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Light & LATITUDE Coping with seasonal affective disorder A FREE PUBLICATION ADAPTATION Skiers overcome disabilities to hit the slopes Living in Northern Vermont & New Hampshire WINTER 2013 NorthStar Publishing LLC Healthy simple comforts

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Light & LATITUDECoping with seasonal affective disorder

A Free PublicAtion

ADAPTATIONSkiers overcomedisabilities to hit the slopes

Livingin Northern Vermont & New Hampshire

WINTER 2013NorthStar Publishing LLC

Healthy

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COVER: Adaptive skier Brent Cote of Nashua, N.H., at the Bretton Woods ski area. He participates in many activities operated by New England Disabled Sports and is a member of the adaptive race team at Loon Mountain. Photo by Ken Watson.

PAGE 2-3: Mt. Lafayette in Franconia Notch State Park. Photo by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul.

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COLUMNS4 PrePArAtionIt’s time to get your body ready for the winter sports season with a few helpful excercises.

8 AdAPtAtionTyler Walker and others around the region overcome disabilities to hit the slopes.

22 light & lAtitudeAs the days grow shorter, residents guard against seasonal affective disorder.

13 indoor WorkoutsBy Dave Harkless

15 the Future oF FitnessBy Ben Warstler

18 senior ski lAdiesBy Edmund J. Guest

26 simPle comForts: three Winter reciPes

By Marion Brown

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Over the years, while working on exer-cises with skiers of all ages and abilities, one component has remained vital – the need for preseason conditioning. The big difference between Nordic and Alpine skiing in terms of the body is how we produce momentum. With Alpine, we are assisted by the slope and gravity, whereas Nordic skiing relies on our legs and upper extremities.

This program encompasses preparation for both types of skiing and is good for jump-starting your season. Three great reasons for conditioning prior to the season are:• Decreasing the risk of injury.• Increasing endurance.• Maximizing enjoyment.

By strengthening the muscles of your lower extremities and core, you are providing greater stability for your ankles, knees, hips and back. The core refers to the hips, pelvis, abdominals, lower back and mid-back. Your core rotates the body and helps give it momentum to move in any direction. The core helps maintain proper posture, balance and alignment of the body.

Being able to ski longer by having more en-durance will allow you to burn more calories, get more runs in, and speed up your recovery time. Any workout program needs to be fun, time efficient and effective. Realistically, most of us do not have many hours in the day to spend at the gym, so increasing our fitness level and training for function at home may be more feasible for some of us. This workout consists of a warm-up, eight exercises and a cool-down with stretches.

A 5-to-10-minute warm-up is recommend-ed to get the blood circulating through the muscles we will be calling upon. The warm-up can be a brisk walk, light jog, bike, stair climber, rowing machine, or any other activity that is relatively low impact. If you are limited by space, try one or more of these alternative movements: marching in place, jog in place, side to side shuffle, or jump rope. Get your heart rate up.

Monitor your heart rate to make sure you are in the target zone. Use this formula: 220 minus your age = your maximum heart rate. Multiply that number by .65 and .80 to warm up at between 65 and 80 percent of your

maximum heart rate. A heart rate monitor is a great investment that is relatively inexpensive, or you can monitor your heart rate manually using the radial (wrist) or carotid (neck) pulse. Count the beats for ten seconds and multiply that number by six to get your beats/minute. Save the static stretches until the end; it will lengthen the tightened muscles and decrease the build-up of lactic acid.

All eight exercises should be performed for 30 to 60 seconds each, based on your fitness level. Wait 15 seconds between exercises. At 60 seconds each, you should complete one cycle in 10 to 11 minutes. (Tip: record your total ex-ercise time and try to better it daily or weekly). Work toward performing two to three cycles of the exercises over the course of a few weeks.

Remember to breathe throughout exercises, exhaling with exertion.

Ryan Farley is a certified athletic trainer with Dan Wyand P.T. & Associates, which has clinics in St. Johnsbury and Lyndonville. Hilary De Carlo is the marketing manager at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury.

1. Wall squat: Begin with your back against the wall and your feet out in front of you. Slide down the wall and stop between 45 and 90 degrees. Make sure your toes are beyond the knees when squatting to keep stress off the front of the knee joint. Stopping at 90 degrees will be the most difficult. If knee pain is present, don’t go so low and try to distribute more weight onto the mid-foot and heel.

ready, get Set, Ski!

