| Your Turn Infant Screening Program
Minnesota's infant screening program is now at risk as the state becomes the battleground in the first big clash between genetics and privacy in the DNA age. What side do you come down on? Here's what readers said. To join the discussion, go to www.startribune.com/a3671.This is not DNA testing to prove who is the parent of the child. This is vital testing to keep a beautiful, healthy baby healthy. The child is too young to speak up and choose this, and parents aren't always well enough informed to insist on the tests. If it isn't done at birth, it can be too late. Also, unfortunately, if it isn't mandated, insurance may choose to play the odds and not pay for it. KmomSpeaking from direct experience: Minnesota's newborn screening absolutely, without a doubt, saved my child's life. On Oct. 28, 2006, he was born and seemed healthy and happy.
They ditched hooch for health
Many stories on rehabilitation focus on an alcoholic's downward spiral before finding new life in sobriety. But with that new life comes a quandary — how to fill time once occupied with a bottle with time dedicated to health.
"You have to have something to replace that time, said Lawrence Houston, 48, who once abused alcohol and drugs but today lives clean and sober in suburban Lancaster. "Idle time is the devil's workshop!"
"Go for a walk," agreed Dr. David Hill, a Millersville University professor of psychology, who has also served as an addictions consultant for area treatment centers. "Go to the gym; go to something self-enhancing."
Like Houston, others who have battled addiction have taken up that mantra. They work out, golf, swim, coach, take up yoga, read, meditate and/or pray.
New RCMP position brings back DARE
One of Hinton�s RCMP officers has a new role and she�s bringing back an old program. Earlier this year, RCMP Const. Deanna Alford took over a new position within the Hinton detachment -- she is now a community services officer. �In my mind, the community services officer is a position that allows for a greater ability to get out there and be face to face with the public,� she said. The new role is more preventative in nature than the traditional role of a police officer in the community, which is enforcement. The new role at the Hinton detachment was established last February. Staff Sergeant Harold Milroy said that he was asked last year by Yellowhead county council what the detachment needed. He told council that the detachment lacked the resources to address the prevention side of things and suggested that having someone take on the community services officer position would be beneficial.
Police indict man for 1993 murder
JAMES CITY -- After years of cajoling witnesses and chasing dead-end leads, police at last have enough evidence to indict a suspect in connection with the 1993 murder of Rodney Nathaniel James.
A grand jury last week issued a direct indictment against Robert Anthony Oliver Williams, 32, aka "Black Mikey," charging him with second-degree murder in connection with James' death.
Late on the night of June 25, 1993, Rodney James and his cousin were walking near the corner of Mooretown Road and Clark Lane when five gunshots rang out. The cousin ran. James was struck once in the heart by a .32-caliber bullet. He stumbled more than 150 feet before dying at the scene.
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Cricket: No Sophia return for Fletcher
MATTHEW MAYNARD has ruled out an instant return to Glamorgan for Duncan Fletcher. Former England coach Fletcher has been at the centre of controversy since launching his hard-hitting autobiography. But if England's Ashes-winning supremo was hoping for some coaching solace back at tranquil Glamorgan – a wish he made public in Wales on Sunday earlier this month – he is sadly mistaken. Maynard, who once likened their relationship to that of a 'husband and wife', captained Glamorgan to County Championship glory under Fletcher 10 years ago and worked as the Zimbabwean's assistant with England. But Glamorgan's new cricket manager has ruled out a reunion at Sophia Gardens "Duncan's book has made it very hard for any county, let alone Glamorgan, to employ him," said Maynard.
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