Stories from Thursday, May 7, 2009

The Visual Arts Committee will hold a special "5 to 95" Spring Art Sale at the Mountain Home Public Library commons area on Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9. The sale, to be held in cooperation with the Friends of the Library, will feature all artwork under $100 (from $5 to $95). Fifteen percent of the sales will go to the Friends of the Library to help support library art projects, most of them for children...

The annual Letter Carriers Food Drive will be on Saturday, May 9. Carriers and volunteers will be collecting non-perishable donations along their postal routes. You can leave your donation on your porch or by your mailbox. Carriers ask that donations be placed in a bag or box and ready for pick up before your mail delivery time...

(NU) - What would happen if loyalists of Saddam Hussein bombed 12 major U.S. cities one week before the presidential election, thrusting the nation and the election into chaos? Sound familiar? A similar scenario recently took place in Spain and could happen to other European and Asian countries that assisted America in the controversial war in Iraq and who have Americans living in or visiting them...

(NU) - Millions of Americans have turned to the Internet for cheaper prescription drug prices, but they may be surprised to learn that for millions of consumers, the best deals are available from pharmaceutical companies in the form of patient assistance programs...

(NewsUSA) - Grandmothers might say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but many American dads should be paying attention to another old saying -- the one about eating an apple a day. The experts at the Weight-control Information Network (WIN) want to make sure every dad is feeling jubilant and healthy this Father's Day and for many more to follow...

(NewsUSA) - Twenty-two-year-old Manuel Salazar had just begun work on a construction site in Georgia when, in an instant, his life was changed forever. A crane on the job site hit a power line, sending it to the ground where Salazar was standing, and hitting him twice with 115,000 volts of electricity. While exposure to this dose of electricity is enough to kill anyone, miraculously Salazar survived to tell the tale...