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Women's Expo set for March 21 at Civic Center: American Red Cross and Coosa Valley Credit Union present the 2009 Women's Expo March 21 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Cartersville Civic Center. This event will include health, finance, fitness, beauty, lifestyle and more. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. For more information, please call the Red Cross office at 770.382.0981.

-Coosa Valley CU ribbon-cutting today at 4 p.m. on Tennessee Street.

Meating Place's Bennett opens steakhouse, grill in Cave Spring

Months in the making, Bennett's Steakhouse & Grill opened for business Thursday on the Cave Spring square. Tracy Bennett and family, who own the popular Meating Place in Cartersville, have been working for months at 18 Broad St., the home of Martha Jane's Fudge and Gift Shop. The menus are available on the Web site. The hours for March: Lunch is serve Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Dinner is serve from 5 p.m. "until" Thursday through Saturday. Bennett's will add more days in April, he says.

-Free 'roast' burger might have you thinking Arby's: Perfectly timed with Sunday's "spring forward" time change, Arby's is offering customers a free roast burger (one of three varieties) if they buy a soft drink and tell the server, "I'm hear to change my burger." Coupons for the promotion are available at the Rome stores. What's makes this marking even more interesting: As of Thursday, it was the most read story tracked by the Atlanta Business Chronicle so far this week. The recent 15-cent Steak N Shake steakburgers also were a top pick of ABC readers, a surprise given the publication's upwardly mobile demographics> Arby's

-On Dining & Drink:  Latest public health restaurant scores for Floyd, Gordon, Bartow, Polk and Chattooga counties> Dining

Jamerson leaving Gordon Hospital after nine years as president, CEO:

Carlene Jamerson, president and CEO of Gordon Hospital for the last nine years, is leaving to become Chief Clinical Officer at the corporate office of Adventist Health System, Gordon Hospital's parent company. Jamerson's last week at Gordon will be the week of April 20> Media release

Gingrey on that Limbaugh issue again: The AJC's Political Insider has a quote out from U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey's appearance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Thursday where the topic sort of comes up again. The quote Gingrey as follows: "We have leaders," says Gingrey, naming Georgia colleague Tom Price of Roswell and others. "These talk show hosts are not Republican leaders … but they are strong voices of conservatism." And we inject: No, they're 10-digit-a-year entertainers profiting from all these power-grab dustups> AJC

>Watch the Gingrey segment from Washington Journal> Click

Big sports weekend

>Berry men, women, Shorter women move to round 2 of tournaments:

-At Berry's Cage Center today: Shorter women vs. Lee University, 2 p.m.; Southern Poly vs Berry women at 4 p.m.

-At Shorter's Winthrop-King Centre: Berry men vs. Lee University, 6 p.m.;
Auburn A-M vs. Southern Poly, 8 p.m.

-Tournament details and scores> Campus

>Shorter Hawks Blue & White spring football game: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Barron Stadium.Free and open to all.

>Saturday features Berry Half-Marathon, other runs: Health expo, pasta dinner kick event off tonight. For more, click Healthy Living

>High school basektball tournament at The Forum on Saturday> Brackets

$25 a week increase in jobless benefits for 180,000 Georgians> Details

Loudermilk: Conservatives jump-start Georgia's economy> Politics

 

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-Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 74.
-Friday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
-Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 81. 
-Saturday night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.
-Sunday: 20% chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 74.

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-On the verge of Madness: Stunning losses on the floor, record advertising on TV. Click Arey

WBHF/High school baseball broadcast schedule: You can hear the games at  WBHF 1450 AM or Web cast here on www.bartowheadlines.com:

-Friday & Saturday: LaGrange Tournament.