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DENVER — Colorado State University professor Jennifer Bousselot is growing a garden on top of a building in Denver as part of her ongoing research into “green roofs” and her efforts to educate the public about their many benefits.

LOS ANGELES — Ask Reita Green the Wallpaper Queen what makes a successful wallpaper hanger and she’ll tell you it’s practice, patience and believing in yourself.

CHICAGO — Near the driving range in Chicago’s Lakeview area, a faint but sweet smell floats in the air. One can follow it to a collection of beds where flowers sprout, surrounding a community garden in which vegetables and herbs grow.

A mother recently asked my advice concerning a discipline problem she was having with one of her children. I asked her to define the word discipline.

DEARBORN, Mich. — “Maybe one of our future mayors is a 4-year-old who reads ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and thinks to herself that the Big Bad Wolf would be an amazing code enforcement officer,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammound said, announcing a new partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library on Tuesday.

Q. I feel stupid saying, “Breaking up is hard to do,” but it is! My kids come home from their dad’s, and it seems like nothing is good enough. He has more TV channels. He has a bigger house. He has a swimming pool. I’m working as hard as I can to make things nice for the kids, but it seems everything at their dad’s is better. He knows how difficult it is for me, but it doesn’t seem to matter. I think he likes that the kids prefer his home. I need help and I don’t know what to do. What’s good ex-etiquette?

Adding thin slices of steak to a taco makes a tasty and quick home-cooked weeknight meal. You can serve these tacos flat, and each person can make and fold their own. Or, if you like, you can serve them in a taco holder. If you don’t have one, bend aluminum foil into a taco holder shape and use that instead. Adding avocado cubes to the tacos gives them a fresh and creamy texture.

I am aware that some people, for one reason or another, do not eat leftovers. That would not be our household, even before these days of high food prices.

While we are concluding September’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month for 2022, the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of Allen, Auglaize, and Hardin Counties is continually working to prevent suicide. The Board funds many local resources and initiatives for suicide prevention.

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. While many prostate cancers grow slowly and remain localized, other types are aggressive and spread quickly. That’s why Dr. Carlos Vargas, a Mayo Clinic radiation oncologist encourages regular screening. He says the goal of screening is to detect prostate cancer early, when it’s still confined to the prostate gland and has the best chance for successful treatment.