Archive for category: Health

Teaming Up for a Super Cure

Teaming Up for a Super Cure

0 / October 13, 2011 10:16 am

“You have cancer.” When Traci Runge heard those paralyzing words, they sounded like a death sentence. Having no family history of cancer, it didn’t make sense. She was a healthy wife and mother to three daughters, training for a triathlon [...]

CHS Lifeguard Training Class Trains Students for Area Pool/Waterpark Jobs

CHS Lifeguard Training Class Trains Students for Area Pool/Waterpark Jobs

0 / June 6, 2011 5:41 am

Each year, over 75 students participate in the Lifeguard Training class at Carmel High School (CHS). Most of these students are preparing and anticipating working at neighboring pools during our usually hot summers. Neighborhood pool lifeguards are one of the [...]

Creekside Middle School Offers Support to Autistic Children

Creekside Middle School Offers Support to Autistic Children

0 / December 15, 2010 7:01 pm

When Creekside Middle School received a year-long Office of Special Education Program (OSEP) grant to assist students with autism, Jeanne Meredith, Special Education Department Chair, had no idea the strategies implemented would benefit and greatly affect the general education students [...]

Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato Coins

Recipe: Roasted Sweet Potato Coins

0 / August 8, 2010 8:36 pm

Sweet potatoes represent an excellent choice for a side dish to any of your favorite entrees. These naturally sweet tasting vegetables are high in beta-carotene, vitamin C, potassium, antioxidants and fiber. According to nutritionists at the Center for Science in [...]

Cancer Brings Questions, Few Answers

Cancer Brings Questions, Few Answers

1 / May 4, 2010 7:48 am

This past weekend my family and several friends participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Over 40,000 people participated in the event, which seeks to raise funds for breast cancer patients, help with their treatments and, hopefully, [...]

Wigging Out

Wigging Out

0 / February 17, 2010 4:32 pm

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I immediately began reading almost everything I could get my hands on about the disease. Cancer medical books, cancer survivor books, funny cancer books, sad cancer books, everything. And the one topic that [...]

Dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder

Dealing with Seasonal Affective Disorder

0 / February 11, 2010 3:09 am

Cheryl Richardson The happy feelings that I experienced just last season seem so remote now that the warmth of the sun has been overshadowed by the bitter cold face of old man winter. The once inspiring view out of my [...]

Listen to Your Heart

Listen to Your Heart

0 / January 16, 2010 2:42 pm

Kevin, 53, had come to Fishers for the day to visit his sister and work on her house. The intense pain he experienced knocked him to the floor. Once the pain subsided, the always-ready EMT-I used his cuff and stethoscope [...]