Senior Life 101: Sleepless in Silverdale – Part 3
The fact is that poor sleep habits, including a poor sleep environment and poor “daytime” habits, can be the main causes of low-quality sleep in seniors. In many cases, we develop poor sleep habits over a lifetime, but as people get older, they find they create more and more problems. Fortunately, I believe there are some practical things seniors can do to improve sleep habits.
February 17, 2012
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Guest Column: The family drug dealer
The family medicine cabinet is increasingly becoming a deadly drug dealer, stuffed with expired and leftover prescription and over-the-counter medicines that can be dangerous to a family’s health and to our environment. For once, there is a solution that is simple, straight forward, cost effective and endorsed by a wide coalition of organizations, including those of us in law enforcement. It’s the Secure Medicine Return Bill, Senate Bill 5234, and it presents the state’s first proposed permanent drug take back program, one that would be funded entirely by pharmaceutical companies.
February 8, 2012
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In our opinion: Flexible medium
Snow is an interesting temperature-dependent travel medium. By car, truck, Snow Cat, snowmobile, ski or foot, moving across the snow always changes from one trip to the next.
January 20, 2012
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Guest Column: Hitting below the belt
If you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to eat right and trim down, be forewarned that medical science shows your brain has it in for you and will actively promote your failure on two different fronts. That’s not good news, of course, but you should know about it so you can strengthen your resolve as best you can.
Guest Column: Salmon are for everyone
Some say the transfer would be wrong because the funds come from hunting and recreational fishing license fees, but will be used to maintain production at hatcheries that also support commercial and tribal fisheries. I would remind those people that in 2010, treaty tribes in western Washington produced more than 30 million salmon and steelhead at their hatcheries.
January 5, 2012
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Troopers nab 161 ‘impaired’ drivers Christmas weekend
Washington State Patrol troopers across the state arrested 161 drivers suspected of being impaired by drugs or alcohol over the recent Christmas holiday weekend.
Senior Life 101: Sleepless in Silverdale – Part 2
Some change in your sleep patterns are natural as you age. Your body produces lower levels of growth hormone, so you’ll likely experience a decrease in deep sleep, and less melatonin often means more fragmented sleep (more rapid sleep cycles) and more awakenings between sleep cycles.
December 29, 2011
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In our opinion: Year end blues
As 2011 closes, it’s hard to imagine a new year starting. The fresh sense of transition is missing for the fourth year in a row as the effects of the recession drag upon everything from the milk in your morning cereal to the electric bill at city hall.
December 29, 2011
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In our opinion: Clearer signs?
How can it be made more clear to the county commissioners that Kitsap County cannot afford to continue trying to regulate its so-called “sexspresso” stands. The September recommendation by the Kitsap County Planning Commission that the women working in the stands be corralled under the county’s lewd conduct ordinance failed the intellectual test when pressed up against the First Amendment – and the treat of lawsuits.
December 22, 2011
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In our opinion: Government inspector
As the Bremerton City Council considers raising property taxes by one percent to help cover the city’s 2012 expenses, which are detailed in a proposed annual budget document released online Thursday, the public should ask one question at minimum; is the city thin enough?
October 28, 2011
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Senior Life 101: The fear of retirement
As strange as it might seem, for many today there is a very real fear of retiring. It’s not a fear of the unknown, but rather what is known. That is … a fear that I’m not prepared financially to face the prospect of living on a fixed income, especially if I find myself (or my spouse) with health problems.
October 28, 2011
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