Village Life Section :: Page 130

• Breast cancer screening in village— Mobile mammogram coming

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 26, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs women have the opportunity to obtain two critical health screenings locally when the OhioHealth mobile mammography and bone density unit visits Yellow Springs on Friday, May 27.

• A Yellow Springs man’s quest for a kidney

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  David Spyridon’s nights are spent in a recliner. Sleep comes a little harder that way, but the position aids the work of his dialysis machine.

• Rebirth of a garden center

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Gardens are lessons in rebirth, and a local garden center is exemplifying this truth in more than the usual ways.

• Free CFL bulbs offered to local seniors

  By YS News StaffMay 23, 2016

  

  Village of Yellow Springs electric customers who participate in programming from the Yellow Springs Senior Center can receive five free CFL bulbs through the Yellow Springs Senior Center and Efficiency Smart.

• Guerilla Poultry – A study in backyard farming

  By Aaron ZaremskyMay 19, 2016

  

  There is a burgeoning flock of backyard farmers in Yellow Springs who have set out to raise chickens for eggs. Obstacles to the project include ravaging predators and a few neighbors who don’t share the enthusiasm. All in all though, the hens are well contained and healthy and the “guerilla” farmers are enthusiastic about their birds.

• Addressing LGBTQ health

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  A longtime area HIV/AIDS resource, Equitas Health, is expanding its mission to serve the full spectrum of health needs in the LGBTQ community.

• Event teaches that ‘no is no’

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 12, 2016

  

  Organizers of Consent 101, a workshop taking place Thursday, May 5, at 7 p.m. at the Yellow Springs Arts Council, believe that consent is a critical topic.

• Becoming Zay: growing up trans

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  It was an ordinary Thursday. The last Thursday in April, grey, a little chilly. The lobby of the Greene County Courthouse in Xenia was quiet. And then, single file through the security doorway, a crowd of two dozen surged in.

• Activist presses for justice for John Crawford

  By Audrey HackettMay 5, 2016

  

  About 40 people gathered to hear local activist Bomani Moyenda and the Reverend Jerome McCorry, of Dayton, respond to the latest developments in the 2014 Beavercreek Walmart shooting case.

• Making a good life in Yellow Springs

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Walk by a certain Cliff Street porch on a spring or summer evening, and Cory and Amanda Howard will likely be out in the cooling air.