Everyone has a reason to end Alzheimer’s.
Each year more than 400,000 people in over 600 communities nationwide come together for the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s® — the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. While we all have our own reason to step up to the start line, our eyes are set on the ultimate finish — the end of Alzheimer’s.
And in the local writing scene, we have news from Write by the Rails:
Write by the Rails ‘Back on Track’ with new initiatives
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — U.S. officials were taken by surprise when China announced this year that it will no longer accept most plastics for recycling.
Prince William County and Manassas residents were equally confounded.
If you went to college, there’s a good chance you’re among the more than 70 percent of graduates with student loans to repay.
While those loans allowed you to achieve educational goals, they could affect your ability to achieve another part of the American dream — buying a home.
From the Prince William police press release:
Thank you! That is the message from the staff of the Prince William County Police Department’s Animal Control Bureau and our partners in the 4th annual, nationwide “Clear the Shelters Day” event.
A back-to-school message from Dr. Steven Walts, Superintendent of Prince William County Public Schools:
We enthusiastically await the arrival of approximately 91,000 students on the first day of the 2018-19 school year. Our educators and support staff are prepared and passionate about ensuring each student learns, grows, and excels.
Patients and visitors to Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, as well as all Sentara Healthcare hospitals and outpatient facilities, are now able to receive timely text messages during critical safety events. A new opt-in emergency notification service dubbed SentarAlert allows anyone in Sentara facilities to receive the same texts Sentara employees receive through our emergency notification system (ENS).
SentarAlert allows patients and visitors to text a keyword unique to each Sentara facility or region to 333111 and immediately begin receiving critical safety messages. SentarAlert will begin the service with two critical safety notifications: Active Shooter and Evacuation. At 120 characters, notifications are brief and cryptic, like tweets, and designed to be augmented by overhead pages in hospitals and sites with public address systems.
href=”https://www.volunteerprincewilliam.org/”>www.volunteerprincewilliam.org. Thanks so much for all you do in our community.
Call to Action is a column written by Volunteer Prince William Executive Director Mary Foley.
Maybe the name Kris Kristofferson rings a bell, or maybe it doesn’t. Either way, here’s a little story about the songwriter and actor who is now 80.
For several years, it was thought he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or some other kind of dementia. His memory had been deteriorating. Then in June 2016, he revealed he was misdiagnosed. What he actually had was Lyme disease.