As winter rapidly approaches, so does the blessing of snow and ski season. It is accompanied by countless memories of friends and family enjoying Nordic and

Alpine skiing here in the Northeast Kingdom. No matter what form of skiing you prefer, the physical demands placed on your body can be high. So preparing for these activities is essential.

By Ryan Farley and Hilary De Carlo

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2. Planks: Lie face down on the floor resting on forearms. Push up off the floor, rising onto toes and forearms while keeping your back flat. Keep your abs tight and if you feel like your back is sagging, it is time to stop. This is a difficult exercise, so start with holding it for 5 to 10 seconds and do it three to five times. This exercise can be modified by resting against a counter top.

4. lunge w/overhead press: Stand with your feet together holding a weight of your choice (dumbbell, medicine ball, even a gallon of water which is about 8 pounds). Take a big step forward and bend the front knee anywhere from 60 to 90 degrees. Most of your weight should be on the forward leg. Keep your upper body straight and core tight. Now perform anywhere from one to five presses overhead. Push back with the front leg and return to the starting position. Now, do the other leg. Try alternating for one minute.

3. bridging: Lying on your back with your hands by your sides, bend your knees so that your feet are flat on the floor and under your knees. Raise your hips off the floor, making a straight line with your thighs and trunk. Tighten your buttocks and draw your belly button toward your spine to tighten your core. Try holding for 30 to 60 seconds. If this is not challenging, try the single leg bridge, which is more difficult.

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5. Standard Crunch: Lying on your back, push your lower back into the floor and bring your shoulder blades up a few inches off the ground. Look up at the ceiling, do not bend your head and neck forward (avoid shrugging). At the same time, try to relax your neck and shoulders. Hold briefly and return slowly down. To make this more difficult, do not return all the way down.

6. mountain climbers: With your hands on the ground in front of you, under your shoulders, extend one leg back and have the other bent under you with your knee close to your chest. Hold your upper body in place and alternate foot positions quickly. See how many reps you can do in 30 or 60 seconds. This can be modified by placing your hands on a chair or other elevated surface.

7. Push-ups: With your hands on the ground under your shoulders or slightly wider, get up on your toes and slowly lower your chest toward the ground. Briefly hold and return to starting position. This can be modified by starting on your knees or using the wall as shown in the picture.

8. Prone Alternating arm and leg raise: Lying on your stomach, raise your right arm and left leg a few inches off the floor. Hold for 3 to 5 seconds and slowly lower. Now switch sides and repeat for 30 to 60 seconds. If you are on the floor, place a few pillows under your hips. If you have a physio-ball, this can be a nice alternative.

At the end, try to spend at least 5 minutes stretching: hamstring, quad, IT band and calves are some good starters.

Alternate order of exercises for variety: 4, 5, 7, 1, 2, 8, 6, 3 and/or 6, 1, 3, 2, 7, 4, 8, 5

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Adaptive ski racer Tyler Walker, whose legs were amputated when he was a child, trains on a mountain in Chile.

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AdAptAtionOvercoming disabilities to hit the slopes by Meghan Mccarthy McPhaul

hen Tyler Walker started skiing at Cannon Mountain in Franconia at the age of six, his father Jim rigged up a primitive sit-ski using materials from the basement.

“I kind of begged and pleaded with my parents,” says Walker, who was born with a condition that led to amputation of both legs at age four. “My dad took a sled and bolted some old cross-country skis on the bottom of it and welded some metal brake-spike-le-ver things on the side… and I’d go down and attempt to control myself. It was terrifying.”

But over time, terror turned to passion. It was a few years before Tyler joined fledgling adaptive ski programs at Loon Mountain and Waterville Valley – and before he was heavy enough to fit the mono-skis of the day. Now 26 years old and a member of the United States Adaptive Ski Team for the past decade, Walker lives and trains in Aspen, Colorado, and competes throughout the U.S. and Europe in Inter-national Paralympic Committee (IPC) races, includ-ing the Paralympic Games and the annual Disabled Alpine World Cup circuit. These days Walker skis on a high-tech, light-weight mono-ski, complete with a suspension system.

“skiing is my life. everything i am doing has to do with skiing – where i live, how I exercise, what I eat, how i make a living.

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“Skiing is my life,” he says. “Eve-rything I am doing has to do with skiing – where I live, how I exer-cise, what I eat, how I make a liv-ing.”

