C.H.A.D.D. (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) of Fayette County begins their monthly meetings Sept. 14, at Fayette Community Hospital. The topic for the next meeting, which opens at 7 p.m., is "Starting the Year off Right with Structure." The speaker is Gary Siliski, MD, LPC, from Keystone Counseling Center. He is a licensed professional counselor who focuses his practice on ADHD in adolescents and adults. The meeting is free and open to the public.

The 1998 Jerry Lewis Labor day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast locally on WUPA-UPN69 September 6-7 live from the Atlanta Airport Hilton. WUPA is one of 200 television stations that are part of MDA's "Love Network." The telethon is a culmination of a year's fundraising efforts by MDA and many sponsors who support the association.

The Atlanta show will feature check presentations from corporate sponsors and local organizations, interviews with families and individuals served by MDA, and informative vignettes about MDA services and research.

Hundreds of volunteers are needed throughout the weekend to answer phones, stuff envelopes, assist with registration and many other jobs. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact MDA at 770-621-9800.

MDA is a national non-profit health agency dedicated to finding treatments and cures for forty neuromuscular diseases. It is supported almost entirely by individual, private contributors, and does not receive any government funding.

The National Geographic Society is marking the new millennium with a gift to America's children: every school in the United States will receive a 4 ft. by 6 ft. laminated updated map of the world.

Each of the nation's more than 100,000 schools will receive the two-sided map this month. One side shows the political world as of June 1998; the other is a digital picture of the physical world based on images collected by satellite.

"In the closing decade of this century, entire countries have come or gone, boundaries have shifted and place names have changed," said National Geographic president John Fahey. "What better way to start the new millennium than to make sure every one of our nation's schools is on the same map?"

The map also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the National Geographic Society Education Foundation, a fund dedicated to improving the geographic knowledge of America's students.

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