Daily step counting

How many daily steps do we really need for optimum health? Ten thousand steps seems to be the gold standard in most of what we read to keep diabetes and high blood pressure (as well as several other conditions) at bay. And how do we keep track of all our steps?

Senior Center Information

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Arenac Choraleers announce spring rehearsals

STANDISH The Arenac Choraleers will hold weekly rehearsals on Mondays at 6:30 p.m., beginning January 29 in the choir room at Standish-Sterling Central High School in preparation for their spring concert slated for Saturday, May 4, 2024.

top 10 movies

2. The Beekeeper (R) Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman 3. Wonka (PG) Timothee Chalamet, Gustave Die 4. Anyone But You (R) Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell 5. Migration (PG) Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks 6. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (PG-13) Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson 7.

STREAMING SOURCE

ON NOW: “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go” (Season 2) -- Netflix 30-Jan: “Jack Whitehall: Settle Down” (Comedy Special) -- Netflix 30-Jan: “NASCAR: Full Speed” (Docuseries) -- Netflix 31-Jan: “Choir” (Docuseries) -- Disney+ 31-Jan: “The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez” (Docuseries) -- Max 31-Jan:...

THE POD REPORT

If you miss those Oscar night interview specials hosted by Barbara Walters, there are several podcasts available to satiate that need. In fact, there are podcasts that dive much deeper into your favorite celebrity’s upbringing, the things that make them tick, their regrets and their vulnerabilities.

May I Walk With You

Snow days are wonderful! In my old age, I have a little more time to reflect on the wonder of snow days, those days when the whole world seems to get a reprieve as everything shuts down. They are like a vacation from the stresses of life.

VA provides free emergency suicide prevention care

WASHINGTON In the first year of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) new policy allowing eligible Veterans and certain former service members in acute suicidal crisis to go to any VA or non-VA health care facility for no-cost emergency health care, 49,714 Veterans and former service members...

BIBLE TRIVIA

1. Is the book of Habakkuk (KJV) in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. Joseph was buried in a plot of ground at Shechem costing how many pieces of silver? 1, 7, 30, 100 3. Which metal, used to sharpen other metals, does Proverbs 27 compare to friends? Gold, Silver, Iron, Tin 4.

Sport QUIZ

1. What American tennis player beat France’s Nicolas Mahut in the longest match ever played -- lasting 11 hours and five minutes and played over three days -- at Wimbledon in 2010? 2.