Tuesday and the Flowers of the Mine

Students Tour Helena
The HMS 8th grade class got a special treat yesterday when they were able to get a tour of the Eureka mine area. They were standing several hundred feet above where they will be attending High School in a few years. A couple of them even found some old artifacts while walking around. Ken showed them the mine and the engine mount building. I stopped by for an hour and helped Ken collected the flower bulbs of the original miners. Speaking of which...

Helena Heritage Bulbs
There are a large numbers of double daffodil bulbs at the site. These rare Helena heritage bulbs were brought to the mining town over 100 years ago. Ken needs volunteers to help dig them up 369-1448 and plant them around so they will not be lost to the bulldozer. Call him up and give an hour of you time and your garden at home will thank you! I got a hundred of them and Ken asked me to give them away to people yesterday. So we will keep theses special flowers growing in Helena. Speaking  of which....

Hope Sweet Cakes
While giving out the daffodil bulbs from Eureka, I met Hope. She makes really creative cakes and lives here. She has website and facebook page for her cakes. It is called Hope's Sweet Cakes and her facebook page is here. I mean, theses are really cool looking cakes!

Local Online Deals
A couple of businesses have online deals. The first one is Lucia Italian who have a Rapid Rewards program now and Rocking S Farm Riding Academy has a Groupon special for $40 lessons.

Miss PHS 2012
Yesterday, I forgot to mention the Helena Belles who participated in the Miss PHS Pageant 2012: Courtney Elise Wood, Hannah Hurst (Top 25), Maddie Crain (Top 25), Anderson Watts, Erin Michelle McDonald (Sophmore Elite and Miss Photogenic), Heather Boyle, Savanna Windham (3rd Runner-Up), and Emily Taylor. If I left anyone else from Helena who was in the pageant. Let me know.

Future Hewy
I won't be able do this forever so I should probably train a replacement. Amy sent me the picture of her son who actually looks like my profile picture from the Christmas Story. I bet he even has better writing skills than me.

Safety Course Offered
Helena Fire Department is offering an Advanced Cardiac life Support Provider course at Helena Fire Station #2. There are spots still available. Contact Daniel Mills 205-356-2861 with question or keep up will all the upcoming course at their facebook page: Helena Fire Department

Brooke, Case and Bell
Brooke Dodson has a fundraising page for The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs via the 2012 Mercedes Marathon in honor of his friend Case Nicolas Rush

Case was born early and was diagnosed with Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) which affects the white matter in his brain which has also led to Cerebral Palsy (CP) and other motor skill and developmental delays. Case Nicolas will be three years old in May, 2012 and has been attending The Bell Center for two years.

The Bell Center has been working with Case Nicolas to develop ways for him to communicate and to improve his motor skills, both of which can be obstacles for children with PVL and CP. They have had success with him drinking through a straw which his neurologist did not anticipate occurring until he is 4 or 5 years old. They have also fitted him with leg braces which will hopefully allow him to stand and walk on his own one day. If you would like help Brooke and Case, you can go to this page: Bell Runners

Found Dog
James found this dog in Hillsboro (pictured to the side). If this is yours then you can get ahold of James at crimsonengineer@gmail.com.

End of the Month
Since it is almost the end of the month, I used search insights to view the top search terms from web users in our area. I was find it interesting to see what everyone else was searching for on the web. You will see two list. One for the top search terms and the other for the terms that were trending higher. Did you search for any of these terms this month?

Top Searches
1. 2012
2. baby
3. bible
4. wedding
5. games
6. calendar
7. pregnancy
8. god
9. love
10. calendar 2012

Rising Searches
1. joe paterno
2. sopa
3. abc 33 40
4. irs
5. bjcc
6. beyonce
7. fox 6 news
8. birmingham weather
9. facebook login
10. weather channel