Robbing one’s memory- Alzheimer’s is the worst
I can’t imagine living my last years with Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately that’s what my mother is experiencing. I would guess she has had it for 7 years. The onset occurred while she was living with my father in Florida. Amazingly none of her five children knew. My father had become her fulltime caregiver, all the while hiding my mother’s condition from friends and family. When he died two years ago, my mother’s condition became worse. We had to place her in a memory care facility in Lansing. Since then it has been a long and torturous ride as she has continued [...]
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Grieving mother wants all to know there is another side to Herron
Eric Herron isn’t a bad guy. Just ask his mother, Donna Herron. Herron, as most of us know, was arrested for maintaining a meth lab in Harrison three weeks ago. The bust was one of the biggest of its kind in Clare County. He now sits in jail on a $2,000,000 bond. Donna wants everyone to know there is another side to this sad story. She says Eric, a star football player for Harrison while in high school, got caught up in the wrong crowd. He had always battled alcoholism, but after losing his job, his truck to the repo [...]
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Traffic light a major source of aggravation
“It’s a huge source of frustration,” lamented Clare’s Sue Kelly. “As one who drives it every day it’s really horrible.” Mrs. Kelly is talking about the left hand turn coming east on 5th Street and attempting to turn left on McEwan. I think most of us that drive that way get frustrated. Out of the gate, I’m a very impatient individual. This light drives me bonkers. If you are lucky, two cars can make a left before the light turns red. Sometimes only one car gets through. God forbid, if you are five or six cars back. Mrs. Kelly has [...]
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Shake and bake makes meth easy
My column on methamphetamine last week got its share of kudos. If you didn’t read it, I implored teens and young adults in our area to stay away from the highly addictive drug. What I didn’t write about is the danger involved in making meth. In the last couple of years, the so-called shake and bake meth has become very popular. Shake and bake is produced by combining raw, unstable ingredients in a 2-liter soda bottle. If the person mixing the concoction makes the slightest error, like removing the cap too soon or perforating the plastic, the mixture will explode, [...]
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Don’t do meth
I was really happy to hear about the meth lab bust in Harrison last week. Happy because, in this writer’s opinion methamphetamine has rapidly become the drug of choice amongst the under-30 crowd in Clare County, and it is very very dangerous. Meth or crystal meth, as some call it, is a white, odorless bitter-tasting crystalline powder that easily dissolves in water or alcohol and is swallowed, snorted or smoked. Professionally produced methamphetamine is prescribed by doctors, but the meth our kids partake is usually concocted in homemade environments like the Harrison lab that was busted last week. Like all [...]
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