Area events taking place in June and early July
May & Early June Events
Mobile Training for Pediatric Emergencies
Many emergency responders do not have the opportunity to get advanced pediatric training. Now, a new mobile medical training unit is bringing hands-on pediatric training to healthcare providers in rural and urban settings.
Women’s Homelessness Initiative: “There are a lot of commonalities with our lives.”
Every other month on Tuesday nights, 20 guests arrive at 6pm for dinner at Park Hill Congregational United Church of Christ (PHUCC).
Local Author Shares Secrets to “Recalibrate” Your Age
Richard Purvis’s newly published book, “Recalibrate: Six Secrets to Resetting Your Age” offers some age-old wisdom on which there is almost universal agreement, exercise and get enough sleep (Secrets 2 and 6).
An Athletic Take on Dance
The Mint Town Center building boasts a new fitness option for men and women. The building’s first tenant, Pure Barre, offers a total body workout focused on lifting, toning and strengthening.
Mental Health Services: More Accessible for Consumers, More Business-Friendly for Therapists
In the French language, the word sonder can mean “to probe” or “to search.” That’s exactly what Mark Frank was doing when he began to think about a better way for therapists and patients to connect.
Safe Vaping: Is It a Smokescreen?
Through social media—especially Snapchat and Instagram—kids of all ages come across images of other kids vaping. And it looks pretty glamorous.
A Special Teacher for Special Kids
Five days a week at 5:45am, Kelly Mitchell boards an Access-a-Ride van at her house in Superior for the ride to the Anchor Center for Blind Children. Like her fellow staff members, Mitchell is passionate about her work and devoted to helping visually impaired children. And she can relate to them uniquely, because Mitchell is blind.
Fighting Rare Disorder, Family Gets a Win
Scotty Sims knew there was something different about her second pregnancy. She told her OB/GYN her baby was “getting in these weird positions and locked, and I was in a lot of pain and discomfort.”
