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Foot-tapping good times
Making music together for 17 years
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By HOLLY KOZELSKY - Bulletin Accent Editor

Saturday night may be the traditional party time in a big city, but in Stanleytown, Tuesday mornings are when it’s hopping.

Every Tuesday morning from 8 to 10, it’s standing room only as a crowd of regulars gets together for music and singing.

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3,000 years and people still are the same

By HOLLY KOZELSKY - Bulletin Accent Editor

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How does a veteran reunite with his woman waiting back home, after so many years have gone by, changing them from whom they used to be?

Odysseus, who was at battle for two decades, asks his cold-hearted wife, Penelope, “What other wife could have a spirit so unbending? Holding back from her husband, at home at last for her, after bearing 20 years of brutal struggle.” In disgust and disappointment, he decides to go to bed alone.

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Forms are available from the Accent Department to announce engagements, weddings, births, anniversaries and birthday milestones in the Martinsville Bulletin. Normally, completed forms and photographs that are returned by noon Wednesday may qualify for publication the following Sunday. These announcements are published free of charge.

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Healthy eating on a budget
Joyce shows how it can be done
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By TRISHA VAUGHAN - Bulletin Accent Writer

As a SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) education program assistant for the Virginia Cooperative Extension for about a year and a half, Dee Joyce teaches others to cook healthy foods on a budget. She tries to practice what she preaches by cooking that way at home now.

Joyce, 29, said that many people don’t eat healthy because they think it costs too much or because healthy food doesn’t taste as good.

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