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Haute home ideas-PJC courses offer interior design and home entertaining tips
Learn how to repaint, refresh and rejuvenate your home and host talk-of-the-town dinner parties with two new Pensacola Junior College Continuing Education courses.
Home Entertaining is 2 to 4 p.m. Mondays June 9-23. Students learn how to host creative and lively dinner parties with new recipes, decorating ideas, preparation and dovetail tips and how to enjoy the guests.
Interior Design is 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays June 9-23. You learn basic interior design by creating a decorating plan, choosing room colors, arranging furniture, accessorizing, solving space problems, and using what you already have to produce a new look and more.
Both classes are held at the Milton campus and cost $35 each.
Register at any PJC campus or online at www.pjc.edu/ContinuingEducation.
For more information, call 484-1797.
Container gardening subject of last “Digging It” class
The final class in this portion (sixth of 10 class series) of the Navarre Garden Club’s excellent “Digging It” Horticulture Study Series will be given on Saturday, May 31st, at St Augustine’s Episcopal Church, on Hwy 98 in Navarre. The class will consist of a lecture, followed by a hands-on workshop. Participants should bring a container from 6 – 8” in diameter, with a drain hole, and will go home with a completed container garden. Individuals may want to bring small decorative items to place among their plants. (Stones, small pieces of wood, etc) The class begins at 8 am and ends at 12:30. Light morning refreshments will be served.
The series of 10 classes was designed for the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs By horticulture expert and instructor, Tina Tuttle. The first five classes have been very Popular with home gardeners and garden club members in the Navarre area. The remaining four classes will be scheduled later in the year.

srpressgazette.com


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'People tried to bully me'

Sheffield’s light welterweight king has been watching our campaign with interest - the programme involves boxers going into local schools and speaking out against intimidation and harassment.
Witter, who takes on American Timothy Bradley on an ITV bill at Nottingham Arena tomorrow, reveals he had once been a victim of bullying.
Speaking on video on thestar.co.uk, the Bradford-born fighter said: “I support the message. I don’t think you can actually grow up in a city without seeing some of it, especially from where I was from.
“You have got to do your bit to stop it, diffuse the situation, use words rather than violence. You have got to talk your way out of stuff and walk away” said the 34-year-old champ.
“You know it’s coming…some people are ignorant and don’t want to learn. You see them - you walk the other way step aside, let them go on their merry way and get on with your own stuff.”
Witter declared: “It’s like being in a pub and you know it’s going to kick off and you think yeah ok, they are going to fight I am going to be stuck in the middle - just get out of the way!”
In Bradford there was a time when “people tried to bully me” he said.
“There was the edge of racism in there as well. No matter what you do..you are not going to educate (them.) Keep away from them and let someone else get through to them because you cannot deal with everyone.
“I’ve seen fight two lads sparring, getting a little heated, a little irate, I just step in and diffuse the situation.
“I stopped some bullying when I was a kid at school. A young Asian kid that was getting bullied by these other Asian kids, it just kicked off I stopped them, I calmed them down…learn from the experience!”

thestar.co.uk


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