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Cookie Lady lets nothing stop her from treating our troops
The Cookie Lady is asking for more names of deployed soldiers so she can send them a batch of her made-from-scratch treats Share Updated: 1:15 PM PDT May 7, 2021 Riley Miller
Cookie Lady lets nothing stop her from treating our troops
The Cookie Lady is asking for more names of deployed soldiers so she can send them a batch of her made-from-scratch treats Share Updated: 1:15 PM PDT May 7, 2021 Riley Miller Anchor/Reporter A sweet treat for an even sweeter cause. A Hilton Head woman has made it her life s mission to thank our men and women in uniform, and she’s not letting anything stop her. Sugar, flour and a whole lot of love.That’s Hilton Head s Jeanette Cram’s special recipe.Nicknamed the Cookie Lady, her nonprofit Treat the Troops has sent 7.5 million cookies to our deployed military men and women.“A cookie, that just is home. That’s what they�
A sweet treat for an even sweeter cause. A Hilton Head woman has made it her life s mission to thank our men and women in uniform, and she’s not letting anything stop her. Sugar, flour and a whole lot of love.That’s Hilton Head s Jeanette Cram’s special recipe.Nicknamed the Cookie Lady, her nonprofit Treat the Troops has sent 7.5 million cookies to our deployed military men and women.“A cookie, that just is home. That’s what they’re missing, Cram said.Cram has been baking and shipping her homemade chocolate chip cookies to soldiers since 1990. Her efforts were even recognized by President George W. Bush, who invited her to the White House.“It’s the letters from the soldiers that keep you going, Cram said. Unfortunately, a foot injury forced her to hang up her apron for almost a year.And she started working with SYNERGY caregiver Julia Marshall to get back on her feet.“I asked, Why you call yourself the cookie lady? And she goes, Because I send cookies t
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The Aspen Chapel Gallery has partnered with nonprofit Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers (RFOV) to open the watercolor and sculpture exhibition “Happy Trails.”
The show will open on Wednesday, Feb. 17 with artists in attendance, from 4-7 p.m. for a limited number of viewers following COVID-19 protocols. It will run through April 11.
Participating artists are Larry Day, John Doyle, Jennifer Jones, Axel Livingston, Julia Marshall, Gregg McFadden, Nika Myers, Missy Prudden, Jane Seglem, Katy VanNostrand and Amy Beidleman, who also curated. Ten percent of sales will go to RFOV.
Gallery co-director Michael Bonds said Beidlemn “has put together an eclectic and diverse show featuring watercolors and sculpture. Please stop by for our safe opening and greet the artists and learn how to get involved with Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers.”
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Even if you’re a judge, a prosecutor or a police officer, you might not have given a lot of thought to the question of why we punish people. You might simply conclude that we punish people when they need to be punished. Developmental psychologist Julia Marshall isn’t satisfied with that sort of simplicity. We’ll talk to her about when and why we punish.
Marshall s latest study, recently published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, demonstrates that the urge to punish is so strong that even as children, many people are willing to make personal sacrifices in order to see a wrongdoer punished.