Tag: health
You Can Do Something About the Opioid Crisis
Last May, Ontario’s Minister of Health, Dr. Eric Hoskins announced that Ontario would ensure pharmacies dispense Naloxone kits to anyone at risk of an opioid overdose. At last count, seven pharmacies in Peterborough City…
Hospice Peterborough Palliative Care Volunteer Training Sessions
Are you interested in working directly with Hospice clients and their families? Hospice Peterborough is offering an introductory orientation session in March to learn more about this unique opportunity to volunteer. Call to register…
Intense Interest
Spring is in full swing and with it comes the excitement to get outdoors and try new activities. If you’ve been indoors this past winter, watching sports more than participating in them, be especially…
All Gluten, All the Time
When I found myself newly single, I started spending a lot of time baking. I love not only the taste and the smell of it, but its underlying message: that no matter how bad…
Local Lions Deliver Vision and Hearing Tests to Local Schoolchildren
Last week Millbrook & District Lions Club members Linda Hughes, Bette and Paul Holder, Vicky Baley, Linda Lawrence, Ray Porteous and David Goode spent two days at North Cavan School providing complementary vision and…
Keeping Fit While On the Go
In the winter months, my parents flee the country for warmer climes. They leave in early January and return to Canada with the birds when the snow has melted. One of the challenges they…
A Fire Safety Concern – Effects of Winter On Your Chimney
Winter weather, especially a wet winter with ice, rain and snow, can take its toll on your chimney. Under mild, damp weather conditions, fireplaces do not burn not as hot and clean as they…
A Fire Safety Concern – Effects of Winter On Your Chimney
Winter weather, especially a wet winter with ice, rain and snow, can take its toll on your chimney. Under mild, damp weather conditions, fireplaces do not burn not as hot and clean as they…
Sustainable Diets for a Healthier You and a Healthier World
After the year-end holiday binge, we humans become remorseful and tend to over-react by severely restricting our caloric intake or subjecting ourselves to so-called “detoxifying” cleanses as a way to purify and recharge. None…