The Westfield Board of Health met on November 4. In response to the recognized dangers to children of using electronic smoking devices, the Board unanimously passed on first reading Ordinance #3-2019 to specifically regulate the sale of these devices in town. The proposed ordinance will be considered and voted on…
Tips for Teens Check in and see how your phone is making you feel. If it’s mostly bad, take a step away, says Kyra Mangalik, a college freshman from the Denver area: “Consider the ways you use technology and really try to evaluate, ‘Is it actually making me happier?’” she…
After volunteering at orphanages in Baja California for several years, Nicholas Sandoval realized that more needed to be done for the children there, beyond the donations of food, clothes and toys. “We need to tailor our assistance around empowering them for life after the orphanage, so they can be productive…
click to enlarge Colin Flanders A poster for Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth outside Merrill’s Roxy Cinema on Thursday The sequel to a documentary known for spreading discredited claims about vaccinations found a receptive…
Osman Ahmednur came to the UK in the back of a refrigerated lorry A CORONER has said if a teenage refugee living at a Camden hostel had been referred for an emergency mental health assessment before his death, it is “possible that the outcome would have been different”. Osman Ahmednur…
Billings West High School was placed on lock down Friday morning following a social media “misunderstanding.” According to the Billings Police Department, the lock down was ordered after a student called his parents and told them that another student may have a gun. The student was located, police said on…
View over the city of Truro, Cornwall. Picture: Fotolia The architects of Cornwall children’s services’ journey from ‘inadequate’ to ‘outstanding’ have said the county’s social work model is robust and can continue to progress, as they prepare to leave their roles. Almost exactly eight years on from the last time…
Outside a Shopper’s Drug Mart in Thunder Bay, members of the former Bear Clan patrol help a young man found passed out. Another Indigenous-led safety patrol group, Wiindo Debwe Mosewin, has since emerged to replace it. David Jackson/The Globe and Mail Last December, the Thunder Bay chapter of the Bear…
“Several of the parents indicated that they’d never before observed their infant roll on a flat surface until they found their infant dead in one of these products,” Mannen says. Not all of the infant deaths tied to sleepers involved babies that rolled. In some cases, parents found the…
THIS WEEK • Pre-Retirement Workshop: Nov. 7, 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.; George Mackie Library, 4683 51st St.; Are you close to retirement or debating about it? Come to George Mackie Library’s free pre-retirement workshop on Canada Pension Plan and old age security benefits. A Service Canada representative will help…
