needed beginning at 5:00. Rev. Bettie Francis at 473-3881.
Volunteer aboard the Elizabeth II. Various opportunities are available at RIFP. Call 475-1500 f
Dare County Friends of Youth mentoring program. Minimum of eight hours a month with a youth for at least one year. Program Coordinator Bonnie Bennett at 475-5753 or Program Assistant Jennifer Wooten at 475-5754. Visit Site for link to volunteer application, etc. Food Bank Volunteers in administrative, intake (working with our clients), warehouse (food sorting and packing), special projects (mailings). Volunteer information / orientation every Monday at 3:30 PM and every Wednesday at 9:00 AM. Ms. Laura at 335-4035, Extension 105.
Kids' First: Volunteers needed to let groups or churches know we are available to speak at their meetings or other events. Fundraising. Board and Committee members. Contact Kids First at (252) 338-5658. Dare County Community Garden Gardeners are needed to help draw up and outline the layout of the garden, planting the seeds and tending the garden. Contact: Kaitlyn hudgkm8@wfu.edu or (252) 489-1743.
Hands of Hope. Volunteers help support cancer patients including transportation, meal preparation, care for the caregiver, patient companionship, running errands and publicity and promotion including speaking at churches, community events and healthcare screenings. Marie Neilson, Volunteer Coordinator marie.neilson@theobh.com 252-216-9400 Help protect and preserve the wild horses of the Currituck Outer Banks. Volunteers in stores, sanctuary patrol. volunteering in our mission related stores or for sanctuary patrol. Help kids of all ages create works of art. Have horse experience? Help with on and off-site horse activities. Contact: Karen McCalpin MANE & TAILL Volunteers: help provide educational programs for children and adults with special needs to learn horseback riding. Horse experience is not necessary, Email or call 489-1774 The Nature Conservancy, NC Chapter, Volunteer to help restore oyster reef in the Pamlico Sound. Contact: Kate Murray,(252) 441-2525 www.nature.org/nhw Community Care Clinic. Volunteers: Wide variety of skill sets. Contact: 261-3041
Children & Youth Partnership for Dare County: Caring volunteers to tutor at-risk preschool children using WINGS preschool literacy program. Contact Carla Heppert at 441-0614 or wings@darekids.org.
Children at Play - the Outer Banks Children's Museum: Volunteers for music, art and science time with children. play children's songs or help with a science project. 261 0290 and ask for Alyssa. Children @ Play is located at MP 4.5 in Kitty Hawk.
The Dare Literacy Council: Volunteers: fundraising, administrative tasks, publicity, and tutor/student support; to help with assessing students and developing tutor seminars. Contact: Marian at 261-6940, or dareliteracy@gmail.com or visit dareliteracy.org
The Albemarle Commission's Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program. The Albemarle Commission's Senior Nutrition Home Delivered Meals Program. Volunteers needed to deliver meals to homebound seniors in Manteo and the beach area, Monday through Friday. one hour a month assisting with meal distribution, Audrey Holland at 252-426-7093 x 230 or aholland@albemarlecommission.org, beach area 252-475-5637 or Manteo 252-475-9279.
Respite Care: Volunteers, partnering church or civic / Community. Tracy Bell, Volunteer Coordinator at 475-5057
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 Teen Smoking Rates Drop to Historic Low Since 2003, teen cigarette smoking rates have fallen steadily, according to results from the 2011 NC Youth Tobacco Survey. The survey finds that the middle school smoking rate dropped to 4.2 percent from 4.3 percent in 2009, and high school smoking lowered to 15.5 percent from 16.7 percent in 2009. These are all-time lows for each group.
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Influential on the consistent drop in rates is the TRU (Tobacco. Reality. Unfiltered) Program, a prevention initiative that targets youth through media campaigns and school and community programs (www.tru.nc.gov). The General Assembly has eliminated funding as of July 1 for TRU and other tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Governor Bev Perdue proposed $10 million in her budget released last week to begin restoring support for these essential initiatives.
