Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 128, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 2005 — Page 8

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• Advance News • Thursday, March 31, 2005

Quit tobacco and add years to your life

The Maximum Health Story tells us how to become as healthy as we can. Maintaining , Maximum Health encourages a healthv lifestyle to promote health and thereby avoid disease. Use of tobacco is one of the most significant lifestyle choices that we make. We can create a healthv future without tobacco - or we choose tobacco use and suffer many health problems. Tobacco smoking causes damage to nearly every organ in the human body. Medical research links smoking to at least 10 different cancers, which in turn account for about 30 percent of all cancer deaths. Tobacco use costs trillions of dollars each year in lost work, disease, and death. In spite of all this bad press, one in four Americans still light up on a regular basis. If you or someone you love uses tobacco, here is what you need to know about how tobacco kills and why you should quit tobacco - right now! Tobacco use is linked to many other health problems, most of them life threatening. Nicotine and tar - the carcinogenic or cancer-causing ingredients in. tobacco - are the harmful culprits. Whether we smoke tobac-

Thanks for another great disappointment

It has been quite some time since 1 have last written. For this I am very rusty, but this will not keep me from expressing my dismay with this year’s NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. I entered this tournament as a bracket champion, so my hopes were high for a repeat this go-round, but it did not come to fruitation. Everything started out fine and dandy for me, but then there was the SyracuseVermont game in round number one. I had Syracuse going to the Final Four this year, which was my mistake to listening to those "experts" on the sports channels. From the Syracuse game on, it was over for your loved newspaper man. There was no way my friends were going to donate any money to me because of my good picks this year. With the hope of all donations dashed, I could then just turn to my squad to win it all the Kentucky Wildcats. Throughout the year the Wildcats played pretty lackadaisical and unmotivated, so I didn't have too much stock in them getting it done in the tournament. I was right. They picked up good wins over Eastern Kentucky, Cincinnati and Utah, but then came the mighty Michigan State Spartans. The Wildcats lost to the "I'm not going to

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co via cigar or cigarette or take it via chewing tobacco or snuff - tobacco is deadly. Many people assume that smoking tobacco clearly is harmful, but chewing tobacco or use of snuff - so-called smokeless tobacco - is less harmful or even harmless. Tobacco, taken in any form, is a strong cancer causing agent. It causes direct harm to the lungs, mouth, voice box, trachea, and sinuses. A particularly virulent form of cancer has emerged that involves the oral cavity and voice box. This is found in people of middle age who, in their youth, smoked significant amounts of both tobacco and marijuana. This type of cancer attacked former Beatle George Harrison. Harmful effects of marijuana are extensive. It causes cancer and other negative health effects that are even worse than tobacco. If you have a health history that includes these past indulgences you might have your doctor check you for oral and voice box lesions. If you have symptoms of persistent cough, hoarseness, or other breathing problems you should have these' s'vmp-

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do anything all season, but then turn it on in the tournament" Spartans in double overtime. After the game everybody says "Oh what a great game," and Kentucky coach Tubby Smith says how right now the loss is tough on the players, but in time they'll grow to appreciate being in such a great game. Give me a break. If this game goes down as one of the best college games ever, then it would fall somewhere behind the Kentucky-Duke game in 1992, which Duke won on a last second Christian Laettner shot. I remember that game too. I was just a 12-year old boy. The world was my oyster, and Kentucky had just taken the lead over the Blue Devils with only 3

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toms investigated. Tobacco use increases blood pressure and contributes to hypertension, heart attack and stroke. Because it causes vasospasm or spasm of the arteries, tobacco makes it more likely you will suffer a lifethreatening heart attack or stroke - even without fatty blockage of the artery. Because tobacco destroys the lungs, it also causes crippling lung disease like emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and severe asthma. Secondhand smoke is just as harmful to those breathing the smoke as the tobacco is to the smoker. In addition to exposing surrounding non-smokers to toxic tobacco smoke, it poses the bystander to become ill. Non-smoking children who live with smoking parents are far more likely to become ill and

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to become more severely ill than kids who live in a smoke-free home. This is the reason for the enforced elimination of smoking in public places like restaurants, schools, healthcare facilities, and shopping areas. Seek medical attention immediately if you have concern. Remember - hold fast, stand firm, and persevere! ABOUT THE DOCTORS: Dr. Michael Borger and Dr. Song Yu are Board Certified in Family Practice and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment. They work to promote medical care based on health promotion - for people to enjoy Maximum Health! Contact them at Northwood Physicians in Nappanee, Indiana (574) 7734151 or email [email protected]

seconds remaining. I remember jumping around the house. Slapping the top of the door frame because I was just that height to do it. Then it happened. That jerk hit that shot, and the dream was over. The same thing happened on March 27, 2005. I had to watch the game on a small television, while my dad worked on my truck. There were highs and lows. At one moment I was really happy, and then the next I was furious. I wasn't as mad as I guess I could have been. Kentucky has broken this man's heart too many times for me to let them do it again. Now with the NCAA season over, I must now face the reality of rooting for the Bulls, Cubs, Irish, then Bears. Find me one team in there that's not a disappointment. At least the Bears don't mess with my emofiohs, arid pretend they're going to be good. But hey let's be happy for the winners. North Carolina is proving to be back on top and look at how great the Big Ten did. I'm so happy for the mediocre conference that I can't even put it in to words. Oh and coach Rick Pitino with Louisville. It's great to see,him back on top again. P.S. I'm being sarcastic.

