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Healthy habits can lead to a healthier baby

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Please note: This article is provided by ONU Healthwise Pharmacy.
Whether you are trying to have a baby or just thinking about it, informing yourself is a good first step. Here are three tips to get you started:

1) Visit Your Doctor

Do not wait until you become pregnant to visit your doctor. Before you become pregnant is the best time to speak with your doctor about any health conditions that can negatively affect your pregnancy.

Health conditions that can affect pregnancy include but are not limited to diabetes, high blood pressure, sexually transmitted infections and autoimmune conditions, including thyroid disorders.

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By Mindy Lause, RN
Blanchard Valley Hospital Emergency Department                     
Human trafficking is also known as modern day slavery. It often manifests as prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor, servitude and the removal of organs. Since medical care becomes necessary for trafficked victims due to poor living conditions, abuse and inadequate nutrition, health care professionals are in a unique position to identify this vulnerable patient population.

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By Leland Crouse
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Here’s an updated photo of Anna Fleming, Ada, as she closed the Bible as chaplain for the day at a meeting of the Blue Star Mothers, during the fall state conference.

Anna has belongs to the Blue Star Mothers since 1957 when a chapter was started in Ada.

Her son, Barclay, served in the army in Germany; son, Gerald, served in Alaska with the army, and her otherson, Edward, spent 20 years in the navy.

Established a scholarship in chemistry in memory of her daughters

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Inara (Mencis) Brubaker, 81, died at 8:35 p.m. on July 2, 2019, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, Ohio, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. 

She was born in Riga, Latvia, on May 1, 1938, to the late Arnolds and Herta (Stebers) Mencis. 

She was preceded in death by her daughters, Erika J. Brubaker and Andra E. Brubaker, in 1993.

 Inara emigrated to the United States when she was 12 years old, and graduated from Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio. She retired in 2002 from the UOP/AlliedSignal (now Honeywell International) Research Center.

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FROM BLUFFTON ICON - You'll find this antique doll at rest on an 1840s-era bed in the Swiss Community Historical Society's Schumacher homestead, 8350 Bixel Road, Bluffton.

The homestead is open each Saturday in the summer from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5. The tour takes you back in time where you may see how Swiss settlers lived.

Click here for details on the homestead and the society.

77-mile venture included sighting bald eagles, beavers, native American drawings on rock ledge

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Five members from Ada Boy Scout Troop 124 completed a 10-day high adventure canoe trip to Northern Tier Canoe Base in Ely, Minnesota.

Northern Tier is a canoe base owned by the BSA and is on the Boundary Waters between Minnesota, Ontario, and Manitoba. The five members attending were Isaac Spar, Dexter Woods III, Jacob Butterfield, and adult leaders Don Spar, and Tom Lehman.

Over the course of 10 days, eight spent on the water, the group canoed over
77 miles and portaged there canoes around 17 times, one portage being over a
mile.  All food, clothing, and equipment for the eight days was carried in
the canoes and portaged over land.

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