Odd characters in blog posts

I have a template http://www.craigbosley.com/wordpress/recent-page/ that shows my most recent entry. I am using that template as a php incluyde on my main web page http://www.craigbosley.com/index1.php

When I view the recent-page address and in the wordpress blog it looks fine but looking at it on the main page sometimes funny letter A and other odd symbols appear. How can I fix this?

The entry was created in Microsoft Word.