High Mesa Happenings

Lincoln County Health Council Fund Raiser at Schlotzsky's

A fundraiser for the Lincoln County Health Council will be held at Schlotzsky's on Tue., May 24, from 4pm-close.  During these hours, Schlotzsky's will donate 15% of sales
to a Lincoln County Health Council project.

Earth Day Picnic

Thanks to Keep Ruidoso Beautiful, the Village of Ruidoso, and wonderful volunteers, the Earth Day Picnic is on!!! Bring your picnic supplies, friends and neighbors and join this free event geared towards strengthening our community and promoting stewardship and social responsibility. There will be music, entertainers, geocaching, games, prizes and surprises. Don't forget to bring your old clothes to exchange for new (used) ones at the clothing swap booth. It should be a blast so don't miss it. Volunteers still needed :>

Please help us get the word out on this wonderful event by taking a few minutes to see this exciting commercial created by the talented Phillip D. Collins using footage from last year's event.  This is a great way to get a visual of what fun we're going to have.  Please share with others!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzLW1Xsah4
 
Thanks for the support.  Hope to see you there! Sunday April 17 at Wingfield Park from noon-5pm for a picnic/potluck.  If you have ideas to make it better, please call Andrea Reed at 937-2725.

Common Ground

You’re Invited to a Celebration!!!

Who: Common Ground, a commUNITY center

What: An open house to celebrate the official opening of Common Ground as well as an opportunity to observe the remarkable life and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

When: Monday January 17, 2011, Martin Luther King Jr. Day 5:00pm-7:30pm

Where: Common Ground 721 Mechem Dr. (Located in the Sierra Mall)

Program

5:00-5:30pm       Meet & Greet, Music by Thomas Radcliff

5:30-6:30pm       Children’s Activity

5:40-6:15pm       Presentation celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

6:15-7:30pm       Mix and Mingle

                     Enjoy Entertainment Refreshments, Door Prizes, Art Activity

RSVP appreciated but not required, bring a friend

937-2725, 973-4119

Sanctuary On The River

Sanctuary on the River is a unique venue offering the ideal setting for your next event.

Nestled in the tranquil mountains of Ruidoso, New Mexico, this awe inspiring setting on the Rio Ruidoso River promises escape and renewal. Your next meeting, board retreat or seminar will be enhanced by our intimate indoor spaces and inspiring outdoor settings.

Ideal for face to face exchange rich with profound conversations that serve to renew and revitalize human connections, your experience at Sanctuary on the River is sure to expand your commitment to living an inspired life. Comfortable and professional meeting spaces are fully outfitted with essential A/V equipment to compliment your presentation.

At Sanctuary on the River Inspired Living Center you will gain a fresh perspective allowing you to live your best life and accomplish your goals. At the Sanctuary we are committed to building relationships and delivering an experience beyond your expectations! 

http://sanctuaryontheriver.com/

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools

Implementing Salad Bars in schools is one of the fastest ways to create fresh food access to all students purchasing a reimbursable meal. In fact the "salad" can be much more than greens and fruit. By utilizing USDA Commodity brown box items like diced chicken, tuna, egg products and grain products the Salad Bar reinvents itself as a reimbursable meal. Using the bar to introduce children to foods in their raw states and educate students' palates by offering some special seasonal salads makes fast work of transforming the cafeteria into a classroom enjoyed by all every day. Want a salad bar in your school and need help getting started?  This information comes from http://www.thelunchbox.org/resources/salad-bar.  For more information, click on the web site.

 

Family Day

 Join in the Celebration

*Monday September 27^th Has Been Declared*

FAMILY DAY

A DAY TO EAT DINNER WITH YOUR CHILDREN

MAKE TIME FOR DINNER…..MAKE TIME FOR EACH OTHER

Things You Could Talk About!

Ask everyone to share their favorite part or biggest challenge of the day. Exchange memories about your favorite family pastimes. Discuss an activity the family can do together and then put it on the calendar.  Cell phones    , TV    , Computers

The facts are on the table: eating dinner together every night keeps the doors of communication open. It’s the perfect time and place to reconnect and to show your kids that they are your priority. Sitting across the table is where and when you can find out more about your children’s likes, dislikes, and daily life. Having this information can help you direct your children toward positive activities and behavior, reducing the likelihood that they will get involved with alcohol, tobacco, and/or illegal drugs.

Sacramento Mountain Village

SACRAMENTO MOUNTAIN VILLAGE FRIEND RAISER, Sunday, June 25, 2010, at Cree Meadows from 2:00-4:00 p.m.  There will be music, complementary food, balloons, and a Silent Auction with items from various businesses in town.  Everyone is invited.

Allergies: Barbara Replies

I (Barbara) would like to comment on the below newsletter:

As I read this newsletter of Dr Norm Shealy I have to admit that I got very angry and had to do some serious work to get out of my emotions.

