My First Love…
By Sherry Gordon-Harris, Health Alliance My 3-year-old niece, Haddariah Rose, loves the Minnie Mouse talking doll and play costume I got her for her birthday. She holds it, talks to it, tries to feed it, and makes sure her Minnie Mouse doll gets her naps too. She gives love to this doll in the purest […]
From Our Readers—Highpointing Illinois
By Daniel A. LaKemper Just shy of the Wisconsin border, not far from Galena in northwest Illinois, is a hill known as Charles Mound. At 1,235 feet above sea level, it is the highest natural point in the State of Illinois. At 1,353 feet high, the Willis Tower Observation deck in Chicago is actually some […]
A Dream Fulfilled
By Sandra Dempsey Post While Rose Smith may have wished on a star or two when she first arrived in Peoria as a teenager, she was more intent on working to have her dreams come true than wishing. “If you have a dream, nothing is impossible to achieve. Follow your dream,” she says, while cautioning […]
Love Crosses Any Divide
Even the most tranquil watery divide needs to be navigated with skill and care. Crossing expanses made turbulent by weather or obstacles beneath the surface demands levels of skills and care beyond those of mere novices. The last year has been anything but smooth sailing. This has been particularly true for senior communities across the […]
February 2021 Peoria NV Issue
February 2021 Bloomington/Normal NV Issue
Top Ways to Vacation Responsibly in 2021
After months of cautionary travel and shelving vacation plans, people, especially those with families at home, are researching how they can indulge their wanderlust safely again in 2021. The goal is to enjoy a vacation in a responsible manner, creating memories while keeping yourself and others safe. Heading to Coastal Mississippi: The Secret Coast is […]
Tips About Dementia
By Kristyn Durre, Community Resource Director, Sugar Creek Alzheimer’s Special Care Center When visiting an elderly family member, you might notice things aren’t quite the same as the last time you visited with them. Those twenty-minute calls once or twice a month made everything seem A-OK with the parents or grandparents. But now, you have […]
Give Your Retirement Plan an Annual Checkup
By Krista McBeath, McBeath Financial Group Financial professionals typically recommend that you review your employer-sponsored retirement savings plan annually, and when major life changes occur. If you haven’t revisited your plan yet in 2021, the beginning of the year may be an ideal time to do so. Reexamine Your Risk Tolerance This past year saw […]
Music to Pluck Your Heartstrings
By Alexander Germanis Going back thousands of years, the heart has been directly linked to emotion. Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and other philosophers believed our feelings indeed originated from that vital muscular organ. This was such a popular belief for such a long time the term “heartstring” was only first used in a non-anatomical sense in […]