Since 2003, middle school smoking dropped by 55 percent from 9.3 percent to 4.2 percent and high school smoking decreased by 43 percent from 27.3 percent to 15.5 percent. Before the TRU program, North Carolina saw only modest improvements in youth cigarette smoking rates.
The TRU Program was originally funded by the Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) with funds from the Master Settlement Agreement with major tobacco companies. Leaders in the General Assembly abolished that widely-respected fund last year in spite of Governor Perdue's strong objections. Funding for TRU was relocated to the DHHS during FY 2011-12, but was not set to recur.
Public health officials say youth tobacco prevention efforts must be sustained, because around 100,000 NC students enter middle school each year, a time when they become more vulnerable to experimentation and to influences outside the family. Almost 40 percent of smokers smoke their first cigarette by age 11, and smoking and other tobacco use increases through middle and high school.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that North Carolina spend $106.8 million a year to have an effective, comprehensive tobacco prevention program. North Carolina currently allocates $17.3 million a year for tobacco prevention and cessation. This is 16.2% of the CDC's recommendation and ranks North Carolina 21st among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs. North Carolina's spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 4.0% of the estimated $431 million in tobacco-generated revenue the state collects each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes.
North Carolina's tobacco settlement funds were governed by a 1999 law that established three trust funds. The Golden LEAF Foundation received 50 percent of the funds for assistance to tobacco-dependent communities. The Tobacco Trust Fund received 25 percent for direct aid to tobacco farmers, quota holders, tobacco manufacturing workers and tobacco-related businesses. The remaining 25 percent of funds were placed in a Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF), which was administered by the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission.
In 2011, state lawmakers abolished the HWTF and transferred $22 million of the remaining HWTF funds as one-time funding to the North Carolina Department for Health and Human Services for public health programs, including tobacco prevention. The state will spend $17.3 million of that on tobacco prevention and cessation in FY2012, slightly less than was spent in FY2011. However, these funds are non-recurring and funding for the program will expire unless the Legislature provides new funding starting in FY2013. If the Legislature fails to provide new funding, North Carolina would be tied for last in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
North Carolina is spending minimal amounts on tobacco prevention even though the state is receiving more tobacco-generated revenue than ever before as a result of increases in the tobacco tax rates in 2009. The rate increases brought North Carolina's cigarette tax to 45 cents a pack from 35 cents, and the tax on other tobacco products to 12.8 percent of the wholesale price.
 In addition, North Carolina is receiving $2.4 million in federal funds dedicated to tobacco prevention and control:
- $1.7 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a 12-month grant for the period beginning April 2011 (from annual appropriations).
- $139,210 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the new health care reform law.
- $595,026 from the Food and Drug Administration for enforcement of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, including the provision regarding tobacco sales to minors.
The tobacco industry spends approximately $396,000,000 marketing their products in North Carolina each year.
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For the Bible Tells Me So
The Outer Banks Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition will be showing as part of their Social Justice Film Series, For the Bible Tells Me So, on Wednesday, June 9th, 7:00 pm, at All Saints Episcopal Church in Southern Shores. The showing is cosponsored by the All Saints and OBXPrideFest.
 Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson -- the film, For the Bible Tells Me So, explores how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, Orthodox Rabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO offers healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.
All are welcome. A discussion to follow - and lovely reception.
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Gift Card Match Day Benefits the Outer Banks Relief Foundation
When you buy a Lowe's gift card, you will help the OBRF. Simply purchase a Lowe's gift card anytime on Thurs, May 24th at the Lowe's of Kill Devil Hills only, and Lowe's will match dollar for dollar (in the form of a gift card to the OBRF) the gift card purchases up to $5,000.
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The Christian Music Summer Concert Series
 Kim and The Tabernacle Baptist Drama Team of Lumberton
The Series Begin its 4th season Memorial Day May 28 and run every Monday evening through September 3 Labor day 7-9pm at Good Life Eatery MP 4.5 on the bypass in Kitty Hawk. Sponsored by Salty Paws Biscuits, local musicians donate their time and talent performing Christian/inspirational material - the love offering provided by the audience is donated to ICO (Interfaith Community Outreach) and the local Food Pantry. The featured act on Memorial Day will be Kim Kalman.
