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Alcoholics Anonymous:
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County offers free diapers if moms quit smoking
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Pregnant smokers in one northeast
Ohio county can get free
diapers in exchange for permanently kicking the habit
through a new health program.
Summit County’s Baby &
Me—Tobacco Free program
aims to reduce premature births
and infant mortality, as studies have linked smoking during
pregnancy to preterm labor and
health problems for infants, the
Akron Beacon Journal reported.
The program’s incentive could
be worth hundreds of dollars per
mother. Pregnant smokers can
earn a $25 voucher each month
for one year if they quit smoking, attend at least four support
group sessions and prove they’re
smoke-free by passing monthly
carbon monoxide tests after their
children are born.
Participant Brittney Lykes is
expecting twins this summer,
so she could get twice as many
vouchers if she is successful.
It’s a significant incentive for
the Akron woman, who already
has two children.
“I don’t want any harm done
to them or my other ones I have
here,” said Lykes, 24. “You have
to think about the babies.”
Lykes said she used to smoke
half a pack each day or two but
has cut back to one cigarette
a day and is hopeful about
quitting before the twins come.
The local program has a
budget of about $61,000. It is
funded through a state grant and
modeled after the Baby & Me—
Tobacco Free program launched
in Jamestown, N.Y., 14 years ago.
That program’s creator and
director, Laurie Adams, said it
provides positive messaging
to help moms feel supported
during the challenge of going
smoke-free.
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tackle cemetery projects.
Heider has even been contacted
by someone in Bavaria, Germany, who needed restoration
advice, which just goes to show
how far his reputation has
seeped along the eternal grapevine of the dead.
“I think word of mouth has
spread about him because he
cares so deeply about what he
is doing,” says Heider’s wife,
Geni. She’ll take along a Kindle
for outdoor reading while her
husband confronts the undiscovered country of some longburied rural cemetery, wreathed
in brambles. She says the force
riffling his pages is a burning
passion for the job of cemetery
saving and preservation.
“He has researched, he has
taken classes, he has listened to
people and he has looked at and
learned from what other people
have done, whether it worked
or lasted, and he abides by all
the rules and regulations,” says
Geni Heider, 63. “I think that
is the big thing about him, his
preparation and his caring.”
Heider used to be into restoring antique John Deere tractors
and farm machinery with his
father-in-law, H.J. Adams, but
got into graves, so to speak,
in 1994.
It began when a fellow
member of the Piatt County
Museum board, which he was
serving on at the time, persuaded him to take a look at
restoring a rundown country
cemetery. Heider didn’t have a
clue what he was doing at first
but got hooked on the multistep process, the resurrection
shuffle, of bringing back a piece
of history.
“I eventually found a workshop on cemetery restoration
being taught in Indiana, and
I attended that,” says Heider,
75. “And it was like the heavens opened up and there was
sunlight everywhere; it was
just mind-blowing for me. I
couldn’t get enough of it, I just
sucked it all in.”
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TODDLERS
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their children will enjoy,” the
group said.
The researchers said theirs is
the most recent, comprehensive data on commercial foods
for young children. Cogswell
acknowledged there have been
some improvements in the
marketplace and said the findings aren’t all negative.
“The good news is that the
majority of infant foods were
low in sodium,” she said. It
was surprising, she said, that
“seven out of 10 toddler foods
were high in the amount of
sodium per serving and that
a substantial proportion of
toddler meals and the majority of other toddler foods and
infant’s and toddler’s snacks
contained an added sugar.”
Foods for toddlers should
contain no more than about
210 milligrams of salt or
sodium per serving, under
Institute of Medicine recommendations, but the average
for toddler meals studied was
361 milligrams, almost 1.5
times higher than that limit.
Sodium amounts per serving
ranged from 100 milligrams to
more than 900 milligrams.
High sugar content was
defined as more than 35 percent of calories per portion
MAGNUS
Submitted photos
Before and after photos show a sample of John Heider’s restorative gravestone work.
research hours later, Heider is
now the only state-approved
cemetery restorer in Illinois.
“And I finally started
charging for my work,” he
said. “Because I knew what I
was doing.”
