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How menopause affects women is workshop topic

By TIMES STAFF
Published June 24, 2007

CLEARWATER

Dr. Stephanie Van Zandt, OB/GYN, and other health care professionals will discuss how menopause affects women differently and what quality-of-life measures have been found to be most effective before, during and after menopause at Morton Plant Mease Health Care's Healthy Woman Boot Camp. The event is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the second floor of the Sarah Walker Women's Center at Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas St. Cost is $45. Advance registration is required. Call (727) 462-7500. Menopause is a life-changing experience for women. Symptoms can include sleep deprivation, hot flashes, weight gain, irritability and depression. It's also a time when women become more vulnerable to health issues such as osteoporosis, heart disease and diabetes.

LARGO

Alternate routes for road closing

It's not too early to begin planning your detour. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Bryan Dairy Road will be closed for about three weeks between Belcher and Starkey roads to rebuild a railroad crossing. Pinellas County officials say the primary detour routes are Belcher and Starkey roads north to Ulmerton Road. Eastbound motorists also can take 113th Street or Seminole Boulevard north to Ulmerton, and westbound traffic can take 66th Street N to Ulmerton. For updates, call the county's Road Work Hotline at 453-3320 or visit www.pinellascounty.org/roadwork.htm.

COUNTYWIDE

Sheriff's Office Job Fair on Wednesday

Large law enforcement agency seeks a few good applicants. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Human Resources Division will have a Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Pinellas County Jail Healthcare Facility, 14400 49th Street N. The agency is recruiting applicants interested in inmate medical care, detention, law enforcement and support staff. Call 582-6208 or visit www.pcsoweb.com.

Children need you to speak for them

A thousand children in Pinellas County need someone to be their voice in the courtroom and to advocate for them in the child welfare system. The next training to become a certified guardian ad litem will begin July 10 and will be at the Criminal Justice Center in Clearwater. Volunteers who become guardians ad litem advocate for abused, abandoned or neglected children and teens in the family courts and the child welfare system. The average time needed is six to eight hours a month. The guardians ad litem make recommendations to the court to help ensure the children have safe, caring and stable environments. Guardians receive continuing assistance to help them. To volunteer and arrange to attend a brief orientation, call 464-6528. For information and an application go to www.guardianadlitem6.org.

EAST LAKE

Dogs still allowed on one boardwalk

In case you are wondering, dogs are still allowed on the northern boardwalk at John Chesnut Sr. Park, but not on the two boardwalks on the southern part of the park. A sign at the north trail says dogs are allowed on that trail temporarily. Presumably, that will continue until county officials make a final decision.

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