| HD Procedure Helps Patients See More Clearly
(CBS) High definition television offers a crystal clear image; now as Dr. Sean Kenniff explains, doctors are trying to help patients with poor eyesight see the entire world in the same high definition people with normal vision enjoy. Margaret Nehrke's eyesight was never great, but she says it got worse as she got older. "I couldn't read, I couldn't see anything without my glasses." Now, however, Nehrke sees better than she ever did before, thanks to a laser and lens procedure called high-definition vision.According to Dr. William Rand of Miami's Rand Eye Institute, hi-def vision combines 'custom-vue Lasik' with the latest lens exchange techniques; and he says it can give almost anyone better than perfect vision. "High definition will give better color, better clarity, better contrast," explains Dr.
300 milestone a Day to remember
Danvers High hadn't qualified for a postseason baseball berth in a decade when one-time athletic director Dick Lynch invited Roger Day for an interview. Lynch immediately asked the candidate what his practice plan would be if he were starting tomorrow, was very technical in subsequent questions, and about half way through the AD said, "That's enough. I don't need anymore."
There's a reason Lynch has been inducted into five Hall of Fames. He was a great athlete and an awesome administrator. He knew his stuff. Who was more respected as a true-blue coach? Football. Baseball. Basketball. He was the whole package.
No decision he ever made on the AD end was more accurate or productive than hiring Day 20 years ago.
The 52-year-old star Ipswich alumnus just won his 300th game as the Falcons' coach in a romp over Marblehead, leaving him 300-128.
Legend turns 100
1935: Mainer's Mountaineers sign with RCA's Bluebird label and score their signature hits, "Maple on the Hill" and "Take Me on the Lifeboat." 1937: Mainer marries Brown, known as "Hillbilly Lilly," on Nov. 28; leaves Mainer's Mountaineers to form the first of several of his own bands, later known as Wade Mainer and the Sons of the Mountaineers. 1941: Performs for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. 1944: Mainer joins Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Cisco Houston and others in Alan Lomax's BBC Radio program "The Chisholm Trail." 1945: Mainer and Guthrie perform on Lomax's CBS radio show, "Bound for Glory." 1953: Mainer reaffirms his Christian faith, quits commercial music, moves to Flint, works for General Motors.
Province reviewing gallery options
The provincial government is keeping a close eye on the future of the Prairie Art Gallery and one official says the city might not be forced to salvage the structure.
The building that's home to the gallery was declared a historic resource in 1984, meaning the province will have a say in whatever happens next to it.
"The building is protected," Larry Pearson, manager with the Heritage Resource Branch of the provincial government, said Wednesday.
Historical resource designation means the outside of any protected building cannot be altered without provincial approval and changes must generally match the existing structure.
Pearson said a provincial official has already seen the building, but the department is also awaiting an engineering report.
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