Lifestyle

By the skinniest of margins, voters approved a bond issue for Hesston United District 460 in an election Aug. 30.

Dear Doctors: I’m a 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran who was exposed to Agent Orange. Last December, I was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. I had immunotherapy and also used turkey tail mushroom extract. All except one of the tumors shrank. Do you think the mushrooms helped?

For most people, taking a daily 81 mg aspirin to prevent stroke and heart attack is more risky than beneficial. Aspirin has been in use as a pharmaceutical for over 150 years making it one of our oldest.

Let’s visit a birthplace – not of a president or a general, but the birthplace of a cattle breed. Today we’ll learn more about an innovative family that helped develop a new breed of cattle in rural Kansas.

Newton Public Library 720 N Oak Street Newton, KS 67114 (316) 283-2890 fax: (316) 283-2916 www.newtonplks.org library@newtonplks.org Library Hours: Mon-Tues, Thurs: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

The Newton Kansan hosted a reception on Aug. 22, the 150th anniversary of the first edition of The Newton Kansan.

Keep enjoying your homegrown herbs all year round. Harvest throughout the growing season and include them in garden-fresh meals.

It’s hard to believe we are actually close to the time of year when the temperatures starts to cool down. The good thing is the cool temps are what tall fescue thrives in! So, if your tall fescue lawn has thinned out over the years fall is a great time to overseed. Use the following information if you plan to overseed this fall.