MY SUN DAY NEWS
February 24, 2011
Over the past 40 years, Rose Hamann has filled many roles in the Recovery International Discovery Meetings for Mental Health. She began attending the group meetings in Chicago in 1971 as a member, by referral from her doctor, and in the intervening years has been an assistant group leader, volunteer, and for approximately the last 20 years, a group leader, both in Chicago and, for the last five years, in Huntley.
“It’s one of the best kept secrets in Illinois,” Lynette Strode, the Device Loan Coordinator of the Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP), says with a laugh, “even though we have tried to promote our program.”
Most people know they can dial 9-1-1 in an emergency, yet it is not widely known that with some training, they can do much more.
On Wednesday, December 30, Centegra Health System and Mercy Health System both filed applications for Certificates of Need from the Illinois Health Services Review Board.
Nearly 24 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes, and 57 million more Americans have prediabetes and are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. November is National Diabetes Awareness month, a time when the American Diabetes Association spreads awareness about the disease and the seriousness of its complications.
Do you volunteer? Or have you thought about starting to volunteer? If so, the benefits of volunteering may be bigger and better then you thought!
Where does Sun City Property Assessment Council get all of its information?
As the 2010-2011 flu season approaches, it’s once again time to think about getting a flu vaccination. Because the Center for Disease Control recommends that just about everyone over age 6 months gets the flu vaccine this year, it lends to people asking some of the following questions:
Prior to July 29th 2009, our Grandaughter, Hope Fuller, was a normal, beautiful, active, 12-year-old little girl. This was the day she was diagnosed with Difuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a tumor located in the brainstem and inoperable.
Q: Would SunCPAC be willing to represent me in an appeal?
In 2007, after nearly a 30-year hiatus from his tenor sax, Frank Ardito of N. 30 picked up his instrument to get back into the swing of things. He bought a new case and had his sax reconditioned and started performing again and loved every minute of it. Then doctors diagnosed Ardito with an aggressive form of stomach cancer, and once again, he had to put down his music.
Q: As assessment notices are being sent at this time of year, how can a resident obtain a copy of their official township assessment card showing the data upon which the assessment is based?
On May 25, Associate State Director of Communications for AARP Illinois visited Sun City as a presenter of a healthcare forum, in which audience members came to learn how the new healthcare bill will affect them. To accommodate all the questions in the allotted amount of time, audience members were asked to write down their questions to be answered by AARP at a later date. Below are some of questions and answers that were unable to be answered by Heppner at the time of the forum.
Sun City resident and (ret.) speech pathologist Phyllis Wit spends half the year in her Sun City Huntley home and the other half in her Sun City Palm Desert California home. One thing she shares between the two locations is her Stroke Survivors Support Group.
Today, points can get you miles, food, lodging, gas, unknown amounts of free gifts, and, with FitLinxx, they can even get you in shape.
Everyone gets stomach upset. Not everyone has IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). April is IBS Awareness Month, when organizations like IFFGD (International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders) spread public awareness about IBS.