GRAND BLANC, MI -- March 27, 2015: . Looking over your car in the spring is a lot like facing the mirror after a night of insomnia. Thank the winter of 2014-15, when few parts of the country were spared the snow, ice, frigid temps and, now potholes that sap strength from batteries and chew up suspensions.

April, which is spring car care month, is a good time to give your car a thorough vehicle checkup before the summer driving season, said Greg St. Aubin, who leads technician training for ACDelco, General Motors original equipment and independent aftermarket parts brand.

Many services are best left to the pros, while customers can do others themselves, he said.

Before you do anything, give your car a good spring bath.

Regular car washes and waxes protect your car from corrosive debris. In parts of the country where salt is used on the roads, regular washing of the undercarriage is especially important, said Rich White, executive director of the nonprofit Car Care Council in Bethesda, Md.

Along with routine services like an oil and filter change, brake check and fresh wiper blades, ACDelco experts recommend the following:

Go with the pros:

Do it yourself:

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On Good Friday, the pulpit at St. Peters Episcopal Church will feature meditations on the seven last words of Jesus by five lay and ordained ministers.

The Rev. Rodney S. Sadler of Union Presbyterian Seminary and Sardis Baptist Church, St. Peters member Elizabeth Richardson and the Revs. Joslyn Ogden Schaefer, L. Murdock Smith, and Ollie V. Rencher will preach during the three-hour service on April 3. St. Peters, established in 1834, is located at 115 W. Seventh St. at in Center City.

Officiated by the Rev. Jonathan E. Soyars, the 12- 3 p.m. Good Friday service will include chanting of the Passion narrative, intentional silence, exceptional music for choir and organ, hymns, and the solemn act of venerating the cross.

This dramatic service reflects one of many ways for our parish church to boldly proclaim the spectacular story about the unconditional love, justice, and reconciling power of Jesus, said Father Ollie Rencher, Rector of St. Peters. It will be a gift to hear brief sermons about the Crucifixion from a variety of voices before we celebrate the Resurrection on Easter Day.

The Good Friday service is a core aspect of Christians observance of Holy Week, beginning with Palm Sunday on March 29. Palm Sunday services typically include the Procession of Palms and reading of the Passion Gospel. St. Peters will offer several services between Holy Week and Eastertide.

Sunday of the Passion, March 29 8 a.m., 10:45 a.m. Procession of Palms, Passion Reading, Holy Communion with music 5 p.m. Agape meal featuring traditional Mediterranean cuisine 6:15 p.m. Passion Reading and Holy Communion with Music

March 30-31, April 1 7:30 a.m. Prayer (30 minute service) 12 p.m. Holy Communion (30 minute service) 5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross (Monday only)

Maundy Thursday, April 2 7:30 a.m. Prayer (30-minute service) 12 p.m., 7 p.m. Holy Communion, stripping of the altar and foot washing (optional) 8:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m. Prayer vigil in the chapel

Good Friday, April 3 7:30 a.m. Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament (30 minute service) 12-3 p.m. Hourly meditations, prayers, hymns, music for organ, and choir 4-5 p.m. Childrens version of Stations of the Cross. All ages are welcome.

Holy Saturday, April 4 8 p.m. The Great Vigil of Easter Day: First Fire of Easter, Incense, baptisms, Holy Communion with music

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FEMAIL called on industry's hottest hairdressers to share insider knowledge Never comb it after the shower and use tepid water Don't run shampoo through the ends

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It's something we all do on a near daily basis, but could the reason behind those all-too-frequent 'bad hair days' be because you're washing your hair wrong?

The reason your hair feels silky soft after a visit to the salon isn't pure coincidence; it's because hairdressers are carefully trained to wash and condition hair using a tried-and-tested regime.

There is, in fact, a wrong way to wash your hair, and getting it wrong can take your hair from silky and shiny to totally lackluster and damaged.

FEMAIL called on the industry's hottest hairdressers to share their insider knowledge on what you're doing wrong and the simple steps to make sure you do it right.

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In a couple weeks, it will be both Passover and Easter two overlapping holidays that to Christians will be forever intertwined and, to the Jewish people, a demonstration of Gods power to rescue them from slavery, death and Pharaoh.

How so? The night of Passover was also the night that Jesus was betrayed by Judas and taken by the Roman guards for trial.

Jesus and his disciples had celebrated the Passover meal that night, following the Jewish tradition that had been commanded for the Jewish people following their deliverance from Egypt and the cruel masters that had enslaved them.

You are most likely familiar with that story how God called Moses to lead the Israelites to freedom and the plagues God sent when Pharaoh repeatedly refused to let them go.

Water turning to blood, frog and insect infestations and finally the deaths the firstborn of the Egyptians including Pharaohs family.

The firstborn of the Israelites were spared because they had been warned by God this was coming. They were to paint above their doorways with the blood of a lamb. When the angel of death saw the blood, he would pass over that house, leaving all alive. Thus, that is celebrated in the Jewish faith as Passover, (and remembered by Christians for that significance as well.)

