Life Solutions offering program; Loans available for small businesses; Hawthorne series continues today

Life Solutions offering program

Bryan Range, a therapist with Life Soutions Behavioral Health, a division of Optimae Lifeservices, will present ?Understanding Misbehavior in Children and Adolescents? 6-7 p.m. Thursday at Fairfield Middle School.

The free program is open to parents, educators, clergy and anyone who cares about children.

Participants will learn different ways to handle misbehavior and be able to talk with others about their methods and what has and has not worked for them.

Light refreshments will be served.

To register, email name and phone number to Range at brange@optimaelifeservices.com.

For information, call 472-5771.

Loans available for small businesses

Pathfinders Resource Conservation and Development announces the availability of revolving loan funds for qualifying small-business enterprises in the counties of Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Keokuk, Mahaska, Van Buren and Wapello.

Loans are given for the creation, retention and expansion of small, private business enterprises based on one more of the following priorities: natural resource based enterprises, value-added agricultural enterprises, enterprises providing needed facilities and services to low-income, under-employed or the elderly, and small-commercial or retail businesses.

Loans are typically $5,000 to $20,000 with a 10-year term.

For information, contact Pathfinders at 472-6177 or visit www.PathfindersRCD.org.

Hawthorne series continues today

Hawthorne Direct will present the second entry from its new monthly Podcast series entitled ?Spotlight on Branding? today.

The new Hawthorne Podcast, entitled ?The New Multichannel DRTV Paradigm,? will be presented by Gene Silverman, Hawthorne Direct?s vice president of marketing.

To hear this and future Hawthorne Direct Podcasts, visit: https://soundcloud.com/hawthorne-direct.