But it’s still a labor of love
more than anything else, and he
isn’t going to relocate to Hawaii
in a financial state of grace at
some future point based on his
less-than-monumental earnings. Pride in a job well done,
however, is eternally priceless.
“Oh, it’s almost a passion
for me, and you meet so many
nice people (he means live ones)
who are thankful for what you
do,” Heider says. “And you are
saving something important,
because once that forgotten
cemetery is plowed over and
gone, it’s not coming back.”
He can’t say he’s ever felt a
prickle across the back of his
neck and the sense of a beyondthe-grave “atta boy” from the
grateful dead, but that doesn’t
mean he hasn’t occasionally
tapped into the supernatural for
assistance.
One of the ways our resurrection specialist finds long-lost
graves is through divining for
them with L-shaped copper rods.
Similar to the technique long
associated with finding water,
the rods twist in his hands
when he walks over a grave.
And it gets better: if a single
rod tends to twist clockwise, it’s
a male grave; if it tends to twist
counter-clockwise, it’s a female
resting place. He’s done countless blind tests on graves where
the markers are intact, and he
says the magic is real.
“No. I’ve no idea how it
works,” he says. “And I don’t
need to know.”
Whatever the unseen forces
that are being harnessed here, it
sure brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “dead reckoning.”
the strategy behind Rauner’s
approach as Illinois’ 42nd
chief executive.
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“I think the governor is
At a speech in Richland Com- going to articulate the problems facing Illinois. He’s
munity College, Rauner lashed
going to paint the scenario
out at labor unions, arguing
to the people of Illinois that
local communities should get
shows the dire straits finanthe ability to create their own
cially that the state is presright-to-work zones to lure
ently in,” said state Rep. Dan
companies looking to save on
Brady, R-Bloomington.
labor costs.
“We’ve got to find a way to
He also questioned the
make sure our state is better
ethics of electing judges and
suggested the state expand its going forward,” added state Rep.
Tom Bennett, R-Gibson City.
sales tax base to include levAlthough Illinoisans have
ies on some services, such as
been hearing about the state’s
attorney fees.
gloomy financial problems
Rauner’s laundry list is
for years, lawmakers say
designed to show there are
some things that can be done to taxpayers should nonetheless listen to what Rauner lays
help rein in costs and generate
some cash for a state that is bil- out Wednesday.
“I think they may buy into
lions of dollars in the hole.
“Let me be crystal clear: Just it more because Gov. Rauner
raising taxes or just focusing on comes from a different background. He’s a businessman.
the income tax rate will not fix
the problem and will not get us He’s not been in politics,”
Brady said.
on a fundamentally different
“We’ve got some tough
trajectory,” he said in Chicago
choices to make,” Reis said.
last week.
“Businesses want a clear
Lawmakers say they see
direction, and I think the
people, middle-class Illinois,
want answers. They want a
direction. So I think he’ll use
the State of the State to outline
what’s wrong and then the budget address to outline how he’s
going to move forward.”
Longtime lawmakers say
Rauner’s approach is a timeworn political tactic.
State Rep. Frank Mautino,
D-Spring Valley, said similar
dire predictions were made by
Rauner’s predecessors, including Quinn, George Ryan and
Rod Blagojevich. The tactic is
designed to soften up voters to
prepare them for a controversial
next step.
“If you look at all three of
those speeches, there’s going to
be some similarities,” Mautino
said. “That’s standard operating
procedure.”
Other Democrats said Rauner’s focus on anti-union laws
and his claim that state workers
are overpaid is alarming.
“I’m very concerned about it.
I have a lot of blue collar workers in my district. I have a lot
of state workers in my district.
I’m not sure where he’s coming from,” said state Rep. Sue
Scherer, D-Decatur. “I’m very
fearful about what it’s going to
do to working-class people.”
“We’ve come a long way to
go backwards,” said state Rep.
Brandon Phelps, a Harrisburg Democrat.
State Rep. John Bradley,
D-Marion, said Rauner’s message about state employee salaries has not been well-received
in his Southern Illinois district.
“There is a lot of anxiety
about that currently,” Bradley said.
While Democrats may be
worried about what Rauner
plans to do, Republicans are
hopeful after enduring 12 years
of Quinn and Blagojevich.
