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Monday, April 13, 2009
Contest looks for deserving caregivers
Home Instead Senior Care and Caring Today magazine are sponsoring the “Give a Caregiver a Break” essay contest to recognize the best caregivers in the country.
The contest will award $16,000 in free caregiving services to the winning essay writers.
Non-professional, family caregivers can submit an essay about the challenges they’ve faced, and how they’ve been inspired while caring for a senior family member.
The essay may have a maximum of 500 words and the deadline is June 15, 2009
The Grand Prize is $5,000 of free care from Home Instead Senior Care, the world’s largest provider of non-medical companionship and home care for seniors.
Two first prize winners will each receive $2,500 of free care from Home Instead Senior Care. In addition,12 extraordinary caregivers will each receive $500 in service.
The top three winning essays will be published in the fall issue of Caring Today and all 15 winning essays will appear on www.caringtoday.
Last year’s grand prize winner was Laura Wetherington, a S.C. wife who gave up her retirement to serve as a full-time caregiver for her husband, Gary, who has Pick’s disease, a form of dementia.
For more information, go to www.caringtoday.com or www.homeinstead.com
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Vermont considers allowing ‘sexting’
Vermont lawmakers are considering allowing the practice of “sexting” under certain circumstances.
A state’s attorney summed up the logic this way: “We don’t want to condone it. We need to educate. But there’s no public interest in labeling them as sex offenders for engaging in a perverted, albeit new, form of courtship.”
Chittenden County State’s Attorney T.J. Donovan went on to say that the law would continue to punish sexting committed through force, coercion or other pressures.
Read this carefully and consider carefully: The Vermont law does not encourage “sexting.”
It also still makes passing along images of the original receiver a crime.
The point is to discontinue the practice of young people - senders and recipients - who were brought to adult courts on felony charges, then convicted and labeled pedophiles, and whose names will be included on sex-offender registries for years.
The law is intending to keep up with technology.
Parents are still able to monitor their children’s cell phones, discuss “sexting” with them and clearly, tell their children not to do it.
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