Anyone can develop COPD, but smokers or ex-smokers and people who live in rural areas of the country tend to be more affected.
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Getting Out There
January 2023
Black Girls Hike RVA aims to hold between one and two hikes each month, for a total of between 12 and 14 each year. Local hikes, like the one I join, usually consist of between 10 and 25 participants and normally last about two hours, covering a distance not longer than five miles.
It’s Exercise Season
January 2023
The new year seems to always spark new promises to prioritize our health. Yet, somewhere around the third month into the year, those promises often get broken.
A Glimpse of Potential
January 2023
Young women throughout Virginia challenged their determination to reach new heights at this year’s Girl Power Camp, hosted by the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives, its member cooperatives and generous partners.
A Retirement Well-Earned
January 2023
MEC electric car now part of Florida museum Jan/Feb 2023 An electric 1975 “CitiCar” believed to have once belonged to Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative was recently spotted in a South Florida museum. The old-school EV, which once thumbed its nose at the gasoline...
Grow for Year-Round Color
January 2023
Mention to friends that you’ve planted an evergreen tree in your yard, and most will assume you’ve added a pine, arborvitae, or a related conifer. But there are also evergreen flowering trees, and in our region, the native American holly is one of the most popular.
Groundhog Day
January 2023
Groundhog Day is deeply rooted in an early Christian celebration called Candlemas Day when candles for winter were blessed by the clergy and distributed to the people. According to superstition, if the weather was sunny on this special, early February day, the rest of...