Faces and Places

CHICAGO – Every 13 minutes, an emergency room in the United States treats someone for a sports-related eye injury.

According to the National Eye Institute, eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness in children in America, and most injuries occurring in school-aged children are sports-related.
 
The results of an eye injury can range from temporary to permanent vision loss.

Eve Brooks is a preschool teacher at Southside Early Childhood Center. She and her husband Mike moved back to the Lancaster area in 2010, but they weren’t coming from another county or even another state. The couple has been doing missionary work in other countries for the past 20 years, serving four years in Africa and 16 years in Indonesia.

Good morning, Just A Pinch-ers! Today is going to be great day. How do I know?

Because a good breakfast leads to good times and to cheery outlooks all around.

Starting the day off right is as easy as pie. Well, make that quiche. Flavorful and fluffy, the perfect egg-y quiche doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, on justapinch.com, Barbara Miller of Oakdale, Minn. has it down to a delectable science.

Melanie Helm is a Lancaster native who graduated from Anderson College in May. She was hired by the Lancaster County School District to teach fourth grade at North Elementary School.

Helm says it was an experience in a country thousands of miles away that inspired her to be a teacher.