Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

Feature

Gloria Carter Robinson: A Faithful Keeper of History and Community

       As one of the founding members of the Trailblazers of Broward County, Gloria Robinson helped build an organization dedicated to uncovering, preserving, and sharing the stories that shaped one of South Florida’s most historic African American communities. Founded in 2007 by the late Beauregard Cummings and the late Mary Black Rizor, Trailblazers has become one of Broward County’s most respected history-seeking, culture-keeping organizations, bringing to life the people, places, and events that helped define the northwest quadrant of Fort Lauderdale.

Local News

A Table Prepared

       As the evening unfolded, I began reflecting on what the table truly represented. Tables have always held a certain kind of power. Families gather around tables to share meals and reconnect. Communities gather around tables to discuss challenges and seek solutions. Some of the most meaningful conversations, decisions, and relationships begin when people come together around a table.

Health

Affordable diet and simple lifestyle changes can replace the need for medication, surgeries and expensive healthcare that you do not have.

       The book, “Undo It”, by Dean Ornish, is about taking control of your healthcare through affordable, sustainable means. Your diet and lifestyle. It’s called “Lifestyle Medicine”. Lifestyle medicine results from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute’s decades of research showing that specific lifestyle changes can reverse conditions such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and emotional distress. Often fatal conditions.