Things We Talked About Today

-Steven Curtis Chapman joined us this morning. He and his family are in concert on Saturday at Millbrook Baptist Church in Aiken. Tickets are still available at http://www.wafj.com/.

-There's a new store in the old Circuit City building at the Augusta Exchange Shopping Center. It's called Christmas Tree Shops, but the funny thing is that most of the merchandise is not Christmas-oriented. John went and said it was like a combination of a Hobby Lobby, Big Lots and a dollar store. If you really want to get into the Thanksgiving spirit, they sell a hat shaped like a cooked turkey!

-Last night on News 12, it was a Hallmark moment when a soldier came home early from Iraq and surprised his daughters at school. See the video

-Two army wives at Fort Gordon are baking cookies for veterans and are looking for helpers. Read more

-Our Simple Cooking recipe this week is Chicken Pot Pie that John's wife, Amy, told us about this morning. Get the recipe

-Talk about irony, a nutrition professor has invented a junk food diet that helped him lose 27 pounds. He doesn't recommend you following his diet. He did it to prove a point. Read more

-Thursday is Veterans Day and you can pay tribute to the special vet in your life on the 88.3 WAFJ Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/883wafj

Coming up Thursday...John and Cleve will help kick off the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign from 12 to 2 at the Kroger at National Hills. Representatives of the Salvation Army will be in at 7:10 to talk about it. At 8:40, we'll meet Russell Quarles, the latest winner of the Living Well Award, which is given through our partnership with The Augusta Chronicle, WJBF Newschannel 6 and Doctors Hospital. He is a cancer survivor who is helping others facing the same battle.