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Physician, heal thyself … and that’s just what Dr. Yong Kim did, after a fashion. When Kim, owner of Performance Chiropractic and Sports Center in Cameron Park, was a teenager he suffered chronic back pain following numerous vehicle accidents and sports injuries. Add poor posture to the mix, and soon Kim was the victim of [...]
Placerville’s “Favorite Place to Get a Massage” in 2011 and 2012 is not only a great place to de-stress, it is also there to help those seeking healing from injuries and accidents. Absolute Wholeness Massage & Wellness is staffed by skilled, competent therapists who assist clients in healing from injuries, car accidents and more. Their [...]
So often I read studies and ask myself: They paid someone to study this? They could have just asked me. For instance, a study from a British (need I say more) insurance company found that the rate of men’s car accidents go up with hemlines. I’m floored. Positively floored! And the National Post recently reported [...]
When looking back over childhood memories, some people wax poetic. Lanita Bingham, 82, wrote a poem as a teenager lamenting what she did not have as a child. One line says that she wished for a square of concrete where she could skate and talked about dreams of an indoor bathroom. That way, she wouldn’t [...]
Crash victims Kathi Sturgeon and Kathy Hurd “PARTYed” with Vista High School sophomores Friday. But this party at Folsom’s Mercy Hospital didn’t include balloons and music; it replaced the fun with drama and serious life lessons. The Bodacious Biking Babe cyclists of El Dorado Hills took the Folsom students through the “Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related [...]
Mother Lode News Fraternal twins Nic and Tristan Puehse, 12, of Shingle Springs, are becoming well-known in the media (and no doubt among preteen girls) as the skateboarding twins. TheyÕve made appearances on Fuel TV and Ellen DeGeneres. TheyÕve collaborated with The English Beat and L.L. Cool J on skate videos, and skated half pipes [...]
Special to the Democrat On a balmy Thursday evening at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, Mary Kay Brancheau, 67, was selected to be the 2010 El Dorado Rose. Roni Pettibone, 2009 El Dorado Rose, placed the white sash over the green silk bibbed jacket of BrancheauÕs award-winning, original, authentic 1895 traveling suite. Undeniably perfect weather [...]
Special to the Democrat A sparkling crown of white lights twinkled on the dark purple inner curtain of the Theater at the Mine stage last Friday night at the Miss El Dorado scholarship competition and pageant. Soon the pretty, simple and elegant stage backdrop was eclipsed by dazzling light as Sarah Miller, 18, and Raeven [...]
Editor I spend my lunch hour walking downtown and back. It helps keep me in contact with the town, something we lost when we moved out here on Broadway. We were on Main Street for 125 years until we moved here on Pearl Harbor Day in 1991. Our downtown offices were in the half of [...]
Democrat columnist For a change of pace from my usual rambling, IÕve compiled some of my favorite trivial facts for this weekÕs column. In the 1400s, in England a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. This is the origination of Òthe rule of thumb.Ó More than [...]