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Franklin Wellness Center

ARE YOU GETTING YOUR WORKOUT ON?? Franklin Wellness Center has a new director – Nick Hansen! Tell us about yourself? I’m from Osmond NE (50 miles west of Sioux City), born and raised in a town of 800 people! I’m 28 (he looks 14) and have a lovely wife Carrie. Just married one and a…

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Life on the Sugar Free Front

Life on the Sugar Free Front Good Lord, do you have any idea how hard it is to eat sugar free? I started on the 15th of January. The first thing I did was go through my house and remove items on the not-approved list. The Food Pantry basket at our church was very happy!…

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Barack and Me

Tuesday, January 20, 2009  President Barack Obama Inaugurated I first met Barack Obama at the Harkin Steak Fry two years ago in Indianola Iowa.  It was held at a large field where the balloon races start. There were about 10,000 people in attendance.  The steak was free (and unremarkable, sad for Iowa).  All of the…

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Newspapers Dead?

Word is newspapers are becoming obsolete.  Yesterday’s news – and all that.   I disagree.  Newspapers are more than just news.  Yes, news is important.  With television and now the internet – it’s very easy to get the news almost as it is happening.  But not all newspapers are on the rat race to print…

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Dominick Evans Needs A Van

I’ve written about Dominick Evans for two weekends now.  If you have not visited www.ahouse4dom.com – what the heck are you waiting on?   I know you need a van desperately. Talk about that some please. We’d like to get a vehicle that is wheelchair accessible. We are looking at the Chevy Uplander, merely because…

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Dominick Evans Needs A Home

This is the third in a series of four posts about Dominick Evans.  Okay lets talk about your house. Please paint me a visual picture of what your day is like in your house. My house is very small. Four people live in a house with three bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, a kitchen…

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Why Would You?

Why would you use mouthwash that might cause cancer? Alcohol in mouthwash may raise cancer risk = United Press International 01-12-09 SYDNEY, Jan 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — Australian researchers say mouthwash containing alcohol increases the risk of developing oral cancer. The report, published in the Australian Dental Journal, suggests mouthwash be made available only…

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Hyvee, Nuval and Better Nutrition

HyVee has it going on!  I’ve been working at a HyVee store in Des Moines, Iowa this week.  (more on why later in the post)  HyVee was founded in 1930 in Iowa and has grown to 220 stores in the Midwest. The store is very clean, the associates are all super nice.  There’s a Starbucks…

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Social Media Reflections

Build A Relationship Mack Collier called it (again) – you can read it here – this whole social media business is about building relationships – not so much about promoting your product. How many of us are just tweeting away and blogging away – and not thinking so much about creating relationships? And it’s not…

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Blame it on Keith

Keith Burtis wrote a great blog about his dream house (www.keithburtis.com) – and I thought it only fitting I write one too!  If you look at www.ahouse4dom.com, Dominick has his house described as well. This is not a meme, but if you do decide to write about your dream house, please come back and comment…

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