Newsletter-Early-Week

Andrew Co. Health Department announces continued WIC contract

SAVANNAH – The Andrew County Health Department recently announced a contract continuance to provide WIC services for federal fiscal year 2026 has been signed with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a special supplemental nutrition program providing services to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children up to their 5th birthday based on nutritional risk and income eligibility.

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Do Not Eat

I just got some headphones and in the packaging was a little white paper packet, about the size of a large postage stamp, that says very clearly in all caps: DO NOT EAT. This is curious because I didn’t buy headphones because I was hungry.

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People, People Everywhere (And Narry a Place to Sit)

If memory serves, which it doesn’t very well anymore – (my memory is rather like a grumpy inattentive waiter when you order the Chateaubriand, cooked medium, with a soupcon of Bearnaise sauce and what you actually get is a piece of overboiled cod and a terse “The soups on, you’ll have to wait.) That’s my memory, grumpy and inattentive. But, I think my last burblings were about being overwhelmed, over busy, and life being hectic.

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Beyond Reason: Do Not Eat

I just got some headphones and in the packaging was a little white paper packet, about the size of a large postage stamp, that says very clearly in all caps: DO NOT EAT. This is curious because I didn’t buy headphones because I was hungry.

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