Recently, Essential Health & Living celebrated National Nursing Home Week with a carnival. Residents enjoyed games, activities and a petting zoo. Shown in the photographs above, Wanda is pictured enjoying a visit from a Sugar the pony and Carolyn is shown playing ring toss. (Photos provided)
IU Health Tipton recently unveiled its newly relocated chapel. The chapel is now located in the administration hallway, just around the corner from the café. During the unveiling ceremony, Chaplain Angela Gafford Asmus lead the celebration with prayer, scripture and an opportunity to continue to build a sacred space for the IU Health Tipton community. Team members were invited to put their own touch on the chapel and “leaf the tree with love” on a special piece of artwork. They could write their name on a heart-shaped leaf and attach it to a canvas tree. This artwork will be displayed to help remind chapel visitors of the hospital’s ongoing journey of faith.
Asthma has long been a critical health issue in Indiana, with a staggering 1 in 10 adults and 8.4% of children grappling with this often debilitating chronic disease. Recently, environmental catastrophes, like the Richmond plastic recycling site fire and the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have sounded the alarm once again. For asthmatic Hoosiers, the fear of an asthma attack’s life-altering consequences has become all too real.
The prevalence of mental health issues garnered significant attention in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people acknowledged lockdowns and other restrictions and uncertainties were adversely affecting their thoughts and outlook. Though those restrictions were ultimately lifted and life returned to something closer to normal for people across the globe, mental health has remained both a hot topic and a concern.
Indiana Conservation Officers remind Hoosiers to make water safety a priority now and throughout the summer. “We urge all Hoosiers to recognize the danger water poses when on or around our waterways,” said Capt.
Annual wellness visits have long been considered a vital component of preventive health care. That hasn’t changed, though the dynamic between patient and health care professional during those visits has changed considerably for many people.
After a long health battle, Judith Kay Barnes, age 82, of Elwood, was finally reunit ed with her husband Jack on Sunday, May 14, 2023, when she passed peacefully with her family by her side. Judy was born in Elwood on January 8, 1941, to the late Everett and Rebecca (Teeter) Barber.
Having come of age in the 1970s—an era of “free love” and radical disinhibition—I am not easily shocked, nor particularly prudish. But last summer at the beach was a bit surprising, if not shocking. I was amazed at how revealing many women’s bathing suits were; I’ve since learned that these are “thong bikinis.” Having thought that thongs were a type of underwear it seemed to me that women are now going about in their underwear. And yes, they’ve been doing this for a while (the “bra and blazer” outfit dates to at least the 1990s). Areas of our bodies which previously were kept hidden (and still are in some societies) are now displayed without shame. We have seemingly arrived at a point in time where the distinction between high fashion and seminudity are difficult to discern. There is a reason why one of the first stories in the Bible is of Adam and Eve discovering their nakedness and seeking to cover it up. Innocent babes need not cover their nakedness (perhaps harking back to the primeval time in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve were unashamedly naked), but as we grow up and develop “secondary sexual characteristics” perhaps we should keep certain parts covered. Ask yourself: would you wear this to church? Of course, the beach and church call for different styles of dress, and yet even the beach could use a bit more modesty.
APOSTOLIC LIGHTHOUSE The public is invited to attend all activities at the Apostolic Lighthouse, 111 N. A St.
Red Gold is bringing back it’s annual Chili Cook-Off for it’s 35th Anniversary of the event on October 21st, 2023. The event will coincide with the 12th Annual Red Gold Run to Crush Hunger for CRUSH HUNGER SATURDAY. This will be the first time since 2019 where both events are held at the same time in downtown Elwood, IN.