The evolution in Walker’s equip-ment and in opportunities for him to excel are indicative of the pro-gression of adaptive skiing – and adaptive sports in general – over the past several years.

In the mid-1980s – at about the time Tyler Walker was born – some ski areas in the region intro-duced adaptive programs, offering recreational ski opportunities for people with various kinds of dis-abilities. But it was rare 20 years ago to see adaptive skiers on the slopes.

Over the past decade, many more ski areas have established adaptive programs, some of which provide competitive race train-ing. Participants include disabled veterans, people who have faced life-changing injury or disease, and children and adults with disa-bilities from multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy to vision impair-ment and amputation to cognitive and emotional issues.

“[Today] it’s almost uncom-mon for a ski area not to have an adaptive program,” says Sandy Olney, who worked with the Bret-ton Woods adaptive program for a few years before helping to start Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country (ASPNC), whose ski program is based at Cannon Mountain.

“Adaptive sports in gen-eral have definitely grown, in the amount of people who know about it, in the amount of people who do it, and in the amount of people who talk about it,” agrees Zoe Norcross, program director for New England Disabled Sports (NEDS), an organization based at Bretton Woods.

ASPNC, now in its fourth winter, is relatively new to the ski scene. New Hampshire’s Loon Mountain introduced adap-tive skiing in 1985, and Bretton Woods started a program in 1998. Both groups are now under the umbrella of NEDS. Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sport, which works with ski areas throughout Vermont, was founded in 1987 and includes a program at Sugar-

bush that started in 1991.Adaptive skiing continues

to spread to other ski areas. At Burke Mountain, Snowsports Manager Dave Iverson says the ski area is embarking on a pilot program this winter, with help from ASPNC. While he notes the program will be small at first, Iverson hopes adaptive will grow at Burke.

“We’re excited to get it started, but we need to start slow. We want to make sure we do it right,” he says. “It’s a service that’s need-ed in the Northeast Kingdom.”

The common thread among

adaptive ski programs is help-ing people adjust to whatever challenges they face so that they can enjoy the thrilling rush of flying downhill on snow and the joy of simply being outside in the mountains.

For Walker, who grew up in Franconia, skiing was simply what all the other kids were doing. The elementary school there offered a ski program, releasing students from the classroom to the ski school each Friday afternoon through the winter.

“That sounded like the most fun thing I had heard of. I wanted

to do what everyone else was do-ing, even though neither I nor my parents had much of an idea how I would ski at first,” says Walker. “I have stuck with skiing for sev-eral reasons. First and foremost, it’s a ton of fun… I want to be the best in the world with my kind of skiing, not entirely for my benefit, but also to see what can be done with adaptive skiing.”

Adaptive ski programs employ an array of equipment to help get skiers on the slopes. These include mono-skis, with a single alpine ski attached to a metal frame holding a molded seat, which are used

“My dad took a sled and bolted some old cross-country skis on the bottom of it and welded some metal brake-spike-lever things on the side… and I’d go down and attempt to control

myself. it was terrifying.”

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by people without legs or with limited use of their lower extremi-ties. Bi-skis are similar, but with two skis attached, and are usually used by beginner sit-skiers or those who need assistance from an instructor. Three-track and four-track skiers ski independent-ly – standing on either one ski or two – and using outrigger ski poles with short skis attached at the end to provide extra support and balance.

Adaptive instructors use a variety of tools from tethers (at-tached to skis or skiers) to long bamboo poles to provide support and assistance to skiers who are unable or not yet ready to ski in-dependently. People with extreme mobility issues can enjoy skiing strapped securely in a Tandem-ski, a type of sit-ski piloted by an instructor on articulated skates attached to the seat and frame.

At Cannon, ASPNC worked with 66 individuals last win-ter to provide 357 ski sessions, including regular weekly lessons organized in conjunction with Common Ground, which is part of White Mountain Mental Health Services of Littleton. At its Bret-ton Woods and Loon locations, NEDS works with more than 550 adaptive skiers and provides over 3,000 lessons each winter. Ver-mont Adaptive works with more than 600 clients, including about 150 adaptive skiers at Sugarbush. Directors at each of the programs say their organizations continue to grow and to offer adaptive sports and recreation to more people every year.

