4 Tips for Better Sleep

It’s no secret sleep is critical to one’s overall health and well-being. We’ve all heard getting six to eight hours of sleep is recommended, but busy work schedules and ongoing personal commitments make it difficult to make sleep a priority. So how can you ensure you’re getting quality shuteye? Next time you’re ready to crawl

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Christmas with the Shaw family

We all got together on the Sunday before Christmas. There were two daughters out of three that are left out of 12 kids of the late Jake and Eula Shaw. One of the daughters could not make it. There were less of the grandkids and great-grandkids this year because of the weather but hope next

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Speedy recovery Carolyn Kenney

by Marge Zink and Julia Snethen Mt. Zion Home Bible study is held in the home of Tom and Beverly Pelkey each Tuesday at 7 p.m. to study the Bible with 10 in attendance. Mt. Zion Club met Dec. 21 at the Landmark Restaurant in Lowry City with 13 members present for their Christmas Lunch

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TOPS hears how to avoid overeating

Jean had the program today. She spoke on a program from TOPS on how to handle not over eating at family get-togethers. We need to plan in advance, do more socializing rather than eating, offer to help clean up, wash dishes, instead of going back for seconds. Remember that food is only one part of

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Merry Christmas

From: Kenny, Kimball and Davis Long, Adrian and Cain Gilfoil, Mary True, Gwen Nickerson, Nancy Dissler and C.W. Spohn

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OSHA cites numerous hazards at Barrington Mfg.

A federal workplace safety inspection – that occurred only after a federal court ordered an El Dorado Springs sheet metal manufacturer to allow inspectors to respond to complaints of unsafe working conditions and employee injuries – led to the discovery of more than a dozen repeated and serious violations and an assessment of $138,430 in

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Don’t wait ‘til Christmas

ALMOST THERE – In a short time the El Dorado Springs Chamber of Commerce has been able to collect $39,500 in pledges for a $44,000 matching grant that would provide sidewalks on North and South Park and from the corner of Park and Hospital Road, east to Hwy. 32. This is Phase II of the

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CMH El Dorado Springs Medical Center, Walk-In Clinic to open Jan. 3

Citizens Memorial Hospital announces the opening of its new CMH El Dorado Springs Medical Center & Walk-In Clinic at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. The clinic is located next to Community Springs Healthcare Facility at 322 E. Hospital Road, El Dorado Springs. An official ribbon cutting ceremony and open house will be announced at

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The Rock Wall

On Monday, Kimball and I had just finished eating lunch when Mary came in with a sheet of paper which she handed me. I saw that it was an obituary and started reading it. I saw that it was for a Mrs. Sheldon who was a co-owner of the funeral home and thought it was

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New circuit judge

JUDGE TO JUDGE – On Wednesday morning, Judge David Munton (right), formerly the Dade County Associate Circuit Judge, took the oath of office as the Circuit Judge of the 28th Circuit (Cedar, Dade, Vernon and Barton) from Judge Tom Pyle, (left) Cedar County Associate Circuit Judge.

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