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Ashville October 25 4-5:30 p.m.
Ashley October 31 6-8 p.m.
Athens October 31 5:30-6:30 p.m.
7 p.m. Parade at community center
Baltimore October 31 5-6:30 p.m.
Bexley October 29 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Blendon Township October 31 6-8 p.m.
Bremen October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Brice 614-864-8591
Broadway October 29 6-8 p.m.
Brown Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Canal Winchester October 29 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Carroll October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Chillicothe October 28 6-7:30 p.m.
Circleville October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Clinton Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Clintonville October 29 6-8 p.m.
Columbus October 29 6-8 p.m.
Commercial Point October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Concord Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Coshocton October 29 5-6:30 p.m.
Delaware October 31 6-8 p.m.
Dublin October 29 6-8 p.m.
Fredericktown October 31 5:30-7 p.m.
Gahanna October 29 6-8 p.m.
Galena October 31 6-7:15 p.m.
Costume party at Ruffner Park will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Galion October 25 2-4 p.m.
Genoa Township October 31 6-8 p.m.
Glenford October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Grandview Heights October 31 6-8 p.m.
Granville October 31 5:30-7 p.m.
Grove City October 29 6-8 p.m.
Groveport October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Hamilton Township October 31 6-8 p.m.
Hanover October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Heath October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Mall-O-Ween, Indian Mound Mall October 30, 6-8 p.m.
Hebron October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Hilliard October 29 6-8 p.m.
Jefferson Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Johnstown October 29 6:30-8 p.m.
Lancaster October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Lewis Center October 31 6-8 p.m.
Lithopolis October 29 6-8 p.m.
Lockbourne October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Logan October 31 3-5 p.m.
London October 29 6-8 p.m.
Madison Township October 29 5-7:30 p.m.
Marble Cliff October 31 6-8 p.m.
Marion October 31 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Marysville October 31 6-8 p.m.
Mifflin Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Milford Center October 31 6-8 p.m.
Millersport October 29 6:30-8 p.m.
Parade with the band in costumes 6 p.m.
Minerva Park October 29 6-8 p.m.
Mt. Sterling October 29 6-8 p.m.
Mt. Vernon October 31 5:30-7 p.m.
New Albany October 29 6-8 p.m.
New Concord October 31 6-7 p.m.
New Lexington October 22 6-8 p.m. at Perry County Fairgrounds
Newark October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
Trick or Treat on the Courthouse Square
October 29 5:30-6:30 p.m.
North Lewisburg October 29 6-8 p.m.
Norwich Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Obetz October 31 6-8 p.m.
Orange Township October 31 6-8 p.m.
Pataskala October 29 6-8 p.m.
Pickerington October 29 6-8 p.m.
Plain City October 31 6-8 p.m.
Pleasantville October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Powell October 31 6-8 p.m.
Prairie Township October 29 6-8 p.m.
Prospect October 31 5-6:30 p.m.
Reynoldsburg October 29 6-8 p.m.
Richwood October 31 5-7 p.m.
Shawnee Hills October 29 6-8 p.m.
St. Louisville October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Sunbury October 31 6-8 p.m.
Unionville Center October 29 6-8 p.m.
Upper Arlington October 29 6-8 p.m.
Urbancrest October 29 6-8 p.m.
Utica October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
Valleyview October 29 6-8 p.m.
Warsaw October 29 5-6:30 p.m.
Westerville October 31 6-8 p.m.
West Jefferson October 29 6-7:30 p.m.
West Lafayette October 29 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Whitehall October 29 6-8 p.m.
Worthington October 29 6-8 p.m.
Zanesville October 29 5:30-7 p.m.
1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night.
The reason: aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life". Therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the aspirin would be strongest in your system.
2. Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest. Years.
(when it gets old, it smells like vinegar.)
WHY ASPIRIN BY YOUR BED
Save lives .... It is important to always have ASPIRIN in the home!!!
ABOUT HEART ATTACKS
There are other symptoms of a heart attack besides the pain on the left arm.
One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating,
however these symptoms may also occurs less frequently.
NOTE: There may be no pain in the chest during a heart attack.
