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- Kameron Dyland Vega-Huerta was born to Maria De Los Angeles Huerta and Kristian Phillippe Vega of Felton at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 8, 2013. He weighed 9 pounds, 12 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

When I was a teenager and knew everything, I reveled in the countless Hollywood movies that depicted teenagers saving the universe. We were always smarter and quicker than those slow-witted adults, whether they were parents or the authorities. Our decision-making prowess was nonpareil. It never occurred to me that those feeble parents were once super-smart, quick teenagers. How they went slow and dorky, I just don’t know.

For what seems to be a minor health problem, swimmer’s ear results in nearly 2.4 million doctor visits annually and costs our health care system $500 million a year.

March is National Save Your Vision month — a good time to consider some of the more common eye diseases that could affect one’s vision.

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When to pick your grapes is an extremely important question and with harvest season right around the corner it’s something that wine makers will soon be asking. It’s a decision they must make every harvest because it will in part determine what kind of wine they are trying to craft. They must take into consideration Brix, weather, tannins, ripeness and much more.

Atrial fibrillation is an irregular often rapid heart rate, causing the heart’s two upper chambers to quiver instead of beating regularly. Fortunately, the lower two chambers still work normally and are able to pump the blood out of the heart, although not as efficiently.