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Professional women’s track club supports children

by The Observer Staff | May 10, 2013 | Sports

Special to the Opelika Observer Forty-six children and volunteers from Project Uplift gathered together recently and enjoyed “It’s a Movie Night,” sponsored by the professional women track and field athletes training in Auburn. The feature film was “Wreck-It...

Indoor and Outdoor Cats Get Heartworms

by The Observer Staff | May 10, 2013 | Letter to the Editor, Opinions

Karlene Turkington’s article in the May 3 Observer gave a lot of great information about heartworm disease in dogs. However, a lot of cat owners are of the notion their pets are safe from the ravages of heartworm disease. Most definitely, they are not, as I found out,...

‘Dust if you must’

by The Observer Staff | May 10, 2013 | Column

Someone sent me this nifty poem — titled “Dust If You Must” — via the Internet with the following information: The poem was attributed to Mrs. Rose Milligan from Lancaster in Lancashire, England. It was first published in the Sept. 15th, 21st edition, of...

A reflection on Teacher Appreciation Week

by The Observer Staff | May 10, 2013 | Column

This week was Teacher Appreciation Week, so I want to share a story about the teacher who had the biggest impact on my life. In the first grade, my bus was late on the very first day of school, so I got to class late. The education of Jody Fuller was not off to a good...

Ophidiophobia, weather, butterflies and Wood Ducks

by The Observer Staff | May 10, 2013 | Column

My wife, Janie, enrolled in my vertebrate zoology class because she loved the outdoors but was deathly afraid of snakes. By the end of the quarter, she was no longer fearful of snakes, at least not of the non-venomous ones, and she developed an appreciation of them....

Professional women’s track club supports children

Indoor and Outdoor Cats Get Heartworms

‘Dust if you must’

A reflection on Teacher Appreciation Week

Ophidiophobia, weather, butterflies and Wood Ducks

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