Some of us, many of us, did a good job of alerting others about Equal and aspartame only to find out that we are playing games. And the game is,” let’s change the name to protect the innocent, oops I mean to protect the guilty.” I guess that our public education was effective and they had to change the name when it was know how poisonous Equal is then it gets this nice sounding name to fool us, well some of us are still awake and are sounding the alarm.

I have had several clients drinking Diet Coke with symptoms of auto immune diseases, migraines, MS and lupus. One such client went to visit her daughter who refused to let her have her diet drinks for 10 days and she returned to tell me that her MS symptoms were gone. Her remark was “Barbara you were right it was the diet coke, I did not believe you for it is FDA approved. Our government would not poison us. Or would it? You have opened my eyes. I am responsible for my own health.”

When Ronald Reagan was president he appointed his friend Donald Rumsfeld head of the FDA. Rumsfeld came straight from Monsanto to the FDA so that  he could give FDA approval and open the door for Monsanto to dump aspartame into our food supply while making  huge profits at our expense. We are paying for it with our very lives and our health.  

Wake up and open your eyes America. All the health care or disease care in the world cannot protect you from your life style.. Most of the problems come from poor choices.

May we listen to our bodies and give them what they want and need to stay healthy.

     

   

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From: Newsletter of  Norm Shealy
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:03 AM
Subject: ALLERGIES and the COCA TEST

Poison DUNG by any other name is still poison!

Un-EQUAL is changing its name to AminoSweet, another deception by the chemical toxin pushed on the market by former Secretary of War, Rumsfeld.  It aggravates hypertension, migraine and epilepsy and prevents weight loss. DO NOT BE FOOLED BY ANOTHER FALSE NAME!

ALLERGIES & THE COCA TEST ©

by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Arthur F. Coca developed the Coca Pulse Test over 40 years ago.  His book is in the public domain and available at

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020108.coca.pdf

Unquestionably it is the most accurate way to test for allergies.  To make it simple, check your pulse before you get out of bed.  Then check it 30 and 60 minutes after each meal.  If your pulse goes up 10 points or more when you are not exercising moderately, you are allergic to something (or in poor condition).  Now if you are on a beta blocker, your pulse may not respond! 

Diseases of allergy are:

Recurrent headache

Nervousness

Migraine

Dizziness

Constipation

Canker sores

Heartburn

Epilepsy

Overweight

Underweight

Irritability

Gastric ulcer

Abdominal pain

Gastric pain

Nervous and emotional

Instability (neurasthenia)

Abnormal tiredness

Indigestion (vomiting, gas, nausea)

Neuralgia

Sinusitis

Hypertension

Hives

Heart attacks (angina)

Asthma

Hemorrhoids

Psychic depression

Diabetes

Chest pain

Gastro-intestinal bleeding 

Conjunctivitis

Nosebleed

Colitis

Excerpted from "The Pulse Test" by Arthur F. Coca, MD

http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020108.coca.pdf

In other words, allergies lead to inflammation, irritation and can cause or aggravate essentially any illness.  I trust the Cocoa test over all others for determining allergies. Once you know you have an allergy, it may take a week or two to determine which food is causing the problem.  I suggest you read the complete test in the book, as it does require more than the simple version I mentioned above to work out the total food allergens BUT IT IS WELL WORTHWHILE! Incidentally, if your pulse is consistently, at rest, above 76, either you are in terrible physical condition (couch potato) or you have something wrong.  It could be allergens in the atmosphere. And remember that caffeine raises the pulse up to 36 hours! Nicotine is a shorter pulse stimulator.

The most common allergens are wheat/gluten, milk products, eggs, citrus, peanuts, almonds, cashews, soy, fish and shellfish, yeast, chocolate and molds.  If it is molds, be sure to look in the archives at THIEVES.

Rice Field Art

Peter S.  writes "It's amazing what the human spirit can create sometimes..." He is describing the event below, truly amazing fields!

 

Every year, farmers in the rural town of Inakadate, Japan, create rice field art by using red rice in with their regular rice in special patterns. A few other fields in rural Japan also followed the trend of this beautiful rice field art.

The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields. From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the  work.

The farmers create the murals by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September.

Source: Inakadate

Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.

In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year.
But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art.
A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

 

 

Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen. The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.

 

 

Hoax-Slayer Commentary:
This set of images circulates via email and has also been posted to numerous blogs and online communities. The message that accompanies the images claims that they depict giant living works of art made by the careful planting of different varieties of rice. Although the images may look as if they have been digitally created in an image manipulation program, they are in fact real and are indeed created from rice plants as described in the message.

Working as a Team

 

"A pod of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of  Florida  have developed  a 

remarkable hunting strategy in order to catch fish. Another awesome 

thing about this technique is that only one female in the pod can 

create this ring, and it's always counterclockwise. "

 

From Jane Y-B,  friend of HMHC; thank you!

Posted by Nadette