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Buy a special edition of the News & Record in pink for a buck and get a free lunch or dinner snack during a breast cancer awareness event Friday in downtown Greensboro.

Details here.

The "Pink Out" event will be at Center City Park. It begins with a lunchtime social featuring keynote speaker Nora Lynn Finch, associate commissioner of the ACC.

For lunch, You get a Chick-Fil-A snack and a pink coolie with the purchase of a News & Record newspaper.

At night, News & Record partners with First Fridays regarding a visual display of pink by local businesses and poetry by Josephus III starting at 6 p.m.

For dinner, Get a single slice of Papa John's pizza and a pink coolie if you buy a paper.

Twenty-five percent of single copy newspaper sales will be donated to local breast cancer foundations.

Sprucing up your home this fall on a budget and discounts on clothes for donations are some of the highlights of my Savvy Shopper column.

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Take your family bowling and get a meal for free Monday.

The event, part of nationwide Family Day 2009 activities, is from noon to 6 p.m. at AMF-All Star Lanes at 910 S. Holden Road.

It's sponsored by the bowling alley, Alcohol and Drug Services, Guilford County Substance Abuse Coalition and Chick-fil-A.

It's free for all Guilford County residents and will include door prizes from participating local businesses and restaurants.

All youth must be accompanied by a parent or guardian during the event and are reminded to wear sneakers. No rental shoes are required.

Research shows that children whose families eat dinner together are less likely to get involved in drugs and alcohol, said Amanda Story, a prevention service consultant with Alcohol and Drug Services.

For more information, contact Story at 333-6860 Ext. 241 or astory@ADSyes.org.

Hanesbrands postponed tomorrow’s annual community product sale because of the rain.

The new date is Sat. Oct. 3.

The company is donating 11 tractor-trailer loads of apparel to benefit the United Way of Forsyth County.

The annual community product sale will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the company's Weeks Plant parking lot at 401 W. Hanes Mill Road in Winston-Salem.

More than 100 volunteers from Hanesbrands and United Way will be on hand.

The sale will feature products from the company's top brands, including Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, Just My Size, L'eggs and Outer Banks.

Most apparel is priced between 50 cents and $8 and includes bras, panties, hosiery, tights, socks, sweat shirts and sport shirts.

Cash and credit cards will be accepted but not personal checks.

Lamps, jewelry, toys and furniture are some of the items you'll find in this weekend's yard sales.

Locations listed on Google Maps.

Get a discount on clothes if you donate canned food.

Songbirds Consignments at 2610 Lawndale Drive in Greensboro is sponsoring a canned food drive through Oct. 3.

All coats, jackets, blazers and shrugs, including real furs, but excluding Chico’s brand, will be 10 percent to 75 percent off to those who donate.

Songbirds Consignments has about 300 coats and jackets that will be on sale.

The store will also have extra canned goods shoppers can buy.

Store hours are from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, call 288-5456 or check out their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/songbirds.consignments.

Pretty good deal on a Blu-ray player at hhgregg: Sharp Aquos (model number BDHP22U) for $129.88 (regular $249.99).

By comparison, it's $179.99 at Amazon.com.

Deal valid Friday and Saturday only.

Got decent reviews, too.

Consumer Reports gave it a 74 out of 100. Not great. But not bad, either.

"This step-up Blu-ray player from Sharp is a BD-Live model that has very good overall performance, and excellent HD picture quality," the magazine says. "It comes with 2GB of memory, more memory than most. Its Blu-ray load time was on the slower side, despite a quick-start feature."

The Wii will be getting cheaper starting Sunday, Nintendo confirmed late yesterday.

That's when the price of the popular video game system will be cut by $50 to $200.

The timing comes as the Wii Fit-Plus and new Super Marios Bros. games are set to be released.

I'm partial to the Xbox 360, but I've enjoyed playing Wii with my nephews. They do a good job keeping their uncle humble during games of Wii Bowling.

A reminder that The Music Academy of North Carolina in Greensboro is hosting the first annual musical instrument consignment sale this weekend.

Bring your used instruments to the academy building at 1327 Beaman Place, Suite 100, on Friday from 3 to 8 p.m. They will then be evaluated and priced by music professionals.

They will then go on sale the next day beginning at 8 a.m.

To reserve your space to sell, send an e-mail to sdicamillo@musicacademync.org or call 336-379-8748, extension 112.

The event is sponsored by Noteworthy Piano Service, Artley Violins and Music Barn.

There's a first time for everything, right?

Nintendo, which has never cut the price of its poplar Wii video game system since its debut in 2006, will see its price drop by $50 to $200 beginning Sunday, Tech blog Engadget is reporting.

Engadget cited a leaked memo from Best Buy Co. talking about the price drop.

This also comes after rival console makers Microsoft and Sony cut the prices of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game systems in August.

But the Wii is king - it's the top selling console on the planet.