| 'Tis the Season for Allergic Reactions
MILWAUKEE-With the holiday season just around the corner, millions of Americans are preparing to decorate their homes, gather for feasts and travel to visit relatives. However, for allergy and asthma sufferers, the holiday season presents several potential triggers, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI). "Whether it's feasting on holiday meals, setting up your Christmas tree, or visiting your pet-owning relatives, allergy triggers may be lurking inside of our warm, cozy homes this time of year," said Alisa M. Smith, PhD, FAAAAI, vice-chair of the AAAAI's Indoor Allergen Committee. "Unfortunately, with busy schedules, travel time and the stress of the holidays, it is easy to forget to take the proper care when dealing with allergies and asthma.
WICOMICO: Educational programs coincide with Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
SALISBURY � Local community education classes about Alzheimer's disease launch next week in recognition of November as Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. Classes start Nov. 14 with a "Maintain Your Brain: How to Live a Brain Healthy Lifestyle" session at the Alzheimer's Association Eastern Shore office, 2090-C Milford St. in Salisbury. The class is interactive, providing research-based information about the positive impact of lifestyle choices and changes on brain health and brain disease throughout life. .
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The community college calling Thanksgiving a religious holiday is a first for me. I'm in my 50s, and I've never hear it referred to as a religious holiday. It's a harvest festival, it's giving thanks, but it's not religious. Everybody's gotta try to tie everything into religion these days. Religion is actually becoming a dangerous thing. It's causing a lot of problems, a lot of grief, it's causing wars, it's causing hard feelings between people and it's causing hypocrisy. I just read the Sun-News on Nov. 20, and it was just so refreshing to see that beautiful baby being adopted. You know, he was so lucky with so many children being killed. It's just so beautiful; thank you for printing that. I just want to warn all the natives the weatherman is saying that we could get one to three inches of snow.
B'ville: Candy or carrot?
It looks like some Baldwinsville teachers got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.A program designed to help students learn healthier eating habits got off to an uncontroversial start more than a year ago. But now it�s running smack into tradition. And it�s not clear which side will win: healthy lifestyles, or a teacher�s prerogative to reward students with candy, cookies and other tasty but fattening treats for good behavior and hard work.Baker High School nurse and Baldwinsville wellness council co-leader Shannon Cavedine said changing the status quo, even with the best intentions, isn�t always easy.�Sometimes, there�s resistance,� said Cavedine. �There�s that feeling that it�s never going to happen because it�s one of their (teachers�) big incentives. Maybe they think parties, pizzas, cakes, cookies and candy make the school year more fun.
Hospitals snuff out smoking
The road signs, bright and conspicuous, will be posted today at all driveway entrances to Providence hospital. Outside its doors will be more signs with the polite but firm message: "This is a no smoking campus." And, in places where smokers used to huddle, near entrance-way trash cans, reminder stickers will be placed where cigarette butts were once crushed. .
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