“We’ve got a lot of work to
do, though. A lot of work,”
said state Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Freeport. “I think we
can get ourselves back on the
right track.”
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your old cemetery gussied
up? Or does your group
or organization want a talk
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coming from sugar, based
on Institute of Medicine
guidelines for foods served
in schools. Many foods in
the study exceeded that. On
average, sugar contributed 47
percent of calories for infant
mixed grains and fruit; 66
percent of calories in dried
fruit snacks, and more than 35
percent of calories in dairybased desserts.
Also, about one in three toddler dinners and most toddler
cereal bars and dried fruitbased snacks contained at least
one added sugar.
Added sugars, including
high fructose corn syrup,
dextrose and glucose, raised
concerns because they
boost calorie totals without
health benefits.
“It’s just additional calories
that aren’t needed,” Cogswell said.
Kathleen Burnett of Chicago said she tries to buy
healthy foods for her three
young daughters and recently
switched brands when she
found out her favorite kids’
yogurt was full of sugar.
“When you’re in the grocery
store and things seem quick
and simple, it’s very tempting
to take those things, and we
certainly have,” Burnett said.
“We just try to use moderation
in those prepackaged foods.”
was he coming from outside
the department, he was coming from Fargo, of all places,”
said Officer Virgil Thomas, a
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Magnus served six years as the 19-year veteran of the force
and the newly installed presichief of Fargo, N.D.. Before
dent of the police union. “But
that, he rose to the rank of
captain in the Lansing, Mich., he came in with a plan and
stuck to it, and the image of
police department during his
the city and of the police has
16-year career there.
Magnus says he steals many changed dramatically. Morale
has improved greatly.”
of his community policing
The union initially objected
ideas from other departto the police chief’s participaments that have successfully
tion in the Dec. 9 demonstraimplemented them. He also
tion.
says many of his policies
The association’s lawyer
are adapted from the Police
said Magnus’ appearance
Executive Research Forum, a
in uniform “dishonored the
nonprofit organization that
department” and violated a
studies and teaches policing
law barring political activity
strategies.
on duty. But Thomas said the
Magnus was an unlikely
union backed away from those
choice to take over the
claims after sitting down and
troubled department when he
was lured from Fargo, a city of talking with Magnus about the
demonstration.
roughly the same population
“We talked about it, and I
as Richmond but a world apart
understand what he was trying
in terms of crime and demoto do,” Thomas said. “He’s trygraphic makeup.
ing to bridge the gap, like we
The Richmond Police
Department was a mess inter- all are.”
Magnus is unapologetic
nally, reeling from scandals,
about his participation in
lawsuits and high turnover.
the demonstration, saying it
City leaders decided to look
was an opportunity to show
outside the department for
Richmond that its police
a chief.
One of the first things Mag- department is in tune with a
nus did when he took over was community roughly one-third
white, one-third black and
to disband the department’s
one-third Latino. “We get it,”
“street teams,” units of heavMagnus said.
ily armed officers deployed in
By most metrics, the departhigh-crime areas.
The teams stopped “every- ment has improved under
thing that moved,” Richmond Magnus’ stewardship.
The city in 2014 recorded 11
Police Capt. Mark Gagan
murders, the lowest rate per
said, in hopes of finding
capita in recent decades. It was
suspects with warrants or
the fifth straight year the murcarrying small amounts of
der rate declined in Richmond.
illegal drugs. Gagan said the
Violent crimes and property
strategy is still a popular one
across the country, but Mag- crimes alike have plummeted,
as have officer-involved
nus didn’t like it that many
shootings. The U.S. Departin the community perceived
the aggressive street teams as ment of Justice recently added
Magnus to a panel of experts
an occupying army.
investigating police relations
Magnus also eliminated the
with the community in Ferguseniority system that allowed
son, Mo.
officers to choose the areas
they would patrol.
He required officers to take
on more responsibilities on
their beats beyond responding
to calls.
Beat officers are required to
attend neighborhood meetings
and to maintain a high profile
at churches, schools and businesses. They’re encouraged to
hand out their mobile phone
numbers and email addresses
to residents.
“A lot of people were skeptical at first ... I know I was
skeptical. I mean, not only