2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
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Take Care of Your Health: A 6 Week Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop Series (Part 6 of 6)

Registration required. Visit or call the Information Desk at 732-390-6767.

Registration is for all 6 sessions in this free workshop series, which meets every Wednesday (October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st, 8th).

This is the final part of this series.

 

If you have a chronic condition such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, please join us!

Take Care of Your Health: A 6 Week Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop Series (Part 5 of 6)

Registration required. Visit or call the Information Desk at 732-390-6767.

Registration is for all 6 sessions in this free workshop series, which meets every Wednesday (October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st, 8th).

 

If you have a chronic condition such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, please join us!

Take Care of Your Health: A 6 Week Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop Series (Part 4 of 6)

Registration required. Visit or call the Information Desk at 732-390-6767.

Registration is for all 6 sessions in this free workshop series, which meets every Wednesday (October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st, 8th).

 

If you have a chronic condition such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, please join us!

Take Care of Your Health: A 6 Week Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop Series (Part 3 of 6)

Registration required. Visit or call the Information Desk at 732-390-6767.

Registration is for all 6 sessions in this free workshop series, which meets every Wednesday (October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st, 8th).

 

If you have a chronic condition such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, please join us!

Take Care of Your Health: A 6 Week Chronic Disease Self-Management Workshop Series (Part 2 of 6)

Registration required. Visit or call the Information Desk at 732-390-6767.

Registration is for all 6 sessions in this free workshop series, which meets every Wednesday (October 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st, 8th).

 

If you have a chronic condition such as arthritis, heart disease, osteoporosis, or diabetes, please join us!

July is Independent Retailer Month

Started in July 2011,  Independent Retailer Month highlights the important role local merchants play in the community, economy and overall retail sector. Today, Independent Retailer Month encourages consumers to celebrate the independent retailers that are the backbone of our communities and engages independent retailer associations and local officials to promote shop local campaigns.  Learn more here

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the 11th Hour

As a young girl, Puri realized that the gulf between her immigrant parents' experiences and her own as American-born were nearly impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and faith. She followed her mother into medicine, but began to question medicine's power. Were patients' lives being saved, or merely prolonged? At that time palliative care was a new field, translating the border between medical intervention and quality of life care. Here Puri reveals a nuanced and optimistic portrait of medicine and hospitalization.

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves

A whirlwind tour of new ideas and findings about animal emotions, based on de Waal's studies of the social and emotional lives of chimpanzees, bonobos, and other primates. De Waal discusses facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, Mama's life and death, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will. He distinguishes between emotions and feelings, all the while emphasizing the continuity between our species and other species.

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest

A boy with a bird in his chest navigates all the perils of adolescence while learning to accept and celebrate his queerness. Arriving during the yearly floods in Morning, Montana, Owen is born with a mysterious heart ailment. His mother, Janice, takes him home, expecting the worst. Instead, she awakens one morning to see a baby bird settled “inside the rib cage, next to his heart and lungs.” So begins Owen’s life as a boy with a secret, a boy who is kept inside by his mother, a boy with only the bird, Gail, for company.