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By BRENDA LUCASFor The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON — Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Samoas,Lemon Chalet Cremes and Sugar-FreeChocolate Chips continue to battleto be the top seller during the annualcookie sale, sponsored by Girl ScoutBlack Diamond Council.
According to four local girls rangingin age from 9 to 12 and one wannabeat age 5, they have found Thin Mintsand Tagalongs run a tight race forfirst-place in their sales. However, theynoticed the newest arrival to the cookiefamily, Dulce De Leche, has made astrong impression during its debut.
Selling cookies to relatives, neigh-bors, friends and others in their townor city could have been difficult for thisHuntington family. Two sisters and awannabe helper in the Kennedy familyand two sisters in the Preece familywere Girl Scouts for their first year.
They are members of the sametroop — Troop 2808, which meets atHuntington’s Cross Point CommunityChurch. And if that’s not enough, theyare also cousins.
Keeping it in the familydidn’t contribute to
the crumble of
sales. In unison,the first-timeGirl Scoutsagreed their
parents andgrandparentshelped by cov-ering other areas
by selling to their
friends, co-workers and acquaintances.And the grandparents were fair by
splitting the sales between each grand-child, each noted.Sarah Kennedy, the oldest of the
cousins at 12, is a sixth-grader at Vin-son Middle. The daughter of Mickeyand Kim Kennedy was the secondhighest seller with 64 boxes sold. Herbiggest seller for her first year was theTagalongs, but she admits her favor-
ite is the newest cookie on the block,Dulce de Leche.
Her 11-year-old cousin, Haley Preece,is a fifth-grader at Lavalette Elemen-tary. The daughter of Tricia Preecenoted that her first-year sales topped30 boxes. Thin Mint was her best sel ler,but her favorite cookie to munch isTagalongs.
Once-a-year treat yields special recipes
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MUSIC NIGHT: Bluegrass andgospel sung by Highway 316from Wayne is from 6 to 9 p.m.Saturday, March 21, at Green-bottom Community and SeniorCenter, 7863 Ohio River Road,Lesage. Admission is $3 and freeto children age 12 and younger.Concessions are available. Call304-762-2858.
CONDUCT: To receive amedal of this type, it’s mostlikely one would need toexpress good conduct. That’swhy Barbara E. Mannon ,correctional officer at WesternRegional Jail, recently wasrecognized for the state’s GoodConduct Medal. Barbara showed exemplary conduct,efficiency and fidelity during athree-month period.
BABY: Jacqueline Kuhnand Christopher Cooper welcomed a baby girl intotheir lives the last day of Janu-ary (Jan. 31). Jasalyn Ranae
Cooper weighed 6 pounds,5 ounces, and measured 18 1 ⁄ 2 inches long.
FIRST: Thumbs up to Aman-da Warren — the first gradu-ate of the new Excel CareerClub Program received theWest Virginia Career Readi-ness Certificate by The WestVirginia Region 2 WORK-FORCE Investment Board.
SENIOR SATURDAY: CabellHuntington Hospital’s SeniorServices Department hosts“Aging and Your DigestiveSystem” from 9 to 11 a.m. Sat-urday, March 21, in the Har-less Auditorium in Marshall
University Medical Center atCHH. The discussion provid-ed by gastroenterologist fromthe Med School’s Departmentof Internal Medicine features atour of the new CHH DigestiveDiseases Center and compli-mentary lunch. Seating is lim-ited. Registration is requestedby calling 304-526-2695.
HIGH STACKS: Kiwanis Clubof East Huntington has beenstacking pancakes high for 49years. The club’s 50th annualpancake festival is from 7 a.m.to 7 p.m. Saturday, March 21, atVeterans Memorial Field House.Advance tickets are $4 at localbusinesses or from Kiwanismembers or $5 at the door.
VOLUNTEERS:Are handsraised to become volunteers forthe Adam Johnson Memorialthree-mile run/walk scheduledfor 8:30 a.m. Saturday, March28? The race is the main fundingfor the Adam Johnson Memorial
Scholarship Fund, which ben-efits two scholarships and vari-ous projects for the HuntingtonPolice Department. Registrationfee is $18 before March 23, and$22 after that date. If interested,call Janina Michael , 304-522-4736, or Teddy Johnson , 304-634-5065.