The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep, did not wake up.
However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.
If that happens, IMMEDIATELY DISSOLVE TWO ASPIRINS IN YOUR MOUTH and swallow them with a bit of water.
Afterwards, phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by and state "HEART ATTACK!!!" and that you have taken 2 ASPIRINS!
Take a seat on a chair or sofa and wait for their arrival and .....
DO NOT LIE DOWN !!!
A Cardiologist has stated that, if each person, after receiving this e-mail,
sends it to 10 people, probably a life can be saved!
I have already shared the information!!! What about you?
Forward this message - IT MAY SAVE LIVES !!!!!!
AEP was the only Columbus-based company that made Working Mother's 100 Best for 2009 list. The top 10 companies, in alphabetical order:
• Abbott Laboratories*
• Bon Secours Richmond Health System
• Deloitte
• Discovery Communications
• Ernst & Young
• General Mills
• Grant Thornton
• IBM Corp.
• McGraw-Hill Cos.*
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
* Companies with a major work-force presence in central Ohio
Source: Working Mother
It's the third year in a row that AEP has made the list, which also includes several companies that have major operations in central Ohio.
AEP was the only Columbus-based company and the only utility on the top-100 list. The company, which employs about 4,300 workers in central Ohio and more than 18,000 others in 11 states, earned high marks for promoting women, offering child-care discounts and offering flextime and telecommuting options. In addition, 36 percent of its executives are female, along with 21 percent of its board members.
"We don't want to just keep people. We want to keep them engaged in what they're doing and help them perform to the best of their abilities," said Gen Tuchow, vice president of human resources for AEP.
Being family-friendly doesn't necessarily carry a big price tag, she said. Benefits such as having a partnership with a firm that can provide backup care on short notice for children or elderly parents are "relatively low-cost compared to the overall cost of running a company."
Continuing to offer a strong set of benefits even in tough times is just good business, said John Challenger, chief executive of Chicago-based outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
"These companies are looking longer-term. They do not want to sacrifice the gains and the good will that they've developed by flip-flopping or letting go of the principles that they've built," he said.
Challenger said many benefits that are considered beneficial by employees are actually "very practically motivated" and also benefit the employer in the long run: "Offering programs that align with working mothers' interests is going to equal happier, less-distracted employees who are going to be more productive."
This is the sixth time since 2002 that AEP has been named to the magazine's list. Tuchow said the company also has been recognized for being adoption-friendly, accommodating to military families and for being a good employer for minorities.
Pharmaceutical firm Abbott Laboratories, publisher McGraw-Hill Cos. and financial-services firm JPMorgan Chase & Co. were among those on the list that have a large central Ohio presence. Nearly half of the 100 companies were in the financial-services and health-care industries.
The recession appears to be widening the gap between companies that offer benefits tailored to working mothers and those that don't.
The magazine's editors noted that the "national numbers are dismal." For example, all of the companies on the 100-best list offer on-site areas for breastfeeding mothers, compared with 25 percent of companies nationally. And 98 percent of companies on the list offer job sharing, compared with 16 percent nationally.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With no end in sight to the country's job market woes, the House has agreed to give the jobless in a majority of states another 13 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits.
The bill, which passed the House 331-83 , approves the extra three months of benefits for those jobless living in 27 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, with unemployment rates topping 8.5 percent. Similar legislation is pending in the Senate. The longtime unemployed in states with lower levels of joblessness would not get the extension.
The job market appears to be the last to recover from a recession that officially began in December 2007. Jobless benefits have already been extended to record lengths through federal intervention.
States offer 26 weeks of benefits, with the average payment about $300 a week. But with federal help, including provisions from the economic stimulus bill, the unemployed in states hardest hit by the recession can receive up to 79 weeks of assistance.
About 5 million of those unemployed, about one-third of the total, have been out of work for six months, another figure that far outpaces recent recessions. There are about six people looking for every job available.
"Providing these Americans with a modest economic lifeline is not only the humane thing to do but it's in the economic interest of the country," said the bill's sponsor, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., noting that every unemployment insurance dollar has $1.64 in positive economic impact by supporting existing jobs and the housing market.
