Archive for Family
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Dealing with Illness
By Mary Huebbe Marketing Consultant Ridgecrest Village Cancer is a thriving illness that still has no cure. It seems every time I turn around, someone is getting diagnosed with a different kind. Everyone handles it differently, and it affects everyone differently. So, how do we support someone ...
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THE PUBLISHER’S VIEW: Inner Thoughts and Comments
By Joe Hutter Publisher Do your children have children? Have you heard the comment “Grandparents raising Grandchildren.” Yes, times have changed. There are more single parent families and often less income to help the child to enjoy being a child. Grandparents have contacted legislators t...
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Parenting Successful Kids
Information from Iowa State University Extension of Scott County We all want to be the parents or grandparents of successful children! Iowa State University Extension of Scott County with support from Scott County Kids, is sponsoring a parenting support and education program called Parenting Succ...
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Sex – Positive Parenting
Positive Parenting By Sarah Evans Family Support Worker Child Abuse Council “A sex-positive child is safe, protected, and knows about consent and boundaries. They have access to accurate and age-appropriate information about reproductive biology as well as the emotional and social realities...
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Holy Fire of Joy
By David W. Deuth, CFSP President, Weerts Funeral Home My childhood home has a feature that seems to have become a little less commonplace in homes during recent years: a wood-burning fireplace. And, more often than not, it was usually crackling with a fire when we were in for the evening duri...
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Santa Goes Modern – Santa’s Internet Helpers
Contributed by Gail McPike and Toni Hall Despite a combined total of close to 30 years in our lovely QCA environment, Santa’s magic book has us listed under, “Oklahoma, USA: Nice Girls.” That’s the way Santa used to roll back in Eisenhower years. Younger readers will be shocked to le...
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Entertaining for the Holidays
By Chef David Ridgecrest Village Meal preparation during the holidays, whether it be for a festive family dinner, or a small gathering of friends to celebrate the season, can be full of fun and creativity, while at the same time perhaps a stressful burden on the host. The goal of any gatheri...
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Your Advocacy Connection
We Solve Long Term Care Problems By Julie Arndt GolderCare Solutions Merry Christmas, Mom! Over the course of the past couple of years, I have often made reference to my mom, who is a resident in a nursing home in Northern Iowa. During my visit last month on her 83rd birthday, I took her ou...
