2 Your Health: Pain Management and How Massage Can Help

Heidi Overman, LMT Pain. It will disrupt your day. Your week. Your months. Your retirement years. But what can you do? A lifetime of drugs? Surgeries? Shots? How about regular massage? Yes. Regular massage can help with muscular pain management. Have you ever had a doctor tell you that your pain is muscular? Then they prescribe some…

Donations Are Needed for Sr. Jose’s Women’s Center

Leslie Fore Donations are needed for Sr. Jose’s Women’s Center Virtual Auction to be held on Sunday, May 2. Sr. Jose plans only one auction this year to raise funds to provide assistance to women experiencing homelessness in Tucson. We ask for your help with donations of gifts, services, or activities. To make it a…

Nature’s Way

Lucy’s Warbler (Photo by Jim Hoagland)

Jim Hoagland April is the month when migrant land birds begin appearing in profusion. It is when the specialty warblers appear in numbers at all elevations and when Elf Owls and Western Screech-Owls are active at our lower elevations. Flammulated and Whiskered Screech-Owls are in higher elevation in the pine and oak forest. This is also…

Save the Date for the 2021 Health Fair on Oct. 23

Phyllis Ketring, Publicity Coordinator The 2020 Health Fair was canceled due to the COVID outbreak and the vulnerability of our community. The 2021 Health Fair is scheduled for Oct. 23, 9 a.m. to noon. If the pandemic numbers decrease while vaccinations increase and both SaddleBrooke One and MountainView open their spaces for public use, it…

Stuck in Grief?

Kristina Turner Anyone who has experienced the loss of a loved one is facing one of life’s most difficult challenges. There are emotional, practical, and spiritual issues to deal with. Life can become a blur of pain, sadness, anger, and confusion. You can’t rebuild your life in an instant, but you can take steps toward…