Grand Canyon bans bottled water sales, March 10

Grand canyon

Plastic used in bottled water is one of the biggest wastes created by humans. Despite efforts to recycle the material, an enormous amount of plastic waste causes handling problems.

Our national parks are having their own share of headaches due the plastic bottles brought and discarded by people visiting these parks. 

The National Park Service (NPS) will ban sales of bottle water in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, starting March 10, 2010. NPS has spent about

Dog ear cannot be glued back

Dog, animal health

The health of our animal friends is as important as ours and should be treated as such. Often precautions must be taken the same way as one would think about children safety. 

I have heard of a neighbor who let his friendly German shepherd hang around while he was mowing the lawn. The dog screamed when his long waging tail got sucked in the lawn mower. The dog was saved but lost his tail.

In a recent incident in Hawaii, after a grooming trip to Petco, the dog