BUCKEYE: It won’t be heldagainst Janice Beuhring forbeing a Buckeye now living inChesapeake, Ohio. Before that,she resided in West Virginia.Even better, she enjoys readingthis column. Thanks for shar-ing that bit of news, Janice ,and keep reading.
LATE BIRTHDAYS: LindseyWehmeier, Betty Baker,Madeline Adkins , March 1;Becky Williamson , March2; Mildred Heffner, KarenKent, Erma Lee Scott , PawTaw square dancer, March 3;Virginia Thompson, AmyWright, Will Edwards ,
March 4; Stan Kirk, Isabell James, Andy Waite , PawTaw square dancer, March 10;Leanna Reasor , March 11.
BELATED ANNIVERSARIES:Dana and Donna Edwards ,March 2; Dick and ThelmaPreston , Paw Taw squaredancers, March 7; Harley andKim Cremeans , March 9.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:YAlexis Daugherty, MikeSumner, Joey Saxton, Chel-sea Shaver, Charles Swaf-ford, Frank Blake is twounder 70 (68), Jenna Gooder-ham, Robert Force, JasonDrown, Sam Miller, KelseySmith, Jenah Martin, JimReed, Isabel Spindel, NateSimpkins, Dorothy Law-rence, Ruth Prater, NancyUnderwood, Kevin Tol-ley, Marc Hagley, AndreaVanderwarker and LauraGatewood .
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES:
John and Becky Collins,Dan and Bonnie Meese .
CHUCKLE: While servingas a guest minister to a localchurch, he noticed in the pro-gram an unfamiliar order of worship. Since the Sundayservice had already begun, hewas unable to ask a nybody. Sowhen he reached that particu-lar moment, he swallowed hispride and asked from the pulpit,“What do I do now?” Someonein the congregation shoutedback, “You say something andwe respond.” Embarrassed, theminister admitted, “For the firsttime in my life, I’m speechless.”The congregation responded,“Thanks be to God.”
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n Screening: “Lioness,”6 p.m. Wednesday, March 18.A feature documentary abouta group of female Army sup-port soldiers who were part ofthe first program in Americanhistory to send women intodirect ground combat. Theevent begins at 5:30 p.m. witha reception to meet one of thedirectors and producers of thefilm in the Great Hall. A ques-tion and answer session willfollow the screening. Call TaraMartinez-Toney, 304-558-0070or visit www.lionessthefilm.com.Norman L. Fagan West VirginiaState Theater, State CapitolComplex, Charleston. Free.
n Electrorock with DJLoki, Wednesday, March 18.Club Echo, 1318 4th Ave.Huntington.
n After School ExplorersClub: “Simple Machines,”Thursday, March 19. Thesemachines work so well thatthey haven’t changed muchin thousands of years. Learnhow to move heavy objectsusing less work and how weuse simple machines in oureveryday lives. Pre-registrationrequired; call 304-561-3529.For students in grades secondthrough sixth. Clay Center forthe Arts & Science, One ClaySquare, Charleston. $12; $15per session.
n Vince Morris, 7:30 p.m.Thursday; 7:30 and 10 p.m.Friday-Saturday; 7 p.m. Sun-day, March 19-22. He deliverspassionate views on topicsincluding ignorance, hip-hop,self-respect and more. Tickets,visit www.wvfunnybone.com orcall 304-781-1000. Funny Bone
Comedy Club and Restaurant,26 Pullman Square, Suite 207,Huntington. $10-$12.
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4C Wednesday, March 18, 2009Features: Robyn Rison 304-526-2799
What’s Up
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HUNTINGTON — Savan-nah’s Spring Wine Dinnerwill take place Sunday,March 22, in the MagnoliaRoom.
The event will begin at4:30 p.m. The dinner is a prixfixe multi-course gourmetfeast featuring selected finewines presented by guestSommelier Dan O’Hanlon.
Seating is limited, andreservations are required.Reservations confirmedwhen payment is received.Prix fixe $125 per person, allinclusive.
