A Feeding America study shows the percentage of senior Kentuckians who are food insecure is higher than the national average. Almost 10% of Kentuckians 60 or older didn’t have reliable access to a sufficient quantity of nutritious food in 2015. Kentucky Association of Food Banks Director Tamara Sandberg says going without food can adversely affect…
ERLANGER – Diana O’Toole has committed her career to healthy living. For O’Toole, the new Kenton County Alliance coordinator, the key to healthy living is early education about drug and substance abuse. “We have to meet this generation with education to prevent them from even trying drugs,” she said. According to O’Toole, drug abuse destroys lives…
The country’s newest Republican governor is, like President Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, a political outsider, and a fan of the coal industry. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a former coal company owner, was elected as a Democrat but switched parties with a surprise announcement at a Trump rally in West Virginia. Both Trump and…
Roughly 42,000 students headed back to Fayette County Public Schools Wednesday. Kentucky transportation officials reminded all drivers to slow down in school zones, obey warning flashers on buses and never pass a bus on undivided highways when the stop arm is extended, and drive carefully. Hundreds of buses will be sharing roadways with work-day commuters…
This week Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Fran Hardin and Dr. Lee Anne Walmsley of the UK College of Nursing about their 24 month Med Vet option, in which service veterans with medical experience are getting credit for that experience when going to nursing school.
This week Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Fran Hardin and Dr. Lee Anne Walmsley of the UK College of Nursing about their 24 month Med Vet option, in which service veterans with medical experience are getting credit for that experience when going to nursing school. CREDIT UK COLLEGE OF NURSING Listen Listening… 0:00 Listen
EDMONTON – Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton visited Metcalfe County High School on Friday to discuss the 2018 Lt. Governor’s Entrepreneurship Challenge. Over 700 students and 135 teams participated in the challenge last year, according to a document about the program. The challenge awarded $80,000 in scholarships. “It’s an entrepreneur challenge for anyone grades 9-12,” MCHS…
The 2017 Kentucky State Fair opens on Thursday and continues through August 27th in Louisville, and one thing on the mind of fair goers and officials is ride safety in light of the recent tragedy at the Ohio State Fair in which one person was killed and seven others injured when a midway ride broke…
August 15, 2017 Walking into the Kentucky Science Center as an adult can feel a little disorienting. Perhaps, it’s because the space is so different than the science museums many of us grew up visiting. Everywhere you look there are young kids and their guardians engaging with what the center’s executive director Joanna Haas calls…
Businesses looking to create healthier workplaces for their employees can learn how to implement tobacco-free policies at a workshop hosted by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky in Louisville Aug. 31. Smoking costs businesses an estimated $5,800 per smoker in extra expenditures each year, including productivity losses and additional health care costs, and puts them…