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Steven Noble
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Fred Cheney
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Good grief! That was the mantra of a certain blockhead suffering from a lack of self esteem that could be attributed to a number of things including being a young child with barely any hair and having a football yanked from under him while trying to kick it on a daily basis.

Ironically, Peanuts character Charlie Brown suffered at the hands of the person that he and other characters on the classic cartoon show would often turn to for expert advice, Lucy.

Allison Gross of Optimal Therapies will be one of the experts offering free health advice this month at the roaming "Lucy Booth."

While Optimal Therapies is not exactly offering psychiatric help for a nickel, they will be taking the concept of the “Lucy Booth” around campus beginning next week.

The idea of creating a Lucy Booth originated from collaboration between Health Services, the EnCana Wellness Centre and School of Nursing’s second year community health nursing students and their instructors over the past four semesters.

On a mission to target Mount Royal’s employees, the partnership first ventured outside the confines of the Wellness Centre to tackle hypertension.

The group set up a booth at 20 various locations across campus in order to perform blood pressure checks and provide information about resources available on campus and in the community for staff and faculty.

The booth was so well received that Optimal Therapies has decided to take the concept a step further by providing valuable health information to anyone interested in learning some general facts about their health issues.

Marketing Communications Coordinator for the EnCana Wellness Centre, Michael Morrissey constructed the “Lucy Booth” with the help of Mount Royal’s Maintenance department and prepped it for travel around campus.

The “Lucy Booth” is set to make its first appearance on campus next week on the third floor of the East Arts Building from noon to 3 p.m. on Dec. 9.

Further appearances will follow on the second floor of the Bissett School of Business, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. with Chiropractor, Allison Gross from the Wellness Centre and on the third floor of Bissett from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with Chiropractor, Greg Prete on Dec. 10.

Other health care practitioners including physiotherapists, massage therapists, athletic therapists, acupuncturists and an energy practitioner are slated to man the booth in the near future.

Topics to be covered at the booth will include general health topics like back pain, foot pain and women’s health issues.

There will also be sessions to provide information about the different types of services available.

The Wellness Centre hopes to eventually expand the scope of the “Lucy Booth” to include other health issues with a nurse and mental health issues with a counselor.

Keep reading Face Time to find out when the “Lucy Booth” will be in your part of campus and to see what topics Mount Royal experts will be providing advice about.

Best of all, the advice is completely free of charge, not five cents like Lucy charges!

– Fred Cheney, Dec. 3, 2009