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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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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)
Tawni Jones Ledbetter was arrested on July 10 by law officers in Hood County on a warrant for making a false statement to the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission.
Ledbetter was released from jail on $10,000 bond. While the former owner of The Rack lists Bowie as where she lives, she also remarried earlier this year to a man who resides in Granbury.
The TABC complaint could be handled as a misdemeanor according to the public information office, but additional details were unavailable as of presstime. The PIO indicated it depends on the specific type of case and he did not have the warrant information at the time of the call.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
CORRECTION – In the Wednesday Bowie News this article in the print edition stated Ledbetter was the owner of The Rack, this is incorrect. She is no longer owner of this business. We apologize for this error.
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