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Learning an instrument can improve your cognitive abilities
Everyone knows and understands the benefits of eating healthy and exercise. The outcomes from seeing someone exercise and eat a healthy diet is physically tangible. Most people also know that in order to live longer that you have to keep your brain active as well. So, what are the best ways to use and work out your brain especially as you get older? While it is a fantastic idea to take classes, read, work crossword, and Sudoku puzzles are all wonderful brain exercises, many researchers have found that learning to play an instrument, even at an older age, is one of the best ways work out your brain and advance your cognitive abilities. Study after study shows that children who learn to play instrument at a young age will help them be more disciplined, have higher grades, more artistically creative, and become better problem solvers.
This is due to the way that the mathematical, organizational, and creative combination of how playing an instrument effects the neurological processes in your brain. The left and right hemispheres in your brain are connected by the Corpus Collosum which communicates neurologically with the left and write parts of our brains. This is what makes learning a musical instrument so effective in improving one’s brains cognitive ability’s more so that any other activity including, sports, cooking, reading, painting, etc… So no matter what age or abilities you have, get out there and improve your quality of life by exercising your brain by learning an instrument.
– Miles Shaffer
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Do you think a stone you picked up could be an Indian artifact?
Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum will host “What’s Your Point,” an informational event from 1-3 p.m. on March 9 to have your items reviewed by Dr. Sergio Ayala, PhD of the Gault School of Archeological Research. Cost is $10 per person and museum members are free.
Also bring in any metal artifacts found around Spanish Fort that might have been of European origin. Museum Curator Nellann McBroom said if you cannot attend bring you artifacts and leave them, then pick them up on Monday. Call the museum at 825-5330 with questions.
Oct. 7 is the last day to register to vote in the Nov. 5 general election.
Voters also should double check their voter registration to make sure all the information is up-to-date. Go to votetexas.gov on the Texas Secretary of State’s website to make any address changes.
Registering to vote in Texas is easy, simply complete a voter registration application on the SOS website and return it to your county election office at least 30 days before the upcoming election date.
Fill in the required information, print and sign the complete application. At this late date it may be best to deliver the registration form in person to the election office in the courthouse annex at Montague.
Any additional information on voter registration can be seen on the county website at co.montague.tx.us, click on elections. Direct any questions to the office at 894-2540.
Marty Hilton and his crew with City of Saint Jo Public Works pulled an all nighter repairing an eight-inch water main break along U.S. 82 and Boggess Street. The break was reported around noon on Wednesday. City officials said one of the hardest parts was digging on U.S. 82 and when large trucks would go by the vibrations kept making the walls fall down causing them to be dug out again. The repair was completed at 10:30 a.m. Thursday and the water turned back on. The city is under a boil order until the water tests are complete, which can’t happen until Monday when the lab reopens. (Courtesy photo)
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