NH churchgoers lose weight to pay for heating oil (WCAX-TV Vermont)

Associated Press - August 18, 2008 10:15 AM ET NEWFIELDS, N.H. (AP) - Fifteen members of a New Hampshire church have volunteered to lose weight to pay for church heating oil this winter.

County's ambition is to be big loser (Vallejo Times-Herald)

Some 494 pounds lost, and 999,506 more to go. Three hundred and three people have signed up, so far, to reduce their weight as part of the Solano County Million Pound Challenge. The campaign aim is for Solano residents to collectively lose aa million pounds, and, in doing