Natural Parenting Workshop offered through Duluth Community Ed runs for three Wednesdays beginning June 16. Topics include choosing your birth team (OBs/Midwives/Doulas), birth place (options for home birth, hospital birth and birthing centers), what is labor and delivery *really* like?, birth plans, nighttime parenting, breastfeeding and babywearing.
Cost of the class is $25/couple. Register through Duluth Community Ed.
Apparently, according to the Minnesota Dept. of Health, if raw milk from one dairy farm in Minnesota is contaminated with E. Coli, then raw milk in general presents a serious health risk.
And apparently, according to a dairy farm accused of having contaminated milk, there’s no way it could be their fault, even though five people have been hospitalized and the same strain of E. coli found in several animals at the farm in question has been found in the sick people.
Sure, it’s possible that the dairy industry somehow has manipulated the Dept. of Health into scaring people off raw milk from family farmers — after all, it did a good job scaring Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle last month. But isn’t it possible that one farm can screw up without an entire product being considered dangerous?
And let’s not even get into whether raw milk is healthier than pasteurized milk or not, since even that seems to be a major debate, with both sides telling us the other milk is going to kill us.
Anyway, we might as well have the regular people who don’t know anything spout off about it on PDD. So, is raw milk going to kill us or make us live forever? Or is it just as dangerous as other food products and probably not much more nutritious, but comes from a nice little farm where the cows are treated well and that’s good enough?
The Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse in Superior will be offering advocacy training the week of June 21. This training is comprised of various sessions preparing volunteers to provide advocacy to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
CASDA is currently seeking candidates interested in volunteering in all capacities of our organization including the areas of on-site childcare, office assistance, client transportation, and on-call direct advocacy.
Individuals interested in serving as direct service advocates or with interest in volunteering in another capacity should contact CASDA volunteer coordinator Walter Raschick at 715-392-3136.
So yesterday, about 2pm, my husband is up on the roof cleaning gutters and I’m acting as a totally ineffective spotter. I look at the sky and I see six fighter jets accompanying, or being accompanied by, one really big plane. They were high up, like the same height that you see a passenger jet traveling, and they were heading I think southwest (but I’m really bad at that kind of thing).
Did anyone else see this? My two thoughts are: the Blue Angels were in Eau Claire last weekend, but why would they have been way the heck up here? And two, could it have been Air Force One or Air Force Two? Do they travel with that many jets?
Anyway, it was cool.
