Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Driving Tips – How to Turn Onto a Multilane Road

January 5, 2019 Charlotte Seniors

by Bob Poliquin, Managing Editor ~ Local Facebook sites, like ours in Indian Land, regularly host threads on driving. We all have our peeves. My personal peeve is directionals. Whether it’s changing lanes, making a turn, or even maneuvering through our many parking lots, use your turn signal, people. And for my friends and neighbors […]

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Seniors and Firearms – Is It Time to Give Up Your Guns?

January 1, 2019 Charlotte Seniors

by Bob Poliquin, Managing Editor ~ Life-altering bad things can happen quickly around water, fire, and firearms. We all have a story about each of those, but let’s focus for a just moment on the sensitive issue of elders and guns. Some of us have been around guns our entire life. Hunting and shooting were […]

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Driving Tips: Traffic Light Malfunctions

December 21, 2018 Charlotte Seniors

by Bob Poliquin, Managing Editor ~ Local Facebook sites, like ours in Indian Land, regularly host a thread on driving. We all have our peeves. My personal peeve is directionals. Whether it’s changing lanes or making a turn – use your turn signal, people. And for my friends and neighbors in Sun City, if you […]

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Driving Tips: The Zipper Merge

December 21, 2018 Charlotte Seniors

by Bob Poliquin, Managing Editor ~ Local Facebook sites, like ours in Indian Land, regularly host a thread on driving. We all have our peeves. My personal peeve is directionals. Whether it’s changing lanes or making a turn – use your turn signal, people. And for my friends and neighbors in Sun City, if you […]

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Making a 911 Call from a Wireless Phone

May 29, 2018 Charlotte Seniors

Since many seniors have kept their cell phone number from their previous home and state, and there are fewer and fewer hardwired home phones, knowing how to make a 911 from a cell phone is an important life skill. Here are tips from the Federal Communications Commission: Tell the emergency operator the location of the […]

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Sun City Carolina Lakes Comes Together after Near Tragedy

March 20, 2018 Charlotte Seniors

by the CS Editorial Staff ~ It has a name – the Daffodil Fire. Three of the larger-design homes on Daffodil Court in Sun City Carolina Lakes were burned to the slab in a matter of minutes. Several other homes were damaged, with one tagged as “uninhabitable” by the fire inspectors and insurance company. The […]

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