“In my opinion, every major ski area or resort should host an adaptive program,” says Cannon’s General Manager John DeVivo. “The work that ASPNC and its volunteers have done with skiers and riders, and their summer clients alike, has been heartwarm-ing and truly amazing.”

Many adaptive programs in the region offer year-round recrea-tional opportunities, including kayaking, cycling, hiking and swimming. In fact, Olney says the founding group of ASPNC wanted to make sure it did not become solely a ski program, although adaptive skiing is a huge part of the group’s work.

ASPNC was organized as a year-round, community-based adaptive program and in just over three years in action has helped to provide sports and recreation to nearly 200 individuals in over 2,100 activity sessions ranging from cycling along the rail trail in Littleton to playing soccer or ten-nis to cross-country skiing.

As the executive director, Olney is the only paid employee, and ASPNC, like other adaptive programs, relies on dedicated volunteers to do everything from organizing fundraisers to teaching people with cognitive and physi-cal disabilities how to ski – or helping them cruise down the mountain (or climb up it, depend-ing on the season) if they are un-able to do that independently.

Vermont Adaptive has nearly 600 volunteers, including about 120 at Sugarbush. NEDS has about 275 volunteers at its Bretton Woods and Loon locations com-bined. ASPNC had more than 80 volunteers last year. The volun-teers at each program tend to be dedicated and enthusiastic about providing recreational opportuni-ties to anybody who would like to pursue them.

“It doesn’t matter who you are, whether you have a disability or not. Recreation is foundational in everybody’s life,” Olney says. “There are people who feel really passionate about sharing these opportunities with everybody – whether it’s carrying somebody up a mountain or skiing some-body down a mountain.”

Many adaptive ski programs also offer Nordic skiing and snow-shoe programs during the winter. Olney says ASPNC worked with an independent paraplegic woman one winter to develop a plan and training to assist her to hike into Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington so she could watch the ski scene there.

Getting into the backcountry is something Tyler Walker has been experimenting with, too. Two winters ago he and Chris Devlin-Young, Walker’s former coach and longtime training partner on the U.S. Adaptive Team, made the first unaided ascent by adaptive skiers of Aspen Highlands Bowl in Colorado, essentially dragging themselves up the mountain on their elbows. Ski patrollers helped carry their mono-skis that day, but ultimately Walker would like to have a sit-ski light enough to transport on his own.

He’d also like to see adaptive skiing gain even more awareness.

“Becoming mainstream is still difficult,” he says. “We had a huge amount of publicity with the Mo-no-skier X event in the X-Games, and ESPN treated us as equals. But they cut our event.” He won

gold in that event three times. Now, he says, “We need to find

other avenues to promote our sport, and it probably won’t be through ski racing… [unless] we have races in conjunction with able bodied events… or do some-thing crazy with free skiing, such as Josh Dueck’s back flip.”

Dueck is a Canadian skier who was paralyzed from the waist down when he crashed in 2004 doing a flip on skis. He completed the first back flip by a sit-skier last winter and competes on the Disabled Alpine World Cup race circuit.

While the thrill seekers like Walker continue to seek a bigger piece of the skiing limelight, for the many adaptive skiers just looking for a fun day on the hill or starting out in the sport, adaptive programs provide the knowledge and tools that enable them to adapt to their personal challenges and glide down the hill alongside other skiers.

“Skiing is like magic,” says Olney. “People feel the breeze in their face and the excitement of going fast. It’s amazing what happens.”

Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, an avid skier and award-winning writer, is the author of the book, A History of Cannon Mountain, Trails, Tales and Skiing Legends, published in 2011. She lives with her husband and three children in Franconia, N.H., where she writes a blog, writingsfromafulllife.blogspot.com.

Photographer: Sandy Olney

Bella Hibberd, a sixth-grader from Bethlehem, N.H., who

has cerebral palsy, shares the thrill of skiing with her

Tandemski pilot, Tom Norcott of Franconia, N.H., at the

Cannon Mountain ski area.

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For many, getting out of shape just hap-pens, and it usually happens slowly, sneaking up on you. Then, all of a sud-den, you try to do something that was

fairly easy a few years ago, and you can’t, or are extremely sore afterwards.

I’ve been there. I smoked for a dozen or so years and was never an athlete. Then, in my late twenties, I realized I didn’t want to live that life-style. So I quit smoking, which was hard, but worth it, and I got active. Unlike some people, who can seemingly eat and drink anything with no worries of penalty in either weight or perfor-mance, I have to work at it.

