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Event to review senior health benefits Marilyn Cabrera from Senior Health Insurance Benefits Assistance will review Medicare Parts A, B, and D, as well as Medicare Advantage and Medigaps, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today at Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 West C St.

Information comes from Springfield Police call logs. Locations are approximate. People arrested or suspected in crimes are considered innocent until proven otherwise. Incidents FRIDAY, JAN. 25 Theft: 9:37 p.m., 600 block Main Street. A back window was smashed out of a car that was parked on the street.

It will be a busy couple of days for local high school athletes with the Midwestern League swimming and wrestling district tournaments beginning this weekend. The MWL district swim meet will be held at the Willamalane Park Swim Center over the weekend, with finals scheduled to begin about 5 p.m.

In what has become signature Millers fashion, the Springfield girls basketball team has strung together another impressive winning streak late in the year. While seemingly everything has gone Springfield’s way over the past month, one enormous test is still circled on the Millers’ calendar.

It’s February and that means it’s American Heart Month. Before you skip this article, ask yourself — no matter what your age — is there a history of heart disease, high cholesterol or high blood pressure in your family? Have any relatives died from a stroke or a heart attack?

It takes a dedicated person to serve on the Springfield City Council. Along with weekly council meetings and work sessions, a Springfield councilor represents the community on a number of boards and commissions and at community events. City business often requires 20 to 30 hours of work a week.

What’s on my mind is this: I’m working up to painting my toenails a curious shade of gray, polish I found in a supermarket. I should have shopped at a salon that specializes in such and has a wide array of colors that are de rigueur — but I’m impulsive.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Case You Missed It is a digest of recent Register-Guard articles of interest to Springfield readers. An unlicensed tattoo artist who provided body art to underage girls in Springfield was spared a jail sentence last Thursday and instead will be on probation for 18 months.

There’s almost a living quality to Karen Perkin’s ceramic sculptures, on display now at the Emerald Art Center downtown. Bulbous and whimsical, many of the abstract pieces in her “Smoke, Soil and Stone” exhibit evoke elegant lines of a horse’s body or orchid-like floral plants.

Many middle school students spend their no-school Fridays sleeping in and playing video games. But last Friday, 20 students from Hamlin Middle School got up early and came to the University of Oregon to build their own video games.