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Sleep: A vital piece of wellness (12/22/23)Even if you eat nutritious meals and exercise every day, you might be missing out on an equally-important function of health: sleep. Sleep gives us superpowers. With quality sleep, our cognitive function and memory improve, hormones are better regulated and the risk of heart disease falls, according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute...
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Holiday Cooking: Make your favorite holiday foods healthier with these substitutions (12/22/23)The holiday season is filled with events often centered around food. Unfortunately, it’s also a time when unhealthy choices are tempting, leaving us feeling sluggish when we want to experience moments to their fullest. These unhealthy choices can also harm our health...
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Ways to help older adults feel the holiday spirit this season (12/20/23)The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year. Cheerful decorations fill homes and businesses. People shop for the perfect gifts for their loved ones. Kids write starry-eyed letters to Santa, expecting a windfall on Christmas morning. A sense of anticipation fills the air, along with the smell of fresh-baked cookies or your favorite pie...
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Restaurateur Gabriele Ruggieri pursues Italian restaurant concepts in Cape Girardeau and beyond (12/18/23)Gabriele Ruggieri, owner of the restaurants Speck Pizza and Street Food, as well as Pasta + Sauce, in Cape Girardeau, says he is always chasing his next dream. It’s the entrepreneurial mentality to continue improving and seeking what is missing that has pulled him through playing professional soccer, working in eight countries and founding four restaurants, as well as a myriad of other pursuits he has set his mind to and achieved...
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“Sugarhouse:” Local couple creates feature-length film to share message of hope (12/16/23)Wife and husband filmmakers Shirlee Wilson and Fred Jones of Jackson co-directed their first feature-length film “Sugarhouse” in Perry and Cape Girardeau Counties in Southeast Missouri, as well as in Utah, writing the script in September 2021 and filming from June 2022 to May 2023. ...
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Get Outside: Local hiking and foraging group shares knowledge, encourages exploring region together (12/16/23)573 Hiking & Foraging co-founder Jada Guzman knew she was surrounded by natural food and medicine in the Southeast Missouri nature around her, but felt frustrated because she felt she didn’t know anything about it. At the same time, she knew there were people in the area who had an interest in foraging, and she started thinking it would be cool if there was a local group to promote knowledge-sharing about foraging in the region...
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Access Ministry Expands: Group offers support, connection to siblings of people with disabilities (12/9/23)Miracle Thele is 10 years old and loves arts and crafts, listening to music and hanging out with her friends. She is an older sister to her 8-year-old brother Carter, who likes to play video games, color and listen to mu- sic and who is on the autism spectrum. ...
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TOP GUN: Local pilot shares stories from lifelong flying career (12/8/23)The script of Tom Trotter’s life has been like a blockbuster. It starts in the blue-collar steel town of Pueblo, Colo., in the 1960s. As a boy, Trotter didn’t dream of a future at Colorado Fuel and Iron, one of the state’s largest employers. He had loftier ambitions...
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The Thrill of the Hunt: Foraging morels in Southeast Missouri (6/22/23)Don’t ask a morel hunter where they hunt. In Southeast Missouri, morels fruit for approximately five weeks, from late March to early May. The mushrooms are popular because of the short window of time they are available in, they have fewer poisonous mushroom look-alikes than other foragable fungi and, quite simply, they are delicious. So, the territory where foragers find their morels is top-secret, and people go to great lengths to ensure others don’t find “their spot.”...