Archive for the 'Agriculture' Category

Australia Day Honours: Don Phillips

RETIREMENT from the active world of retailing in Taree hasn’t left Don Phillips AM with time on his hands.

This Was Hatboro-Horsham, 1937

From the Public Spirit, Week of Jan. 21-27, 1937 Horsham Farmers’ Club celebrates fiftieth anniversary – The fiftieth anniversary of the Horsham Farmers’ Club was celebrated Saturday night with a dinner at the Old York Road Country Club, attended by ni…

National Food Day and a carrotmob boost healthy eating

Arnett Woodall heard that a crowd was poised to converge on his West Phillie Produce store Friday, and was greatly relieved to learn it was a mob of the carrot variety.

Meet the honorees in the 2012 South Carolina African-American History Calendar

Thirteen South Carolinians were honored Oct. 4 at a reception for their selection to the 23nd annual edition of the 2012 South Carolina African-American History Calendar .

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Thursday-Friday, June 9-10, 7 p.m. — Lone Star Baptist Church, 629 N. Grayson, in Groesbeck is hosting a revival called “There Is a Place for You in the Body.” Free and open to the public.

Sandwich Caregiver Radio Show Interviews Horticulture Therapist, Robert Bornstein

Horticultural therapy is the practice of horticulture as therapy to improve human well-being. According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, it is “a process utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, ps…

2010 Year In Review–March

Parents of the eight Enterprise High School students killed in the March 1, 2007, tornado that destroyed much of the former high school joined school officials to tour the construction under way at the new Enterprise High School .

This Day in American History December 11

On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing.

Business Notebook

First Financial Bank, N.A., Sweetwater has promoted Rodney G. Foster to executive vice president and senior lending officer.

Carroll County hosts Farm Day & Agricultural Festival

The 2010 Carroll County Farm Day and Agricultural Festival offered something for everyone.