For more information, callthe restaurant at 304-529-0919 or go online at www.savannahsmenu.com.
Savannah’s to featureSpring Wine Dinner
I don’t know about you, butI’m ready for the 1960s to be overand done with. That destruc-tive decade has ruled Americanparenting for 40 years and prettywell ruined it in the process.
Before the ’60s, parents soughtchild rearing advice from theirelders.
Since then, parents havesought advice from a profes-sional class—which is to say,people like me. Courtesy of Dr. Joyce Brothers (Spock hadnothing to do with it, real ly) weso-called “experts” were able toconvince the American parentof a truly absurd proposition: towit, that a 35 -year-old who pos-sesses a graduate degree in childpsychology, has been married forfive years and has one child, age2, knows more about childrenand how to raise them properlythan an 85-year-old woman whonever finished the eighth-gradebut who raised 10 kids i nto suc-cessful adulthoods. Like I said,absurd.
I was driving (creeping ismore like it) down the 405 i n LosAngeles the other day, gettingreally worked up about all this.
Instead of road rage, which isjustifiable in Los Angeles, I washaving an attack of psychobabblerage. I started thinking aboutthe really dumb things the bab-blers began telling parents in the1960s.
Take, for example, “childrenneed to be able to f reely expresstheir feelings.” In 1969, whenWillie and I became parents,we believed that. It took threeyears for us to snap out of it, butby then our first child ruled ourfamily with his habit of freelyand loudly expressing his feel-ings whenever we failed to obeyhim.
It took a while, but I finallyrealized that children should notbe allowed to freely express any-
thing. The natural inclination of the child is anti-social, narcis-sistic. Children believe that whatthey want, they deserve to have,and because they deserve it, theends justify the means.
Tyrants believe the sa mething. Therefore, children aretyrants by nature.
Give a tyrant/child an inch,and the tyrant/child will demanda mile.
Lose the1960s-styleparenting
Please see PARENTING/5C
The Herald-DispatchHUNTINGTON — Tequila
Rocks fought the fire marshal,and the fire marshal won.
Rick Widdifield, promotionsdirector for the new live music
venue and nightclub at 611 4thAve., formerly Fluid and TheMonkeyBar, has had to post-pone a Thursday concert withSouthern Rock legend DickeyBetts.
The nightclub was not goingto be able to install a shuntsystem required by local codeuntil Thursday, the day of theshow, Widdifield said.
That system automaticallyturns off all music systems,and turns on alarms and mes-
sages to vacate the building incase of an emergency in thethree-floor nightclub.
“They were talking that itwouldn’t be in until Thursdaylate afternoon, and I can’t havethem coming here and us hop-ing that something gets done,”Widdifield said. “It would be
a total mess, so I just canceledthe show with the agency.”Widdifield said the club,
which just opened a couple of weekends ago, would try andreschedule the show.
People who bought advancetickets can get refunds at thepoint of purchase.
The club is open from 9 p.m.to 3 a.m. Thursdays throughSaturdays. Call 304-523-7777or e-mail Tequila Rocks [email protected].
Widdifield said the rest of Tequila Rocks’ schedule is a goincluding Jamie McClean Bandon Saturday, March 21; Jus-tin James, comedy hypnotist,March 26; Bobaflex, March
27; Playboy centerfold SpencerScott and L.A. Dance party,April 2; Hells Bells, Tributeto AC/DC, April 4; Mother-ship (Led Zep tribute), April 9;Warner Brothers artist Jason
Jones, April 10; Chippendales,April 16; Seven Mary Three,April 17; Battery (Metallicatribute), April 23; Girls, Girls,Girls (Motley Crue tribute),May 2; Artimus Pyle, June13; Shenandoah, June 26; andDokken, June 27.
Dickey Betts show at Tequila Rocks rescheduled
Dickey Betts
Make your
cookies count
Courtesy of Brenda Lucas
Local Girl Scouts, clockwise from left, Haley Preece, Ellie Kennedy, SarahKennedy, Megan Preece and Katie Kennedy enjoyed their recent cookie-selling experience. Girl Scout cookies can be frozen and used later in anumber of recipes.
Please see GIRL SCOUTS/5C
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