Habitat Builds Homes In Marion
Nancy Mayer of Habitat for Humanity in Marion and Dick Straub from Thrivent Lutheran Services discussed their big new project.

A grant from Thrivent has allowed, and forced, Habitat to build two houses at once. The grant rules say they must build more houses than they did before. So two houses are under construction in Marion, being built by volunteers.

The homes will go to partner families who have to put in hundreds of "sweat equity" hours helping to build the home. They they have to pay for the house, but get a break because the mortgage is a no-interest loan.

You can help out. In addition to cash and supply donations, the group needs a ton of volunteers. You don't need any construction experience, they will teach you everything to need to know. Plus they can use volunteers in their office, finding more volunteers, and even providing food for the workers.

You can learn more about Habitat and volunteer by calling 383-2007.

What Women Hate About What Men Wear
Women have a lot of opinions about what men wear. Guys...we are always so confused. Here are some tips from the experts, women, on what we should, and shouldn't, wear.

• Socks -- These were far the most frequently mentioned item of annoyance. Socks, women say, must be long enough to cover the calf or yuck. Nothing is less titillating than a glimpse of a hairy skin below the trouser cuff when a man wearing short socks crosses his legs. Also out are socks with clogs, black socks with tennis shoes and socks with holes in them.
• Miami Beach macho -- Exposing five buttons' worth of chest and a medallion should be hung by their gold chains.
• Misfits -- Women say clothes that don't fit advertise poor character traits.
• Textures -- Passions run high. Men shouldn't wear velour, it's like being with a stuffed animal. Silk is arrogant. Corduroy, yes! Rayon, no! Camel's hair, yes! Double knit, no! Eventually one rule emerges, men shouldn't shine.
• Shoes -- This is an easy one. Whether women were partial to men in Gucci's or Adidas, glove-leather tips or crepe-sole Hush Puppies, nobody loves tassel loafers.
• Color, anything goes -- For instance, heather green is great in a sport jacket, kelly green is ghastly. For a sweater, buttercup yellow is warm and friendly, chartreuse off-putting. If it stops traffic, stop wearing it.
• Underwear -- Questions about boxers or briefs and t-shirts verses sleeve-less undershirts produced another quick consensus. This issue is settle by body type. The man with a good "bottom" and tight belly should wear jockeys. The well-muscled-shoulder man should wear sleeveless. Everyone else shouldn't. Pictures and slogans should be left to little boys under the age of 12.

National Sandwich Month
National Sandwich Month -- Here's some sandwich stats from Redbook:

• 2.19 billion Oscar Mayer bologna sandwiches are eaten each year. That works out to more than 6 million daily, or 69 every second.
• 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are eaten by the average child by the time he graduates from high school.
• 5,440 pounds is the weight of the largest sandwich ever made it was corned beef by Wild Woody's Chill and Grill in Roseville, MI.
• $197 the approximate price of the world's most expensive sandwich, prepared at the Von Essen hotels in England. It's made with Iberico ham, poulet de Bresse, white truffles, quail eggs, semi-dried Italian tomatoes, and 24 hour fermented sourdough bread.
• 41 grams of fat are in an Elvis sandwich which is white bread, butter, smooth peanut butter, and banana. The King himself is reported to have eaten 12 in a single sitting.

Thought For The Day
At the library, do they place the Bible in the fiction or non-fiction area?

Weather Kid
Today's Weather Kid from Epworth Preschool & Daycare was Richard.

If you want to hear the Weather Kids, click here.

Coming Up
On Thursday, we're on the road again as we take the show to Morral. It's all part of our Summer Tour 2007.