Wellness News 4-14
What is SIDS?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the term for the sudden death of an infant under 1 year of age that remains unexplained after a complete investigatio
Health & Advice
Q & A with the National Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Section
Chair Arlene Gordon Oliver, Esq.
Power of the Word 4-13
In the year that I mother died, I head God speak! Talk about a difficult time to listen to God. With the death of my mother, I and my siblings were "officially orphans!" I didn’t want to talk to God! Yet, the year that Mama died, I heard God speak!
Power of the Word 4-12
The national holiday that celebrates the independence of a nation has just passed. The Fourth of July is an occasion for great joy, parades, fireworks, bar-b-ques and good clean fun at the beach, as we remember that America is a free country, under God. Its another holiday for family, friends and travel. I wish us all a period of recreation and safety.
Power of the Word 4-11
I don’t really remember just how my oldest and dearest friend, Barbara Jean Baker Vinson VanBuren and I met. It’s been over fifty years ago! We met at Lincoln Elementary School in Gary, Indiana. She lived in the projects on one side of the school, just beyond the sand dunes. I lived on the other side of the school in a new house that one of my father’s friends had helped him buy after my first born brother had been released from the hospital, suffering pneumonia as we had lived in a cold basement apartment! Mr. Montgomery and my father both worked in the Gary Works Steel Mills, as did Barbara’s father, Mr. Edwin Baker. I was the oldest of eight children and Barbara was in the middle of her family’s seven children. We hooked up in grade school and continued our relationship through graduation at Froebel High School in 1961. Oh, how the years have flown! For I can remember when…..