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HINTS FROM HELOISE: Shampoo, baking soda mix well

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DEAR HELOISE: Get a small plastic rinsing cup. Shake baking soda into it. Add a little shampoo on top. Mix with your finger, then wash your hair with this mixture. It’ll strip out excess product. I’ve done this for many years. — Joannie T., in Little Rock, Arkansas DEAR HELOISE: I have vintage white milk glass nesting bowls, white Federal glass bowls and vintage jadeite bowls. I’ve been using these to mix and store food. I keep hearing that they aren’t safe to use anymore due to them containing lead. Can you please advise me regarding this? Also, I’m still using my ...

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GATEWAY TO PRESENCE: The Unity Spiritual Centre, 1226 Naylor Lloyd Road, Liberty, will have a Gateway to Presence workshop 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 22. The event will be facilitated by Gabrielle Smith, founder of the Solas Healing Arts. The event is designed to help participants slow down, reconnect with themselves and rediscover the joy of creating without judgment. The workshop is open to adults of all skill levels seeking a meaningful opportunity to reduce stress, cultivate creativity, and connect more deeply with themselves and others. All painting materials will be ...

The dial-up approach to improving your health

Lisa Resnick

Let me start by saying this: By no means should you take anything I say after this sentence as an absolute. I am not a doctor. I am not a dietitian. I am not a nutritionist. I am nothing more than an avid Googler, podcast listener and someone with my own experiences. That said, I think a lot about health. Probably because, like many of you, I’ve spent years trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Right now, we’re living in the world of GLP-1s. Whether you love them, hate them, are considering them, or are already using them, they have changed the conversation ...

Speaker recounts Holy Land pilgrimage

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CANFIELD — Millions of people visit the Holy Land each year. The most recent First Friday Club of Greater Youngstown speaker, George Beelen, PhD, discussed his pilgrimage there more than 10 years ago in his talk “Glimpses of the Holy Land.” “My wife, Betty, and I have traveled a ...

I wasn’t screaming. It was the Tarzan yell

Burton Cole

I wanted to be Tarzan. In my youth, I studied all 24 Tarzan novels that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote. I practiced the language of the great apes (“mangani”). If I worked at it, I could yodel that Tarzan yell without it dissolving into fits of coughing. Only two things held me back from ...