Finding a new family doctor and Pap smear explained
Reader guidance on choosing a primary care physician notes most MDs provide adequate basic care while some are uncommunicative. It also explains a Pap smear procedure from history, purpose, method, and cytology interpretation for premenopausal patients with uteruses.
Golden years gospel or cautionary notes for retirement
A reader’s inquiry to The Senior Forum questions the retirement preachings of seven year plans and constant saving and asks whether concerns like long term medical costs and adult children dependencies are being overlooked. The piece discusses budgeting, health habits, downsizing, and lifestyle choices as essential to preserving retirement investments.
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Son seeks to dance with ex, mother frets at wedding chaos
A reader in Harrisburg fears dancing with her divorced ex-husband at her son's wedding. She is engaged to a good man but cannot bear the idea of contact with the former spouse who caused past harm. The column urges honesty with the son and fiancé while acknowledging painful history.
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Harrisburg
Shaking
New Jersey
America
Los Angeles
Irma R. Barragan
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Butterflies bring calm to Hollidaysburg veterans home
At the Hollidaysburg Veterans Home in Blair County Pennsylvania residents find solace in a butterfly sanctuary. Volunteers tend two gardens while retired Penn State professor Robert Snetsinger fills a former office with insects. A new butterfly greenhouse is planned with state funding.
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Hollidaysburg. Pa
Katheyn Bragonur
Hollidaysburg Veterans Home
Ms. Bragoner
Blair County
Penn State
Robert Snetsinger
State Department of Military Affairs
Do you belong to your dance date
Teens debate if Bev should dance with other boys while on a date. Readers weigh in with strong opinions from Apopka to Phoenix, noting respect, freedom, or possessive rules as the discussion reveals gendered expectations about dating and dancing.
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Bev
Melanie
Apopka
Angel
DeKalb
Ill
Elizabethtown
Jessica
Lake Charles
Josh
Erin
Ontario
Calif
Sandy
Indianapolis
Frederick Bridge Club Sectional Tournament Recap
Forty players gathered for the Frederick Bridge Club Sectional Tournament on September 13 at the Frederick American region. North–south winners were Judy and James Fox first, Emma Eaton and Lynn Boardman second, James Eaton and Lowell Phillips third, DeVerle Ashley and Fannie Johnson fourth. West winners, Robert Freed and Sherman Kahat first, Ted Banvard and Jack Sherwood second, Kay Kloom and Gary Wold third, with Ann Carden Denise Clow tied for fourth and Lat Gilbert. Lucinda Walser Jean Brinkley Agnes Kemerer noted as participants. A regular game is scheduled for Monday September 20 at 7:15 pm.
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Frederick
Gilbert
Lucinda Walser
Jean Brinkley
Agnes Kemerer
Frederick American Region
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