New Life Christian Fellowship will be holding an outreach event at their church at 1045 Blanding Blvd., Suite 207 in Orange Park.  In lieu of their normal Sunday morning service on November 22, they will be offering a Thanksgiving dinner for the people in the community, served by the New Life members, free of charge. The event will begin at 12:00pm and end at 3:00pm.

Knowing the needs in Clay County have increased due to the sluggish economy, the church’s desire is to help in any way they can.

For additional information, contact the church at (904)272-4655.

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  A Nutritionist’s Checklist to Boost Your Child’s Immune System to Help Fend off Swine Flu.

Rewards add up fast with “Here’s To You” Frequency Guest Card

            NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 4, 2009 — O'Charley's launches the Here’s To You  Frequency Guest Card with a few new twists that add instant gratification, a sweepstakes contest and greater value to their loyalty program.  The goal is to reach a total of five stamps to earn a free entrée. Whether guests dine-in or order To-Go, as soon as they purchase their first entrée, they receive a frequency card and one entrée stamp.  O'Charley's e-CLUB members will receive a virtual frequency card that can be printed from their e-mail inbox with two pre-stamped entrees on it. 

            Once guests have a Here’s To You Card, the earned stamps add up to rewards fast.  An O'Charley's $20 or higher Gift Card or a Good Time Platters purchase, each earn two stamps.  After collecting just three stamps, the Here’s To You card holder receives a free Southwestern Twisted Chips appetizer.  After five stamps, a free entrée.  That’s it, just five stamps and they can start collecting again.  Guests can receive a new card upon redemption of a full card while supplies last.

 The Defense Department announced today the services' implementation plans to provide retroactive stop loss special pay.  Active, reserve and former service members who had their enlistment extended or retirement suspended due to stop loss are eligible for this special pay, if they served on active duty between Sept. 11, 2001 and Sept. 30, 2009.

 Service members may begin submitting their claim for retroactive stop loss special pay on Oct. 21, 2009.  In accordance with the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act, all applications must be submitted to the respective services no later than Oct. 21, 2010.  Eligible personnel will receive a payment of $500 per month for each month (or any portion of a month) that a member was retained on active duty due to stop loss.  Applicants for retroactive pay who are no longer in the military had to be honorably discharged, and for those who were stop lossed in fiscal 2009, may only receive payment from one stop loss authority - either the money appropriated for stop loss special pay in the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, or the money allocated for retroactive stop loss special pay in the 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Act, but not both.

The Device Helps Patients Who are Usually Turned Down for Surgery 

Sept. 28, 2009, Jacksonville, FL ― Assisted by the world’s smallest heart pump, interventional cardiologists at St. Vincent’s Gary and Nancy Chartrand Heart and Vascular Center are now able to perform angioplasty on many patients with serious heart dysfunction who have been considered a very high risk for surgery or less invasive procedures to treat coronary artery disease.

As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Dr. Judith Rodriguez, a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of North Florida, was recognized by Attorney General Bill McCollum for her commitment to studying and understanding the nutritional needs of the Hispanic community.

“The Department of Nutrition & Dietetics is so very proud of Dr. Rodriguez for this well deserved recognition of her many years of dedication and ground breaking work in the area of health disparities, particularly Hispanic health,” said Dr. Catherine Christie, chair of the Department of Nutrition & Dietetics at UNF. “Dr. Rodriguez represents the best of our profession and inspires us all as a mentor, colleague and role model.”

For the past 30 years, Rodriguez, a Southside resident, has focused on food, culture and health disparities, especially as they relate to the Latino/Hispanic population. She has used her knowledge and research to provide better services to the community and her profession.

UNF Art and Design professors Paul Ladnier and Emily Arthur Douglass will conduct a lecture at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural resource of UNF, related to their works currently on display. The Art of Teaching lecture series augments the UNF Art and Design Faculty Exhibition at MOCA Jacksonville through Jan. 3, 2010. The lectures present the context in which each participating artist’s works on exhibition were created. Ladnier’s love for the texture of paint and its range of saturated colors will be discussed by this artist who is equally gifted at painting a landscape or an abstract. Douglass draws from nature in her experimental printmaking techniques. Birds, moths and snakes are among the motifs she uses to comment on the fragility of our existence and the rhythms and cycles of natural processes. For more information about this lecture series, visit http://www.mocajacksonville.org  or call 366-6911.