Well being Happenings

March 20, 2023

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Pigskin for Hodgkins will host the fifth annual charity flag soccer recreation March 25 at Northwest Guilford Excessive College, 5240 Northwest College Highway in Greensboro. The nonprofit raises cash for households going by means of a battle with childhood most cancers and to fund Hodgkin’s Lymphoma analysis.

The occasion is a flag soccer recreation that options former highschool, school {and professional} soccer gamers enjoying alongside different acquainted faces to the realm, in addition to present NFL gamers serving as honorary coaches. Pigskin For Hodgkin’s is a family-friendly occasion that features video games, prizes, raffles and meals.

Gates open at midday and kick-off is at 1 p.m. A prompt $1 donation can be collected on the gate.

For data, go to www.pigskinforhodgkins.org.

Veterans who want transportation to their VA medical appointment to the Kernersville, Durham or Salisbury medical services are inspired to contact the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 20 of Guilford County’s veterans transportation hotline at 336-510-7508.

Volunteer drivers are wanted as effectively. Name 336-510-7508 for data.

Callers ought to enable three enterprise days for a response.

The Effectively-Spring Group will maintain a job truthful from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 23, which is open to folks excited about pursuing a job at a Effectively-Spring entity. Effectively-Spring is made up of Effectively-Spring, A Life Plan Group in Greensboro; Effectively-Spring Options in Greensboro; The Village at Brookwood, one other life plan neighborhood, in Burlington; and Residence Care from Effectively-Spring Options in Greensboro.

The truthful will happen at 4100 Effectively Spring Drive in Greensboro.

Free pastries and cold and hot drinks from Wired Café Espresso Bus can be provided from 10 to 11 a.m. and free lunch can be offered from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Guided excursions of Effectively-Spring can be provided each half-hour.

For data, go to www.well-spring.org.

Hirsch Wellness Community in Greensboro has 31 courses scheduled for April which are free to most cancers survivors and caregivers. Some courses are in-person whereas others are on-line or hybrid.

A number of the highlights embody portray with watercolors, Huna Fundamentals for anxiousness, kinetic consciousness, backbone satisfying stretches and extra.

For data, go to www.hirschwellnessnetwork.org/courses or name 336-209-0259.

Effectively-Spring Options, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Affiliation, will supply a free discuss targeted on the “10 Warning Indicators of Alzheimer’s” from 1 to three p.m. March 30 at First Presbyterian Church, 617 N. Elm St., Redhead Corridor, Greensboro. Attendees will study:

The distinction between regular getting older and Alzheimer’s
Frequent warning indicators
The significance of early detection and advantages of analysis
Subsequent steps and expectations for the diagnostic course of
Alzheimer’s Affiliation sources

The Lions Membership Imaginative and prescient Van will supply free listening to and imaginative and prescient screenings from 9 a.m. to three p.m. March 31 at 444 N. Elm St. in Greensboro.

Fulfilling their mission, “We Serve!”, the Hamilton Lakes Lions Membership will sponsor the cellular screening unit to offer free well being screenings for current or potential listening to loss, glaucoma and different eye ailments. By way of early detection, screenings can stop further listening to loss, blindness and different continual sicknesses.

The Hamilton Lakes Lions Membership has served Greensboro for greater than 60 years and is part of Lions Golf equipment Worldwide, the world’s largest service group with greater than 1.4 million members in roughly 46,000 golf equipment in additional than 200 international locations. Screenings are free and accessible to anybody.

Additionally, the Imaginative and prescient Van can be in entrance of the Excessive Level Public Library from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 1.

For data, name 336-373-2169 or go to www.greensborolibrary.org.

March is Nationwide Kidney Month and April is Nationwide Organ Transplant Month.

Based in 2003, MatchingDonors is the nation’s largest dwelling organ donor nonprofit group discovering and registering dwelling organ donors for folks needing organ transplants in america.

Group members are inspired to donate vehicles, boats, leisure automobiles, actual property and planes to the nonprofit to assist save the lives of individuals needing organ transplants.

To donate, name 781-821-2204 or go to MatchingDonorsDonations.com.

Ship press releases to folks@greensboro.com.