PUMPKINS AREN’T JUST FOR JACK-O-LANTERNS AND PIE
Pumpkins aren’t just for Jack-o-lanterns and pie
Life & Health
FINDING THE PERFECT JACK-O-LANTERN
Finding the Perfect Jack-O-Lantern
DANGERS OF TRAFFIC SPOOK HOLIDAY FUN
COLLEGE STATION — As parents prepare to send out their little ghosts and goblins for a busy night of Halloween fun, are they certain they have properly equipped them for a safe return home? Coordinated Campaign Safe and Sober suggests all parents accompany their children as they go trick or treating. National Highway Traffic Safety…
GHOSTLY SUGGESTIONS FOR HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
COLLEGE STATION–Halloween is creeping up which means it’s time to get the costumes out. This year’s most popular costumes include characters from the Goosebumps series, Cinderella and Toy Story. “The Hunchback of Notre Dame costumes are a hot seller this year,” said Nathan Kovach, merchandise team leader for Target Stores. Kovach said that in addition…
NEW PROGRAM FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS FOCUSES ON LEARNING LIFE SKILLS IN 4-H, INVOLVING PARENTS
COLLEGE STATION — Two state agencies have joined forces in a program that may help redirect the lives of young juvenile offenders from across Texas. The program will use existing 4-H programs as its core but also will involve more strongly the parents of offenders in helping them get on a positive track, a Texas…
TEXAS FOOD MARKET WATCH: PUMPKINS ROLLING IN FOR OCTOBER
COLLEGE STATION — Pumpkins of all sizes have started rolling into grocery stores and vegetable stands from the Texas High Plains, the beginning of an avalanche of the popular orange gourds that won’t stop until just before Halloween. “What we have here is a truly charismatic vegetable,” said Dr. Roland Roberts, a vegetable specialist with…
EXTENSION SERVES UP FOOD PROTECTION MANAGEMENT TRAINING
COLLEGE STATION– Texas Agricultural Extension Service agents from 130 counties have received instructor training to conduct food protection management programs to further increase food safety awareness in the more than 87,000 food service operations in Texas. Georgia Lockridge, director of the food industry training division of the Institute of Food Science and Engineering, said, “There’s…
TEXAS FOOD MARKET WATCH: DROUGHT AFFECTS SHRIMP HARVEST
COLLEGE STATION — The shrimping industry is critically suffering this year due to the late winter and the drought of 1996. Consumers should not be surprised if the price of shrimp rises during the coming months, according to the laboratory director of National Marine Fisheries. “Although the prices aren’t relatively low now, the shortage later…
Texas A&M Researchers Look to Plants as Way to Treat, Prevent Prostate Cancer
HOUSTON — A diet rich in the right foods may someday replace surgery and conventional medications to prevent and treat prostate cancer, researchers say. Scientists at Texas A&M University’s Institute of Biosciences and Technology in Houston say their studies suggest that a diet rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains and soy could help men avoid…
DEALERSHIP ADVISES BUYERS ABOUT THE USES OF SAFETY BELTS, AIR BAGS
COLLEGE STATION — Lawrence Marshall Dealerships in Hempstead will be the first car dealerships in Texas distributing safety information to new car buyers to support Coordinated Campaign Safe and Sober. Kids Aren’t Cargo hang tags will be placed in all new pickup trucks. The decision to distribute the information came as a result of when…
