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Welcome to Roseville Today’s section on disabilities. Featuring a combination of original content, guest posts, inspiring stories, and practical tips. We hope you’ll find this section useful and informative. May it lift you with encouragement, empower you with empathy, and fuel you with compassion.

ARC member Gloria Steinbring

Recently, I interviewed Gloria Steinbring during an ARC convention. At more than 140,000 members, ARC claims to be the world's largest community-based organization of...

Fibromyalgia

A Mayo Clinic website defines fibromyalgia as a chronic condition "characterized by widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue...

Reader: “I Consider My Life a Success”

A regular column reader, "Roseanne" (not her real name), has been a fighter. Weighing only 21 ounces at birth, she then became overexposed to...

Christopher Duffley Singing Talent

Most years at Christmas, I write a column about an especially gifted person with a moving message that fits the season. This year's column...

ADHD with Matt Lust

From all appearances, Matt Lust is 'normal.' He's a 24-year-old graduate student majoring in sociology at a midwestern university and a former high school football player.

New epilepsy monitoring unit opened at UC Davis

Sacramento, Calif. - The UC Davis Comprehensive Epilepsy Program has opened a new 11-bed epilepsy monitoring unit that specializes in diagnosing and guiding treatment for people whose seizures are not controlled by medication.

Mom copes with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

I won't mention her real name because "Amanda" dearly wants to protect her son, "Brent," who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. "We got Brent...

O’Daniel Wants to Make a Difference

The Spina Bifida Association website claims spina bifida affects about 165,000 Americans and is the nation's most common permanently disabling birth defect. It occurs...

Roseville Sensory Sensitive Fall Festival at Maidu

Roseville, Calif.- The City of Roseville will host a Sensory Sensitive Fall Festival this coming Friday, October 13th at Maidu Community Center. Parent participation is required. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online by available time slots listed below.

Battling Cyclothymia

Last week, I began sharing the story of "Brenda" and "Christine," mother and daughter, who read one of the five newspapers publishing this column...

๐Ÿ”ฆ Local Spotlight ๐Ÿ”ฆ

Paul Black’s Solar Panel Cleaning in Roseville serving the region for...

Roseville, Calif. - Money-saving solar panels in Roseville, Rocklin and throughout South Placer County have become ubiquitous From new residential solar communities continue to big business and after market installation, solar seems to be a smart choice to shred those high monthly electric costs.

Welcome to the Brighter Side

Placer County ranked #2 in California for highest percentage of registered...

Roseville, Calif. - There are many factors that determine those tangible and intangible things that make for best places to live lists. Be it geography, weather, education, or other amenities on your checklist, those marketing and PR compilations citing "best places"