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Think you own all of your own body? Think again

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- I would bet that you think you own every part of your body, don’t you? Well, you would be wrong about that. 

Darlene Vann Sun, 04/18/2010 - 01:04

Lions Club holding barbecue dinner Saturday for $7

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- The New Smyrna Beach Lions Club is holding a barbecue dinner from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Lions clubhouse, 2340 Sunset Drive, just north of the football stadium. For only $7 a person, visitors can enjoy a special Maryland recipe one half-chicken with baked beans, coleslaw and a roll. Eat in or take out, with beverages available.

Pottery making a highlight of Saturday Art Walk on Flagler

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Roxanne Reynolds Hicks is a big fan of the Art Walk on Flagler Avenue here on the street that has thousands of daytrippers from across Central Florida enjoying the artistry and craftsmanship on display.

U.S. needs to move faster to transport orphaned Haitian children to new families in America

EDGEWATER, Fla. -- If I had money or influence with the U. S. government the very next cargo plane leaving Haiti would carry every orphan I could find to a place of safety where they would have food, water and medicine and not be sleeping outside on mattresses and blankets on the ground.

Darlene Vann Tue, 01/19/2010 - 23:57

51. NSB cops: 67-year-old woman robbed of purse in Publix lot; 4th such crime in 3 days on S.R. 44 commercial stretch

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 67-year-old woman was walking through the parking lot at the Publix in the New Smyrna Beach Regional Shopping Center just before 2 p.m. Saturday when a woman jumped out of a sport utility vehicle, snatched her purse, jumped back in and drove off, New Smyrna Beach police said.

91. Having a ball at the NSB Charity Ball

Headline Surfer photos / Kaye Walker, chairwoman of the New Smyrna Beach Charity Ball (on the right) celebrates with friends at November's fundraiser at the Brannon Center.

By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

NEW SMTRNA BEACH, Fla. -- There were lots of local community volunteers at the annual New Smyrna Beach Charity Ball at the Brannon Center.

For Kaye Walker, one of the organizers, it'sabout fenerating money for charity.

"If everyone contreibutes just a little bit it can make a difference," Walker said.

Two boys, 7 and 10, critically burned boiling hot dogs

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Two brothers, ages 10 and 7, with severe burns on their faces, chests and arms, are hospitalized in critical condition and their mother commited under the state's Baker Act, for psychiatric evaluation, New Smyrna Beach police said of the early Monday incident at a duplex in the 400 block of 10th Street.