The season of Lent, the time approaching Easter, is commemorated in some of our churches with special events, like the soup suppers and devotionals at Grace Lutheran Church being held on Wednesday evenings approaching Easter.

The next event coming up in regard to the holidays is Good Friday, the day Jesus hung on the cross.

For several years now, this community has gathered at the Church of the Nazarene at noon on Good Friday April 3 this year and that also is the first day of the April 311 Passover celebration.

This community event has been well-attended by all denominations, with participation by several pastors and local vocalists, and I have been to many of them. I would encourage you to go to this one; it is always such a joy to see folks from all denominations worshiping together. And the location in town makes it possible for people to attend on their lunch hours.

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HARTFORD So much for not touching Carl Andre's controversial stone sculpture in the relocation of downtown's Gold Street.

Workers marking utility lines last week spray-painted in orange and red the bases of 16 of the 36 glacial rocks that make up Andre's "Stone Field Sculpture" on the north side of the street.

"It was a mistake," Thomas E. Deller, the city's director of development services, said. "We have to talk to the contractor and come up with a protocol to make sure this doesn't happen again."

Lines are routinely marked in preparation for construction projects to ensure that they are not ruptured. The work is directed by "the Call Before You Dig" program, but the markings are performed either by utility companies or contractors they hire.

Deller said it was likely the workers did not know the significance of the boulders, which range in weight from 1,000 pounds to 10 tons.

"Unfortunately, the underground electric lines on that part of Gold Street run beneath the Stone Field Sculpture," said Mitch Gross, a spokesman for Eversource, formerly Connecticut Light & Power Co. "Still, we recognize that the boulders should not have been marked with paint."

Gross said the paint is biodegradable and is designed to disappear over time. But Eversource is directing On Target, the company that does line painting for the utility, to immediately remove the paint from the rocks.

"We are also using this opportunity to remind our contractors and employees to always be mindful of their surroundings when they are working," Gross said.

Eversource's line painter won't have to bother cleaning up the mess. Monday afternoon, workers from the Hartford Business Improvement District's "Clean Team" showed up with graffiti cleaner and brushes and started scrubbing. The team, more formally called cleaning ambassadors, routinely remove graffiti and pick up litter within the district.

"This is what we do on a daily basis," Michael Zaleski, the district's executive director, said, standing near one of the row of rocks.

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The Western Reserve Port Authority has approved a $25,000-per-year contribution for three years to the effort by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber to hire someone to avoid closure or reductions at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.

John Boccieri, a former congressman, squadron commander at the base and a port authority board member, abstained from voting on the measure.

He received an opinion from the Ohio Ethics Commission last month indicating he should fully withdraw from consideration of matters before the authority that will affect [the Air Force Reserves] interests.

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Rose Ann Jersan DeLeon, former executive director of the Western Reserve Port Authority, died over the weekend.

DeLeon, 60, of the Cleveland area, was hired to operate the port authoritys new economic-development office in 2009 and stayed in that position until early 2014 when she left because of illness.

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Image of a hydro pole fire in Toronto on March 3, 2015.

TORONTO- Utility crews have been busy over the past couple of weeks working to restore power to thousands of homes across the GTA. The culprit in most of these outages has been a single hydro pole fire. One pole fire can affect power tens of thousands of residents in a given community.

The odd thing is, these fires happen when we get rain or drizzle in the winter months.

The unlikely contributor is the road salt we use to melt snow and ice.

John McClean is the Vice President, Operations at Power Stream, whichserves municipalities in the 905 and 705 regions, and saidthe fireshappen every winter when we get an accumulation of contamination on the insulators that carry our conductors typically salt contamination.

Normally, McCleans crews would be washing the salt off the poles but they can only do that when the temperatures warm up above minus 5 degrees Celsius. We didnt get anywhere near that temperature through January and February so the salt built up in the insulators.

When the temperature finally flirted with freezing, we got rain and drizzle. Mix the water with the salt and youve got a nearly perfect conductor. It means the current finds its way into the grounded pole. But the pole is a poor conductor, so it acts like the element in your oven. It resists the current, stores the heat and it combusts.

And youre wondering how that road salt gets all the way to thetop of that hydro pole.

McClean says the salt gets kicked into the air by passing traffic. But he and his team have noticed an increased in pole fire incidents since the province and municipalities have started using a salt solution brine to deal with icy roads.

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Company apologizesAn Indonesian company says its going to replace unbelievable washing-instruction labels that suggest men give their jerseys to your woman because its her job.

Salvo Sports, which Reuters reports designed the jersey for soccer club Pusamania Borneo, has apologized profusely on Twitter, saying it didnt mean to denigrate women.

Its just that men arent always competent in caring for their own clothes, and women are more expert in that kind of thing.

(Thats my rough translation from the original tweets.)

Under washing instructions, the original label said: Give this jersey to your woman. Its her job.

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Reuters translated the apologetic response like this:

Theres no intention to humiliate women. In contrast, (we want to tell the men) learn from women on how to take care of clothes because they pay attention to details. Not all men understand/know how to take care of their own clothes, women are more knowledgeable/experts on such matters.

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