Are eggs all they're cracked up to be?

By Maggie Blackwell

For The Salisbury Post

A recent trip to the manicure shop provided access to enough women who cook to ask, what would you like to see on the Post's food page? Simple foods, they said. Foods that I don't have to go find ingredients for, they said.

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Perfect match

By Katie Scarvey

Salisbury Post

For a lot of people, exercising is a chore, but for some local tennis players, it's a fun way to keep fit — and the years haven't changed that.

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McCanless column: I'll retire to the Holiday Inn, please

By Janet McCanless

For the Salisbury Post

I was giving a rather informal talk a while back to a church group, and I got a big laugh when I said I wasn't going to a nursing home, ever, but was instead going to the Holiday Inn. Well, just think about it for a minute.

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AARP local chapter

AARP local chapter Members of local Salisbury/Rowan AARP Chapter 4314 attended the North Carolina Leadership Conference in Statesville April 23.

Local representatives were: Bob Bruce, president; Judy Bella, vice president; Barbara Bruce, secretary; Ray Raper, treasurer; Jerry Shelby, legislature action chairman; Pat Beck, program chairman; and Manie Richardson, community outreach chairman. Also in attendance were representatives from Alexander County, Mooresville-South Iredell and Statesville.

The Statesville meeting was one in a series of conferences conducted throughout North Carolina by the state AARP office in Raleigh. The purpose of these regional meetings was to train chapter officers and leaders and also provide a model for measuring the health and vitality of their local chapters. Local Chapter 4314 is one of the more active and healthier chapters in the state. Through their active participation in the Tar Heel legislature in Raleigh and relative speaker program, the Salisbury/Rowan Chapter continues to keeps its members informed of those issues that have a direct impact on their lives.

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Poison ivy seminar

Poison ivy seminar

MOCKSVILLE — Davie County Senior Services is sponsoring a poison ivy seminar.

The event is set for 10:30 a.m. May 22 at the site at 1723 Farmington Road in Mocksville.

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