You have two chances a year to donate your blood to the American Red Cross. The Red Cross team was here on Monday, January 28th at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church to welcome anyone willing to donate. For the past few years, the Gackle Progress Homemakers group has helped in the calling, scheduling, and assisting with the blood drive. The blood drive will be held again in June of this year in case you missed out this time.
Carmen Rath-Wald, NDSU Extension Agent, Logan County, submitted the following information to me about the valuable work she is doing in the Gackle Elementary School.
She did lessons for the kindergarten through 6th grade classes on Good Personal Hygiene, with a special focus on clean teeth.
Carmen contacted Kim Yineman, Oral Health Program Director at the Department of Health, located in the capitol and she provided toothbrushes for all the students K-6 as well as some dental floss and timers. Carmen visited with the students about how oral health dictates that we should change our toothbrushes about every three months, etc., February is Children’s Dental Health Month and so it seemed a good time to include that information. With the older children, she talked about sugarless gum and gum with sorbital.
Carmen will be doing monthly additional lessons through May. Coming up are lessons on phone etiquette especially with regard to taking messages and giving out information. Also coming up is a table setting lesson and behaviors in a social setting (like school).