Reprinted from Senior News
of Love County Retired Sernior Volunter Services (RSVP)
Janie-Pennington Cagle presents a conference T-shirt along with a plaque to Richard Barker and Mercy Health/Love County Hospital for years of underwriting of the annual Eighth Grade Health Conference.
Almost half (49%) of all pregnancies in the U.S. in 2011 were mistimed, unplanned, or unwanted at the time of conception, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Article Reprinted from August 2012 Senior News of Love County Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP)
An ardent advocate for senior nutrition came up with a simple volunteer initiative last November at the Love County Community Coalition in Marietta, and RSVP of Love and Marshall County has turned “Drive by Fruiting” into a robust local-soon-to-be-statewide project.
Underway in Love County since March, and starting in Marshall County in October, “Drive by Fruiting,” delivers a potato,...
Jean Gordon, Sissy Burge, Sherri Snyder, and Debra Woodbridge at the Love County Community Coalition on July 2, 2012.
Sissy Burge (left foreground) listens as speakers laud her service at the C/SARA Foundation.
The unique and unprecedented contributions of the C/SARA Foundation and its outgoing executive director, Sissy Burge of Marietta, to crisis support for child and adult victims of sexual assault were extolled by members of the Love County Community Coalition at...
Teaching from the Book: Instructor Frances R. Seidl, RN (middle) teaches swing-bed activities to Stacy Smith and Chelsea Rich from her authoritative book on the subject.
Swing-bed patients of the hospital need activities, too, just as though they were receiving skilled nursing care in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility.
“Activities” means social, psychological, and recreational means for brightening the patients’ days while hospitalized.
A 1% county sales tax is up for renewal on the June 26 ballot, and this has volunteer fire fighters anxious about what voters will do.
The tax produced revenues of about $86,000 per month last year with 10%, or about $8,600, per month going toward county fire protection.
“It’s not much, but it’s close to half of what we get for the entire year,” said Wesley Dill, chair of the county fire chiefs’ association and chief of the Jimtown Volunteer Fire Department.
Don Sessions of the Love County Community Coalition assembles the Blue Ribbon display on the front lawn of Mercy Health/Love County Hospital and Clinic.
For the 18th year, a Child Abuse Prevention Month puppet show will make its way to all Love County Elementary Schools, April 23-26.
In the performances, the puppets tell about abuse and what they did about it. The purpose is to make it clear to young children that when personal safety or discomfort is involved, the child can...
Coworkers with 30 or more years of service stand in front of the 40th anniversary banner with Willis Choate III (red sweater) a member of the Founding Public Health Committee from the 1960s: Connie Barker, Richard Barker, Rick Stephens, Linda Dixon, Betty Galloway, Dr. Vergil Smith (credited with admitting the first hospital patient on January 30, 1972), Sally Stephens, and Marie Ross.
Are you in better shape at age 40 than at age 20? Your local hospital is.
Above: EMS Station 1, Training Center, Hospital, Clinic, therapy Building and Food Pantry in Marietta, May 2011. Below: EMS Station 2, WinStar Casino, Thackerville, May 2011.