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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), American Lung Association, and other partners are announcing a strategy for preventing 3,200 lung cancer deaths annually by 2020 through radon exposure reduction strategies. Exposure to radioactive radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in America. The goal to save these lives will be achieved by reducing high radon levels in five million homes, apartments, schools and childcare centers. The partnership includes three federal departments and agencies, and nine national organizations.

10 years ago . . .

Keith Allen Moore, 35, and Matthew Jerimiah Waitkus, 35, married Oct. 3, 2015.
Rose Ann Insko, 26, and Jamison Lee Brooks, 26, married Oct. 3, 2015.
Alice Michele Prather, 38, and John Christopher Navarre, 40, married Oct. 15, 2015.
Wendy Nichole Murray, 33, and Jason Robert Fister, 40, married Oct. 10, 2015.
Louci Jo McGrew, 28, and John Wesley Nichols, 27, married Oct. 17, 2015.
Elke Marie Krueger, 38, and Gerald Lee White, 41, married Oct. 10, 2015.
Mindy Jo Hill, 22, and James Carl Courtney, 27, married Oct. 24, 2015.

Leaf raking is an autumn chore that only children enjoy because they get to undo it in one fell swoop.  
We rake and pile and they jump. I propose a new approach that just may make us all happy: adults can still rake a little, children can still play and trees will benefit from some mulch and fertilizer.  
At the farm, raking leaves is passé; we let them stay where they fall (with reason, of course) which is usually beneath their canopy.