Features
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Realize child-rearing differences
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eals. Bedtime. Discipline.
The reasons parents clash over their children are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through a second year.
- Agency helps workers with special needs clear hurdles
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Breaking down stereotypes and educating employers - that's Josh Blaeser's job, and he takes it seriously.
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Eau Claire man with Asperger's syndrome finds his dream job
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Brandon Sorenson waited patiently as his co-worker unwrapped a 2- to 3-foot-long chocolate roll and cut it into pieces.
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Alternatives to hormone therapies for menopause questioned
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Editor's note:
Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This article is part of an occasional series examining their use and potential risks.
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Girl's diabetes form leads to an injection-free treatment
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HICAGO - Three years after making medical history and being freed from painful insulin injections, 9-year-old Lilly Jaffe just is beginning to understand how much her story changed the course of diabetes research and treatment.
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Getting down to business
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IVER FALLS - For 25 years Falcon Foods on the UW-River Falls campus has produced gourmet cheeses, ice cream and meats for the campus and community.
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Cameron hopes new library, senior center draws crowds
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Mary Shearer envisions the new library and senior center complex in downtown Cameron will become the new community center, drawing people from around the area.
- Chippewa Valley Briefs
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WEST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Dairy producers, lenders and community leaders are invited to a free informational workshop about problems facing the dairy industry on Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Mondovi.
- Osseo sheep farmers sell shares in flock
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OSSEO - Melissa Todd is on a mission to defy the conventional perception of community-supported agriculture.
- Investigators pushed to explore hauntings
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CHIPPEWA FALLS - When Clarence Rice began working on paranormal cases, he was split between being a true believer and being a skeptic.
- State re-evaluates who assesses property
- Posted: November 20, 2009 - 11:00 pm
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One of the greatest single sources of revenue for municipalities may soon be getting a significant makeover.
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Deals drawn in health care vote
- Posted: November 20, 2009 - 11:00 pm
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WASHINGTON - Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a 2,074-page health care bill and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.
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Game day arrives for new warden
- Updated: November 20, 2009 - 11:58 pm
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As a boy, Cody Adams once was checked by a conservation warden while deer hunting. The encounter made him curious about who wardens were and what they did.
- Gas odor clears Jackson County Courthouse
- Posted: November 20, 2009 - 1:40 pm
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BLACK RIVER FALLS - A suspected gas leak Friday morning at the Jackson County Courthouse that caused a 20-minute evacuation turned out to be the smell of burned oil from a power washer.
- At 11 percent, state foreclosure rate bests national average
- Posted: November 20, 2009 - 9:00 am
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - A new report shows 11 percent of home loans in Wisconsin were in foreclosure or delinquent at the end of September.
- Group collecting deer hides for youth program
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The Chippewa Valley Outdoor Resource Alliance will be collecting deer hides from Saturday through the close of the archery season, Jan. 3.
- Trash bins provide easy deer carcass disposal
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n an attempt to curb illegal dumping of deer carcasses in rural Eau Claire County, two clubs are covering the cost of putting out trash bins for hunters.
- Wisconsin gun deer hunting history
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The following chronology of Wisconsin deer gun hunting was adapted from a Department of Natural Resources news release and Robert Willging's book "On the Hunt: A History of Deer Hunting in Wisconsin."
- Coming Up
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Hunting: Deer gun season, statewide, through Nov. 29. www.dnr.state.wi.us.
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Knight Life: Lack of deer won't spoil season
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understand there are fewer deer this year.
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Movie Capsules
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Here are capsule reviews, from wire services, of first-run feature films in Eau Claire. The rating system is as follows: 4 stars, excellent; 3 stars, good; 2 stars, fair; and 1 star, poor. Movies that are not shown in advance to critics are marked "not reviewed."
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Eau Claire Children's Theatre presents 'Seussical'
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All of Seussville comes together in the musical "Seussical."
- Movie Capsules
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Here are capsule reviews, from wire services, of first-run feature films in Eau Claire. The rating system is as follows: 4 stars, excellent; 3 stars, good; 2 stars, fair; and 1 star, poor. Movies that are not shown in advance to critics are marked "not reviewed."
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Lovable character returns in Fanny Hill comedy
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As cherished as a white Christmas or Grandma's pumpkin pie, the Chippewa Valley has another holiday tradition: Rudy Poznarski.
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In Brief
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Songwriter gives Whitehall show
WHITEHALL - Nashville singer-songwriter Carey Ott will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday at The Alternative Ground coffeehouse, 36396 Main St.
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Lecture moved to new day
MENOMONIE - A UW-Stout presentation has been moved to a new day.
