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Sep 26

Is Your Brain Wired to Create Food Cravings?

Food cravings have a lot less to do with biology and more to do with psychology.   Specific areas of the brain help create emotional connections with food and help form habits. Certain hormones are also released when you eat a food you really enjoy. Hormones, memories and other various mechanisms combine to create a sensory […]

Sep 9

Free Vision Screenings for Children Offered September 16

Free vision screenings for children ages 6 months through Kindergarten will be offered at the Family Resource Center in Mt. Ayr on Tuesday, September 16, from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.  Iowa Kidsight is a vision-screening project where Lions Club volunteers throughout Iowa organize and conduct vision-screening sessions in local communities.  The results are interpreted […]

Sep 9

Roll and Read Event Scheduled for September 18

Pack the kids in the stroller and roll on over to the Ringgold County Parents as Teachers’ first-ever Roll and Read– Powered by Parents as Teachers. The event will be held on Thursday, September 18, beginning at 5:30 p.m, at the shelter house in the courthouse yard in Mt. Ayr. With a focus on physical well-being […]

Sep 4

Fall Cooking Demo Planned for October 21

Chef Katie (Routh) Porter will be presenting a fall cooking demo on Tuesday, October 21, at 6:00 PM at the Tingley Community Building.  The Ringgold County Wellness Coalition is hosting the event.  Click on the link below for more details and contact information for registering!  Space is limited to 20 participants. Fall Cooking Demo