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To show support for a teammate battling cancer, the Lowell High School football team and friends will participate in Saints Medical Center’s cancer walk this Saturday, Sept. 20.  The one- or three-mile walk starts at Two Hospital Drive in Lowell and returns to the center for music, fun and refreshments. For more information on the walk, check here. Also, tomorrow night you can show your support for the Red Raiders as they face Nashua in their first varsity home game of the 2008 season (7 p.m. Cawley Stadium). In true LHS tradition, these boys not only know how to play football, they know what it means to be good sportsmen with big hearts. Go Red Raiders!

Have you been up to Parlee Farms this year? Today, you can pick your own apples, flowers and raspberries, or at the Farmstand, they still have fresh peaches as well as apples, blueberries, strawberries and corn. The rarity of a fresh, local peach is something that I have come to cherish, and I’ll go a ways out of my way to get one. I always get a sense of peace and serenity just turning down Farwell Road, lined with stone walls and overhung with trees, it’s like going back in time 30 or so years, then rounding the corner to the welcoming sight of the farm and fields – so much ordered prosperity delights the eye. (It’s a great place to bring the kids, too – they have hayrides, homemade ice cream, fresh donuts and animals!)