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Golden Gazette • March 2022 • Page 13 Bad pet breath can mean health issues

By Dr. Jay King, DVM (NAPSI)—By the age of three, 80% of dogs and 70% of cats show signs of dental disease. If your pet has smelly breath, it could be a warning sign. Pet parents might not know that bad breath is caused by harmful bacteria and can be an indicator of oral disease.

Harmful bacteria in the mouth can also work its way under the gum line, cause gum disease and get into the bloodstream. It gets worse. Bacteria in the blood can harm joints, damage organs, and lead to chronic disease.

Doctor’s advice

As a veterinarian, I want you to know it’s important to be proactive when it comes to pets’ oral health, and how easy and aff ordable it can be to vastly improve it with an oral-care probiotic. ProBiora3®, a proprietary blend of three benefi cial bacteria strains, found only in ProBioraPet®, is all natural and packed with benefi cial bacteria.

This abundance of “good

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The Lubbock Christian Women’s Connection theme for the March 8 meeting is ‘Lucky Me To Know You!’ with Starlet Bell from Bryan, Texas, as the speaker.

A special feature will be a style show from Dillard’s, ‘Beautifully Molded.’

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bacteria” crowds out the “bad bacteria” and does away with the source of bad breath. Simply sprinkle one scoop daily into your pet’s food. There’s no odor and no taste. Pets still happily enjoy their chow—and you can enjoy sweeter pet kisses.

The blend also supports gum and tooth health, freshens breath and naturally whitens teeth. It’s been called the most comprehensive oral-care probiotics technology currently available in the pet oral healthcare market.

The scientifi c basis for the oral health benefi ts provided by these three strains of bacteria has been documented in numerous peer-reviewed

Pet parents can breathe easier when they protect their fur babies from bad-breath-causing bacteria.

publications over the last 30 years.

Learn More

For further facts (and a 10 percent discount at purchase with code LetsGet10), visit www.ProBioraPet.com. • Dr. King is medical director of the Center for Animal Rescue and Enrichment, St. Louis, Missouri.

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Is it time to get organized? 10 signs it is

Has your “stuff” taken over your space? The items that fill our homes can be cherished, but when those items start to get in the way, it may be time to clear clutter from your home. If you care for your home and an aging loved one, too, this can become even more complex.

We have signs to help you decide if your possessions are holding you or a loved one back from being organized. In both cases, we can easily become blind to the number of items we accumulate over time and grow accustomed to clutter being there.

If you’re not sure you need to remove excess “stuff” from your living environment, here are signs clutter has taken over, and it’s time to get organized.

My boss arrived at work in a brand-new Lamborghini. I said, “Wow, that’s an amazing car!” He replied, “If you work hard, put all your hours in, and strive for excellence, I’ll get another one next year.”

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In your home

Streamlining in your home to save space could help you stop clutter from taking over your space. Each room should have designated spaces for everything that belongs in the room. Here are signs you may have too much “stuff” in your home:  You planned to clear clutter and get organized for a while, but haven’t had time. You have more clothing and shoes in your home than can be worn in a specific season, and laundry has become overwhelming.  You have trouble finding items such as keys or other daily essentials frequently. You have multiple spaces where “stuff” consistently continues to accumulate.  You have a large amount of items connected to memories or emotions that have taken up too much space.

3 tips to start getting organized

 Create a plan. Start the process by deciding which items are most meaningful to you and what you need for your family’s daily routine. Then identify heirlooms and keepsakes you are certain you want to keep. Know your space. Understand the layout, limitations, and organization wishes for your home. Decide what you believe should comfortably be in each room.  Sort your items. Decide which items you want to donate or consider selling. Evaluate the best options to help you with that task.

In your loved one’s home

Here’s a list of significant changes that could indicate your parents may currently or soon need additional support streamlining or professional decluttering help:  You observe stacks of unpaid bills or late notices.  Your loved one has trouble finding important or daily use items.  Changes in housekeeping that indicate parents are having trouble with clutter.  Clutter is causing numerous safety concerns in the home, such as covering heat and air conditioning ducts or trip and fall hazards.  Clutter is leading to issues with disorganized medications, spoiled food in the fridge, lack of healthy food items, infestations, or mold.

