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Mayo Clinic announced a breakthrough in organ transplantation, offering hope to thousands of people who have lost the ability to speak, swallow or breathe on their own due to the weakened or lost function of their larynx. A multidisciplinary team of doctors in Arizona has performed the third total larynx transplant in the United States. The case also marks a medical milestone as it is the first total larynx transplant performed as part of a clinical trial and the first total larynx transplant in the United States on a patient with active cancer. “The surgery and the patient’s recovery…
Residents of a West Lampeter Township community again butted heads over the proposed expansion of a local raw pet food business at a zoning meeting Tuesday night.Amish farmer Chris Glick, owner of BJ’s Raw Pet Food, is seeking approval for a new 11,000-square-foot building at 1618 Millport Road to expand his business operation. Glick currently runs BJ’s out of an 8,000-square-foot building at 1518 Millport Road and leases the aforementioned lot to a tenant farmer. The Jefferson Square housing development is located between Glick’s lots. Tuesday’s meeting continued a monthslong debate over Glick’s proposed expansion. At zoning meetings in May and…
After Albertville City Schools decided a few weeks ago to rename their football stadium in honor of legendary head coach Vernon Wells, much research into the program’s history led to the question of which team was the best in the 118-year history of Aggie football.Due to recency bias, many remember the 2002 Aggies as the team’s best performance. Under head coach John Glass, best known for his success as head coach at Jacksonville State from 2014-2021, the Aggies finished 9-4 that season and surprisingly made it all the way to the third round of the Class 5A state playoffs.The Aggies…
The St. Joseph Heritage Museum and Cultural Center will be hosting a presentation next month on the history of the Catholic Church in Berrien County. According to museum director Dennis Szymanski, the history dates back to the 1600s, when the first French settlers moved to the area, bringing with them priests. “La Salle came with four Jesuit priests and met with the Pottawatomie Indians,” Szymanski said, “and they established a church mission on what is now the Whitcomb River. They called it Fort Miami, but it wasn’t until many years later that the river was named after St. Joe. At…
“School’s out for summer!” The 70s rock lyric sounds like a rebellious anthem of freedom to many elementary school kids every June, but what about the kids for whom school provides more than just learning – it provides their daily bread? A West Texas county, working with churches, businesses, community services and the Baylor Hunger Poverty Collaborative, has devised a successful program to ensure that as many hungry children as possible get meals when schools are closed. Mary Herbert is BCHP’s West Texas Regional Director, and 15 years ago she and friends from Southland Baptist Church in San Angelo saw…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A bipartisan bill with a $2.5 million budget aims to help college students battling food insecurity. “We don’t want hunger to prevent our workforce from being prepared to take on the jobs that will be available, and we’re working hard to bring those jobs to Ohio,” said Rep. Dave Dobos (R-Columbus). New Albany Farmers Market closes after more than 50 years in business House Bill 590, or the Hunger-Free Campus Act, was introduced by Rep. Dobos and Rep. Sean Brennan (D-Parma). Rep. Dobos said some studies show 48 percent of college students face some form of…
ARABIE, GA (WALB) – A 21-year-old Georgia woman has become the youngest female mayor in not only her state’s history, but the history of the United States.Brooke Huckaby is the mayor of Arabi, a town of just under 500 people.Huckaby is also a college student studying agricultural technology at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and works part-time for the Georgia Department of Agriculture.”What really inspires me is the lack of interest from people my age. They don’t pay much attention to politics. That’s what motivated me to jump in and get ahead of the game. The older generation can’t always handle…
Recipe Remix with Second Harvest Food Bank at Watsonville Library. (Provided) Does it seem impossible to turn a child who hates blueberries into one who not only loves them, but is happy to use them in recipes? Second Harvest Food Bank and the Watsonville Public Library recently teamed up to create this miracle and more. Recipe Remix is a series of four Monday afternoon events at the library, two in June and two in July (the final one on July 15). Facilitated by Second Harvest staff, the 90-minute programs include nutrition education for kids and a “cooking cart demo,” during…
Teachers who are members of the Artı Gerçek – Educational and Scientific Trade Union (Eğitim Sen) are acting against the Law on the Profession of Teachers, which was submitted to Parliament by the AKP-MHP and discussed in the general assembly.The teachers were prevented by the police from walking from the Ministry of Education to the National Assembly. As the police prevented them from doing so, the teachers decided to hold a sit-in. However, in the meantime, the police allowed a march from the National Assembly to the Red Crescent that the teachers from the Education Board wanted to organize.They were…
Cincinnati Reds shortstop Ellie de la Cruz will be playing in next week’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Arlington, Texas, but he’s had a stellar baseball career.One of the most exciting players in the entire league, De La Cruz has done some extremely rare things in league and team history.First, Sarah Langs of MLB.com said on social media:Teams with the fewest games with 15+ home runs, 15+ doubles, and 45+ stolen bases in a season:1986 Rickey Henderson: 761985 Rickey Henderson: 841990 Rickey Henderson: 862024 Ellie de la Cruz: 91Teams with the fewest games with 15+ home runs, 15+ doubles,…