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Mayor Dwight C. Jones has created a program to improve the quality of life for the people of Richmond. Listen to all the changes the Mayor hopes to provide through his new MPACC initiative program. Also Check Out: New Richmond City Jail To Stay On East End
By Allana Baroni The results are in—both happiness and sadness are infectious diseases! That’s what a study started in 1948 has concluded. Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Science Foundation, Harvard/MIT researchers have provided definitive evidence that positive and negative emotional states act like infectious diseases, spreading through social […]
By Anne Lamott O, The Oprah Magazine We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. The only problem is that there is also so much other stuff, typically fixations with how people perceive us, how […]
Childhood obesity is one of our nation’s biggest headaches. Unfortunately, Virginia’s youth population also struggle with this issue. According to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, 1 out of every 5 children from ages 10 to 17 in our state are overweight. Figure’s also show when compared to white and non-Hispanic youth, minority children were […]
From WashingtonPost.com: Ten years ago, many experts thought you couldn’t bring antiretroviral therapy to people with AIDS in poor countries. The drugs cost too much, there weren’t enough doctors, the patients wouldn’t take the medicines correctly, and the risk of creating a resistant virus was too high.
Submitted by: M. Esther Martin Deacon Roscoe Burgess Church Affiliation: North River Baptist Church Number of years as a deacon: 60 Deacon Burgess is very active in the church, he [launched] the Friend[s] and Family Day program at the church and served as the MC. He is a member of the Elktons Mens Choir, the North […]
An Employee at Denny’s located in the 5300 Block of Jefferson Davis Highway in Spotsylvania is behind bars for allegedly spiking coffee and soda. A waitress and waiter sipping on a cup of coffee and soda smelled bleach in their drinks. The pair immediately contacted the store manager. Police were called and the cook, 29 […]
The family of Tameka Claiborne plans to hold a prayer vigil tonight, at 8 p.m. on Duck River Road off Genito Road in Chesterfield County. The family ask that you bring a candle.
By Martha Beck O, The Oprah Magazine Long ago, so long ago that I was practically still a gill-breather, I noticed a magazine ad that claimed the average person earns $700,000 over an entire lifetime. I have no idea how they came to that number, but I never forgot the words splashed in big, bold […]
By Ed and Deb Shapiro Expert Content We were teaching a forgiveness workshop when John, one of the participants, told us his brother had continually abused and even molested him as a child. He said quite emphatically that he would never forgive him. After John had spoken, there were a few minutes of […]
Yes, it does get hot enough in a car to bake cookies. Some people in Maryland tried it. Read More
Many people feel that they must be in a church to have church. Others are celebrating their faith at “House Churches”. Read More
