Parkinson’s by the numbers
by Julie Saffrin
Parkinson’s Disease by the numbers
December 17, 2008
Parkinson’s Specialty Care Provides Homes of Love for End-of-Life Care
by Julie Saffrin
On a pleasant, snow-covered street in one of Bloomington’s west side residential neighborhoods, a few blocks from Olson and Jefferson schools, is an ordinary six-bedroom house. Inside, the house is anything but ordinary. The halls are wide, the hardwood floors are free of rugs and the lounge chairs all have lifts. Bathrooms are equipped to aid residents moving from wheelchair to shower. Next to the commercial-duty gate that leads to the lower level stairs is a lift.
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December 11, 2008
Farm Work in S.D. is a Family Affair
by Julie Saffrin
CLAREMONT, S.D. – While folks in the north country are thinking of shoveling snow, the Christensons are focused on mowing their 5,000-acre lawn of field corn and black soybeans near Claremont, S. D. And the going is tough.
Profile: Rock County
by Julie Saffrin
Rock County is in Minnesota’s southwest-most corner, but if you plan to visit this land of agriculture, quartzite and prairie, leave your boat at home. The county is one of only four in the state without a lake.
November 21, 2008
Photographer shoots up a storm
by Julie Saffrin
Commercial photographer Scott Knutson, co-founder and owner of InsideOut Studios in Eden Prairie, is on location in the hanger of JetChoice at the St. Paul Downtown Airport. Knutson is here to shoot JetChoice’s new employees and a Gulfstream 200 jet that has recently been added to the company’s fleet. His camera is a 16.7 megapixel digital camera that processes picture files to 48 megs.
October 23, 2008
U.S. colleges encouraged to drop ACT and SAT
by Julie Saffrin
The National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), in a recent report, challenged college and university members to consider dropping the ACT and SAT from application criteria.
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October 14, 2008
Expensive skin care, from a St. Paul company
by Julie Saffrin
Laura Bellendier, 52, could be a walking commercial for the products she sells. "I get compliments from people who say "‘Laura, your skin. You look 10 years younger,'" she said. As national sales manager for Z. Bigatti, a high-end skin-care company located in St. Paul, she attributes her healthy flawless glow to the company’s “superstar,” Re-Storation® Skin Treatment, a product Bellendier helped bring to Nordstrom department stores.
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September 18, 2008
What Happy People Do
by Julie Saffrin
On the way to buy author John Prin a buck’s worth of Caribou coffee to hear about his upcoming talks on happiness, I pass a deer crossing sign. Someone has dabbed a bright red puff on the deer’s nose and it makes me smile.
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