Maximizing Your Dental Care and Understanding Dental Insurance
We all carry various forms of insurance, generally to avoid hefty out of pocket costs. Currently, health care law prohibits insurance companies from setting dollar limits for yearly or lifetime coverage for essential health benefits. Despite dental issues having the ability to cause pain, infection, affect chewing and thus nutrition, implications with other serious health conditions, as well as mental health, dental benefits for adults are absurdly considered “optional”. Annual Maximums Dental insurance
Comal ISD CTE spotlight: Aviation at Davenport and Canyon High Schools
Students are building their own planes at Davenport and Canyon High Schools. That’s right, they are building planes as part of the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Aviation Maintenance program in Comal ISD. “We’ve been experimenting with electronics since the beginning of the program,” says Ryan Johnson, an 11th-grade student at DHS who has been in the program for almost three years. “We’ve moved from simpler circuits to more intricate circuits to eventually learning about parts in the planes that we
Comal ISD students qualify for CTE state competitions
The Comal ISD Board of Trustees recognized 13 Career and Technical Education (CTE) state qualifiers during its regular board meeting on Feb. 23. Students who are involved in CTE organizations have many opportunities to sharpen their leadership and technical skills through various competitions. The Board recognized students who qualified for state in just a few of the district’s active CTE organizations. More state qualifiers will be honored in the coming months. First off, the
Comal ISD CTE month spotlight: Health science students gain experience, earn certifications
One of the most popular Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs offered at Comal ISD high schools is health science. Through health science courses, students follow a pathway to industry certifications and clinical, hands-on work experience that allows them to graduate from high school with both the skills and knowledge to begin a career in health care immediately. Video Link featuring SVHS Health Sciences “Our students are out in the community with patients getting hands-on experience and
New Year's Resolution: Get My Affairs in Order.
But what does “get my affairs in order” mean? As I tell my clients, it means getting your legal and financial matters sorted out ahead of time so that your loved ones are left with one less thing to cope with upon your passing. Getting your affairs in order should address both things: legal and financial. On the legal side, I recommend my clients have, at a minimum, the following documents: Last Will and Testament: This is probably the most common and most important estate planning document. Having a
Chess champions announced from tournament #2
Approximately 260 students in kindergarten through 12th grade competed in Comal ISD’s second chess tournament of the 2022-2023 school year on Nov. 12 at Davenport High School. Team and individual champions were named in four categories. This year marks the district’s 10th anniversary since launching its chess program in the 2013-2014 school year, and the competition is heating up with two tournaments remaining this school year. At DHS, the quest for the team title in the
Comal ISD esports teams gain momentum
Move over traditional sports, there’s a new game in town that has amassed followers from around the world creating overnight celebrities with corporate endorsements and college scholarships, and Comal ISD has six teams. Known as esports, or electronic sports, the online competition takes place with opposing teams going head-to-head over an intense video game battle requiring players to work together to problem solve, strategize and communicate in order to win. Representing six
Does Your Bulverde/Spring Branch Business Have a Fourth Quarter Plan?
As the year comes to a close, it's time to start thinking about wrapping up the fourth quarter. For small businesses, this means evaluating your goals for the year, outlining new year goals, planning holiday marketing, updating your website and social media profiles, assessing your inventory and supply chain, reviewing your accounting practices, preparing for tax season, and reevaluating your business structure. Use these tips from the Bulverde Spring Branch Area Chamber of Commerce to ensure that your
Cleangie New Services
You’ve loved their home cleaning services for years and now they’re adding other services to their menu! Decluttering Organizing Home staging (List For Sale) CLEANGIE’s owner, Angie Moreno, understands how clutter creates chaos because she has lived it! She instills self-care by minimizing the suffocating clutter in her life, and others’, thereby helping reduce stress. Sensory overload is a real thing in adults too! Angie has a passion for serving and organizing, as well as decorating. Her staff will carry
Hunting Unicorns… Asking for a Friend…
People are important. Both in general and in so many ways for a small business. While recruiting and building teams, there are some things we can see on paper and some things we can just kind of feel (like a storm coming in your bones). The biggest factor in finding great people to join a great team is to treat them like talented people, not mythical creatures. Just this week I got a request to send a job opening out to my network that went something like this: We’re looking for someone for a role
Backpack Safety Tips from a Chiropractor
As Doctors of Chiropractic, we are constantly trying to minimize the effects of repetitive stress on our patients’ bodies. Since the first day of school is right around the corner, there’s no better time to discuss repetitive stress in our children. A LOT of our pediatric patients come in for back pain related to poor backpack use! Purchasing a backpack that properly fits your child and making sure that they load it correctly is essential to their spinal health. What should I look for when buying a
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Employer Mortgage Benefit- Zero For Employers To Offer Are you looking to supply your workforce with more benefits without the cost? We've got just the program for you. Geneva Financial is excited to announce Geneva AMP (Affinity Mortgage Program).This Geneva AMP program is available to all businesses in all industries. With Geneva AMP, you can expect the following:The cost to you for offering this program to your employees will be ZERO DOLLARS.One dedicated Geneva representative to work with throughout
Overcoming The Challenges Of Owning A CBD Company
Overcoming The Challenges Of Owning A CBD CompanyBy Ashley E. Mercer, Owner Farm to PharmCBD products are everywhere. Folks buy them to ease their arthritis (or that of their old Basset Hound). The odds are good that either you or someone you know safely uses CBD products for any number of reasons. The problem is, it’s still considered a “high-risk” business. So, to be able to sell CBD online or within a brick and mortar, a business faces onerous regulations, challenges, licenses and paperwork.What Is CBD &
In the Know with Texas Physical Therapy Specialists
When we talk about the importance of being active and how movement can have a positive effect on our wellbeing in the long run, physical therapy comes to mind for several reasons. Not just because it’s practically in our name as movement specialists, but because it is also one of the most powerful prescriptions out there with almost no side effects. The American College of Sports Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization all recommend we perform at least 150
Why is it SO HARD to lose weight?
Why is it SO HARD to lose weight?by Tina White Having coached clients for 24 years, I have to say this is the most commonly asked question. So most of us know, in order for weight loss to occur we must reduce our caloric intake below our resting metabolic rate. So we resort to meal skipping, consuming lower caloric foods and eat like rabbits in hopes we see some results. The most common pitfall to that is by dinner, we eat everything in sight because we are starving rabbits! J Yes, we need to