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Chautauqua Adult Day Services Opens Gardening, Recreation Project

Chautauqua Adult Day Services received a grant from Cummins Engine, Sheldon Foundation and the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation for its Outdoor Therapeutic Gardening and Recreation Project. The project is providing participants in the program with the opportunity to be outside, do some ...

The Inside Yolk On Egg Nutrition

With Easter just around the corner, eggs will be center stage and possibly center of your plate! Eggs provide only 75 calories and pack a punch with valuable nutrients including 7 grams of protein, 5 grams of mostly unsaturated fat, and are considered a micronutrient powerhouse packed with so many vitamins and minerals. Vitamin A, Lutein, and Xeanthin help with vision. Choline is important for brain function. Vitamin E and Selenium work together as antioxidants to protect the breakdown of body tissues. With all of these benefits packed into a single food, it’s easy to see why ...

Seeing “Something”

Recently, I heard about an uncommon bird nesting in a forest near my house. With a little information from someone who found it, I went out to try to spot it. But I was left with more questions than bird sightings. How, in acres and acres of forest, did someone find that bird and that nest? ...

Births

RINALDO — To Kali and Brett Rinaldo of Lakewood in UPMC Chautauqua, a girl, Stella Josephine Rinaldo. Grandparents are Terry and Lisa Anderson, John Simko, Steven Rinaldo and Linda and Bob Ostrom. Great-grandparents are Gene Simko and Komo Tane.

Get Out And Join Us This Spring!

As Red-winged Blackbirds and American Robins reappear, spring has finally arrived! The Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy has some great events planned this spring, and we hope you will come out and join us as we come together to learn more about the health and protection of our waterways and ...

I’ve Only Got Two Shoulders

Every time I start writing a column, I end up explaining how hard things have been lately. It seems like they’ve been just plain hard for eons. First, there was COVID, then there was more COVID, then there was politics, and division, and anger, and war. It gets a little heavy to hold up on two shoulders every now and again. However, I just realized that the Lord only gave me two shoulders that are of a somewhat reasonable size for a purpose. There’s only one burden meant for those shoulders - and it’s easy and light. As it says in Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all who ...