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■Golf Anyone? October 10, 2008 the Trailblazers will host a Fairways to Trailways golf tournament, four person scramble. This fundraiser will help city and Baldwin County governments match federal funds for completing trails throughout the county. For information contact tournament chairman B.J. Guido at (251) 929-0167 or www.thetrailblazers.org.

■Katrina-Damaged Museum Needs Cookbooks

Liz Williams, president of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, is sending out an SOS to home cooks, bakers and culinary professionals. She estimates that the museum lost over half of its cookbook collection to the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. An eternal optimist, Liz is working hard to transform tragedy into opportunity by taking on the ambitious project of rebuilding the museum's library to be the world's most complete repository of books, booklets, manuscripts, and documents about Southern food and drink. In order to accomplish this, Liz needs cookbooks -- and lots of them!

The museum is not only seeking culinary books about the American South, but also volumes from areas that have influenced Southern foodways. This means all new and used food-themed books, in all conditions (food-spattered and beat-up is just fine), dealing with cuisines from all over the world. Liz emphasizes that they're seeking everything from professionally written cookbooks and culinary histories to community cookbooks and pamphlets. In Liz's own words: "We're truly looking for one of everything!" (The museum will find good homes for any duplicates.)

The address for (fully tax-deductible) donations is:

Southern Food & Beverage Museum

attn. Liz Williams

1 Poydras Street, #169

New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

For more info about the museum or this project, please visit southernfood.org (click on "collections," then "library") or email liz@southernfood.org. If you do send a book donation, Liz asks that you please make sure to include your name and address so the museum can acknowledge your generosity.

■Brown Bag by the Bay: Catt's Sunday Brunch Radio Avalon and the City of Daphne present a free lunchtime series of concerts. Bring your lunch to May Day Park Thursdays in April and May for music and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. Parking is available and a shuttle will be available to take you up the hill from the amphitheater to the parking lot. Talent is local and the schedule includes:

■ Pig in the Park Chef Will Hughes cooks for SEEDS !! Saturday May 31st in Jubilee Courtyard on Main Street, Daphne. Advance tickets $15 or $20 day of the event. Plated lunch includes Chef Will's great barbecue pork, side items and dessert---plus a commemorative t-shirt. Proceeds benefit SEEDS classroom enrichment initiatives in Daphne. Visit www.seedsindaphne.org for details!

■ Arbor Day! Daphne will celebrate Arbor Day on Saturday, February 23rd at Village Point Park from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. There will be 4,900 trees to be given away and information brochures will be provided by the Daphne Beautification Committee. Come early for the best tree selection! Free tours of Jackson's Oak and family activities will be provided.

■A fundraising Benefit for Baldwin County Search and Rescue Squads from Daphne, North Baldwin SAR and South Baldwin SAR in honor of their participation in the recent tragic search operation in Bayou LaBatre. This event is sponsored by the America Legion Post #199, Elks Lodge #1879 and Fairhope Emblem Club #241. The event will be from noon to 9:00 p.m. with an all day Concert, with Lisa Mills , Fat Man Squeeze, Tyler Champion Band, Hank Becker, the ‘Randy Branch’, Jimmy Lee Hannaford, Keith Glass Group, and others to be announced; with a ‘Jubilee Jam/Open Mike’ to be held after 9 p.m. The Elks are having chili and hot dogs, each search and rescue unit shall display equipment and have demos, visiting search dogs, silent & live auctions, a MOONWALK for the kids, & more. Saturday, February 23rd!