So how do we get into and stay in shape in the North Country? Not many sports can be done here year round, and even avid athletes have to deal with off-seasons and bad weather days. My advice is to keep moving and mix it up. With New England’s fickle weather, there are times when we need to work out indoors. Indoor workouts can be boring, and indoor exercise equipment can become clothes racks very easily.

Here are some tips to help you figure out which piece of equipment is right for you and will keep you moving:• Pick an exercise you can and will do. It doesn’t

matter how many calories it burns, because if you don’t stick with it, you won’t burn any.

• Treadmills are popular because you can walk, jog or run. They are less abusive to your body than running down sidewalks or streets be-cause they have orthopedic belts that have extra cushioning for those bothersome joints. There are treadmills for every ability level, and by going over a few questions, you can find the right one for you.

• Ellipticals have become popular in the last ten years, basically replacing stair steppers. The movement on an elliptical is similar to cross country skiing and stair stepping combined. The elliptical provides a total body workout, meaning it works the majority of the body’s

major muscles. You use your arms, legs and core muscles during this workout. It is non-impact, meaning you don’t pound on your joints like running, but it is weight bearing, which promotes bone density (your doctor will like that).

• Rowing machines provide a great total body workout if done correctly. However, if done incorrectly your arms give out quick, and you’ll be exhausted. Concept2 is a popular company based in Morrisville, Vt., that has a full line of rowing machines. They prefer to sell consumer direct, but also have less expen-sive “blems,” models that have minor imper-fections and are sold at the company’s factory location. Another popular style of rower uses water instead of air as its resistance. The fluid is quieter and has a nice smooth feel to it, but both styles work very well.

• Indoor exercise bikes let you ride all year long. There are three basic types: upright, recum-bent, and spin bikes.

Here is some information on the differences between the three kinds of indoor exercise bikes:• Upright exercise bikes are what most of us

think of, similar to riding your bike outside. I usually recommend buying one with built in programs. When you plug in a program, it challenges you, and you may not get off until the program is completed, which means you are more likely to complete your whole work-out.

• Recumbent bikes are more like an easy chair and exercise bike combined. They are more comfortable for those not used to bike seats. The pedals are out in front of you, which makes them easy to use for folks with agility and balance issues.

• Spin bikes are very adjustable with both the seat and handlebars able to be moved to fit a wide variety of people. Spin bikes do not have programs, as they are typically used in cycling classes at health clubs, led by an instructor who takes you through a routine with music. Used at home, people make their own rou-

tines, and the heavy flywheels create a quiet, smooth pedaling motion.

The best advice is to try before you buy. Go test the piece of equipment at the dealer for at least 10 minutes and see how your body reacts to the exercise. If you have not done any exercise in quite some time, check with your doctor first.

Once purchased, don’t hide your piece of equipment in the basement. Put it upstairs in your bedroom, living room, family room or spare bedroom – somewhere well lit with a TV, so it is seen and helps you remind yourself to use it.

Remember to start off slowly. You don’t fall out of shape in a day, and you won’t get back into shape in one day either. Gradually build up your time and effort, and do it every day at the start so it becomes a habit. They say it takes 21 days for something to become a habit; make exercise yours.

Finally, once you have gotten yourself into a routine, mix it up. Try different exercises, go for walks, go outside and play with your kids or pets. Even the best machine will become boring if it’s the only exercise you do. Challenge your body, and it will both surprise and reward you. Then, hopefully, the next time you see your doctor, you will get gold stars on your health report card.

Dave Harkless is the owner of Littleton Bike & Fitness, a full service bicycle and fitness shop in Littleton, N.H. He has been helping people achieve fitness goals for more than 20 years.

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However, boot camp training peaked in popu-larity and is beginning to level off. Consumers are now looking for the same type of training (circuit or station-based intense exercise), but with a more personal approach. Boot camp training is traditionally a generalized program with little preparation by the instructor and a “beat you into the ground” mentality, often ac-companied by hollering and screaming.

Before I go further, I should emphasize that our boot camp program never drew on that mentality. Our main goal is empowerment – to build our clients’ confidence, self-esteem and desire to become better each day. Our programs are designed a month in advance by a certified coach who strives for balance, combining the needs and goals of our clients. This approach is very non-typical. With the trend now shifting to group personal training, we are going to be more prepared than others for the simple reason that we have been doing most of our training with a personal touch from the beginning.

