April 2022

FAITH NOTES

First Methodist announces Easter activities First United Methodist Church, 305 W. Seventh, has announced the following events during Holy Week: A Holy Thursday service will be held at 7 p.m.

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Recognizing PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, was first listed as a medical diagnosis in 1980. However, it has been recognized and called by many different names throughout history. The first recorded description of PTSD is in the Epic of Gilgamesh which dates back to 2100 B.C. In The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer wrote about Trojan War soldiers exhibiting the symptoms of PTSD. Shakespeare described a character in King Henry IV who suffered from post-traumatic nightmares.

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HONOR ROLL

Third Quarter Honor Roll 2021-2022 Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 12 Maggie Baalmann; Sophia Balthazor; Whitney Befort; Margaret Brull; Ella Brummer; Chi-Han (Handrick) Chen; Emma Dinkel; Kali Hagans; Megan Hamel; Jessica Herrman; Nicholas Herrman; Emilee Lane; Lance Lang; Sophia Linenberger; Julia Meitner; Grace Pope; Mark Rack; Andrew Schwartz; Madelyn Seiler; Isabella Speno; Rylee Stahl; Grace Stanton; Avery Werth; Kassidi Yost; Samantha Zimmerman Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 11 Sophia Allen; Julianna Baalmann; Jensen Brull; Alexa Fry; Isabelle Gibson; Mary Greenwood; Kade Harris; Tristan Legleiter; Natalie Loftus; Harrison Lowe; Caroline Niemeyer; Janessa Pfeifer; MyKayla Romme; Landon Rozean; Reese Rupp; Arin Schibi; Jenna Schlyer; Rebekah Schroeder; Jaden Schulte; McKynlee Stecklein Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 10 Evan Balthazor; Emma Basgall; Caden Becker; Tessa Befort; Helen Cappuccio; Bentley Ditter; Jacob Heimerman; Amelia Herrman; Ashley Hipp; Jin Jang; Jacob Mader; Sydney Meier; Joseph Mindrup; Katherine Pope; Madelyn Rozean; Kimberly Sack; Avery Schmidt; Peyton Schwartz; Aliya Seib; Nathan Stecklein; Keira Wagstaff; Allison Weber Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 9 Ainsleigh Bain; Ella Bain; Eleanor Bittel; Jake Brady; Lyndsie Byer; Ryan Casey; Cristina Fouz Garrido; Riley Frank; Shalee Gottschalk; Teagan Gottschalk; Lucas Hess; Brooke Koenigsman; Ariana Koster; Caleb Marintzer; Giselle Ontiveros; Chloe Purinton; William Robinson; Macara Rohr; Taryn Rueschhoff; Gracyn Schippers; Grace Schmeidler; Catherine Schmidt; Gordon Schroeder; Breanna Seiler; Henry Speno; Haley Stecklein; Tessa Wentling; Jace Windholz; Shyanne Yost Thomas More Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 12 Elizabeth Dickman; Kenton Ginther; Logan Hess; Matthew Hess; Filip Rawski; Carter Schmidt; Bryce Seib; Ransym Stahl; Rayne Stahl; Gavin Unrein; Jace Wentling Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 11 Hannah Garcia; Luke Rome; Juan Terrazas Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 10 Allison Gottschalk; Ieesha Guzman; Teagan Legleiter; Henry Meitner; Adrian Normandin; Alejandra Robles Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 9 Henry Corsair; Esperanza Fernandez; Austin Gilbert; Tiernan Holmes; Jonathan Lee Thomas More Prep-Marian Junior High SchoolThird Quarter Honor Roll 2021-2022 Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 8 Arianna Ayarza; Derek Becker; Brooke Befort; Halle Billinger; Jenna Brull; Anna Cappuccio; Alyssa Church; Zechariah Dickman; Caden Dinkel; Chase Drennon; Brayden Gilmore; Morgan Greenwood; Landon Herrman; Carson Liles; Preston Mermis; Isaac Purinton; Claire Schippers; Grace Schmeidler; Damian Schmidt; Jaci Schmidt; Nicole Schumacher; Blaise Staab; Jesse Staab; Rachel Staab; Eli Stein; Savannah Waldschmidt; Sabrina Werth Bishop’s Honor Roll – Grade 7 Reagan Allen; Jared Anschutz; Brynnon Ayarza; Braxton Basgall; Augustus Corsair; Josesph Dintino III; Trevor Fabrizius; Jose Fernandez; Brooklyn Fleenor; Maxwell Gerstner; Jackson Gillespie; Emily Hipp; Adalie Kippes; Brooklynn Koerner; Samuel Krannawitter; Elijah Lang; Jaygen Leach; Addison Mader; Mattias Marintzer; Charles Meitner; Karter Myers; Kolby Olmstead; Carson Pinkney; Brynn Rebel; Hannah Rose; Jacob Seib; Mariana Valencia; Anoir Vargas; Patrick Weber; Hannah Werth; Bria Windholz Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 8 Taryn Beiker; Connor Breit; Ian Nehls; Elizabeth Quakenbush; Ava Schumacher; Brooklyn Werth Principal’s Honor Roll – Grade 7 Gabriel Atherton; Logan Baalmann; Elsa Brungardt; Hunter Brunner; Logan Dail; Tanner Geist; Ernest Pfeifer IV; Ty Schmeidler; Brayden Staley-Herman; Michael Tiernan .

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HOTWORX emphasizes the benefits of infrared heat absorption in new Hays location

HOTWORX has opened in Hays, a unique fitness experience that uses a virtually instructed exercise program to introduce users to the benefits of infrared heat absorption. “This is nothing like Hays has seen before, it’s an individualized, semi-private sauna that each person is in and the close proximity to the infrared heaters saturates the body system and creates more benefits within the workout,” Owner Cari Readle shared.

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Anything from Acne to Zika

I enjoy visiting with my colleagues who are medical specialists. We dive in and explore the depths of a particular condition. However, there is something to say about the breadth of knowledge that a family medicine physician is expected to have. Your family doctor can run through the alphabet of conditions from acne to the zika virus.

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