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Home and garden events in the Bay Area

Austin's Home and Garden Show hopes to inspire home owners
The New Year may have you ready to tackle some home improvement projects and this is the weekend to get new ideas. Austin's Spring Home and Garden show starts on...

Home and garden calendar
SECOND SATURDAY AT THE GARDEN, one of a series of monthly programs, this one featuring the garden's newly renovated organic culinary herb garden, and the talents of chef Dale Thomas, Kapi'olani Community College instructor and Hale Koa Hotel chef; includes tastings, guided tours, question-and-answer opportunities, free recipes and UH seed sale and mini-plant sale; 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Jan. 10; Pearl ...

Fallen Tree Damages Home in Lynn Garden
Freezing rain coupled with heavy winds downed a tree in a Lynn Garden neighborhood today, damaging a home.

In His Home, a Reflection of His Career as a Novelist
Nelson DeMille, the author of a mountain of commercial fiction, connects to his inner squire.

At home on camera
For homeowners and do-it-yourselfers Gavin and Crystal Williams, the excitement of having their home appear on Home & Garden Television?s ?My House Is Worth What?? was worth all the effort it took to get the renovated home ready for a Los Angeles film crew.

Get ideas for home renovations and ways to save
If your new years resolution was to find ways to save money, but are still yearning to spruce up your home, useful seminars and expert advice will be available at the third annual Katy Home & Garden Show.

Garden club to make herb wreaths
Put ?herbal wreaths? on the calendar for January?s program at Wickenburg?s Nice-Dirt Garden Club. Susan Goodman and Lucille Burroughs will guide attendees through the steps to make one to take home.

Scout turns Bellevue field into garden plot
As a young girl, Teresa Sirianni Amelio would sit on the back porch during warm summer evenings and watch her mother work in the garden of their Bellevue home.

Garden blogs around the country will bloom with photos Thursday
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is still five days away, but I'm already checking my garden every morning, wondering if I'll have anything good to photograph on Thursday, when garden bloggers around the country (and a few outside the country) will dash outside, cameras in hand, to document what's blooming in their gardens this month.

Ice picks: Saturday's best NHL bets
Minnesota Wild at Columbus Blue Jackets (+115, 5) The Blue Jackets' six-game road swing was one heck of a ride. The team experienced ups and downs, getting wins out west while falling apart as they drew closer to home. The extended stretch also...

Plain as Dirt: Prices of plant material fluctuate
Garden columnist says 'prices for bedding plants and woody ornamentals should remain the same for the coming year'

Beverly D'Angelo's Beverly Hills home listed at $2,185,000
The five-bedroom Spanish-style home features a two-story entryway, beamed ceilings, a detached studio, pool and courtyard. There is much to envy about actress Beverly D'Angelo: ageless beauty, a Hollywood career of lasting duration, the fact that hunky Al Pacino parked his slippers at her front door for years and that she owns a 1920s Spanish-style gem of a house in Beverly Hills that has ...

SIGHTHOUND RESCUE - Torri is looking for a home - www.jerseydogs.co.uk
Torri is a 2 year old white and blue brindle whippet looking for a home of her own after being found as a stray. She?s a fun little lady to have around and loves snuggling up on the couch. She also enjoys a run around the garden and loves being out and about.

Village Board Engages BFJ Planning to Research Garden City Subdivisions
Trustees unanimously approved the engagement of planner Frank Fish of Buckhurst Fish and Jacquemart (BFJ) to take a closer look at how subdivisions of large village land plots could negatively affect Garden City's character and whether or not it's worth trustees putting in place a moratorium.

Chimney Fire Sweeps Through Home In Unity Twp.
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Firefighters put out a chimney fire that quickly spread through a house in Unity Township. The fire broke out at a home on Newmeyer Lane on Friday afternoon.

The Garden City Telegram
The Online Edition of the Garden City Telegram features local and national news, sports, videos, local classifieds and obituaries. GCT serves southwest Kansas and is located in Finney County.

Garden Superstars for Spring 2009
(ARA) - From picture-perfect roses to containers that are works of art, spring 2009 promises wonderful color and exciting new products for garden lovers everywhere.

Sports Redux: Even Home Court Advantage Has Failed
The Celtics thought - and so did we - that going home would make everything OK. It didn't. The C's are officially in the doldrums, and even a return to the Garden couldn't break them out of their slump, as they lost a tight see-saw game to the Rockets, 89-85. The Celtics played very well at the beginning and then in spurts, but Houston, undermanned as they were (no Tracy McGrady or Shane ...

Bentonville Plans For Community Garden
BENTONVILLE -- People a generation or two ago typically supplied a portion of their food from their own gardens. Today, many people who want a garden haven't the space for it where they live.