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Healthy Living: 10 Tips for aging citizens to remain healthy in 2012
Jan 13, 2012 12:00 amThe International Council on Active Aging (ICAA) has compiled a list of tips that governments, communities, businesses, families and individuals can use to encourage older adults to achieve a healthy lifestyle in 2012:
Empower yourself into new year
Jan 13, 2012 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Do you have too much stress? Do you want to enhance your mental and physical well being?
On Thursday, Jan. 26, from 1:30-3 p.m., Rumford Hospital and the Dempsey Center for Cancer Health and Healing presents Empower Yourself into the New Year with Dan Elliott, RN, of the Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department at Rumford Hospital.
Fire & Police Games begin Monday
Jan 13, 2012 12:00 amCommemorative International Fire & Police Winter Games t-shirts will be on sale during the three-day charitable tournament in Lewiston on Jan. 16-18.
Maine Handicapped Skiing becomes Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation
Jan 13, 2012 12:00 amNEWRY- Maine Handicapped Skiing has changed its name to Maine Adaptive Sports & Recreation, effective January 1. The growth and expansion of the 30-year-old organization's four-seasons activities and programs has prompted the development of its new identity program, including the name change, a new logo and an updated website, to be launched in early January.
Bringing community back
Jan 13, 2012 12:00 amPERU- The Friends of Peru Elementary will be hosting a pancake breakfast on Saturday, January 21 from 8:00 until 10:30 a.m., complete with coffee, bacon, sausage, hot cocoa, orange juice and quite possibly the biggest draw, pure Maine maple syrup straight from Thurston's Family Farm in Dickvale. The cost for two big pancakes smothered in Thurston's maple syrup, your choice of bacon or sausage, and a beverage will only be $4 per plate.
5-2-1-0 Let's Go!
Jan 06, 2012 12:00 amREGION- River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition has chosen to implement the 5-2-1-0 Let's Go! campaign as one of their objectives for the next five years. Recently, Carl Costanzi, program coordinator, presented to RVHCC. Those in attendance were RVHCC Executive Director, Patty Duguay, Sandra Witas and Carol Emery of RVHCC, RSU 10 School Nutrition Director, Jeanne LaPointe, RSU 10 School Health Coordinator, Laurie Soucy and Nutrition Director at Rumford Community Hospital, Marilyn Swan.
Reliving yesterday -- on skates
Jan 06, 2012 12:00 amRUMFORD -- With the slow arrival of winter, the formation of ice, manmade or otherwise, has been impossible.
But the hope is that as we enter the New Year, normalcy of the season will return. Part of that involves skating and while there still is not a skate park on the DARE field, work is commencing on the Hosmer Field hockey rink in anticipation of this weekend's fourth annual hockey reunion.
Micaiah Cormier of Claremont, NH, said Michael Mills of the Rumford Parks Department indicated that ice is being made on the rink, in preparation for the event.
New Diabetes Support Group
Jan 06, 2012 12:00 amRUMFORD -- Certified Diabetes Educator Barbara MacGregor, BSN, RN, CDE, is hosting a new, free Diabetes Support Group at Rumford Hospital. The first meeting will be Wednesday, January 18 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Conference Room A on the hospital's ground floor.
Friends of PES move forward
Jan 06, 2012 12:00 amPERU- The Friends of Peru Elementary, after a long journey to gain a lease agreement of the former elementary school, are moving forward with their plans to create a recreation center for the small town.
The group is planning their first official open house and fundraising pancake breakfast for January 21, complete with an archival slide show and information pertaining to the years it's been in operation.
Keeping their history alive
Jan 06, 2012 12:00 amEditor's note:
The following is a paper written by Richard Allen, Jr. during his senior year at Western New England University. He wrote the paper in cooperation with the Mexico Historical Society on the importance of the Society to the Town of Mexico, and also in the importance of preserving memory in small towns. The grandson of longtime historical society member, Hazel Hodgkins, Allen currently lives in Byron.
