The Times of Trenton Living News

Stories on kids & families, lifestyles & more

• Fall's hearty harvest
Jeanette Van Handel has a recipe for Brussels sprouts that even kids will eat.

• Culinaire
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County will be the beneficiary along with those sampling gourmet foods when 20 local chefs offer their best tidbits for tasting at tomorrow's Autumn Culinaire 2008.

• How green is their Valley
In this vest-pocket-size borough of Pennington, quite possibly one of the most picturesque in all New Jersey, lives a young father named Tom Adelman with a new take on the Green Movement.

• SEVEN
The organizers of the Hopewell Valley Green Market will make information on composting, rainwater collection and other greening activities available at the festival. Here are some things the Green Market may persuade you to take up in your own home.

• Needlework
For three years, Lawrenceville resident Geeta Eastmond suffered recurring headaches and abdominal pains so acute that she sometimes had to go to the emergency room.

• ACUPUNCTURE OVERVIEW
Acupuncture is a Chinese method of healing that has been used for 3,000 years. Based on the principal that illness is caused by the blockage of 'chi' or energy in the body, acupuncture releases the chi with the use of fine, sterile, metallic, usually stainless steel, needles that are inserted into the surface of the skin at various key points in the body.

• Lawrenceville's
The annual Taste of Lawrenceville tasting party is on the move.

• Casting a baleful eye on food history
Television shows like to use the term "ripped from the headlines," when they fea ture timely topics. Author Bee Wil son can borrow that phrase as she brings her book tour next week to the Princeton Public Library in the borough.

• Economical approach
My children's eyes glazed over when we tried to talk to them about the current financial crisis and the $700 billion bailout. But they've shown a bit more interest in the current election and my younger son has a Barack Obama button on his backpack because he thinks he is "cool."

• To downsize or reconfigure,
that was the question It seemed inevitable. Or was it just another "everyone's doing it, so maybe I should, too" phase? Was it like the "everybody's getting married" or "all my friends are having babies" rites of passage?

• For 55 years, their gardens have grown
When the West Trenton Garden Club gathers for its monthly meet ing Monday, members will pore over scrapbooks they have kept over five-and-a-half decades. This group of gardening enthusiasts has a rich history to celebrate. Chances are, if there is a beautifully landscaped public space in Ewing, it had something to do with it.