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A driver is stopped waiting for a school bus that has its lights flashing and the red stop sign extended. Complaints have come from residents about illegal passes of school buses as well as some school bus drivers not obeying speed limits. (KP 2012 File Photo)

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Here’s a fresh start to your work day: living 6 years longer, starting today! You can, when you take up jogging. Jogging 2 hours a week will lengthen your life. And you don’t have to go fast. A slow to average pace will do the trick. Take some extra invigorating steps in your day today, for a longer life! Those 6 years will be right back to you.

There is some good news for sleep-deprived workers: A growing number of companies are making it a top priority to help employees get more sleep! We’ve rounded up a few examples:

* Google offers access to “nap pods,” where workers can lay down and take a nap. The pods are designed to block out all light and sound, so you can sleep even while others work around you.

* A company called Litebook is installing a record number of its “Elite” lighting systems. They’re special lights that are designed to help regulate melatonin, which is the body’s sleep hor-mone. They were first sold to Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators, to help athletes cope with jet lag. But now they’re getting calls from corpora-tions who want the lights for their office worksta-tions and desks.

* Companies like Procter & Gamble and Au-rora Health Care, the largest hospital system in Wisconsin, have hired sleep experts to teach workers about better sleep habits. That’s because shift workers, like factory employees and people in healthcare, tend to have the worst sleep patterns of all.

So, why the big push to help workers get more sleep? Because 1-in-3 of us don’t get enough sleep every night. And our chronic exhaustion is cost-ing employers big bucks in lost productivity! Be-cause when we feel “zoned out” at work, we get less done, and /*one study found that for every half hour of sleep we don’t get the night before, we waste an extra eight minutes at work the next day because we can’t focus.

That’s why more companies are willing to invest money to help us get more sleep, even if it means encouraging us to take more “power naps” while we’re actually at work.

Drivers Targeted in School Bus Safety CampaignSince the beginning of school this semester, numerous com-

plaints have been filed at local municipality meetings by residents concerned about school bus safety.

In response to public concern, the Pennsylvania State Police have begun a program called “Operation Safe Stop”. The purpose of the program is to alert the motoring public of the dangers of passing stopped school buses loading or unloading students.

According to a news release published by the Butler barracks, police officers will target selected school bus routes that have demonstrated a high incidence of illegal passes for violations of the stopped school bus statute.

Across Pennsylvania, stopped school buses with red lights flashing and stop arms extended are being passed on both the left and right sides as they are loading and unloading students. Each illegal pass of a stopped school bus is a potentially life-threaten-ing situation for the 1.5 million students transported to and from school daily in Pennsylvania.

In our rural communities, some residents are complaining that it is also the school bus drivers that are not adhering to the rules of the road.

Carmen Johnson resides in Applewold. Last week, she told fellow residents and council members that she is very concerned about both drivers of regular vehicles and school bus drivers not

Kittanning Little League &West Armstrong Athletics Join Forces

Though it is fall, the prepara-tions for next year’s little league season are under way and this year there will be a big shake up to two local programs.

The Kittanning Little League and the West Armstrong Athlet-ics are joining forces to become Armstrong Little League and

the Armstrong Athletics.Kittanning Little League President Mike

Mills explained how the two combining came to happen.

“Over the last couple of months, Gabe Lash from the West Armstrong Athletics and I got together and discussed merging the two leagues. From there we met with our boards and the concept was met with great positivity and optimism. We were all on the same page so we combined the two leagues and we’re so excited for what this means for the community, the kids, and the parents,” Mills explained.

Now the teams will be Armstrong Little League, Armstrong Softball, and Armstrong Pony Ball - that much is set for the next sea-son.

“The younger ages are going to play Little League and the older ages will be playing Pony League. So we want to take the opportunities all of those present use it to the advantage of the kids,” Mills said.

“We’re excited, we did the numbers and when we combine the two programs we should have around 500 kids. That is exciting, geo-graphically in District 26 that puts us in a great spot for travel. We’re going to have enough in house local teams too so the travel for fami-lies will be minimum and it will maximize the competition,” Mills added.

They will be holding their first public meet-ing on November 1 at 7:30 PM and it will take place at Armstrong High School’s Junior High cafeteria. The meeting is open for anyone and everyone interested in the league.

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