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There are nearly 600 species of violets found in dozens of countries across the globe, including North America, home to about 60 species. This week, Tidbits picks a bouquet of facts about these delicate little flowers. • The genus Viola includes the popular dogtooth violets as well as delicate pansies. While many varieties have a sweet scent used in perfumes, lotions, and oils, others are completely odorless. • Violet flowers are edible and are often candied or crystallized for use in jellies or as decorations. A Sweet Violet blossom is preserved by coating it in egg white and dipping in crystallized sugar. A hot sugar syrup can also be poured over the fresh flower until the sugar dries and re-crystallizes. The French manufacture a violet syrup from the flower’s extracts and use it to make marshmallows. • Not only are violets beautiful, they’re also nutritious. Petals and stems of violets are rich in the antioxidant Vitamin C, and in fact, contain more Vitamin C than most other vegetables • The viola plant’s medicinal qualities have been studied in several human studies, and evidence indicates that it improves cough suppression in children suffering from asthma. Another study showed the extract’s oil to be effective in treating insomnia. The oil also has been proven beneficial as an ingredient in laxatives. (continued on next page)

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Held on the grounds of the Sanborn-Lewiston Farm Museum, 2660 Sauders Settlement Road (Rt. 31), the Sanborn Autumn Fest is a two day festival put on by the Sanborn Business & Professional Association and the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce, along with special sponsorship from the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, Key Bank, Mount St. Mary’s Hospital, Tim Hortons, Sanborn General Store, Gorge Travel and Rhoney’s Funeral Home. The festival will feature food, vendors, entertainment and Fall fun. Set on the grounds of the farm museum, the two day event expects to draw a crowd wanting to enjoy all things Autumn related! Enjoy harvest produce, crafts and antique vendors, food, kid’s activities and fun for ENJOY! NEW THIS YEAR! Hartland Donate a basket for the entire family to enjoy at the Farm! Wagon Rides our basket auction Saturday & Sunday October 7th & 8th from and receive a $5 card Saturday of auction tickets FREE! 10am - 5pm. FREE admission. For more 1pm-3pm information, contact the Sanborn Business & Professional Association by calling Bonnie at (716) 990-6909

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HEIMLICH MANEUVER Because it’s National Heimlich Heroes Week, Tidbits is focusing on the life-saving technique, the Heimlich maneuver, along with its creator. • Henry Heimlich, an American thoracic surDid you hear about the family who got stuck geon and medical researcher, graduated from on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? Cornell University, and received his M.D. in Apparently, their vehicle would never1943. Before he created his famous maneunever land.to save people from choking, he ver designed invented the chest drainage flutter valve, now called the Heimlich valve. This device allows air and blood to drain from the chest cavity, while preventing air from traveling back, used to treat patients with emergency chest wounds or with a collapsed lung that needs to reexpanded. Although we hear mostly about the Heimlich maneuver, the chest valve has saved more lives. • Heimlich first described his method of using abdominal thrusts for choking victims in a 1974 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. R L OHeOwas T Dcompelled O A NtoWcreate M the maneuver after reading that of all accidental Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space deaths, choking was the sixth leading cause. UpMountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” to that point, the accepted method of dislodging an object was to slap a choking victim on the back, although this had been shown to drive the object deeper into the chest. Within days of his publication in the journal, a Seattle restaurant owner was reported to have used the 1. Disneyland Paris abdominal thrust procedure to rescue a choking 2. Frontierland victim. After a syndicated columnist associ3. withThe ated the Monorail medical industry wrote about the 4. maneuver Space in Mountain new his column, the Journal began receiving a large volume 5. Fantasyland of life-saving stories, and the technique became known as the Heimlich Maneuver. (continued on next page)

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