Dear Readers, I take every opportunity to keep my life simple and I expect keeping track of my schedule and being able to stay ON TRACK to be an equally straightforward endeavor. I’m familiar with online calendar systems and digital planners.
Dear Amy: Our teenage daughter, who has put us through the wringer in many ways, was recently caught stealing money. She took $20 from Dad’s wallet and $5 from mine.
DEAR DR. ROACH: My brother has low blood platelets and anemia. He will be 73 this year and has had three back surgeries. What causes low blood platelets? Can anything be done to raise platelet count? He drinks alcohol everyday -- not hard liquor, but canned alcoholic mixed drinks. He is in constant pain from his back. Also, he has osteoporosis. We have told him to stop drinking, but he won’t or can’t. What, if anything, can be done for him?
Hi! My name is Monique Koerner. I’m the new Family and Community Wellness Extension Agent in the Cottonwood Extension District. I’m passionate about the community of Hays and the families and children that live here!
HAYS, Kan – Fort Hays State University presented its inaugural Tiger Gear on Friday Community Partner of the Year award to Sunflower Bank. Tiger Gear on Friday is a celebration of the innovative, determined, and caring people that make Tiger Nation unique. TGOF is a partnership involving several on-campus organizations, businesses, and community organizations in the Hays community.
Dear Amy: I know you are an animal lover, and so I would appreciate your perspective on this. I’m a veterinarian and always offer sincere condolences when a client loses a pet – I will send a card, make a donation to an animal charity, and often follow up with an email or phone call.
DEAR DR. ROACH: What is the best medicine for arthritis? My doctor prescribed diclofenac sodium, and another doctor said it will damage my liver and kidney with prolonged usage. As you know, arthritis is a chronic disease. Let me know what medicine I can use for arthritis. -- A.A.
Entertaining is a big part of the holiday season. Calendars are packed this time of year with gatherings with friends, family and professional colleagues.
Scripture is clear that believers are to live in community for a variety of reasons, including mutual encouragement, strengthening, sharing joys and sorrows, and fellowship. Ephesians 4 says, “There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all.”
Hebrew 10:24 says, “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.” When I was in my early 20’s, the church I attended was going through a rough patch. A few years earlier, the church had called a new head pastor.