Parkinson’s and Stroke Survivor Helps Others
In 1973, Renee Le Verrier was a 12-year-old girl playing with neighborhood friends. "Then the next thing I knew, I was on the neighbor's driveway on my back and couldn't get up,"
Athlete Kyle Maynard Revisited (Part 2)
Last week, I shared the first of two columns featuring 26-year-old Kyle Maynard of Georgia, who was born with amniotic band syndrome resulting in all his limbs being congenitally amputated at birth, with his arms completely amputated at the elbows and legs at knees.
Divorce: Dispelling a Popular Myth
In my first decade involved in disability issues, I repeatedly heard people claim that marriages involving parents of children with disabilities had a divorce...
Nugent Helped Change a Nation
For more than 60 years, 88-year-old Tim Nugent of Champaign, Illinois, has been by far the nation's most effective advocate in terms of creating...
Group Helps Chronically Ill
It was not a good year for Lisa Copen. In 1993 one day, suddenly her wrist began freezing up in pain and soon the...
Arthrogryposis, Art Wackett’s Story
A National Institutes of Health website defines arthrogryposis as "a group of non-progressive conditions characterized by multiple joint contractures (stiff joints) and abnormal muscle...
Multiple Disabilities
Deborah and Bobby Cook complement each other. She doesn't see or walk well, and Bobby has trouble hearing and talking. They both read this...
Iraq Veteran Amputee
On June 18, 2006, Sgt. Joshua Gutierrez of the 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, was on patrol near Osut, Iraq, searching...
Autism Advice
Grace Hanusin is a certified occupational therapy assistant from Niagara Falls, New York. She reads this column in the Niagara Wheatfield Tribune. Though not personally having a disability, she did teach school children with disabilities for seventeen years.
Jim Abbott was great One-Handed Pitcher
With baseball season upon us, I have brought back for this week only a very popular 2004 column. Here goes:
In high school, I pitched...
💫 Local Spotlight
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
Has Downtown Roseville Finally Arrived? Progress brings entertainment and family fun
Roseville, Calif.- For a thriving and growing city of approximately 150,000, Downtown Roseville has always seemed a bit at odds with itself over the years. Growing pains provide a sense of incongruence as the past bends and yields to the future in an elongated series of fits and starts.
