How to negotiate your way out of bank and credit-card fees
McClatchy Newspapers
6/25/2008, by Marshall Loeb
You open your bank statement or credit card bill, and there's a new fee assessed. To beat the fees, you'll need a strategy. NEW YORK (MCT) - It happens all the time. You open your bank statement or credit card bill, and there's a new fee assessed to your account that you hadn't counted on. Banks ...
Family fun day invigorates children with disabilities
The Catholic Review
6/25/2008, by Suzanne Molino Singleton
Targeted to families with children and adults with developmental disabilities, the afternoon of May 31 was Family Fun Day. BALTIMORE - Even before the first Family Fun Day was over, William Fleming was planning the next one. The coordinator of catechesis for persons with developmental disabilities ...
Safety checks reduce risks for elders in own homes
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Jane Glenn Haas - The Orange County Register
Mary Ann Goodman knows all about grab bars, throw rug dangers and junk-strewn homes.
As an elder care consultant for LivHOME, a Newport Beach, Calif. -based senior care provider, she routinely surveys homes for hazards.
Keeping elders in their own home is her No. 1 goal. Falls are the number one ...
Success in the vegetable patch
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Beth Botts - Chicago Tribune
A lot of people seem to be trying their hands at vegetable gardening this year, according to George Ball, president of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the big seed company in Warminster, Pa. He says sales of vegetable seeds are up 30 to 40 percent this season, double last year's growth rate. A big factor, ...
Botanical products are for pets, naturally
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Connie Bloom - Akron Beacon Journal
AKRON, Ohio - I am en route to a visit with empty nesters Gay and Buz Fifer, drugged by the heavenly scent of picturesque Wooster, Ohio, bursting with the fruits of May, flowering bushes and trees in a half dozen hues. Even so, I can't seem to conquer the mental image of fields of dancing parsley. ...
Take two vacations and call me in the morning
McClatchy Newspapers
6/20/2008, by Dr. Kay Judge and Dr. Maxine Barish-Wreden
We don't need studies to tell us vacations are a welcome reprieve from the everyday grind and help decrease our stress level. We are finding out, however, that vacations may also lead to decreased heart attacks and longer lives. Have you planned your summer vacation yet? If not - maybe you should ...
Safety Checks Reduce Risks for Elders
McClatchy Newspapers
6/20/2008, by Jane Glenn Haas - The Orange County Register
June is National Home Safety Month, which is especially important for seniors. Mary Ann Goodman knows all about grab bars, throw rug dangers and junk-strewn homes.
As an elder care consultant for LivHOME, a Newport Beach, Calif. -based senior care provider, she routinely surveys homes for ...
Flights and fancy
McClatchy Newspapers
6/19/2008, by Art Lander Jr.
RICHMOND, Ky. - When Kent Kessler bought 20 acres outside of town four years ago, he was hoping it was more than just a good site to build a new home. "I put up a purple martin box that first spring, and by the time we moved in, we had an established colony," said Kessler, a lifelong birder who ...
Shelters dealing with tide of pets displaced by foreclosures
McClatchy Newspapers
6/18/2008, by By Andrea Jares
FORT WORTH, Texas _ When a homeowner has to leave his home because of foreclosure, often his pet is left behind. Now services are emerging to help pets navigate the mortgage crisis fallout.
Houston-based No Paws Left Behind offers a database of shelters financially distressed homeowners can ...
Texas man’s retreat inspires entire family to convert from Baptist faith to Catholicism
The Catholic Lighthouse
5/15/2008, by Cynthia Brewer
VICTORIA, Texas (The Catholic Lighthouse) - “I dropped my husband off at Assumption Catholic Church in preparation for his send off to an ACTS retreat last spring,” said Tenna Genzer of Ganado, Texas. “That was where I said the words that I would soon have to eat.”
“Don’t even think we’re going ...
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