Trust Us, You Really Want to Clean Your Wetsuit Properly
It’s summer, I see cars driving through my neck of Marin County everyday, wetsuits hanging from mirrors, surfboards strapped to the roof. More people learn to surf every year, and around here that means thousands of new wetsuit customers a season. In my 30 years of surfing experience, even lifers often treat their wetsuits like […]
Getting started: Focus on insects –
Gardening can be such an exciting experience. A positive trifecta: physical exercise, emotional excitement and delicious rewards. Too frequently, gardening is a disappointing experience. Many new gardeners feel defeated due to the bane of almost every gardener’s existence — insects and the diseases they spread. There is not enough space here to cover every possible […]
Berea School Supply Program aims to ease the return to classes: Around The Town
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BEREA, Ohio — Students will be headed back to the classroom in late August, and the list of the things they’ll need is long. The National Retail Federation says families with school-age children will spend an average of more than $840 on school supplies this year. For some local families, that’s a prohibitively heavy burden. […]
Why Australian travellers returning from Bali with dirty thongs could spread foot-and-mouth disease
Australians returning home from Bali could be forced to throw away their dirty thongs amid fears a devastating livestock disease could spread locally for the first time in 150 years. Biosecurity officers are now boarding planes arriving from Indonesia to warn incoming passengers about the risks of foot-and-mouth disease, which the federal government estimates could cost […]
5 Ways to Serve as a Couple
Pexels.com Throughout your life, God will send you significant influencers to help you along your faith journey. Sometimes, those influencers will be a couple. There’s no doubt that God uses single people, but there’s something uniquely compelling about how God shaped man and woman together in His image. When you look back on the women […]
Kennel cough outbreak plaguing pups linked to Birmingham pet resort
This story first appeared in the Lede, a digital news publication delivered to our subscribers every morning. Go here to subscribe This week, customers of Pawms pet resort received emails alerting them to an outbreak of Bordetella – or “kennel cough” – in the businesses’ Birmingham and Avondale locations. This is an example of what […]
Fighting Hunger With Thousands of Meals a Day: Foodlink New York Relies on KRONEN Lines For Processing Fruit, Vegetables
As a pioneer among food banks in the US state of New York, Foodlink is helping to fight hunger in the Rochester community with over 5,000 meals a day. The ingredients for these meals are processed with machines from KRONEN GmbH, based in Kehl am Rhein, Germany: from coring, splitting and sanitizing apples, to cutting […]
Must-Haves Flight Essentials for Your Next Trip
It’s officially vacation season, and while we’ve got everything we need for a perfect getaway right here in town, that isn’t stopping Houstonians from leaving their beloved city and landing in airports across the globe. Before you head to the skies, make sure your carry-on is stocked with everything you’ll need for a perfect flight. […]
A boil advisory issued in a Mid-Missouri town shows the importance of a clean water supply
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After a water boil advisory was given to the city of California during a heat wave, the advisory showed the importance of a safe supply of drinking water in Mid-Missouri. The California boil advisory was issued after E.coli was found in the drinking supply. The latest reports on how safe the water […]
Choosing a laundry service for seniors
One of the simplest pleasures in life is a load of clean, dry laundry. There’s something undeniably soothing about putting on a warm sweater right out of the dryer, or climbing into a bed with crisp, fresh sheets. Unfortunately, many seniors miss out on these simple pleasures as they age in place. The truth is […]