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Older adults offer much to local and national communities. Despite that, seniors do not always get the recognition they deserve.

Currently there is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurological disease that slowly robs a person of their memory and personality and interferes with relationships.

District Attorney Erleigh Norville Wiley announced that the Dallas County Court of Appeals has affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Stanley Gerald Champ of Grays Prairie, Texas. On September 1, 2022, a Kaufman County jury convicted and sentenced Champ to Life imprisonment for the continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14 years. The appellate court decision was handed down July 16, 2024.

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and 16 Texas State Parks will be hosting hikes to shed light on this issue, which affects many veterans and their loved ones. The Veteran Suicide Awareness Ruck Hike, an annual event organized by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Veteran’s Liaison Nicole Mechler, allows families, friends and veterans to network and build a support system, as well as spread the word about veteran-specific mental health issues.

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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has added a new helicopter to its fleet of law enforcement aircraft. The 2023 Airbus H125 helicopter will allow the Texas Game Warden Aviation Unit to expand their statewide response capacity for natural disasters, search and rescue incidents, air patrols and more.

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A 2022 study led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute found that recreational pursuits that incorporate physical activity, including walking, swimming and playing tennis, may lower older

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About $45 million will go to Texas towns with fewer than 1,000 residents — a boon for municipalities without a viable tax base.

The experience and wisdom of an older generation can be so amazing and uplifting. The differences in available technology today versus the thirties, forties, and fifties is vast. And yet, many advances in science and medicine occurred in these decades as well as the groundwork for modern day advancements in technology. For example, Hedy Lamarr known primarily as an actress theorized the basis for WiFi technology that we employ today. Many harsh and sometimes fatal diseases were cured or at least slowed down, such as polio. The ‘human computer’, Katharine Johnson and her colleagues at NASA put man on the moon calculating with a slide rule and No. 2 pencil as our modern computers didn’t exist. And from Mendel’s observations of the humble pea plant to Franklin’s X-rays of Slide 51 to Watson and Crick’s work on the double helix structure, DNA was named and imagined. All of these wonderful ideas and realizations occurred prior to 1969.