Are YOU Prepared?

September is National Preparedness Month and a good time to stop and think about plans and preparations in case a disaster should occur.

Buncombe County Board of Commissioners named current Associate County Attorney Michael Frue as the new County Attorney.

Prostate Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in men and 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed in their lifetime.

Keeping food safety in mind, this can be a good time to go through the cupboards, refrigerator and freezer to get rid of older foods and clean your shelves.

Everyone loves eating out. It’s fast, it’s easy, and most of all you don’t have to clean the dishes after the meal! However, have you ever wondered...just how clean is my favorite restaurant?

Want to learn how to do some basic repairs around the house? This course is for you!

If regular rainfall continues, this will be a good year to core aerate the lawn.

Each year, Americans use about 50 pounds of tissue paper products, such as toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels, paper napkins, and similar products.

Please consider giving a home to one of these wonderful pets! The shelter is okay, but they would love to have a home of their own!

Congratulations to Tamera Kempson for her Spinach Artichoke Dip recipe!

Find out the answers to the following voter registration questions in the Registering to Vote Section of the website:

• Am I already registered to vote in NC?
• Who can or who needs to register to vote?
• What are voter identification requirements?
• How do I and where can I register to vote?
• How do I change my voter registration?
• What are the deadlines to register to vote?
• When will I get my voter registration card?

For more information you can call the Board of Elections at 250-4200.

Find out at the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's website:

Toy Hazard Recalls

Here are the insects that you need to check your plants for this month:

• Ornamentals: Spruce mites on hemlock, juniper and spruce; lacebugs on azaleas, cotoneaster and pyracantha; bagworms on junipers and Leyland cypress; hemlock wooly adelgids on hemlock.
  
  
• Vegetables: Cabbage worms and aphids on cabbage, greens, broccoli; squash vine borers in squash and pumpkins; pickleworms in squashes and pumpkins.

For more information, call Buncombe County Cooperative Extension at 255-5522.

Join the Asheville Humane Society for Tuxedo Tuesdays – Every Tuesday in the month of September is a ‘Tuxedo Tuesday.’ Adopt a black-and-white ‘tuxedo’ cat for half off the usual adoption fee.

The fee to adopt a cat is normally $85; during the month of September on Tuesdays only, the fee will be $42.50. Kittens, usually $100, will be $50. In addition, if you adopt a tuxedo cat and you would like to adopt another cat, the fee for the second cat is waived. Any cat that is black-and-white (or even an all black cat with only one white whisker!) is considered a ‘tuxedo’ in the month of September.

• Asheville Humane Society Shelter
  72 Lee's Creek Rd., Asheville, NC 28806
• Every Tuesday in the month of September 2009