CPR training boosts readiness at Junior League class
Eileen McClelland reports on a Junior League CPR class at Westminster Church where instructors Cindy Smith and Susan Barron train adults in basic life support and two person CPR. The program partners with the American Heart Association to certify participants and expand community training.
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Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Cindy Smith
Susan Barron
American Heart Association
Betty Sutton
AHA
Rita Nell Diffie
PTA warns on early drug abuse prevention for children
National PTA with 5.4 million members calls drug and alcohol abuse prevention top priority and issues a new brochure Young Children and Drugs What Parents Can Do. It urges parents of 5 to 10 year olds to start conversations, teach emotional expression, and hold children accountable while learning about substances. Free copies available through National PTA in Chicago.
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Chicago
PTA
The
Wisconsin Clearinghouse
Gus Ganze
Vickie Sullivan
Bea Crawford
Erick Otudor
Ray Laird
Ruth Dunnam
Contemporary Study Club
Lise Barnard
Mark Forrester
Midland
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
Truman Warren
M.D
Thoreau
Club Scrapbook notes many local club events in Odessa
Multiple groups meet in January including Alpha Mu Kappa Beta Sigma Phi, Ector Democratic Women, Odessa Branch AAUW, Permian Study Club, Early Bird Toastmasters, Contemporary Study Club, Twentieth Century Study Club, and Progressive Study Club. Reports cover programs, officers, speakers, and upcoming conferences while listing meeting dates and venues in Odessa.
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Alpha Mu Kappa Chapter
Beta Sigma Phi
Pizza Hut
Sheila Usher
Don Smith
Roxanne Bryan
Renee
Monty Hennessey
Tanya
Craig Cooper
Tonya Crouch
Ector
Friends of the Library
Ector County
Susan Rutherford
Vicki Sullivan
Narita Holmes
Barbara Bedford
Judy Smith
Francis Holcomb
Odessa
American Association of University Women
Presidential Museum
Jessie Smith
Grand Hyatt Hotel
New
York City
Jihan el Sadat
Egypt
Smith
Nairobi
Kenya
United Nations Commission On Status of Women
Mike Milam
Doug Whitefield
Betty Gillette
Odessa College
Early Bird Toastmasters Club
District
Sands
Tom Pool
Rusty Moyaert
Odessa American
Fourth St
Dear Abby etiquette on indoors hats and aunt’s duty
A reader asks if gentlemen may wear ten gallon cowboy hats indoors. Abigail Van Buren says etiquette hasn’t changed and hats should come off indoors. In a second item, a Utah aunt asks to reveal an unwed sister’s baby father. Abby says the aunt has no right to interfere and should mind her own business.
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Abby
Mesa
Aziz
Roadrunner
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
By ERMA BOMBECK At Wit's End Homework Woes Raise Alarm
Erma Bombeck muses on homework overload as parents struggle to keep up with rapid tech change. She recalls peers boasting about kids’ projects and the pressure to perform, noting how counting with fingers fades and family pride hinges on schoolwork. Car keys become last leverage.
Portrait auction sets new record for Ammi Phillips work
In New York Christie’s sold Portrait of a Girl in a Red Dress by Ammi Phillips for 682000 dollars, over twice the prior American folk painting record. The painting, dated 1814 to 1835, drew a very spirited bid from a private American telephone bidder. The 88-year-old Cape Cod widow Dorothy Jackson had owned it for more than five decades.
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New York
Ammi Phillips
Christie's
Sarah Paulson
Manhattan
Dorothy Jackson
Cape Cod
Paulson
Jackson
Christie’s
Edward Hicks
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CPR
Eileen McClelland
McClure
Barron
Kristi McClure
Allergist
John Bray
Heimlich
Ann Smith
National Pta
Dept. AP
N. Rush St
Club Scrapbook
By Bil Keane
Jimmy
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Cowboy
By Erma Bombeck
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