For many Americans, down time is spent on smartphones, scrolling on social media or interacting with apps.

While this may keep you occupied, it’s taking you away from valuable brain activity achieved only through good old-fashioned boredom. Emplify Health by Bellin is encouraging community members to incorporate time to unplug and be bored to boost healthy brain activity.

Health experts are encouraging families to focus less on perfection and more on the everyday habits that shape a child’s long-term health.

For Aspirus Dr. Heather Winesett, those habits tend to come back to the same core areas.

It’s all about the food and love at Ignacio’s Puebla Street Food, a new Mexican restaurant near downtown Shawano.

Ignacio Ramirez-Juarez’s love for the food he grew up with in Puebla City, Mexico, inspired him to open the restaurant in early March.

“I just follow my heart,” Ramirez-Juarez said. ”When I was a child watching my grandma, my mother, my aunt cooking, that’s my way to cook.”

FRIDAY, MAY 8

SURING: Friends of Suring Area Public Library Annual Rummage Sale, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., How Township Garage, 12896 State Highway 32.

OCONTO: Storytime, 10:30 a.m., Farnsworth Public Library, 715 Main St. Story and crafts for preschool children. A caregiver must stay with the child.

SURING: Recovery Talking Circle, 6-8 p.m. South Branch Community Center, W1281 County Road M.

Add color and seasonal interest throughout the landscape with container gardens. Set them in garden beds to add vertical interest, place pots of edible plants on a patio, deck or balcony for convenient picking, and include pollinator-friendly plants in containers to attract and support pollinators.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin is home to more than 300 species of birds.