Innovative Clinic Helps Cancer Patients Manage Symptoms and Avoid Emergency Department The symptom management clinic is an example of efforts that earned Cone Health an Innovator Award for cancer care. It was an up and down day for Donna Sturges. Nothing she ate stayed down. When she lifted up her head, she became dizzy. Sturges was receiving chemotherapy for lung [...]
How can you tell legitimate contests from bogus sweepstakes and lotteries? AARP’s Money Newsletter suggests the following five ways. 1. It’s a scam if you have to pay anything to enter or collect winnings. 2. Scammers request that fees be paid via wire transfers or prepaid debit cards which are hard to trace. 3. If you did not enter a [...]
Lauren Bush Lauren, founder of Feed, a nonprofit focused on hunger, has volunteered in soup kitchens and homeless shelters across the country. A granddaughter of George H.W. Bush, she has some suggestions for volunteering. Use talents. Volunteer according to your strongest aptitude. If you are an artist, teach an art class to children who might otherwise not have access to [...]
Susan Meny, Vital Living Program Director of the Shepherd’s Center of Greater Winston-Salem, was recently selected by the N.C. Association on Aging to receive their 2016 Guiding Star Award. This award honors an individual for their dedication and skills in the management of programs that benefit older adults and recognizes the quality of their work in the community. Meny joined [...]
The forecast that more than 1.5 billion smartphones will be sold worldwide in 2016 means more mobile mayhem since scammers love smartphones. Spam. Some 70 percent of smartphone texters say they receive unwanted spam messages; studies show people are three times more likely to respond to spam received by cell phone even though more than a quarter of text-message spam [...]
Greensboro Curb Market501 Yanceyville St.Greensboro NC, 27405; Saturdays6 a.m.–noon; also Wednesdays (May-December) 7 a.m.–2 p.m.www.gsofarmersmarket.org Piedmont Triad Farmers Market2914 Sandy Ridge Rd.Colfax NC, 27235Guilford County Office: 336-605-9157Mon–Sat 6 a.m.–6 p.m.www.triadfarmersmarket.com Downtown Farm Market505 N. Greene St.Greensboro NC, 27401336-210-1947Open Mon–Sat Old Mill of Guilford1340 Highway 68Oak Ridge NC 27310336-643-4783www.oldmillofguilford.com Kernersville Farmers Market134 East Mountain St.Kernersville NC 27284Open May-Octoberwww.kernersvillefarmersmarket.com Cobblestone Farmers MarketCorner [...]
The first group of Baby Boomers, those approaching 70 years of age, are myth-busters (no connection to the popular Australian television show of that name). The title comes from The Met Life Report on the Oldest Boomers which says the earliest Boomers aren’t necessarily working ’til they drop as once predicted. The national survey was conducted between Novemebr and December [...]
Paul Lawrence Paul Lawrence, an advocate for the aging and disabled in Forsyth County, is the newly elected chair of the 12- county Regional Advisory Council on Aging. He has served on the Council for several years after retiring as a social worker with Adult Protective Services at Forsyth County Department of Social Services. He also serves on the Home [...]
Rep. Pricey Harrison joined actors Ted Dansen, Kate Walsh, and Sam Waterston in Washington recently in a lobbying effort against offshore drilling and seismic testing off the mid-Atlantic coast. She also received an award the evening before from Washington-based Oceana for her work fighting for the health of North Carolina’s coast. Almost a million and a half jobs and a [...]
Did You Know… that you can read the Wall Street Journal online for free with your Forsyth County library card? Read the most current edition of America’s leading business newspaper and keep up-to-date on events, products and personalities that directly influence not only business, finance, and economics but the world in general. You can also view abstracts of each article [...]
