Sonya McDaniel, FCS Educator/CED, Pottawatomie County OSU Extension The physical and mental changes of aging can impact how an older adult takes care of activities of daily living. These include activities such as bathing, eating and toileting.
Well … The onions and potatoes are in the ground, but the rest of our place doesn’t look near ready for flower planting or gardening! If your place is anything like ours, the cold weather takes its toll on the organization and cleanliness of our yard and property. As the weather warms up (but before it is really time to fill in those spring/summer pots, flower beds or vegetable gardens) it’s a great time to get things back in order. Taking a day or two now can save you time and money later. Here are just a few things to think about:
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – In late spring, beach vitex plants bloom gorgeous purple flowers that add a bright flash of color to beaches in the Carolinas.
SALEM, Ore. – A driver crashed their car into a homeless encampment in Salem, Oregon, early Sunday morning, killing four people and injuring three more, including the driver, authorities said.
Last month, Olga Kovalenko moved into her first apartment in Kyiv, Ukraine, and got engaged to her longtime boyfriend. Now, she spends mornings cleaning her rifles and pulling people out of bomb-stricken homes.
Monday, March 28, was the first meeting without public comments and commissioners’ comments on the agenda for the Pottawatomie County Board of County Commissioners. The commissioners made the decision in their public meeting Monday, March 21, to remove those items from weekly agendas.
Plastic – it’s in your blood. And we know so because researchers have just found microscopic plastic particles flowing in our bloodstream for the first time.
MONTEZUMA, N.M. – At a boarding school in the Rocky Mountains, a group of Eastern European teenagers made crepes to raise money for the millions of people whose lives have been uprooted by Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Federal funding that is running dry for COVID-19 response could make it more difficult for Oklahomans to access testing, vaccinations and life-saving treatments like monoclonal antibody therapies. The concerns over funding come as public health experts expect COVID-19 cases to rise again.
BALTIMORE – In a high-tech lab on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, engineers have been building a robot that may be able to stitch back together the broken vessels in your belly and at some point maybe your brain, no doctor needed.