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June Performers include
June 4 Chuck Conlogue
June 11 Lighthouse Christian Fellowship Praise band AND Echos of Heritage
June 18 Reunion AND Justus
June 25 Sojourne Quartet
For more information call 441-2555 or visit www.kimkalman.com
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OBAR Golf Disaster Relief Fund Classic
 By Outer Banks Association of REALTORS�, Friday, June 1, 12:30pm until 7:30pm. OBAR Golf Disaster Relief Tournament is to raise money for future disasters. Register your team, sponsor a hole, buy signs and/or Golf Balls for a Golf Ball Drop Contest~ Your support of this worthwhile endeavor will help guarantee the continued funding for disasters. Contact Kristine Kiousis/Golf Committee Chair at 207-2306 or Karen Pierce 441-4036 |
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Stomping for a Cure
 Saturday June 2nd, Adam Wayne Productions is having it's 1st Stomping For A Cure fashion show in the Outer Banks. This is also going to be the 1st fundraiser for the Brandon's Beacon of Hope HIV/AIDS Foundation. Brandons Beacon of Hope is a newly established Non-profit that will be offering services and education to those Infected and Affected from HIV/AIDS in Eastern North Carolina. The show is being held at the Comfort Inn South located on the beach road in Nags Head. Doors open at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm. $5 dollar donation. For more info contact 757-389-3314 or email at adamwayne84@gmail.com or bbhfoundation@gmail.com. |
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Fit Beyond Cancer
 Monday, June 4, 7:00 pm, Lori Campbell and her husband Rev. Curtis Campbell, formerly of Kitty Hawk will be coming back Monday, June 4 to Kitty Hawk UMC, for a benefit concert for the nonprofit that Lori started called Fit Beyond Cancer.
Lori is a thyroid cancer and leukemia survivor as well as a personal trainer. She remained as active as possible during her battle with leukemia and her doctors told her that her activity helped her with recovery both between and after treatments. The value of staying active both during and after cancer treatment has been a proven asset in recovery and the risk of recurrence. She started Fit Beyond Cancer as a way to motivate others to find the "Power to Recover". Her wellness packets are distributed through physicians and other organizations to cancer patients. They include a pedometer, water bottle, hat, exercise band and information on the benefits of exercise during and after cancer treatments. Her website www.fitbeyondcancer.org is a valuable tool for those who receive the packets as well as means for donations to the 501�3 nonprofit. All donations are tax deductible.
Her journey with leukemia was shared and supported with the wonderful "family" of the Outer Banks. She returns to give back the love she received here. All proceeds from the concert will remain on the Outer Banks with packets already being distributed through physicians offices.
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OBX Pridefest is planned for June 13-17 at the First Colony Inn and Comfort Inn South, Nags Head, NC. The "Kid Zone" last year was a big hit with many local families and will return this year with fun activities such as a carnival dunking booth, arts and crafts corner and many more kids games.
The support of two area churches, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Kitty Hawk and the All Saints Episcopal Church in Southern Shores has been a valuable addition to OBX Pride's steering committee, focusing their attention on the well-being  of the teens in our community by sponsoring the Gay/Straight Alliance Teen Karaoke Disco, with a supporting grant from the Dare County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council, to be held during OBX Pridefest, June 15th at 7pm on the Pool Deck and Neptune Room of the Comfort Inn, South Nags Head. There will be no alcohol served or allowed at this function, with the two church groups volunteering as chaperones. Pizzas will be donated by Stone Oven Pizza and coffee by the Front Porch Cafe of Manteo, NC. The Gay/Straight Alliance is a fledgling group of gay and bisexual teens and their straight friends and supporters at First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills. OBX Pride will be working with the adult sponsors of this group to connect them with The Trevor Project, a national organization who's goals are to prevent teenage suicide from bullying.
 The OBX Peace and Justice Interfaith Coalition, Unitarian Universalist Congregation and All Saints Episcopal will kick off the festival on June 13th with a showing of the documentary film, For the Bible Tells Me So. June 13, 7:00 pm at All Saints.
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