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Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Volume XIV, Number 90

did ya know?

Did Ya Know?... The Fair Acres Family YMCA will offer a new session of swim lessons for youth starting November 1-29. Classes are available for Pre-School Beginners to Youth Advances. Classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fee for the month of eight lessons is $12 per person for YMCA members and $19 per person for non members. For more info and class times call 417-358-2070.

Did Ya Know?. . .The McCune- Brooks Hospital Blood Pressure Clinic is open M-W-F from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Clinic is located at 2040 S. Garrison in the MBH Wellness Center. Call 358-0670 M-W-F for more information. BP Logbook available.

Did Ya Know?... The Family Neighborhood Center Office, 706 Orchard, will be closed on Mondays. GED classes will be held as usual. The Center will be open Tue. and Thurs. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Evenings 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Wed. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Fri. 8 a.m. to 12 noon.

today's laugh

Carl: What’s that you have in your button hole?
Earl: Why, that’s a chrysanthemum.
Carl: It looks like a rose to me.
Earl: Nope, you’re wrong. It’s a chrysanthemum.
Carl: Spell it.
Earl: K-r-i-s-a . . . by golly, that is a rose.

1905
INTERESTING MELANGE.
A Chronological Record of Events as they have Transpired in the City and County since our last Issue.

A Good Theatrical Company.

Some good dramatic productions often prove failures early in the theatrical season by not being properly rehearsed. They are made up of actors and actresses who have been laying off during the summer and it takes them a month or two to get into working order before they can do justice to the parts they are playing. This is not the case with the Century Stock Co., which plays here all the week. They are always working, having been engaged all through the summer at Lincoln and Sioux city.

Every play, presented will be perfect in every detail as all special scenery is carried by the company. Polite vaudeville features will be offered between each act.

The company will open tonight at the opera house.

Councilman Wallingford went to Carterville on business connected with the City this morning, returning on the noon car.

 

Today's Feature
To Appoint New Council Member.

Carthage City Council will meet this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Items on the agenda include the appointment of a new first ward Council member by Mayor Kenneth Johnson. This appointment follows the resignation of former first ward representative Dave Woods. The previous Council meeting was the final meeting for Woods prior to moving to Joplin.

Other items on the agenda include the second reading of an ordinance authorizing an agreement with the Harry S. Truman Coordinating Council for the provision of consulting services for the Fairview Interchange Project. The consulting services are not to exceed the amount of $11 thousand. The item is in its second reading and was brought to Council by the Public Works Committee.

The agenda also includes the first reading of an ordinance rezoning 415 N. Parsons from District B, Second Dwelling House District to District D, Local Business as requested by citizen James Schrader. If approved the re-zoned area would be used for the storage of industrial equipment.

Stench Report:
Monday,
10/24/05

Stench
Reported
over the Weekend

Just Jake Talkin'
Mornin
Time ta drag out the flannel shirts. The drop in temperature gets the mind ta thinkin’ of the upcomin’ winter and the story of the ant and the grasshopper.

The thing that’s never mentioned in the story is the fact that from what I can tell, ants never just sit around waitin’ on anything. They’re always runnin’ here or there. I can’t figure how this particular ant has time to stop and talk to the grasshopper in the first place.

I know that there are folks who take pride in bein’ prepared for the cold weather, but as most automotive shops will tell ya, there are more that wait ‘till the show hits the ground ‘fore they give it much thought. Winter has become a minor inconvenience for many or a charmin’ diversion for others.

The ant’s ideals may live on, but as a practice, the grasshopper’s are more abundant.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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by Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

Narrow Spinal Canal Puts Nerves in Vise

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 69-year-old woman diagnosed with spinal stenosis. I also have osteoarthritis. I have pain in my back and down my leg. What’s my outlook? I don’t want surgery if possible. - Anon.

ANSWER: Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal, the tunnel that runs through the backbones and in which the spinal cord and its nerves are housed. It compresses the spinal cord and spinal nerves like a vise.

Osteoarthritis is one cause of spinal stenosis. The bone spurs that form from osteoarthritis constrict the canal and impinge on the spinal cord.

Conservative treatments include hot packs to the back to see if relaxing back muscles will relieve the pain. Analgesics — even such ordinary ones as Tylenol — can appreciably lessen back pain.

Physical therapy is important. Try this one — if it doesn’t hurt. Sit in a chair with your feet flat on the ground and your knees about shoulder-width apart. Bend forward, rolling the right shoulder to the left knee, and stay in the bent position for six seconds. Repeat the movement six times and then change the rotation — left shoulder to right knee. If this exercise helps, a physical-therapy program might be a great benefit.

Doctors can inject anesthetics to numb involved back nerves, and that is another alternative to surgical treatments. You shouldn’t exclude the possibility of surgery. It has helped many.

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