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Health happenings: Jan. 31

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Support groups in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

Alcohol: The local fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous has a complete schedule of meetings in the Manatee/Sarasota area on the Internet at www.aasrq.org. Crisis calls: 941-951-6810. Central office: 941-351-4818. Family members call Al-anon Family Groups at 941-749-1750.

After school program

Sault College boasts some 26,000 alumni — many of whom ply their trades throughout Algoma’s far reaches. Many have also landed work much farther away. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an association binding graduates, regardless of their addresses? Rick Wark thinks so.[...]

Sharp Coronado Nurse Answers Call For Ongoing Aid, Education In Haiti

Nothing could have prepared Jan Kass, R.N., Certified Wound Ostomy Nurse at Sharp Coronado Hospital, for the unthinkable human suffering she witnessed during her first visit to earthquake-torn Haiti in 2010 — now nothing will stop her from returning next month to continue rebuilding the country’s broken health care infrastructure.

World Market for Gastrointestinal Devices, The

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