'Can you hear me now?'

Fred Monroe, owner of Monroe Cleaners, concentrates on the noises coming through his headphones during a hearing test offered by the Marion Lioness Club on Monday at the Marion Senior Center. Those people taking the test put on large noise-canceling headphones, and must press a buzzer each time they hear a noise come through the headphone's speakers. The results from the test show any presence of slight or noticeable hearing loss, which can then officially be diagnosed by a doctor. Zero to 25 decibels is considered to be within normal limits, while 30-40 decibels is slight/mild, 45-55 is moderate, 60-70 is moderately severe, 75-90 is severe, and anything measured above 90 decibels is considered to be profound hearing loss. 'This is just our service project for the community,' Lioness Helen Ferguson, the hearing screening coordinator said.
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