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School Briefs

LOUCKS RECEIVES LILLY ENDOWMENT North Wood High School's Audrey Loucks has been named as one of four Elkhart County students who will receive full, four year scholarships as the 2005 Lilly Endowment Community Scholars. Along with Loucks, the other recipients are Brian Miller, Fairfield, Rebecca Plaster, Bethany Christian and Jason York, Jimtown. The outstanding students will receive not only full tuition to the Indiana College or University of their choice, but, also an SBOO stipend for required books, fees and equipment: These students were nominated by their high schools and evaluated on the basis of grades, teacher evaluations, extra-curricular and civic involvement, work experience, and an essay on "America's Youth - Tomorrow's Leaders Thundering to Action". The Elkhart County Community Foundation is unique among community foundations in Indiana because of the requirement that each scholarship nominee must come from a family where neither parent possesses a 4-year college degree. After the Elkhart County Community Foundation scholarship committee narrowed the field to four nominees, the finalist's names were submitted to the Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI) for the selection of the recipients. ICI is a nonprofit corporation that represents 31 regionally accredited degree granting, nonprofit, private colleges and universities in the state. The scholarships are the result of a statewide Lilly Endowment initiative to help Hoosier students reach higher levels of education. Indiana ranks among the lowest states in the percentage of residents over the age of 25 with a Bachelor's degree. There were 216 scholarships awarded statewide. All. the winners will be honored at a dinner on April 16 at Das Dutchman Essenhaus spon- ’ sored by the Elkhart County Community Foundation. The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship winners will also be recognized at a Lilly Endowment Gala on July 30 in Indianapolis. EACC NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY The Elkhart Area Career Center held induction ceremonies for 101 new members of the EACC Chapter of the National Technical Honor Society on March 22 at Elkhart Memorial High School with North Wood High School students among them Kayla Carter, Horticulture/Floral Design; Chelsea Slabaugh, Commercial Photography; Christina Steffen, Health Occupations; and Clint Stickel, Public Safety were among the inductees. The National Technical Honor Society is a national organization founded to reward excellence in career and technical education, to encourage scholastic excellence and skill development and to cultivate a stronger, more positive image for career education. Students selected for induction .have demonstrated high standards of scholastic achievement, skill

development, good character, leadership, honesty and responsibility. All were recommended by their instructors and school administrators and must meet strict local and national membership standards. SCIENCE FAIR Science Fair winners from the North Wood Middle School Science Fair last week were: Ist Place Kyle Smith; 2nd Place Daniel Houck; 3rd Place Kyle Riege. Distinguished Honors (Medals): Brenan Moore, Amy Thompson, Katie Lengacher, Stephanie Bates, Brenda Slabaugh, Philip Dudeck, Jacki Hershberger, Kayla Carney, Kara Troyer, Elle Hershberger, Blythe Metzger and Austin Stephens. Honorable Mention (Ribbons): Sydney Kehr, Michael Hochstetler, Tony Miranda, Lori Skyrm, Kelsey Diener, Amanda McFerren, Chase Chanley, Daniel Villa, Corey Ellis, Michael Balough, Ashley McClintic, Ali Lechlitner, Brittany Weaver, Katie Stephenson, Liza Slabaugh, Mike Bough, Kyle Yoder, Sharon Hochstetler, Douglas Snyder and Patrick Thompson. DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS Are you a North Wood graduate, a parent of a current member or just a firm believer in post high school education? The North Wood High School Dollars for Scholars fundraising campaign is currently underway and we need your help. Our goal is to raise $25,000 so that over 30 deserving seniors can be awarded $750 each this May. These scholarships will help defray some of the costs of the freshman year at college, university or technical school of the student's choice. To help raise funds for Dollars for Scholars, donations may be sent to the high school at 2101 North Main St., Nappanee IN 46550. For more information please call Beverly Fales at 773-7876 or Marsha Caldwell at North Wood High School (773-4127). KINDERGARTEN ROUNDUP Larry Nafziger, principal of Wakarusa Elementary School, announces plans for the annual Kindergarten Roundup on ; Tuesday, April 12 from 1 to 6 p.m. Children attending kindergarten in the fall must be five ; years old on or before July 1. ; The roundup will be an open J m house registration for parents in . the school's Enrichment Room. ; Parents may come anytime from 1 to 6 p.m. Children should attend this meeting with ; parents, where a brief assessment will be given. Parents are asked to bring an original birth certificate (with a raised seal), a record of immunizations. Other information will be available at the roundup. Legal birth certificates may be obtained from the County Health Department of the coun- ; ty where the child was bom. During the school year, Extended Care will be offered. Application forms for, this program will be available at roundup. Enrollment in this program will be guaranteed when the registration fee is paid. Parents who are unable to attend roundup are asked to call the school office at 862-2000 to register your child.

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