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To determine if food allergies are causing your child's ear infection have him/her tested. Once the troublesome food is discovered your physician can suggest alternatives. And take heart, kids often outgrow food allergies - and their tendency towards ear infections. For more information feel free to call… The Region of Halton is in good standing with its creditors. Moody's Investor Service has released its credit opinion report and ranks the region in its high- est credit score. Halton has main- tained this rating for 30 years straight, citing their strong cap- ital plans, budgeting and fiscal results. The region's diversified economy and population growth play a role in this rating. "We are proud to celebrate our milestone 30th year with a top credit rating," said regional chair Gary Carr. He said the ranking allows the region to enhance es- sential services while maintain- ing a strong financial standing. "It ranks us at the high end of Canadian municipalities and will continue to support a high quality of life in Halton." The credit rating allows Hal- ton to borrow at the lowest possi- ble interest rates. Halton Region sports top credit rating ALEXANDRA HECK aheck@metroland.com Sarah Henderson is devoting her life's research to people more than twice her age. The 21-year- old Georgetown native is complet- ing her undergraduate degree in psychology at Brock University and is conducting a study on memory and aging. She's looking at how involun- tary memory changes with age, and so far, she's finding that this is one part of the mind that seems to stay sharp far into maturity. "We have people come in and learn sound and picture pairs," said Henderson. She explained that involun- tary memory is when the mind recollects things without inten- tion. "Things like sound or songs re- minding you of people or places," she said. It's like smelling coffee and re- membering a date with a friend, or a particular sound or feel that brings someone back to a certain time in their life. "It might be more similar in young people and older people than previously thought," said Henderson. "It's kind of an opti- mistic outlook." She says that currently, most geriatric psychology research fo- cuses on dementia and Alzheim- er's, however, Henderson is study- ing people over the age of 65 with- out cognitive ailments. "I'm really interested in what healthy aging looks like," she said. In her spare time, Henderson volunteers with the St. John's Ambulance therapy dog pro- gram. She visits St. Catharines General Hospital with Oliver, her five-year-old golden retriever. On weekends, Henderson returns to Georgetown to work part-time at Ares restaurant. It's the friend- ships that she's made with regu- lars at the restaurant that in- spired her to study aging. "I have some pretty close rela- tionships with some of them," she said. "You want them to realize that there are people who care and want them to know that there's people understanding what they're going through." Henderson has created a one- minute video about her research and entered it in the Natural Sci- ences and Engineering Research Council's competition for top uni- versity research in the country. "Our psychology department is ranked top 10 in Canada," she said. So far, seven students from Brock are in the top 75 ranking for the contest. To view Henderson's clip, visit discover.brocku.ca/memory. NEWS Woman on cutting edge of memory and aging study ALEXANDRA HECK aheck@metroland.com Sarah Henderson is a Georgetown native who is studying memory at Brock University. Alexandra Heck/Metroland