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Lowell Sun Lifestyles

• Helping Hands
  Relief fund set for family routed by Billerica fire BILLERICA -- A fund has been started to help the Giordano family, which was displaced by a fire at their home Dec. 15. They are presently staying in a hotel and will soon be in a mobile trailer as they await repairs.
• Making everyone feel like family
  DRACUT -- If you live in town, you've probably seen Athene Doherty. She's the energetic 80-year-old woman who volunteers at the silent auction for the library foundation and helps families in need pick out groceries at the Dracut Food Pantry.
• It's a small world, after all
  WESTFORD -- Jeanne Fallier lives in a Lilliputian world. It's inhabited by a tiny girl-turned-princess named Aurora, her green-eyed leopard, Emerald, Oliver Obnoxious, an ogre, a pair of talking geese named Mirabelle and Ethelbert, and sundry other characters with quirky names like Greta Gabby and Sam the Snoop.
• Project's goal is to limit Medicare patients' readmission to hospital
  WASHINGTON -- Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month -- even worse, one in four patients with heart failure. A major push is under way around the country to cut rehospitalizations, in part by arming patients with simple steps to keep their recovery on track -- like getting past
• Gluten-free diet can be nutritious
  Karen Collins is a registered dietitian with the American Institute for Cancer Research. Does a gluten-free diet make me more likely to get inadequate amounts of any nutrients? A gluten-free diet doesn't necessarily have to run short on any nutrients if it's built around plenty of vegetables and fruit, plus beans and nuts; unprocessed
• City to hold seasonal flu vaccine clinic
  Frank Singleton is the director of the Lowell Health Department. This is one in a series of occasional columns on the flu season. By Frank Singleton The city's first general adult flu clinic will be held tomorrow at another community partner's location, Middlesex Community College (in the cafeteria) at 33 Kearney Square.
• Michael Hayden: Not-so-retired guy backs out of promise to spend time with his wife
  DEAR MIKE: I'm angry with myself and am not sure what to do about it. My wife and I worked hard all our lives with the goal of retiring and spending quality time together. We enjoyed bringing up our children up, even though it was hectic, bringing them to baseball games, recitals and other activities and making sure they had all the things they
• Take 5
  Christmas with Kenny Spend Christmas with the Gambler -- Kenny Rogers, that is. The country-pop icon and his entourage ramble into Lowell Memorial Auditorium this afternoon with his Kenny Rogers Christmas and Hits.
• Here's The Deal
  Grocery list If the holidays put you in the mood to bake cookies, cakes and pies, Hannaford has all the ingredients on sale: a 32-oz. bag of Domino Confectioners Sugar for $1.39, a 5-lb. bag of Hannaford Flour for $1.
• Company's coming
  TV cooking star Paula Deen's holiday dishes may be rich, but they're not costly to prepare. Her Southern-style comfort food -- down-home and traditional -- is a natural fit for the season. It works out for anyone on a budget who's throwing a party for friends and family in coming weeks.
• Club News
  Send information for this listing 10 days in advance of publication to: Club News, Lifestyle Department, The Sun, Box 1477, Lowell, MA 01853. BEDFORD COUNCIL ON AGING: Mudge Way, Bedford, all programs 1 p.
• Value Added
  By the Editors of Consumer Reports Did you ever wonder why some packaged products in the grocery store have so much empty space in them? Consumer Reports' recent investigation turned up several products with packages that are as much as half-empty.
• Convenience can be expensive
  Tightwads have their limits. If you're frugal, you might buy the occasional convenience product but you have a list of items you simply refuse to buy. The price isn't worth the benefit of a shortcut that saves only a couple of minutes or seems absolutely crazy to spend money on.
• For kids, there's holiday fun beyond the toys under the tree
  Pups, and plenty of 'em, headline holiday vacation week fun in Boston this year. It's all because 101 Dalmatians, the Musical is in town. Fifteen frisky hounds and 30 humans bound into town for a limited run, Dec.
• 'NFL Arcade' maddening after just a few plays
  After the overwhelming success of Madden NFL 10, EA Sports is attempting to reach a more casual group of armchair quarterbacks with Madden NFL Arcade. EA's latest project, available for download on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, provides a less realistic, more easily accessible football experience than its deeply complex,
• A Single Man
  HHH This drama of grief and loss easily could have been one of those style-over-substance visual dazzlers, coming as it does from Tom Ford, the fashion designer who revived the house of Gucci. Yet with Colin Firth delivering a career performance that's pure elegance and heartache and Julianne Moore providing graceful support, the film works as
• Buzzworthy
  By Nancye Tuttle Celtic Christmas NASHUA, N.H. -- How about a little Irish cheer to make your holiday bright? Join Matt and Shannon Heaton for A Fine Winter's Night on Sunday at Studio 99. The pair will sing traditional Irish and original carols and sing fun, fresh stories about past holidays.
• Artist captures rural Dunstable for land trust calendar
  Janice Toth is known for her whimsical paintings and images of country life. Toth, a Dunstable resident, was tapped to create 12 paintings for the Dunstable Rural Land Trust's 2010 calendar -- and she couldn't be more thrilled.
• Children's holiday memories infuse 'Tru Grace'
  They're two holiday stories whose moods and settings couldn't be more different, says Wes Savick. And he's not referring to A Christmas Carol or A Christmas Story, which routinely show up on stages this time of year.
• Resolutions have a built-in failure factor
  This week, the "R" word became part of the daily dialogue. More than once with family, friends and frenemies, the term was tossed about with little discretion. It is something that makes me cringe every time I hear it, sort of like Tiger Woods does when he hears his text message go off while his wife is in the room.
• Tango Grill adds dinner to the menu
  By Nancye Tuttle ntuttle@lowellsun.com CHELMSFORD -- For two years, hungry folks have flocked to Peter and Dianna Varas' Tango Grill Cafe Restaurant for big breakfasts and lunches. But five months ago, the couple started serving dinner on Friday and Saturday nights.
• This former Spin Doctor is back in the house
  You could not turn on the radio or walk into a bar in the early '90s without hearing the Spin Doctors' seminal hits "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and "Two Princes." (In fact, if you know either of those songs, I'll bet you are singing one or both of them to yourself right now.
• So cheesy
  Amid the canapes and delicate phyllo fingers hosts feel obligated to conjure during the holidays, a cheese platter may seem like a cop-out. After all, you didn't make it.