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Festival namesnew headliner
Jason Aldean will replace Alan Jackson as a headliner at next summer's Country Jam USA festival in Eau Claire.
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The Epilepsy Foundation of Western Wisconsin will hold the ninth annual Share the Flame benefit dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1, at Fanny Hill Dinner Theatre, 3919 Crescent Ave.
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Beyond the Valley
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These are listings for entertainment events outside the Chippewa Valley.
- Beyond the Valley
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These are listings for entertainment events outside the Chippewa Valley.
- That's Entertainment
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Today
Preschool story time, 10:30 a.m., L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 400 Eau Claire St.
- That's Entertainment
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Helping Hands Across America nonperishable food drive, 7 a.m.-9 p.m., Marketplace, Davies Center, UW-Eau Claire. 836-5261. www.uwec.edu/dining.
- Travelers find inexpensive housing, agricultural education at organic farm, center
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When I met Jeff Schreiber, he was taking a break from the vegetable harvest to prepare lunch for his work crew.
- Around the House
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Wintertime workshops: May's Floral Garden will hold several workshops on winter decorating.
- Meals in Minutes
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Nancy Coffey, Wisconsin Nutrition Education Program coordinator for UW-Extension of Eau Claire County, shared the following recipes.
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Area family follows recipe for sharing quality time
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In the daily rush of work, school and extracurricular activities, families need to be fed fast.
- Morsels
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New group dishes up vegetarianism
A new vegetarian group will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Borders, 4030 Commonwealth Ave.
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Roast anchors meal fit for family, guests
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Dinner parties don't have to be complicated.
I'd rather gather friends and family around the table more often and serve a simple, good meal than spend hours planning, organizing and executing a masterpiece I won't enjoy because I'm too stressed out, or worse, I don't invite anyone to dinner because it seems like too much work.
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Zippy sauces add zing to deli fare
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he Water Street Deli
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amp; Grocery specializes in foods from the Middle East and Mediterranean: chicken kebabs, ground beef kebabs, gyros, hummus, falafel, baba ghannouj, flatbreads, tabbouleh, various salads.
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Mannequins mimic labor and delivery scenarios
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The group of University of Central Florida nursing students stood at a laboring mother's bedside, their eyes glued to laptop screens that monitored her and her baby's heartbeats.
- Making the Rounds
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certification:
Jane Weiler, a registered nurse and trauma coordinator at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chippewa Falls, recently earned emergency nursing certification through the Emergency Nurses Association, a national professional nursing association.
- Health Matters
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new tool:
More than four years in development, the Wisconsin Health Information Organization Health Analytics Exchange is now functioning as a marketplace that analyzes health system and individual physician performance based on hundreds of variables.
- Meetings and More
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Send information to Christena O'Brien at the Leader-Telegram, P.O. Box 570, Eau Claire, WI 54702-0570 or christena.obrien@ecpc.com.
- Health Matters
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Love lights:
The following area medical centers are offering annual love lights:
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Families struggle with in vitro fertilization ethics
- Posted: November 20, 2009
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CHICAGO - In vitrofertilization made it possible for Adriana and Robert Potter to welcome twins Anabella and Matteus into the world. For the same reasons many couples can't conceive, IVF was their only option if they wanted children of their own.
- Religion Notes
- Updated: November 21, 2009 - 12:00 am
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Students host food drive
ALTOONA - Junior and senior high school students at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 2245 Hayden Ave., will host a food drive from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Help stuff a car with breakfast cereal, paper products and nonperishable food items.
- Worship Folder
- Updated: November 21, 2009 - 12:00 am
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Worship Folder announces special services and events of Chippewa Valley religious groups. Submit items to Worship Folder, Leader-Telegram, P.O. Box 570, Eau Claire, WI 54702-0570; fax, 858-7308; e-mail, alyssa.waters@ecpc.com. Listings are free.
- Lutheran church split inches closer to reality
- Posted: November 20, 2009
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MINNEAPOLIS - A fracture of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America became a real possibility Wednesday with the announcement by dissidents they will have a new Lutheran denomination ready for launch by August. That marks a speed-up in plans by Lutherans who oppose the ELCA's decision to allow gay clergy to be pastors.
- Worship Folder
- Updated: November 13, 2009 - 11:40 pm
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Worship Folder announces special services and events of Chippewa Valley religious groups. Submit items to Worship Folder, Leader-Telegram, P.O. Box 570, Eau Claire, WI 54702-0570; fax 858-7308; e-mail alyssa.waters@ecpc.com. Listings are free.
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