body {
	font: 14px "Gill Sans", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	background: #414141;
	margin: 0; /* it's good practice to zero the margin and padding of the body element to account for differing browser defaults */
	padding: 0;
	text-align: center; /* this centers the container in IE 5* browsers. The text is then set to the left aligned default in the #container selector */
	color: #000000;
	background-image: url(../images/bgstripe2.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.oneColFixCtr #container {
	width: 780px;  /* using 20px less than a full 800px width allows for browser chrome and avoids a horizontal scroll bar */
	background: #6e804c;
	margin: 0 auto; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	border: 0px;
	text-align: left; /* this overrides the text-align: center on the body element. */
	background-image: url(../images/chiknBG2.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.oneColFixCtr #mainContent {
	padding: 10px 100px;
	background-image: url(../images/40opacity.png);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	background-position: 66px 50px;
}
.oneColFixCtr #mainPic {
	padding-left: 66px;
}
.oneColFixCtr #footer {
	font-size: 10px; /* the auto margins (in conjunction with a width) center the page */
	text-align: center;
	padding: 10px;
}

.red {color: #FF0000}
.lowernav {font-size: 14px}

a:link {color: #3b5a3f; text-decoration: underline}
a:visited {color: #3b5a3f; text-decoration: underline}
a:active {color: #333333; text-decoration: none}
a:hover {color: #333333; text-decoration: none}

.newsheader {
	font-size: small;
	font-style: oblique;
}

.returnlink {
	font-size: small;
	font-style: bold;
	text-align: right;
}

td {
	text-align: center;
}

.the_date {
display:block;
text-align: center;
float:left;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: url(../images/dateicons/Blue-sm.png) no-repeat;
width:42px;
margin-right: 10px;
}

.date_m {
display:block;
font-size: .7em;
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-weight: bold;
text-align:center;
}

.date_d {
display:block;
font-size:1.4em;
margin:0;
padding:0.15em 0 0.2em 0;
text-align: center;
}