Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day is the perfect time to renew your commitment to making our world a better place, and improving your life! BellaOnline is running thirty days of fun Earth Day challenges. Join us to learn about great new ideas for delicious menus, easy household cleaning, and life decluttering!

Today's Earth Day Challenge is to bring inspiration into your life. What are you grateful for today? What might you sometimes take for granted, but which is so important?

Earth Day Challenge

F E A T U R E S

How Meaningful is Your Child's GPA?
Maeve Maddox, BellaOnline's School Reform Editor
Thanks to weighted courses in high school, 4.0 is no longer the highest GPA that can be earned. Weighting enables students to manipulate the system in order to "look good" on their college applications. These days, GPA is not a dependable gauge of high school achievement.

Devils Tower and The Pleiades
Phyllis Doyle Burns, BellaOnline's Folklore and Mythology Editor
Looking Southeast in the early morning hours I saw them. The Seven Sisters, sitting peacefully together, safe from danger. They have become a beautiful star cluster and celestial ancestors.

W H A T ' S N E W

Finally a Deal Has Been Struck
An article about the every changing saga of the Mill Creek Golf Course and our efforts to buy it from the owner.

Protein Foods – Your Body’s Building Blocks
The amino acids in protein foods are the building blocks of the human body. So getting optimum amounts of good quality high protein foods is essential to you.

Confusing Words from Earn to Either
Are flowers kept in an earn or in an urn? Is effect a noun or a verb? Is an offensive word an affront or an effrontery? Which one is a number, ate or eight? If you were going in for surgery, would you be knocked out with ether or either?