| How to find good nursing home care
Dear Savvy Senior: Can you give me some tips on finding a good nursing home for my 86-year-old mother? She had a stroke a few months ago and has been receiving care at home but it's become too much. -- Leery of Nursing Homes Dear Leery: Finding a well-run nursing home that provides quality care is an important decision that requires some homework. Here's what you should know. .
Hope Home - Mathiowetz family builds group home for Sleepy Eye
About four years ago, Stacy Mathiowetz, then 16, attended a special academy for the blind in Faribault. Legally blind, she needs accommodations and nursing care that come with a good group home.Stacy's parents, Brian and Ronda, began looking into seeing if there was a group home Stacy could live in closer to home.“There were 17 group homes in New Ulm, but none in Sleepy Eye," said Brian. “When we asked why, they said, 'No one's ever proposed one for Sleepy Eye." .
Charting out retirement
"Leading-edge" boomers -- who turned 60 last year -- are dreaming about retirement, but don't expect to see the Forever Young Generation on the shuffleboard courts or in the bingo halls anytime soon. The midlife transition that boomers envision looks very different from that of their parents, who picked up gold watches and headed for Florida. .
Cops, sahibs poised for brush with Art of Living
DISCIPLES OF Sri Sri Ravi Shanker, the internationally famous Art of Living guru, would be in the city to impart special training to officials of the district administration and police. To cope up with prolonged working hours, district administration and police officials are all set to be a part of a fortnight-long Art of Living camp at the Police Lines and at the camp office of DIG Range, Kanpur. The course would start from February 13 under the guidance of two Yoga Gurus summoned from Bangalore. The first camp would start at the residence of the DIG, in which the DIG, SSP, all additional SPs and circle officers would take part. Officials of the district administration, including the district magistrate, would take part in the camp. About 100 senior officials of the district administration and police are expected to take part in this camp. In the second camp to be organised at the Police Lines, all non-gazette police personnel, 150 in number, would take part.
Eye of the Tiger
The school paper is often a popular extracurricular activity for students of varying academic interests --- the cognitive science major who snaps photos at a basketball game, the pre-law student who also happens to be a columnist or the foreign affairs major who comes in once a week to do layout and design. It is a rare occasion, however, when a student actually goes from being the editor of the school paper to a Pulitzer Prize winner. For acclaimed author Michael Vitez, editor-in-chief of The Cavalier Daily in 1979, that was exactly the progression. Vitez's interest in journalism began in high school, when he served as editor of the Annandale High School newspaper, The A-Blast, in Annandale, Virginia. When making post-secondary education plans, it was the daily aspect of the University's newspaper that appealed to him and eventually won him over.
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