Dear Doctors: It’s time for my daughter to have a Pap smear, but she’s putting it off because it was so painful last time. I wonder if switching to a female doctor might help? It’s a very unpleasant test and I do sympathize, but it’s also important and I’m worried.
Natural disasters like tropical systems, tornadoes, floods and wildfires are happening more frequently each year. They’re also becoming more unpredictable, with many disasters taking place outside of the traditional storm season.
The city of Ruston has a budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. The Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted the $77 million spending plan Monday.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I boarded an airplane. We never got where we were headed. That was the day coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States, the day we call 9/11.
In the summer of 1984, a group of area Baptist women began thinking about what it would feel like to be relocated to a foreign country. They imagined their lives with no acquaintances, knowledge of the language or understanding of the community. They then saw a need within their own local area.
