Junior Bulls offer healthy role models

Partnership for a Drug-Free NC and Durham Bulls Baseball are teaming up in a new program, called Junior Bulls, to provide young people with positive role models to encourage healthy, drug-free lifestyles.

The Junior Bulls Club provides access to Bulls players and coaches, the chance to sit in the V.I.P. section and special offers on free tickets. Members also will receive prizes and discounts and a chance to design a jersey that Bulls players will wear at a special home game.

Members are required to remain drug-free and encourage friends to do the same. Membership costs $10 for the 2009 season. Half of the proceeds go to community substance abuse prevention and treatment. To learn more or sign up, visit www.durhambulls.com/juniorbulls.

HELP FIGHT DIABETES AND HUNGER

Here are a couple of other ways to help out some good causes this month.

* Go to the Web site, YouHaveGotToBeKidding.com, and ask a career question or share a fun or outrageous career story, and the Web site will donate $5 to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in recognition of November as diabetes awareness month. The deadline for participating is Nov. 30.

* Support a food drive by the Hemlock District of the Occoneechee Council of the Boy Scouts of America by donating a can of nonperishable food in food collection areas of local stores.

The Scouting for Food Program is a part of the Boy Scouts of America's Good Turn for America Initiative.

Visit www.goodturnforamerica.org for more information about the program.