If you’re used to exercising in a gym or fitness center you may feel like exercising at home is impossible. But it can be done, and it can be fun! Gina Baxter, operations manager at the UT Health East Texas Olympic Center in Tyler, offers a few tips on how to have a successful home workout. She advises that your exercise session should include all of the following:
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on local businesses, and Anvil Brewing is no different. Owner, Byron Aldredge, says that he and his wife have depleted their savings staying afloat in the current economic climate. Fortunately, Aldredge states that he and his wife, Kristin, have designed their business to operate on a “dirty shoestring” budget.
Employees of UT Health East Texas are currently seeing many changes in scheduling, hours, and pay. The healthcare system reported that with an order to cancel elective procedures and surgeries, and fewer regular patients visiting the facility, the company is facing a significant economic impact. UT Health East Texas’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Tom Cummins, stated in a news conference last Thursday, “I think every system across the country is having to look at what they have to do to continue to provide care and services in this rather challenging environment.”
As consumers and businesses adapt to extended stay-at-home orders, scammers likewise adjust their tactics to take advantage. And as April is National Secure Your Identity month, Better Business Bureau serving Central East Texas (BBB) warns consumers about an increasing number of Covid-19 related scams aimed at compromising personally identifiable and account information.
In the World War II epic, “Saving Private Ryan,” Captain John Miller and his small unit found themselves in a precarious predicament. They had been tasked with finding and saving a young private named James Francis Ryan, whose brothers had all been killed in battle. When they finally found him in the middle of war-torn France, however, Ryan refused to desert his unit which was facing a bloody battle to defend a bridge from the Nazis.
