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The Future of Hearing Technology Has Landed! (Jan. 19, 2023)

The Newark Senior Center Computer Club invites you to a ZOOM and IN-PERSON talk, entitled “The Future of Hearing Technology Has Landed!” by Linda Heller, President of the Hearing Loss Association of Delaware. It will be held on Thursday, January 19th, 2023 from 1:00-2:30pm at the Newark Senior Center, 200 Whitechapel Dr, Newark, Delaware 19713 in Classroom 1.
 
Ms. Heller will discuss the new FDA, federal classification of Over-the Counter (OTC) hearing aids, how to buy them and discuss other technologies that will build on hearing aids to help people hear better. Please join us for this informative talk! There will be a question and answer period at the end of the talk.  Here is the notice and ZOOM link below:
 
** zoom link removed for security reasons, please contact Feta Fernsler via the contact us page or Linda Heller for the link. **
 
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Honey company with a deaf workforce creates a buzz in Point Breeze

Kelly Nolla communicates with sign language to owner Jon Mosholder at Bumbleberry Farms. Picture credit - Post-Gazette.

Jon Mosholder didn’t set out to be a honey farmer. That was his mom’s dream, when she left her job as a health care consultant to start Bumbleberry Farms 11 years ago.

Though Karen Mosholder had just a couple of hives in her Somerset backyard, she had a knack for concocting artisan honey cream spreads. 

Her son pitched in here and there, packing orders when he was on break from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he studied business administration and also, later, while working in finance for various companies in Pittsburgh. 

But he couldn’t imagine making a career from honeybees and the thick, golden honey liquid they make from nectar. Sweet, but no thanks, he said.

Read on at https://www.post-gazette.com/life/food/2022/12/27/bumbleberry-honey-xfactory-point-breeze/stories/202212210123.

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Rose Parade Princess Salia Baligh is the first to represent the deaf community

Salia Baligh (Courtesy of Tournament of Roses)

Flash forward to Jan. 2, 2023: It’s Princess Salia Baligh on the float carrying the 134th Tournament of Roses Royal Court. She is perfectly coiffed and prettily made up, gowned and crowned, a wash of flowers in her arms.

Somebody saw this day coming.

“Growing up in Pasadena, I watched so many Rose Parades,” the 17-year-old said. “My dad would wake me up at 6 a.m. and tell me, ‘That’s going to be you one day.’”

She turns her head, and look: Her position on the right side of the float gives maximum exposure for the cameras to catch the simple headband she wears attached to a small black box.

Read on at https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/12/27/rose-parade-princess-salia-baligh-is-the-first-to-represent-the-deaf-community.