He said the immediate effect of the bill would to keep assistance flowing to about 300,000 people, three-fourths of those expected to exhaust their benefits in September. Through the end of the year, it would protect more than 1 million from losing their benefits, he said.
One of the 17 Democrats to vote against the bill, Rep. Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, said he did so because the unemployed in his state, with its lower unemployment rate, did not qualify. The jobless in neighboring Mississippi are eligible.
"Unemployment knows no borders or boundaries, and is just as painful if you live in Natchez, Miss., or just a few miles away in Vidalia, La.," Melancon said.
Democrats stressed that their economic policies were pulling the nation out of a recession and the legislation was needed because of the lingering problems in the job market.
"The headlines may say that our recession is over, but for those who remain out of work, this is still a time of hardship and struggle," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
GOP Rep. Geoff Davis of Kentucky, one of the 27 states qualifying for the additional benefits, saw it in a different light, saying the need for the legislation was "yet another sign of the failure of this administration's stimulus plan to create jobs."
The unemployment rate now is 9.7 percent and economists see it topping 10 percent in 2010.
McDermott said his bill would cost $1.4 billion but does not add to the deficit because it raises money from extension for a year of a federal unemployment tax, costing about $14 an employee per year. That tax, which brings in about $7.2 billion in a year, has been on the books for 30 years, with the money going into the federal unemployment insurance trust fund. The bill would also require better reporting on new employees to reduce unemployment insurance overpayments.
The stimulus act passed last February added $25 to people's unemployment checks. It also expanded several federal programs to help cash-strapped states, increasing the maximum level of benefits for the hardest-hit states to 79 weeks.
Because the recession officially began in December 2007, people getting the full 79 weeks could be running out of benefits and would be entitled to the 13-week extension.
The bill is H.R. 3548.
The Bexley City Council voted last night to outlaw typing or reading e-mails, text messages or Internet content while behind the wheel.
Those violating the law will be charged with a minor misdemeanor that comes with a maximum $150 fine. The new law goes into effect in a month.
"It's very simple," Councilman Jed Morison said. "We're trying to prevent accidents, prevent injuries and prevent tragedies."
Recent studies have found that drivers are six to 23 times more likely to crash while texting.
Washington, D.C., and 19 states have banned drivers from texting in the past two years, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.
And the organization Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety plans to announce a national proposal on Thursday to regulate phone usage by truckers and bus drivers.
There currently is no law in Ohio that specifically keeps drivers from texting, though state law forbids driving while distracted. State lawmakers are discussing more-specific rules.
Bexley, meanwhile, joins Cleveland as one of a handful of Ohio cities that have banned texting while driving.
Cleveland police have cited 13 people with composing or reading texts while driving since that city's law went into effect in July, said Cleveland Lt. Thomas Stacho.
Some police officers, including Bexley's at one point, have said they worry that bans will be hard to enforce.
Stacho disagreed.
"You as well as I can drive down any street and see who's texting," Stacho said. "This isn't rocket science. It's the simple powers of observation."
Jolene Molitoris, director of the Ohio Department of Transportation, sent out an internal office e-mail on Monday that said there needs to be a cultural shift to condemn texting while driving.
As ODOT looks into using social-networking options, such as sending traffic updates through text messages, Molitoris said the department needs to be cautious about whether that would encourage unsafe driving.
The e-mail also announced that ODOT on Friday will host a "safety mini-summit on texting while driving."
Southern Ohio resident Glen Bevins said it's heartening to see the nation and cities taking the issue seriously.
For Bevins, texting while driving equates to a 14-day gap in his memory and a footlong scar across his chest.
This week, Bevins took 10 steps, his first since July. That's when a texting driver hit his Toyota Camry head-on near Portsmouth. Bevins, 75, was flown to Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he's had three surgeries on his left leg.
"I've got tubes all through me, but it's hard to believe that texting on a phone caused all these problems," Bevins said. "If they could see what has happened to me, people wouldn't even question pulling over to pick up the phone."
Violators will be charged with a minor misdemeanor, with a maximum $150 fine.
