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Ray helps feed Ohio town

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 9, 2009

Television cooking star Rachael Ray is boosting the local food supply for a struggling Ohio town.

On Saturday, Ray brought a Wilmington soup kitchen new appliances, shelves and furniture. Ray's show also promised to supply food for the kitchen for the next year.

The soup kitchen is getting as many customers in a day as it did in a week a year ago.

Wilmington is still reeling from the departure of DHL Express and other Wilmington Air Park operations, which has left a 15 percent local unemployment rate in its wake.

On Sunday, the Food Network star hosted an early Thanksgiving feast for the community. The soup kitchen improvements and the Thanksgiving meal are scheduled to be featured on "The Rachael Ray Show" on Nov. 25.

Prince Harry, ex-girlfriend get cozy

Prince Harry and on-off girlfriend Chelsy Davy seemed very much on again Saturday at a rugby match.

Although they initially sat apart at the contest between England and Australia in London, the two gravitated toward each other before the match ended in victory for Australia. Photographs captured Davy, 24, leaning in to chat with Prince, Harry 25, while both animatedly watched the action on the field.

Last month, the pair shared an evening out at Beach Blanket Babylon in Notting Hill, London, where the owner told People they had "a rather grown up, intimate dinner."

Crowe tries to sell co-star on biking

Russell Crowe was so desperate to share his love of cycling with new movie co-star Elizabeth Banks, he bought her a state-of-the-art bike.

Crowe and Banks play husband and wife in "The Next Three Days," about a woman wrongly accused of murder.

Crowe used his time off to cycle around the Pittsburgh location, and he wanted to turn Banks into his biker buddy.

"Russell Crowe's an avid cyclist and he wanted to share it with me so he bought me this beautiful mountain bike." Banks said. "It was super high-tech, 21 gears. The thing is, I'm not very athletic. I had to watch YouTube videos to learn how to change gears."

Today's birthdays

R. Sargent Shriver is 94. Baseball executive Whitey Herzog is 78. Actor Robert David Hall ("CSI") is 61. Actor Lou Ferrigno is 58. Rapper Pepa (Salt-N-Pepa) is 40. Rapper Scarface (Geto Boys) is 39. Actor Eric Dane is 37. Singer Nick Lachey (98 Degrees) is 36. R&B singer Sisqo (Dru Hill) is 31. Actress Nikki Blonsky is 21.

Sources: The Associated Press, People.com, WENN

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