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By leveraging resources and gaining wider community participation, the impact is magnified. Through an annual Day for CROing, teams engage youth and the broader community to collaborate on critical projects that will make the town stronger and safer, while simultaneously including celebration to add fun and build community.

She also works part-time with a consulting firm, Armada, Ltd, on emergency planning, mitigation, recovery and accreditation standards since Prior to that Ms. Farr was the Governor's appointed Director of Vermont Emergency Management from to and was involved in all aspects of emergency management at the local, state and federal levels. Farr has been involved in long-term recovery efforts and implementation following natural disasters since as the Executive Director of the Lamoille County Planning Commission The Department is responsible for town-wide current and comprehensive planning, including zoning, land use, community and economic development, historic preservation, conservation, housing, energy, transportation and hazard mitigation.

Prior to coming to Vermont, Ms. She has a Masters in Community Planning from the University of Maryland, and thirty-seven years of community planning and development experience. Beth struggles to maintain a job, because she must take care of her husband. She is grateful to our pantry volunteers who treat her with dignity and respect, allowing her to let go of the shame she feels about asking for help. Dawn is a mother of five who visited our food pantry in Belle Glade.

When the staff person noted that Dawn had not been to the pantry in a year, Dawn explained that her family goes up north in the summer to work and upon their return they have to wait a couple of weeks before work starts up again here. However, finances are very tight during the weeks they are out of work. The pantry, she said, has been a life saver to her family. She was so thankful for our pantry. Serving The Hungry. Community Coming Together. Our Mission. Serving the Hungry. Write a description.

A Message from Ruth. Our food pantry program expanded, and we are now distributing food at fifteen different locations, up from eleven in In addition to lunch, weekend bagged lunches, afterschool snacks, and meals to the homebound, our Caring Kitchen program also began providing meals to homeless veterans and seniors. As meaningful as statistics are, they represent individuals who are resilient, caring, and also filled with hope for a better future.

Maria is a perfect example. She is a regular visitor at one of our pantry locations. After she discovered that some of her neighbors did not have enough food, many of whom also only speak Spanish, she took it upon herself to bring a different neighbor each time she picked up food from the pantry.

The blessing is that she could translate for them, and now that they are in our system, they can come on their own. CROS News. Board Spotlight - Patti Alexander. She joined our Board of Directors in and later, became our Board Treasurer.

Patti holds true to the phrase giving your time, talent, and treasures. Patti gives of her time as a volunteer; her talent, as Board Treasurer; and her treasures by supporting CROS financially. She also played an integral part in the transition of our Caring Kitchen program into the meal program it is today.

Patti has a big heart for others. Patti is a kind and generous person whose giving spirit spreads to people around her. While she tried a pair of CROS hearing aids, she said she is still deciding on a treatment option. If you suspect a medical cause for your hearing loss, promptly see an ENT doctor also called an otologist. You may need laboratory testing to rule out inflammatory or infectious causes.

If you lost your hearing suddenly, you may be advised by an ENT to take steroids. More: Sudden hearing loss in one ear? Don't wait to get treatment. If you have normal hearing in your good ear, or close to it, you may dislike wearing a hearing aid in that ear, says audiologist Daniel R. To address that problem, he created TransEar, which is very much like a behind-the-ear hearing aid. It contains a miniature oscillator, which touches the bone. Sound waves turn into vibrations that drive the oscillator, which transfers the signal through the bone to the cochlea in the opposite ear.

If you have single-sided deafness and another problem—like chronic ear infections or allergies to ear molds—you may need a bone-anchored hearing system. You might also consider a bone conduction hearing aid worn with a headband. Like TransEar, the device transmits sounds via vibration to the cochlea on the other side.

Ideally you could fix the hearing in your bad ear. In , the U. Food and Drug Administration approved the first cochlear implant for people with single-sided deafness. A March review covering 20 studies concluded that for people with SSD, both cochlear implants and bone-anchored solutions were helpful.

When adults and children took tests of their ability to identify speech against background noise without help, they answered only 15 percent of the questions correctly; cochlear implants boosted that score to 43 percent.

Cochlear implants also improved their ability to locate the source of a sound, and cut the perceived volume of tinnitus by more than half. Hearing-related quality of life more than doubled. You might try smart headphones with features that allow you to customize the sounds you amplify or suppress.

For example, Bose Hearphones allow you to mute one side and amplify the other. CROS hearing aids take time to get used to, and it's important to know they will not solve all the hearing problems a person may have. For example, they do not improve "localization" of sound—a person may still not know where a sound is originating from.