Your Health Matters
By Claudia Parks, R.N.
      Use your microwave safely. The microwave oven has become a permanent fixture in the American kitchen, the office break room and many hotel/motel rooms. According to Appliance Magazine, only DVD players and digital televisions were shipped out of U.S. warehouses in greater numbers than were microwa...
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Union County Arrest Report
      The following is the arrest report for the Union County Jail. This report is from the open records for the the period of November 18 through November 25, 2007.
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Mickey Cummings addresses Kiwanis Club
      UGA Cooperative Extension Coordinator Mickey Cummings talked to the Kiwanis Club of Blairsville on Monday about the pressures on the natural resources in the mountain counties.
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New Bereavement Group for parents
      A self-help support group for bereaved parents after the death of a child of any age and from any cause will be starting here in Blairsville. We hope to support parents from Union County and surrounding counties. We have plans to become a chartered chapter of The Compassionate Friends (TCF).
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Georgia Mountains Hospice- going beyond traditional healthcare
      The Mission Statement of Georgia Mountains Hospice (GMH) states one of our purposes is "To offer spiritual guidance and answers to one's search for meaning in one's life and death." While our chaplains are certainly not the only ones in GMH working to fulfill this purpose, our chaplains are dedica...
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Social Security's Quick Disability Determination Process
      Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced that the Social Security Administration has implemented its new quick disability determination (QDD) process in Georgia's disability determination services.
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Atlanta Cardiology Group in Blairsville joins Piedmont Heart Institute
      The Atlanta Cardiology Group (ACG) with offices on Hospital Circle and Deep South Farm Road in Blairsville has signed an agreement formalizing an affiliation with Piedmont Healthcare as part of the Piedmont Heart Institute,
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UCB helps make christmas wishes come true
      Each year, United Community Bank helps make the Christmas wishes of an area youngster come true by adopting a child through the Foster Children's Christmas Fund,
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Relay For Life Volunteers prepare for 2008
      American Cancer Society volunteers, pictured, recently attended the "Relay For Life University" training program for 2008. Left to right are Stacy Head, Survivor Chair; Mia Crowe, Accounting Chair; Allyson McGraw and Joanne Sales, Entertainment Chair.
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