LACONIA — The Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) from the Huot Technical Center will sponsor a Red Cross Blood Drive at Laconia High School on Tuesday, April 9, from 8:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
HOSA students will assist in every aspect of drive. They will coordinate the entire event in conjunction with the Red Cross personnel under the supervision of instructor, Gina McGuire, and program specialist, Cheryl O'Reilly. Students will help the Red Cross team with setting up and dismantling equipment, acting as greeters, donor escorts, donor observers, canteen observers, canteen servers, and helping with registrations. In addition, they solicit donations from community partners for the canteen and for raffle items.
HOSA aims to to enhance the delivery of compassionate, quality health care by providing opportunities for knowledge, skill and leadership development of all health science education students, therefore, helping the student meet the needs of the health care community.

LACONIA — With the approaching observance of World Health Day this Sunday, LRGHealthcare is reminding members of the public that it offers many different classes and wellness programs which promote healthy living.
World Health Day is celebrated every April 7 to mark the anniversay of the founding of the World Health Organization in 1948. The public health concern that is thefocus of this year's observance is high blood pressure. The goal of World Health Day 2013 is to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
High blood pressure — also known as hypertension — increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. If left uncontrolled, high blood pressure can also cause blindness, irregularities of the heartbeat and heart failure. More than 1 in 3 adults worldwide has high blood pressure.
High blood pressure is both preventable and treatable, LRGH health educators note. The risk of developing high blood pressure can be reduced by reducing salt intake, eating a balanced diet, avoiding harmful use of alcohol, maintaining a healthy body weight, and avoiding tobacco use
LRGHealthcare Education Services offers ways people can learn about a variety of health topics including important women's health issues, injury prevention, smoking cessation and nutrition and physical activity opportunities for people of all ages, free of charge or at minimal cost. More information about the classes and programs is available at to http://www.lrgh.org and click on Community Education. Those who wish to register for classes can call LRGH Education Services at 527-7120.

LACONIA — On March 10, Cub Scout Pack 68 of Laconia held its annual Blue & Gold Banquet. During this event 43 Cub Scouts were recognized with achievements and badges. The highlight of the day was celebrating a group of 11 Webelos Scouts that crossed over into Boy Scouts. Ten of the Scouts earned their arrow of light award, which is the highest award a Cub Scout can earn. Five Scouts — Tyler Lantz, Nathan Papavlo, Steven Poliquin, Tanner Shore and Bryce Wilson — also received the Super Achiever Award for completing all 20 Webelos activity awards.  All 11 boys have joined Troop 68 of Laconia and will continue their journey through scouting.