Tables Go Casual Yet Stylish in Designer Showpiece
Twenty New York designers created tabletop settings for the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Selections range from formal dinners to backyard picnics valued from 800 to 30000 dollars and were auctioned at Christies New York to benefit the museum. Designers describe themes from a four-time-zone time table to recycled can displays, with caution that bold choices risk tackiness.
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New York
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Christie’s
Kim DePole
DePole
London
Tokyo
Pagan
Burma
DePolo
George Constant
Dakota Jackson
Joseph Braswell
Constantin Boym
Laurene Leon
Leon
Kim DePolo
Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum
Trent Woods Garden Club Holds Annual Picnic Meeting
Trent Woods Garden Club met May 11 at Mary Jo Hamby's home for its annual picnic. Retiring president Barbara Tarrant gave gifts to board and committee chairs. New officers were installed by Judy Bond, with Jewell Sammons as president and other officers named. The club tallies beautification efforts and plans to join the New Bern Chrysanthemum Festival flower show October 13 to 15. The first meeting of the new year is September 14 at Garber Methodist Church.
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Trent Woods Garden Club
Mary Jo Hamby
Barbara Tarrant
Connie Allen
Betty McQuarrie
Judy Mack
Judy Bond
Jewell Sammons
Charlene Parrotte
Pat Chambers
Barbara Campbell
Mildred Cooper
Mary Lib Miller
Miki Buie
Ella Monnett
Karen Stout
Mead
Ows Family Park
New Bern
Cove City Senior Citizens Meet at Town Hall May 9
The Cove City Senior Citizens Club held its May 9 meeting at the town hall with Sidney Davis presiding. Catherine Wood read the minutes, presented the treasurer's report, and the guest speaker was Michelle Barnett from East Carolina University Medical School.
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Cove City Senior Citizens Club
Cove City Town Hall
Sidney Davis
Catherine Wood
Michelle Barnett
East Carolina University Medical School
Greenville
Lucy McCoy
Annie Lou Smith
Davis
Mabel White
Mary Helen White
Pollocksville Presbyterian Women Observe 83rd Birthday
The Pollocksville group marked the 83rd birthday of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States with Thelma Edmondson leading the 1995 emphasis, aided by Miriam Pinkston and Hilda Bender. Projects support Mother Advocates in Huntsville Alabama Teen Mothers Residence in Chicago Health Education Center in the Dominican Republic and Africa’s Christian Women and Women Farmers in Cambodia. Officers to be installed at a church service with August training. group also contributed to and joined Religious Community.
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Pollocksville
Mary Jo Burker
Shirley Bryan
Services in New Bern Church Seeks Volunteers for June
The moderator urged volunteers for the church library and Bible school refresh ments from June 12 to 16. A family night pig picking will be held at the church fellowship hall on June 16, with hostesses serving strawberry birthday cake ice cream nuts and beverages.
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New Bern
Church Fellowship Hall
Seacoast Spinners Guild Meets at May 17 Session
The Seacoast Spinners and Weavers Guild met May 17 at Carolina Creations with Win Messemer presiding. Members planned display items for Alive at Five at the Family Life Center. Ferne Winborne gave a history of spinning and drop spinning. Marilyn Vandersen demonstrated spinning on a wheel. A hands on work session followed and the next meeting is set for September.
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Seacoast Spinners and Weavers Guild
Carolina Creations
Win Messemer
Family Life Center
Ferne Winborne
Marilyn Vandersen
Experts warn drug resistant germs threaten many Americans
Washington experts at a news conference warn common bacteria have become resistant to antibiotics, posing a greater US health risk than current Ebola outbreaks in Africa. They cite untreatable infections, hospital spread, and overuse of antibiotics as key factors.
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Washington
Africa
Mitchell Cohen
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
United States
Zaire
Cohen
Donald Goldman
Harvard University
Goldman
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Craven Community College
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