ELYRIA – Determined to head to the upcoming Christmas break with wins, the Elyria girls and boys basketball teams both found victories at home on Friday over Solomon with the Lady Eagles winning big 47-18 while the short-handed Eagle boys held off a pesky Gorilla squad for a 34-29 victory.
Eric Wall of McPherson was elected the 2023 Home Baking Association President at the HBA Annual Membership Meeting in Vermont Oct. 16 through Oct.
LINDSBORG, KS. DEC. 14, 2022 – In the spring of this year, Bethany College entered into the search and call process with the Central States Synod of the ELCA to hire a fulltime campus pastor. After carefully conducting a series of facilitated conversations around needs for campus ministry, completing the ELCA ministry site profile, and evaluating potential candidates, Bethany College is pleased to welcome Pastor Melissa Woeppel ‘15 on Jan. 1, 2023.
Q: Sugar is essential for brain function, and you can’t live without it. So, why all the fuss about sugary foods? -- Dorothy R., Terra Haute, Indiana A: There’s a big difference between added sugars and those naturally found in fruits and grains. Added sugar is often engineered -- for example, high fructose corn syrup, added to prepared foods and snacks, is nowhere in nature! It causes impaired muscle function with insulin resistance, inflammation, high triglycerides, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, increases your appetite and promotes obesity. And all added sugars -- sucrose, glucose, fructose -- add up to health woes. So can processed foods that remove fiber, like orange juice. A whole orange has 10-13 grams of sugar and lots of fiber; a 16-ounce glass of orange juice delivers 48 grams of sugar with no moderating fiber.
Never leave your pet alone in a car during cold weather. A car can act as a refrigerator in the winter, holding in the cold and causing the animal to freeze to death.
Dear Amy: I live in a country that celebrates a tradition that I am, at best, uneasy with. It involves a bizarre ritual by which parents of small children routinely lie to them about the existence of an elderly domestic intruder who supposedly brings small chocolate statues of himself along with toys and gifts once a year (spoiler alert: the parents buy this stuff).
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 71-year-old female in good health who is quite physically active. I have been taking red yeast rice with CoQ10 to help with my cholesterol levels. (My son-in-law, who is a chiropractor and pretty knowledgeable about supplements, suggested this to me.) My cholesterol levels are still somewhat high, but my doctor has not pressed me to start a statin drug. My husband and a good friend of ours both had high cholesterol levels and started taking a statin drug. Both developed neuropathy and feel that the drug had a part in that. I do not want to take a chance on taking a statin drug.
Did you happen to catch the McPherson High School Theatre Thespian Troupe’s production of The Play That Goes Wrong back in November? If not, you’re in luck because MHS Thespian Troupe #3796 is extending a Holiday invite with an encore performance on Jan. 3.
Susan “Earlene” Everhart, 79, of McPherson, KS, died December 19, 2022. Arrangements are with Stockham Family Funeral Home, McPherson.
INMAN – The Inman boys and girls basketball teams closed out the pre-holiday regular schedule on Thursday and Friday playing a pair of games for the Heart of America League/Central Plains League challenge.