Residential Clean-Up.

The annual City Wide Residential Clean-up is scheduled for Saturday, May 8th. Items to be picked up are to be out no sooner than Friday evening and placed in the same area as regular trash pick up.

Up to four tires, without rims will be taken per household. Appliances will also be taken with the condenser removed. Rocks, batteries, yard waste, paint and containers weighing more than 75 pounds will not be accepted.

Postal Service Food Drive.

The National Association of Letter Carriers, in conjunction with the United States Postal Service and the Carthage United Way, Inc. announced that they will be collecting nonperishable food items on Saturday, May 8th. The food items, such as, canned soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice will be taken to help families in the community. No glass or perishable items.

Individuals are encouraged to help by placing donations at their mailbox on May 8th before the letter carrier arrives. The carrier will take the items to the Post Office and then be delivered to Carthage Crosslines, a Carthage United Way, Inc. agency.

With the rain and the cold over the week end, looks like several of the garage sales may have been cut short. That may mean a good selection of good for the upcomin’ spring cleanup next weekend.

‘Course a lot of the stuff bein’ put out on the curb may be a little water logged.

From what I’m seein’ predicted it looks like the rest of the week will be in the 70/80 range with lows in the 60’s. By next Friday evenin’ when the cleanup stuff is bein’ carried out, it should be good weather for the pickers and the trash haulers.

For those who didn’t participate in the City wide sale, it’s still a great time to unload all that stuff in the garage and the attic that has been sittin’ for a few years.

Take advantage, it’s part of what ya pay for in your garbage collection bill.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune- Brooks Hospital

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My doctor tells me I have the beginning of macular degeneration. I am completely depressed by this. My mother had it, and her last years were not happy ones. If I go blind, I don’t know what I will do. I live alone and have no one to help me. Is there any treatment? — G.K.

ANSWER: The retina is the layer of cells covering the back of the eye. It transmits incoming visual information to the brain, where that information is processed into sight. In the center of the retina lies the macula, a structure whose diameter is only about 1/50th of an inch. It is responsible for fine vision, the kind that permits reading newspapers, threading needles, driving a car and recognizing faces.

When a doctor looks into the eye with a scope, he or she can see the retina and macula clearly. There are a few changes that can provide a rough prediction that macular degeneration might occur in the future. They do not carry a sentence of mandatory degeneration. Further, no sign provides information on how rapidly macular degeneration will progress, if it progresses at all.

There is no cure for the dry kind of macular degeneration — your kind, and the more common kind. While a combination of vitamins and minerals might slow its progression, this combination does not act as a preventive for the condition.