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New health center opens
SAN MARCOS —- North County Health Services, a non-profit community healthcare organization, recently opened the Grand Avenue Family Medicine center, which offers adult medicine, pediatrics, well child exams, obstetrics and gynecology, and family planning services.
“NCHS plans to meet the growing demand for affordable healthcare by adding additional medical offices such as Grand Avenue Family Medicine, and a new site in Oceanside later this year,”said Irma Cota, president and chief executive officer at NCHS, in a press release.
Associate Medical Director Jennifer Tuteur is the physician on site. Tuteur completed her residency at St. Paul Ramsey Department of Family and Community Medicine after graduating from University of Missouri School of Medicine and Yale University. She is a board-certified family physician and a board member of the Western Clinician Network, a group of community health center clinicians. Joining Dr. Tuteur are three certified nurse midwives.
Call (760) 736-8810. The Grand Avenue Family Medicine health center is at 727 W. San Marcos Blvd., Suite 112.
New chiropractic center opens Monday
VISTA —- Breath of Life Chiropractic center opens Monday at 161 Thunder Drive, Suite 104, under chiropractor Bill Davis, formerly of LaVerne. He is certified in National Upper Cervical Chiropractic (NUCCA) techniques. Call (760) 945-1345.
Free health classes offered
POWAY —- These free classes are offered at the Centre For Health Care, Pomerado Outpatient Pavilion, 15611 Pomerado Road. Reserve to (858) 613-8900, and press 6 for reservations:
– 10 a.m. Wednesday: “Diabetes: Blood Glucose Monitoring.”
– 6 p.m. May 20, “Better Breathing Class” (for parents of children 18 and younger). Meal provided.
– 10 a.m. May 21, “The Role of Medications in Diabetic Control.”
– 10:30 a.m. May 28, “Eye and Foot Care in Diabetic Control.”
National Alliance on Mental Illness to meet
ESCONDIDO —- The North Inland chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, will hold its monthly educational meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Kinesis, 474 W. Vermont Ave. Rose McLoughlin and George Savere of Job Options will speak. Call (760) 745-8381.

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Is it just me, or does it seem like the writers of “Lost” are coming up with more questions than they are answers?
Last night is a perfect example. While the show lacked the action and spookiness of previous episodes, it certainly dumped a whole new batch of questions on us.
Among the bigger ones:
How did Ben get off the island? And why is Sayid working for him now? And more importantly, who are he and Sayid after? Does this guy — “The Economist” — have something to do with the group of people from the freighter, or is he part of an entirely different operation?
What’s up with Miles, Daniel, Frank and Charlotte? Even though Naomi was told in her flashback last week that there were no survivors of the Oceanic crash, none of freighter people seemed surprised to see the Losties when they arrived on the island. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust any of them — except Frank. He seems the most honest of the group — even if he’s an alcoholic pilot.
Who’s Ben’s spy of the freighter? And why are the people on the freighter after Ben?
What’s the deal with the 31-minute time difference on the island that Daniel discovered during his little experiment?

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Workers at a Wichita Falls call center can breathe easier today. Eleventh-hour negotiations averted a strike.
Contract negotiations between AT&T Mobility and the Communications Workers of America District 6 yielded a positive outcome this weekend, when both sides agreed to continue working on a new tentative labor agreement, according to a union spokesperson.
“They weren’t talking until we did our strike vote. They were able to accomplish much over the weekend and worked all weekend and all night Sunday night,” said Angela Guillory, president of the local chapter of CWA’s District 6.
The regional district of the national communications union represents workers from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri.
Locally, they represent 683 AT&T Mobility employees.
Bargaining teams from both sides had been meeting daily for about a month to negotiate a new contract.
Negotiations hit a snag over what CWA District 6 considered a high level of employee turnover in the wireless carrier’s call centers.
Last week, CWA District 6 called for a secret ballot vote from their local chapters to request the authority to call for a strike.
Had the contract negotiations between them and AT&T Mobility fail to yield an agreement, they were prepared to request a strike date from their national president.
However, last-minute negotiations kept both bargaining teams at the table, Guillory said.
“We had faith in our bargaining committee,” she said. “They were able to accomplish much over the weekend.”
Although no details of the tentative labor contract are available, Guillory said that there was mention of an in increase wages and a change in contract language that would improve employee retention.
She also said that local officers will be attending a meeting to get more information on what was negotiated, she said.
“That way we can explain it to our membership,” she said. “We’ll have a ballot to accept the terms of the contract.”
Currently, Guillory is hopeful that the new labor agreement will be ratified by mid-March.
“Hopefully this contract will help,” she said.
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LABOR may not have won the federal election based on policies alone.
The loveable Lefties raked in the votes in a Herald Sun online poll for the sexiest politician — Labor lads and lasses beat their Liberal counterparts to the top honours.
Winning was as easy as ABC for giant-slayer Maxine McKew, who not only won John Howard’s seat of Bennelong, but the public’s hearts.
Queen Maxine rode a late surge to win 32 per cent of the poll’s 888 votes, to Croweater Kate Ellis’ 20 per cent — equal with Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop.
Deputy PM Julia Gillard ran second to ex-Miss Universe Jen Hawkins in Ralph magazine, but was bumped to fourth among Canberra’s cuties.
Lib Sussan Ley and Labor’s Nicola Roxon were equal last.
The sexiest male politician saw K-Rudd take line honours with 39 per cent, proving bad boys aren’t always first choice.
Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott pulled 12 per cent each, Peter Garrett channelled some rock-star charisma for 9 per cent, and Alexander Downer’s fishnets scored 7 per cent.
Poor Brendan Nelson scored even lower than his approval rating with a meagre 6 per cent.

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