Community Spring Cleaning

When the weather starts to change from cooler days to nicer warm temperatures and the days start to stretch out much longer than they were in the winter months, you know that spring is finally here.  Spring is a wonderful seasons for many reasons.  My favorite parts of spring have to be the warmer and longer days, the budding and blooming flowers that can brighten up a day, and cleaning. Wait, did you just read the word “cleaning!?!?!”  Why yes you did.  No, I am not a neat freak cleaning nut who likes to keep everything in complete order, but I do enjoy a thorough spring...

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Health Starts At Home

It seems like no matter what you do these days the topic of health is all around you.  It is so important to care care of one’s health.  when you make sure that you live healthy, you might be making a bigger impact than you know.  First of all your family will also likely follow in your healthy footsteps and from there, who knows? The thing is that health starts at home.  There is no other way around it.  If you are not healthy at home, you are likely not healthy anywhere else.  Is it possible for you to make greater impacts with a healthy home?  So how do you reach the healthy...

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Am I Too Social?

There a somedays where I feel like I have way too much going on.  Surely I am not the only person in the world who has days like this.  The problem is that I feel like I am the reason I have these days.  It’s like I bring it on myself because of all of the things that I get caught up in.  This got me to thinking and wondering if maybe I am just too social.  I mean not only am I active an social in the community, but also in online communities as well.  Is too much of a good thing a bad thing?  Or is it just time that  I learn how to disconnect for a little bit from all the...

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A Time To Give

“Christmas comes but once a year.  Now it’s here!  Now it’s here!” When November ends and December rolls in many people start to think even more about all the things that they have to accomplish and get done for the holidays.  We tend to rush and rush around getting gifts for family and friends.  We also spend time to prepare baked goods and meals for parties and time together.  All of these thing that we do are for ourselves and our family or friends, but are we taking the time we should to give back to the community during the holidays? There are many people who...

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The County Fair

Each year in counties and communities all over the United States the fair comes to town.  Most of the county fairs are based around agriculture and local businesses and causes.  If you are not big on going to your county’s local fair, then maybe you should think of it differently.  When you support the local county fair, you are doing more than you might realize to help out in your community.  If you are a small business and you have yet to look into how you can get involved in a county fair, then you could be missing out on potential customers and business. Consumers at the...

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Food and Herbal Additives

In the past it was a very common thing for people to get sick from food due to the fact that there was not great refrigeration and things of that nature.  Of course I am talking about in the late 1800s and early 1900s when an ice box was the only real way to get any refrigeration.  Salt curing meats and growing your own vegetables to can would be how you would steer clear from getting sick from toxic or spoiled foods.  One would think that with all sorts of technologies that food allergies and illnesses would be no more, especially if those problems are stemmed by the additives and...

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