Warming your car up on a cold morning in the winter seems like a good idea. If it has ice and snow on it, idling it will help melt it away and allow your engine a chance to warm up before you drive it. With today’s modern cars, you don’t even need to go outdoors in the freezing cold to heat up your car with the car remote. Sounds good, right? Actually, warming your car up during the winter can do more damage than it does good.

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Happening far more frequently than anyone would like to consider, ambulance theft is becoming a big problem for EMS services fleets across the country. The following theft occurrences are among some of the more recent events:

• November 1, 2018 (Louisville, KY)
• April 8, 2018 (Los Angeles, CA)
• October 31, 2018 (Charleston, WV)
• November 1, 2018 (Little River, NC)
• October 19, 2018 (Scranton, PA)

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Last week, December 3 – 7, 2018, was Older Driver Safety Week, but it’s important to explore the lessons described in the campaign throughout the year and revisit them frequently. Older driver safety week is set aside to promote greater understanding of the importance of mobility and transportation to aging adults and the safety challenges they face.

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The Autism Society of Acadiana is dedicated to helping support families of individuals who fall within the autism spectrum. The group strives to educate, care for, and support individuals who are impacted by this condition and to create a community that embraces and enables impacted families.

The group’s latest campaign is called “Project Keep Our Kids Safe,” and its purpose is to prevent individuals suffering with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from wandering away from their care providers.

Wandering away is a serious concern for families of someone on the spectrum because it puts them at great risk. Often, these individuals are attracted to water, roads or other dangerous sites, and they aren’t sure how to return home or ask for help in many cases. In 2016, Keaton Jones, a six-year-old of Youngsville, tragically passed away after wandering off, and his memory lives on through this newest project. Read the rest of this entry »

Tis the season for holiday shipping. For businesses, that means increased packages that need to be delivered to customers across the city and around the world. Taking better care of your customers, to ensure they have a positive holiday shipping experience, can help your business far beyond the holiday shipping season. These tips can help.

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