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Before I Forget…

First, I want to thank all of you who have asked me why I quit writing my column, Growing Up Flippin, and who expressed how much they had enjoyed reading it. The fact of the matter is, after two years and almost 100 columns, I simply ran out of what I hoped were entertaining memories.
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Cotter talks Policy

The Cotter Public Schools regular monthly meeting of its School Board convened on Thursday, July 18, Cameron Ross, Allen Franks, Russel Duggins, Luke Walker, and Jimmy Morgan, as well as school administrators and other personnel.
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Preserving Sight to Fight by Ensuring Effective Military Eye Protection

Despite the continued development of munitions that create new types of blast fragments that can injure eyes, evidenceopens NIH.gov indicates decreasing rates of eye injuries in the military. This is largely due to the Department of Defense’s efforts to ensure that service members wear protective eyewear that meets necessary ballistic-impact criteria through the development and continued updating of the Authorized Protective Eyewear List, commonly referred to as the APELopens Army.mil “The APEL was developed in 2006 to address high and increasing numbers of battlefield eye injuries,” said Dr.
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