http://www.hgazette.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162240.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162240.html During the early 1940's, I began to take hikes along the Little River where I usually ended up in Rosemont in a forest of evergreen trees. Times weren't great and I owned very little hiking gear, and that included a canteen. It wasn't until WWII when my uncle sent me back a bunch of German army gear that I had what I needed. Thu, 29 May 2008 05:59:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162341.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162341.html Doctor joins oncology practice Dr. Christopher W. Seidler joined the Haverhill office of Commonwealth Hematology-Oncology as a medical oncologist. He will work with Dr. Paul J. Spieler, who opened the Haverhill office in 2004 and is expanding services for local patients. Thu, 29 May 2008 05:56:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162605.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162605.html Thu, 29 May 2008 05:56:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162453.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162453.html Haverhill senior lunches Monday: BBQ chicken, sour cream and chive whipped potatoes, green beans, chilled diced pears, low fat apple muffin. Tuesday: Cranberry juice, sweet and sour meatballs, white rice, peas and carrots, apple turnover, diet Teddy Grahams, light rye bread. Thu, 29 May 2008 05:55:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162635.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162635.html "Thanksgiving in May" on Saturday, May 31 from 4 to 6 p.m. at All Saints Parish in the church hall. A complete turkey dinner will be served. Cost is $7 for adults, $3 children under 12. Trinity Episcopal Church Thu, 29 May 2008 05:54:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162704.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162704.html Haverhill Hunger Roundtable, 978-373-1971, ext. 237. Weekly meals Sunday Haverhill Community Church, 17 Newcomb St., 978-469-1925, 8 to 9 a.m. First Baptist Church, 217 Main St., open-heart meal, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Call 978-374-7491. Thu, 29 May 2008 05:53:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162732.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162732.html Chronic illness/pain: Learn how to accept pain/illness and map out a personalized plan of action for dealing with it at Island Pond Baptist Church, 26 North Salem Road, Hampstead, N.H., on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. or Thursdays at 6:45 p.m. For more information, call 603-329-5959. Thu, 29 May 2008 05:52:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162802.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_149162802.html Hospice volunteer training each Friday from 9 a.m. to noon through Friday June 20 at the office of Rockingham VNA and Hospice, 137 Epping Road, Exeter, N.H. For more information, call 603-772-2981 or 800-540-2981 ext. 140. Thu, 22 May 2008 17:59:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145017.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145017.html Patient rights seminar: Do you know your rights as a caregiver? is a seminar for anyone making their own health care decisions or decisions for loved ones. Learn what to expect upon discharge. Learn about Medicare rights, advance directives, health care proxies, how to file a grievance, how to activate a health care proxy and about quality measure. Speakers include Gloria Swanbon, director of quality at Merrimack Valley Hospital; Yvette Chabot-Bailey, director of case management at Merrimack Valley Hospital; and Diane Beaupre, social worker at Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital. The event is May 29, 5-6 p.m. at Merrimack Valley Hospital, 140 Lincoln Ave. and presented in partnership with Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce and Trinity EMS. For information call the chamber at 978-373-5663. Thu, 22 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145157.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145157.html The term bully pulpit was coined by Theodore Roosevelt. He used it to refer to the presidency as a platform from which to advocate an important agenda or idea. Bully in those days was a positive term meaning good or superior. We sometimes use it in this way today, albeit sarcastically, as when we say, "Bully for you." Thu, 22 May 2008 05:59:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145108.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142145108.html Haverhill senior lunches Monday: Closed - Memorial Day Tuesday: Juicy hamburger on a wheat hamburger roll with ketchup, chuckwagon corn, three bean salad, fruit yogurt or diet yogurt, fruit punch. Thu, 22 May 2008 05:54:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144929.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144929.html Haverhill Hunger Roundtable, 978-373-1971, ext. 237. Weekly meals Sunday Haverhill Community Church, 17 Newcomb St., 978-469-1925, 8 to 9 a.m. First Baptist Church, 217 Main St., open-heart meal, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Call 978-374-7491. Thu, 22 May 2008 05:53:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144859.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144859.html Chronic illness/pain: Learn how to accept pain/illness and map out a personalized plan of action for dealing with it at Island Pond Baptist Church, 26 North Salem Road, Hampstead, N.H., on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. or Thursdays at 6:45 p.m. For more information, call 603-329-5959. Thu, 22 May 2008 05:52:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144829.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_142144829.html Hospice volunteer training each Friday from 9 a.m. to noon through Friday June 20 at the office of Rockingham VNA and Hospice, 137 Epping Road, Exeter, N.H. For more information, call 603-772-2981 or 800-540-2981 ext. 140. Thu, 15 May 2008 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_135144820.html http://www.hgazette.com/health/local_story_135144820.html Riverside Memorial United Church of Christ Sunday morning worship and Sunday school at 10 a.m. Penny sale on May 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the church Fellowship Hall. The drawing will begin at 6 p.m.