3 tips to help loved one’s streamline

 Help your loved one get rid of items that belong to other people. Have they held on to your childhood furniture and keepsakes or stored items for family and friends? If your answer is yes, start clearing those items.  Dispose of broken and outdated items. In most cases, broken items are no longer useful or functional but a hazard. Be sure to discard these items to clear room as well as for safety.  Be patient and prioritize the well-being of everyone involved. In a world driven by immediacy, we often want instant results. Remember this is a process that works best with a plan and lots of patience. If the task exceeds what you comfortably do, experts like those at Caring Transitions can help.

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Susie Lee done fell in love. She planned to marry Joe. She was so happy ’bout it all, She told her pappy so.

Pappy told her, ‘Susie gal, You’ll have to find another. I’d just as soon yo’ ma don’t know, But Joe is yo’ half brother.’

So Susie put aside her Joe And planned to marry Will. But after telling pappy this, He said, ‘There’s trouble still.’

You can’t marry Will, my gal, And please don’t tell yo’ mother. But Will and Joe, and several mo’ I know is yo’ half brother.

But mama knew and said, my child, Just do what makes yo’ happy. Marry Will or marry Joe; You ain’t no kin to pappy.

City of Lubbock facilities

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Hodges Community Center 4011 University • 767-3706 Lubbock Memorial Arboretum 4111 University • 797-4520 Lubbock Adult Activity Center 2001 19th St. • 767-2710

Maxey Community Center 4020 30th St. • 767-3796

Rawlings Community Center 213 40th St. • 767-2704

Safety City 46th & Avenue U • 767-2712

Simmons Community & Activity Centers 2004 Oak Ave. • 767-2708

Page 16 • March 2022 • Golden Gazette The quintessential hippie-cowboy loner: Neil Young

The Beatles had 20. Elvis Presley had 18. Michael Jackson—with and without his singing brethren—had 17. Had what? The answer is hit singles. And not just any successful releases but Number One winners that crowned the weekly Billboard Hot 100 list.

To most recording artists, earning such an achievement would be sublime. But Neil Young has never worried about having any of his 45s race up the sales charts. In fact, he was amazed—and not especially happy—when “Heart of Gold” soared to the top in the spring of 1972.

Young was born in Toronto, Canada, in November 1945, and moved to Winnipeg to spend his high school years playing the guitar in several rock bands.

He dropped out before graduating and returned to Toronto, where he found work in local coffeehouses, singing folk and rock ‘n’ roll tunes in a quavering, melancholy voice. Sometimes, late at night and with the streets desserted, Neil trudged through the snow, wondering what to do next.

In time, he hooked up with a soon-to-fail rock band called the Mynah Birds. In the group were fellow guitarist Bruce Palmer and an African American bass player named James Johnson, Jr., who would achieve stardom later as Motown funk star Rick James.

Young and Palmer headed to California in a 1953 Pontiac hearse. In Los Angeles, they fell in with two American musicians they had met in Canada: Stephen Stills and Richie Furay. Along with drummer Dewey Palmer, the

quintet found fame, fortune and respect as the folk-rock outfit Buffalo Springfield. The name had come from an old steamroller they saw parked near their rented house.

But each of the talented band members proved mulishly stubborn in their diverse outlooks about the group’s long-term musical direction. They eventually disbanded and went their separate ways, to varying degrees of success.

For a while, Neil contributed to the musical output of the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. As before, though, internal squabbles drove him away. He later signed as a solo act with Reprise Records, where he was granted artistic control.

Young’s million-selling 45 featured backup vocals by James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. “Heart of Gold” was culled from Harvest, Neil’s fourth studio album. It was a disc that found the Canadian—once described as “the quintessential hippie-cowboy loner”—struggling to accept his frustrations concerning relationships.

I want to live, I want to give

I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold

In the song, he admits that a lack of openness—and time slipping away—could be important reasons behind his problems.

It’s these expressions I never give

That keeps me searching for a heart of gold

And I’m getting old

Young always cringed at the success of “Heart of Gold.” “This song put me in the middle of the road,” he once grumbled. “I’ve seen a few artists who’ve got hung up on the singles market when they’ve really been album people. If you’re wise, you stay with being what you really are.

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