City Wide Clean-Up.

The Carthage Engineering Office announced Monday that The City of Carthage, under contract with American Disposal Services, will conduct its Annual Residential City Wide Spring Clean Up on Saturday May 10, 2003.

Residents of Carthage are encourage to participate by placing unwanted items, not normally allowed by regular trash pickup, at their regular pick up station Friday ( May 9, 2003) night. American Disposal will begin early Saturday Morning in order to get the entire city’s items in one day.

Items include but are not limited to furniture, appliances (remove the compressor in any appliance being disposed of), and tires (limit 4 per household, no rims or wheels).

There are items American Disposal cannot pick up. These items include rocks, batteries, yard waste, paint, chemicals, hazardous household waste, and containers weighing over 75.

For more information regarding what can and can’t be picked up, or for any other questions contact the Carthage City of Engineering Department at 237-7010.

If ya didn’t get it sold in your garage sale last weekend, you can put it out on the curb this weekend and it will disappear.

The City wide annual clean up will be this Saturday.

‘Course the real fun is the crusin’ goin’ on Friday evenin’ just before the trash trucks come on Saturday. Some folks are just curious as ta what constitutes trash, some like ta take a closer look at what could be a "treasure."

Whatever the means, you can rest assured that it is a great time to get rid of that stuff you’ve been trippin’ over for the last year or so. As long as ya abide by the list (see front page) it will be picked up one way or the other. If nothin’ else, get a glass of tea and sit on the porch wavin’ at the cars circlin’ the block.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

by

McCune- Brooks Hospital

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH

By Paul G. Donohue, M.D.

COPD — The No. 1 Lung Disease

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My primary-care physician sent me for a breathing test and a chest X-ray. They also took blood from an artery in my wrist. After the tests, the primary doctor sent me to a pulmonary doctor, and on the referral she wrote: acute exacerbation of COPD. Can you tell me what this means? — W.

ANSWER: COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the No. 1 lung illness. There are two major conditions that fall under the heading of COPD — chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Both are the frequent consequence of smoking, but not all cases are smoking-caused. Sometimes emphysema, for example, is programmed by the genes.

With emphysema the trouble lies in the lungs’ small air sacs. They are fragile structures. They are so thin that oxygen can pass through them and into the blood for transportation to the entire body. When the air sacs are stretched out of shape, as they are in emphysema, adequate amounts of oxygen cannot enter the blood. The body is in a state of oxygen deprivation.

The damage in chronic bronchitis centers on the airways — the bronchi. They are inflamed and filled with thick mucus that obstructs passage of air into the lungs. The mucus-filled bronchi trigger a cough, the familiar sign of a cigarette smoker.