Stories from Friday, May 8, 2009

Common Ground Coffee and Plants is opening a second location inside the Mountain Home Public Library. Owner Janis Hancock says she hopes to be open by mid May and said she was "inspired to open at the library," feeling it was a good fit and match. "There is so much history with the location of my first coffee shop and felt it would be nice to have a second location with history, too."...

by Stephanee Jones Mountain Home News The Friends of Children and Families Annual Head Start Children's Art show was held Thursday, April 30. The school was filled with Head Start 4- and 5-year-old students, their families, school faculty and special guest Mayor Tom Rist...

(NewsUSA) - Spring is in the air. During these months of renewal and growth, ask yourself whether you are doing all you can to help a child in need. Are you helping to plant the seeds of success in children less fortunate; those who perhaps are lingering in foster care because they were abused or neglected?...

(NewsUSA) - When major storms hit the Midwest United States in 2008, local residents had to deal with not only soaking rains and extreme flooding, but also the major nuisance of swarming gnats and pesky bugs. Prolonged moisture and humidity and the increase in pools of standing water created a gnat infestation. The bugs swarmed anyone who dared to leave their homes, causing itchy, painful bites...

(NewsUSA) - JoAnn Jones (name changed to protect patient privacy) first noticed the pain in her upper right shoulder and back. She initially went to her chiropractor, thinking it was related to lower back pain, but as the pain grew over the next five days, she knew it was something more serious. When she awoke the fifth morning with a rash covering parts of her body, her doctor immediately put her on an antiviral medication for shingles. The rash eventually faded, but the pain did not...

(NewsUSA) - It is estimated that one in 10 people over the age of 65 is anemic. Anemia is the most common blood disorder and a serious medical condition, although many patients may mistake its symptoms for daily fatigue and stress. In fact, many patients do not realize that they are anemic until they take a blood test...

(NewsUSA) - "Oh, we don't have a runaway problem here," is a statement Maureen Blaha often hears during her travels throughout the country as executive director of the National Runaway Switchboard (NRS). "The problem, it seems, is that it's never 'here' when it's actually everywhere," she says...

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