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Calendar: Upcoming events for the Home & Garden
Community craft fairs are a good place to find holiday decorations or purchase giftsfor friends and relatives. Check the Special events listing in today's calendar. Garden Events Today-Sunday: UCCE Placer County master gardeners will staff an information booth and be available to answer questions at the Mountain Mandarin Festival; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; $5, ...

Quick takes on home and garden: Corn Hill holiday tour; make a topiary decoration
Corn Hill dresses for visitors; Garden Factory holiday event; topiary; botanical illustrations.

Garden Party
The Women?s Home in Montrose has branched out. Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday.

Send in your home and garden questions
Got questions about how to fix up your home and garden for the winter and beyond? Is there a project you want to tackle, but don't know how to approach? Send in your questions, and TODAY's home expert Lou Manfredini might answer them on TODAY.

Home for the Holidays tour for Gardeners of the Grove
Once again Karen and Joel French have gone all out in decorating their home for the holidays, and this year Gardeners of the Grove, Elk Grove?s newest garden club, presents ?Home for the Holidays,? a tour of the home on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 4 to 9 p.m.

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Council designates land for community garden
Come next spring, Monticello will become a little more beautiful. At Monday?s city council meeting, council unanimously authorized the use of land located at 407 W. 6th Street for a community garden.

Home Front: Thanksgiving Table Decor, Christmas Decorating Without a Fireplace, Shuttered Shelter Magazines, Closet ...
Post Home Section staffers Jura Koncius and Terri Sapienza take questions on your decorating dilemmas. This week they're counting down to Thanksgiving and offering advice on table settings, guest room preparation and more.

Ornamental options: Christmas ornaments for tree and table
Tool ornaments We hate to start thinking of Christmas before it's even Thanksgiving, but it will be tree-trimming time before you know it. To get the best selection, we asked our sources for the latest ornament options and offer a...

Make a beeline to a pesticide-free garden
Stop using pesticides today. The more diverse your garden becomes, the less you'll need to rely on chemical sprays to maintain your landscape.

Blazers blow out Bulls to stay perfect at home
PORTLAND ? A sellout crowd of 20,599 fans showed up at the Rose Garden to watch Greg Oden make his home debut with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Hayrides offered at Garden of Lights
Muskogee?s annual Garden of Lights at Honor Heights Park presents an opportunity for a unique and colorful hayride.

Spring Branch welcomes The Women?s Home to neighborhood
Neighbors from Spring Branch welcomed the future Jane Cizik Garden Place, an 88-unit affordable housing complex for women, to their community Saturday

Home and Garden Calendar
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In Our Schools: Expanded garden at Lehman teaches sustainability, environmental health
Over on West Hill, a fence with a ?Deer Barrier? sign protects the garden at the Lehman Alternative Community School.

Home and garden calendar
"THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS," flower arranging class, 9:30-11:30 a.m. Nov. 21, Lyon Arboretum, Manoa; $10, plus $15 supplies fee; 988-0472. LYON ARBORETUM ANNUAL HOLIDAY PLANT AND CRAFT SALE, with ti varieties, assorted orchids, gingers, heliconias, bromeliads, native Hawaiian plants, anthuriums, vegetable seeds, Christmas wreaths and ornaments, and jams and jellies; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 22, Lyon ...

Portland Notebook: Greg Oden impresses crowd coming off the bench in home debut
PORTLAND ? The Rose Garden fans got their first regular-season look at center Greg Oden, and he did not disappoint.

HomeFront | Trends in home & garden
TOURColumbia by candlelightThe 31st annual Columbia Christmas by Candlelight Tour of Homes will be held 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30.Among the 11 tour stops are the Columbia Museum of History (open till 5 p.m.) and the restored caretaker's home at the Historic Mount Bethel Cemetery.There will als...