Great Sales at Perfect Pear Boutique!

A great way to beat the winter blahs is to revamp your wardrobe, Perfect Pear Boutique in the Heights has just what you are looking for. Check for Daily Fashion updates via Facebook!

Drink of the Month: Veuve Clicquot Rosé Champagne

It's never too early to think about what to get your Valentine this year. Consider the Rosé Champagne, a delicious berry blend between dry and sweet, from Wine Country, which comes with a custom carrying case for the convenient half bottle.

Get it exclusively at French Toast Wine Country in the Heights!
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Turn the Page on a New Year with Preckshot!

Preckshot Professional Pharmacy Toasts 2011...
It's time to Turn The Page!

The New Year is traditionally a time of resolutions and new commitments. Preckshot can help with all of that! Our expert staff of professionals is uniquely qualified to guide you through the process you need to accomplish your resolution goals. Three full-time pharmacists, a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a Pharmacy Educator, and seven licensed pharmacy technicians, each with their own field of expertise are dedicated to helping you.

Have you made a decision to quit smoking? Preckshot is the originator of Nicotine Lollipops, available by prescription in a variety of flavors. This is a highly successful method for smoking cessation.

What about Weight Loss? metabolic Syndrome and Obesity have become one of the major health issues of our time. Preckshot offers several new pharmacuetical agents that can bring hope and success to those trying to lose weight. Innovative therapies that have been developed right here at Preckshot are not available at any other Pharmacy.

Living a healthier lifestyle and taking better care of one's body are Preckshot's specialty! We are a very accessible resource for information and quality nutritional supplements that can help you accomplish better health outcomes.

We renew our tireless commitment to you - Numéro Readers, Families, and Friends...with unparalleled dedication to health, wellness and your life's next page. ~Jen, John, Wade

Take that next step in bringing your goals to reality and step into Preckshot today or visit their website for more info where you can sign up for their e-newsletter! And pick up your issue of Numéro each month for great tips and health advice from Preckshot!

Preckshot Professional Pharmacy
Heritage Square | Peoria Heights
309.679.2047

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Dina Emser: Everyday Toasts

Your family and friends are gathered around a huge table. The filmy tablecloth lies loosely against your lap and there are candles and fine china and fancy silverware sparkling. Flowers adorn the center of the table and the candlelight shimmers, creating a scene straight from a movie. You are seated at the head of the table, and every eye is on you as you rise up, slender glass flute in your hand. You look around the table, making eye contact with everyone, savoring this moment, the feeling of connectedness, and the pleasure of having each of these people in your life. And then you begin.

Your words speak to the context of the event that brings you all together. Your words acknowledge the people who are important players in the drama that has either recently played out or is yet to happen in the very near future. Your carefully chosen words give all who listen access to your unique perceptions, your deepest feelings, your heartfelt wishes, or even your gravest sorrow.

As your voice becomes still, each person raises a glass, mirroring your movement, faces soft, lips parted, echoing the words that have completed your part of the ceremony. A sigh escapes you as you seat yourself again at the table and the feast begins. Conversation takes over; the quiet moment is past. And yet the impact lingers, the silken, invisible threads of caring, community, and a strong sense of belonging connecting each person powerfully to the next.

Why must we wait for special occasions to share the power of a toast? I wonder what difference it would make if we took the time more often to share with people who are important to us how we really feel about them. What would happen if daily or even weekly, we quieted ourselves before a meal to gather our thoughts and share them before raising our glasses—so what if there’s only water in them and macaroni and cheese on the table?

We are gifted as a species with the tool of verbal language. We know the power of the spoken word because we are inundated with words day in and day out. By the close of the workday, we can feel exhausted by so many words. And yet there is something about slowing down, considering words carefully, and speaking from the heart that can erode the walls of our defensiveness and loneliness like steady rain on a dry landscape.

This year, why not warm up your life with toasts? Special occasions provide powerful memory points in the stories of our lives, and our everyday experiences create the backdrop that gives evidence to who we are and how we live. What will you remember about this day? Who will you acknowledge? How will you express what is on your heart and in your head? What will the impact of your words be?

Ok, now pay attention. I’m raising my glass to each one of you right now. I feel a toast coming on.

Here’s to you and the life you want to create in this New Year. I believe that you have many talents and dreams and that as you commit to creating what you want in this New Year, support for it will come. To you! Cheers.

Dina Emser, Professional Development Coach, www.dinaemser.com

It's high time for pie time at Apple's Bakery!!!

I know you probably made a New Year's resolution to exercise more and eat right, but did you also resolve to help the less fortunate? If so I think you can cheat on that health resolution and do a good deed by stopping by Apple's this month. January hosts National Pie Day and each pie you buy at Apple's benefits the National MS Society in honor of Mary's mother.

Numéro says go have a slice and help a friend in need!

P.S. The Apple Pie is scrumptious if I do say so myself.

Apple's Bakery
8412 N. Knoxville Ave, Peoria, IL
309.693.3522
Mon-Fri 6-6, Sat 6-2
www.ApplesBakery.com

Le Rage Item #1: Green Trick Flower

In case you haven't heard, Numéro's new seasonal feature: Le Rage, showcases the latest and greatest from local retailers for him and for her. Tell 'em you saw it first in Numéro!

Our first item up to be featured is the Green Trick flower, available at Gregg Florist near the Heights. This unusual bit of flora is related to the carnation family and has the feeling of soft fir, sure to green up any room. And given that they are related to carnations, they last a long time and hold their color for weeks. Take a chance and add a little texture to your space in this dreary cold weather.

Gregg Florist
1015 E. War Memorial Dr.
Peoria Heights, IL | 309.688.0725

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New Restaurant! The Harvest Cafe

Have you heard of the Harvest Café? It's an inviting new restaurant in the heart of Delavan offering a chef driven, farm to table menu. Click here for their menu and here for more info!
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309.244.7000 | www.Harvest CafeDelavan.com