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Photo by Karen Mancuso.

The 10-10-10 Business Energy Expo held by the NSB Marine Discovery Center drew enthusiastic crowds Sunday as part of a worldwide effort to encourage alternative energy sources, including the people shown in this photo with the Intracoastal Waterway asa backdrop. Some 2,500 people attended Sunday's NSB event.

Check out lots of photos at the event by clicking here:

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Editor's Note: The following was written for NSBNEWS.net by Grey Wilson, a volunteer at  the Marine Discovery Center, whose wife, Pat, and other volunteers, organized the event:

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Sunday the tenth of October did not pass by without a meaningful business energy expo event in New Smyrna Beach. The energy conscious business exhibit offered the public a view of the ongoing 21st Century consumer products we have seen emerge in the last decade.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- During her break, Bert Fish Medical Center case manager Karen Berkeley practices speaking Creole, rehearsing for her first trip out of the country and the wait is making her
anxious.

Berkeley is joining BFMC physician Dr. Regina Asihene on a 15-person medical mission to Haiti from Sunday through Saturday, Oct. 23. Also traveling with the team is Kelly Ann Green, 17, who learned about the trip from her mother, Eileen Green, also a BFMC employee. The teen is using her trip as the subject of her senior project.

CBS Sunday Morning (Brighthouse channel 6 at 9 am) featured a story about kids’ letters from camp. It was laugh-out-loud funny and so familiar. Every kid who goes to camp wrote one during their first few days. It reminded me of the old song “Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder” (sung by Alan Sherman) which in my day was very popular, right on point and also funny unless you were that kid writing the letter.

The life of an autistic child is a difficult one. Growing up is hard enough for the rest of us, can you imagine what they go through? The constant frustration and reminders of being academically behind, unable to communicate, and socially impaired, are the day-to-day factors in an autistic child's life. Continually, these children have to encounter rude behaviors, unfair treatment, and misunderstanding assumptions. All of these factors added together are the cause of the most frowned upon issue with autistic children: behavior.

Good relationships don’t just happen. I’ve heard many of my clients state that, “If I have to work at it, then it’s not the right relationship.” This is not a true statement, any more than it’s true that you don’t have to work at good physical health through exercise, eating well, and stress reduction. I’ve discovered seven choices you can make that will not only improve your relationship, but can turn a failing relationship into a successful one.

State Farm is sponsoring a video competition of unbelievable football plays caught on tape from now until Nov. 24 and the New Smyrna Beach High School 'Cudas could win with your votes online.

Here are some of the programs available at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, ongoing through Nov. 13:

Exhibition: Works by Master Artists Svetlana Chmokova, Paul Pope, and Craig Thompson Opening reception: 5 to 7 p.m., Oct. 15.

This exhibit features the work of Master Artists-in-Residence for ACA's themed Graphic Novel/Sequential Art Residency (Oct. 11-31): Svetlana Chmokova, Paul Pope, and Craig Thompson.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Students from New Smyrna Beach High School will perform "Check, Please," by Florida playwright Jonathan Rand on Friday and Saturday.

Many zany characters will come to life, including a man in a burlap sack, a mime and a man who has lost 300 pounds. The play explores how hard dating can be, especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, your grandmother's bridge partner or a foot-reading psychic. Which is better - staying single the rest of your life or suffering through a series of the worst blind dates in history?

Photos by Henry Frederick.

Republican U.S, hopeful Marco Rubio addresses an enthusiastic crowd Thursday in New Smyrna Beach.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Here is a sampling of the enthusiastic support by local residents and community leaders to Thursday's visit by Republicam U.S. Senate hopeful Marco Rubio to American Aero Services at the New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport:

Margie Patchett, candidate for Volusia County Council at-large and founder of Volusia Tax Reform, goes over some campaign flyers with Rubio.

"He is wonderful. His message comes from his heart. He was speaker of the (Florida) house, when we took 17 buses up to Tallahassee in 2007, to push for reform measures. We need him in Washington. He's a true American -- a true conservative."

-- Margie Patchett

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Florida Municipal Electric Association recently honored the community service efforts of the Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach staff by recognizing the municipal electric utility with the 2010 Community Service Award.