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Cheers...to resolving to increase your brain power
New Year’s resolutions usually consist of getting slim or squashing a bad habit. The motivations behind most resolutions are for self satisfaction, generally to feel better about one’s self possibly by a thinner or more muscular body type. Exercise is crucial in maintaining a healthy body and lifestyle. Developing , implementing and maintaining new and healthier choices goes far beyond a healthy body image in fact it goes right to the source of our ability to do these things, the magnificent brain.
Most of us have heard the well known phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” but it seems as if this concept is easily overlooked. Even though our brain is what allows us to function on a daily basis it is the same thing that is neglected on a daily basis.
The brain controls everything from sight, sound, hearing, taste, touch as well as emotions. Keeping the brain healthy should be simple enough yet most of us lack in this area. By eating fruits and vegetables, with lots of vitamins like B, C, and E, milk and cereals, which contain vitamin D, as well as fish high in omega 3 one can have a higher functioning brain.
Another vital and potentially fun way to keep your brain in tip top shape are simple tasks, games or exercises to keep the brain sharp. Any activities that enhance your language and problem-solving skills, sharpen your ability to focus, improve your ability to process information and react quickly, and boost your memory. For example, scrabble, crossword puzzles, reading and matching can all contribute positively to the body’s most important organ.
Jeers...to not giving pedestrians their space
A visitor to the Times’ newsroom recently wanted to know if anyone had taken a close look at the corner of Robert Street and Broadway downtown. Specifically, the visitor was referring to the northeast corner of the intersection, where the Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. building sits.
When it comes to the rebuilding of downtown street corner sidewalks earlier in the fall, mandated by the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Robert and Broadway intersection is probably the most notable in Crookston. Which makes it all the more embarrassing when you catch a glimpse of the new, extended sidewalk on the northeast corner, and the tracks left by the rubber of who knows how many tires on who knows how many vehicles driven by who knows how many motorists right over that sidewalk. You know, where a pedestrian might be standing once in a while, waiting to cross the street.
Cheers...to resolving to increase your brain power
New Year’s resolutions usually consist of getting slim or squashing a bad habit. The motivations behind most resolutions are for self satisfaction, generally to feel better about one’s self possibly by a thinner or more muscular body type. Exercise is crucial in maintaining a healthy body and lifestyle. Developing , implementing and maintaining new and healthier choices goes far beyond a healthy body image in fact it goes right to the source of our ability to do these things, the magnificent brain.
Most of us have heard the well known phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” but it seems as if this concept is easily overlooked. Even though our brain is what allows us to function on a daily basis it is the same thing that is neglected on a daily basis.
The brain controls everything from sight, sound, hearing, taste, touch as well as emotions. Keeping the brain healthy should be simple enough yet most of us lack in this area. By eating fruits and vegetables, with lots of vitamins like B, C, and E, milk and cereals, which contain vitamin D, as well as fish high in omega 3 one can have a higher functioning brain.
Another vital and potentially fun way to keep your brain in tip top shape are simple tasks, games or exercises to keep the brain sharp. Any activities that enhance your language and problem-solving skills, sharpen your ability to focus, improve your ability to process information and react quickly, and boost your memory. For example, scrabble, crossword puzzles, reading and matching can all contribute positively to the body’s most important organ.
Jeers...to not giving pedestrians their space
A visitor to the Times’ newsroom recently wanted to know if anyone had taken a close look at the corner of Robert Street and Broadway downtown. Specifically, the visitor was referring to the northeast corner of the intersection, where the Tri-Valley Opportunity Council, Inc. building sits.
When it comes to the rebuilding of downtown street corner sidewalks earlier in the fall, mandated by the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Robert and Broadway intersection is probably the most notable in Crookston. Which makes it all the more embarrassing when you catch a glimpse of the new, extended sidewalk on the northeast corner, and the tracks left by the rubber of who knows how many tires on who knows how many vehicles driven by who knows how many motorists right over that sidewalk. You know, where a pedestrian might be standing once in a while, waiting to cross the street.
Yes, it’s the same intersection and the same corner that a Crookston woman was struck by a semi and killed a few years ago. And, yes, the motorists driving over the sidewalk are pushing their luck. Do the new sidewalk pedestrian ramps extend into the street much further than they once did? Absolutely. But that’s because pedestrians, handicapped or not, have certain rights. One would certainly think they have a right, or at least an expectation, to not get run over by a vehicle while standing on a sidewalk.
City officials are aware of this dangerous driving pattern and seem kind of casual in their reaction. Recently, it was mentioned that if some snow fell and was piled up at the border of some downtown corner pedestrian ramps, it might force drivers to take a wider turn.
Well, maybe it would, but it shouldn’t take snow to get motorists to wake up. You might not like the new, extended sidewalk ramps, but that doesn’t change the fact that they now exist, and you need to drive around them.
