11/20 is “Great American Smoke-out” and Goddard is offering a a free quit kit to Anyone who commits to smoke or chew less tobacco.
Participants can come into City Hall for their free quit kit, which includes this awesome water bottle!
Hurry while supplies last!!!
credit – City of Goddard
One way to prevent holiday stress is to prepare some of the food ahead of time and freeze it. From casseroles to cookies you can have a large portion of your holiday food prepared before the actual day arrives.
“Some things freeze better than others,” said Tammy Roberts, nutrition and health education specialist with University of Missouri Extension. “Things that may not have the quality you would be proud to serve include meringue, cream or custard pie fillings, mayonnaise, sour cream, and vegetables you would use for a salad such as lettuce, cucumbers, radishes and celery.”
Roberts said that uncooked potatoes and cooked pasta don’t often freeze well on their own but you can get great results with these foods in a casserole.
Roberts offered the following tips for quality home-frozen foods…
Find tips for freezing and re-heating foods in the full version of this article at http://missourifamilies.org/
The flu season has many people worried about coming down with illness. However, it is a good idea to run through a checklist of symptoms to be sure that what’s bugging you is the flu and not a common cold or bacterial pneumonia.
“The common cold, the flu and pneumonia can have similar symptoms. The viruses and bacteria that cause these illnesses are around all year. People are more likely to be exposed in winter because they spend more time inside and in closer contact with each other,” said Gail Carlson, former University of Missouri state health education specialist.
It is sometimes difficult to know when a minor illness has become something more serious and requires a visit to your health care provider.
A cold almost always starts with a scratchy throat and stuffy nose. Within a few hours other symptoms appear — sneezing, a mild sore throat, sometimes a minor headache and coughing.
Runny noses are a common feature of colds. On the other hand, fevers are not very common in adults with colds. Fever may occur in small children, but it usually doesn’t rise above 103° F, Carlson said.
When someone has the flu, symptoms start suddenly and include headache, sore throat, dry cough, runny nose, muscle aches, tiredness, weakness and high fever (102-104° F). Children may experience vomiting and diarrhea, but this is not common in adults. Adults may be able to infect others beginning one day before symptoms appear and up to seven days after getting sick.
“Antibiotics won’t help when you have a cold or flu. When you have a cold, try home treatments: get plenty of rest, drink lots of liquids, use a humidifier to add moisture to the home and if you choose, take an over-the-counter medication to relieve the symptoms,” she said.
For more information about symptoms of the flu and pneumonia, and the best ways to prevent these illnesses, view the full version of this article at http://missourifamilies.org/
Schweiss Hydraulic Doors can now be opened or closed during an unexpected power
outage with a remote-operated DC Battery-Motorized back-up control system. All you have
to do is simply press “Up,” and your hydraulic door opens. They are also engineered with
a no extra cost drill-driven backup system which uses a screw gun 7/16” socket hex head,
and hydraulic tractor fittings come standard with each Schweiss Red Power pump
hydraulic unit.
Emergency door lowering can also be as simple as turning a screw on the pump. Your
large moving door will close at a controlled, safe speed, no matter the situation or
emergency. It’s that easy, no mess, no oil drains back into the tank.
Schweiss Doors has been at the forefront of providing Hydraulic and Liftstrap Bifold
doors for agricultural uses throughout Canada and the U.S. Farmers and ranchers have
found that the dependability and superb craftsmanship that goes into both these styles of
doors and their components has answered their every need.
Our hydraulic door pump unit gives you faster door speed when opening and closing
giving a cycle time of approximately 30 seconds, it is the most efficient pump on the
market. You don’t want a slow door that lets the heat out of your building in the winter or
airconditioning out in the summer. The uniquely designed Schweiss pump unit is
contained all in one unit and can be top or underhung and mounted on your building wall,
floor, under a bench or in a back room.
The unique hydraulic pump system uses a fast and quiet, fan-cooled LEESON 1,800 rpm
motor available in 2 h.p to 10 h.p., depending on the size and weight of your door.
Schweiss doesn’t use undersized motors that can get hot and burn out.
Big doors are a large moving end or sidewall. Two powerful cylinders carry the entire
weight of the door. Schweiss cylinders won’t bend, break or bow. Another important
feature that you won’t find on other hydraulic doors is the recent introduction of spherical
bearings. These bearing are located between the teardrop area and cylinder plate at each
end of the doors’ cylinders — a perfect answer to a safer, stronger and longer-lasting door.
Schweiss hydraulic door “added-strength” frames have double end hinges and more
hinges per door, which means they don’t have to support as much weight per hinge.
For more information on hydraulic door backup systems, call Schweiss Doors at 800-746
-8273 or visit our website at www.schweissdoors.com
Keeping warm air inside and the cold air out can be relatively inexpensive, according to Barbara Buffaloe, a former University of Missouri Extension housing specialist.
In many homes, a lot of heat escapes through the roof, cracks in walls, and gaps around windows, doors and pipes. Homeowners can ease the shock of high utility costs by reclaiming some of that lost heat.
Twelve inches of attic insulation is recommended in Missouri, Buffaloe said. Exposed air ducts in the attic allow heat to dissipate even before it enters the house, making the furnace work harder, so wrap or cover these ducts with insulation.
“Depending on the size of your house, for a couple hundred dollars you can probably save 10 to 15 percent on your winter heating bill,” she said.
Weatherstrip your doors and apply caulk around pipes. A few tubes of caulk, which cost $3 or $4 each, could save you several hundred dollars, Buffaloe said.
Lifestyle can also play a role in reducing heating bills…
For more simple things you can do to further reduce your heating bills, check out the full version of this article at http://missourifamilies.org/
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