Stewart was among notables in the category for “excellence” in journalism and community service.

Stewart is a “pillar” in the Washington Metropolitan area and often lends her name to support charitable causes.

Stewart will celebrate (25) years in broadcasting next year.

Sources are reporting that wide receiver Terrell Owens underwent surgery to repair his ACL this off-season. Rumors are spreading that the injury occurred during the filming of his reality show, though his agent Drew Rosenhaus shot down that claim.

Owens is still actively looking to play a 16th season this year with the Cincinati Bengals, though he will be a free agent when the NFL lockout ends.

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A film by Washington, DC resident Regina Griffin, “Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story”,  has been selected as one of four documentaries to be screened at the Black American Film Festival in Miami, FL, July 6-9.  Her documentary directorial debut is a powerful story of the painful plight of biracial, bicultural, and illegitimate children  born to white German women and black American soldiers during postwar occupation Germany. For more information visit:

www.brownbabiesproject.com orwww.facebook.com/pages/Brown-Babies-The-Mischlingskinder-story/178570738866457

This is the 5th year for the NBC4 FOOD 4 Families campaign. The 5th Annual NBC4 FOOD 4 Families campaign is on the horizon! On Monday, November 22, 2010 beginning 6am-6pm, NBC4 Food 4 Families and WMMJ(*) will be on site in front of the Verizon Center collecting donations, (if you are making a donation, please make checks payable to NBC4 FOOD 4 Families), and non-perishable items that are not dated.
Your invited to join the team on site at the Verizon Center, where we will be broadcasting live throughout the day.
Prior to November 22nd, if you would like to make a donation, they can be made online at NBCWashington.com using secure site.
Since the beginning of this worthy campaign, almost 40,000 families throughout our region have received Thanksgiving baskets.

Thank you  all as we continue to help the community.

2010 Marlton Golf Club Charity Tournament

Help the Marlton Golf Club raise money for

The American Red Cross of the National Capital Region

August 9, 2010 @ Marlton Golf Club

9:00 am Shotgun Start

4 Man Captains Choice Tournament

Giveaways: shoes, sleeve of balls, sunglasses

Contests: Longest drive, closest to the pin, and hole-in-one prizes

Celebrity appearances by the Washington Redskins, Politicians, Actors and jazz music.

Raffles and great auction items, Range balls and meal included

For more details call the pro shop at (301) 856-7566

VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER:

The Washington area is still at high risk for drops in housing prices by the end of next year, despite a recent uptick in home sales and prices, according to a new report.

There is a 77 percent chance that local home prices will be lower in the fourth quarter of 2011 than in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the second-quarter 2010 Risk Index published by PMI, a mortgage insurance company.

Though the figure declined from an 89 percent chance from the third quarter of 2009, the report still classified the area’s risk of price declines as “high.”

The area’s unemployment rate and affordability ranked relatively well, but prices — which declined 15 percent year-over-year from the fourth quarter — really hurt Washington’s score, said PMI spokesman Joel Luebkeman.

Updated data from the first quarter, though, showed price stabilization, Luebkeman said.

“If all other factors remain the same … you would expect the risk score for the D.C. area to show additional improvement,” he said.

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VIA CBS NEWS:

Today marks the federally-recognized National Day of Prayer, an annual tradition that dates back to 1952.

Will it be the last?

Last month, a U.S. District Judge in Wisconsin ruled that the government-sanctioned event, established by Congress and marked with a proclamation from the president, is unconstitutional.

“It goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgment’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context,” wrote Judge Barbara Crabb, who said the event violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause banning the creation of a “law respecting an establishment of religion” in the Constitution.

Crabb’s decision resulted from a lawsuit filed by a group of atheists and agnostics called the Freedom From Religion Foundation, who complained that the government did not have the right to tell them to pray.

But it did not stop the Obama administration from issuing a National Day of Prayer proclamation this year, just as it had last year; in it, President Obama calls on citizens to “pray, or otherwise give thanks.”

“Throughout our history, whether in times of great joy and thanksgiving, or in times of great challenge and uncertainty, Americans have turned to prayer,” said Mr. Obama. “In prayer, we have expressed gratitude and humility, sought guidance and forgiveness, and received inspiration and assistance, both in good times and in bad.”

The ruling declaring the day unconstitutional sparked outrage from lawmakers, who said it went against America’s religious tradition and urged the Obama Justice Department to appeal. Said House Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Lamar Smith: “What’s next? Declaring the federal holiday for Christmas unconstitutional?”

The Justice Department did decide to appeal, and Crabb said it was fine for the National Day of Prayer to go forward until appeals are exhausted, which is why it is being recognized today despite the ruling.

Opponents of the day say they do not object to private days of prayer – and, indeed, thousands of private events are taking place nationwide today – but they say the government should not be involved; the Obama administration counters that it simply acknowledges the role of religion in American life.

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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST:

Officials at the National Zoo announced their latest addition: a scimitar-horned oryx born April 9 at their conservation center in Front Royal, Va.

“Because most of the species we work with are critically endangered or extinct in the wild, each offspring born here is a real treasure and a testament to our scientific efforts,” said Steve Monfort, director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. “Each newborn represents hope that their species will survive.”

This is the first time in more than a decade that there has been an oryx birth at the Front Royal campus. Oryx are extinct in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The oryx, a female, weighed 20 pounds at birth.

The birth is good news for the zoo’s effort to breed the animals. Last October, two oryx — a 16-year-old female at the Rock Creek campus and a 17-year-old male at the Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, died after undergoing health exams.

Adult oryx are known for their curved horns that can be up to several feet long, but newborns have small horn buds from which the horns will grow. The mother of the calf is 3-year-old Jena and her father is 13-year-old Dr. Bob. With the calf’s recent birth, there are now 16 scimitar-horned oryx at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and one at the zoo in Washington.

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