Group personal training is already taking hold in parts of the country. We will only be making small adjustments in our program because we al-ready have many of the personal touches clients are looking for – measurement tracking of all clients, following up with clients, offering modi-

fications and progressions of exercises to suit clients’ goals and needs and creating a positive supportive environment for success. Think of the trend in fitness as raising the bar for quality of service. Our personal training program is done in groups of two to four people. One-on-one per-sonal training is dying, if not already dead. Peo-ple want more for their money, and one-on-one is too expensive for most.

What should you look for in a quality boot camp program now? Ask the instructor if the program was designed in advance. That is impor-tant because in order to create balance in a pro-gram, a plan is key. Writing something up willy-nilly is not quality program design, and there is an excellent chance imbalance will ensue. What follows is often injury, lack of results, or both. Also, ask if the workout has a considerable warm up. Our warm up is 10 to 12 minutes long and consists of three parts to create a warm pliable body that is ready to train. Does the boot camp have a certified professional who writes the pro-grams? A certified professional will more than

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Everyone wants to be a part of something. Boot camps are a great environment to make friends while achieving fitness success. I ran boot camps exclusively for five years before add-ing personal training to the services we provide. Still, our boot camp (soon to be group personal training) is by far the most popular service we provide. Since 2006, we have been able to refine our group training to make it among the best in New England. Over the next five years, some of the elements will change, but the core values of empowerment, motivation and family will re-main strong and will likely strengthen.

Ben Warstler is the president of Fortitude Fitness Systems, Inc., and Ben’s Bootcamps. Certified as a strength and conditioning specialist, Kettel-bell instructor, youth instructor and personal trainer, he has over 13 years of experience. E-mail [email protected] or call 802-751-5385. Also visit www.vermontbootcamps.com for more information.

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the Future oF Fitness

Far away are we from the days when training on Nautilus machines and running for endless miles on the treadmill were all the rage in the fitness industry. The past five years have been about getting back to basics, training with minimal machines and using more portable devices. Boot camp-style training exploded onto the scene and became immensely popular among the masses, people who were looking to lose fat and become more fit or just wanted to be part of the crowd.

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Copley Hospital in Morrisville is collaborating with Donate Life Vermont to encourage more

Vermonters to join the online registry for organ and tissue donation.

Vermont’s online site, www.DonateLifeVT.org, is a way for people 18 years of age and older to register their wishes to serve as organ donors. The website has a “frequently asked questions” section for those considering organ donation.

Even if you signed as an organ donor on your driver’s license, you should register online because at present the Vermont DMV is not connected to

the official organ donation registry.In the United States, more then 110,000 men,

women and children are waiting for organ trans-plants, and a name is added to the waiting list every 14 minutes.

One organ and tissue donor can save or make a difference in the lives of up to 50 patients. Last year, 28,000 lives were saved thanks to organ donors, and another one million people received tissue trans-plants. But thousands more people die every year waiting for a donor match.

In addition to the online registry, individuals should have an advance directive that indicates their interest in serving as organ donors. You can learn more about advance directives at www.copleyvt.org/advancedirectives.

Copley Hospital in Morrisville has welcomed a husband-

and-wife team of OB/GYN physi-cians, Dr. Anne Stohrer and Dr. William Ellis.

They are seeing patients at The Women’s Center, located in the Health Center Building at Copley, and each of them has more than 25 years of experience in women’s health care.

They are working collabo-ratively with Copley’s certified nurse-midwives and its medical community. In addition to ob-stetrical care, they provide diag-nosis and treatment of problem gynecologic concerns, including abnormal PAPs, unusual bleeding and other menopausal and post-menopausal concerns.

The two new specialists share a philosophy. “We chose Copley for its excellent reputation for women’s health services,” said Dr. Stohrer. “We look forward to partnering with each woman to create an individualized health-care plan.”

Dr. Stohrer holds a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, completed her residency and in-ternship at Barnes-Jewish Hospi-tal and earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Vir-ginia.

Dr. Ellis completed his intern-ship and residency at St. Louis University Hospitals in St. Louis, Mo., and is a graduate of the Med-ical College of Virginia.

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Most children who have lead poisoning do not look or act sick. A lead

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The Vermont Department of Health recommends that chil-dren be tested for lead at ages one and two.

Lead paint is the number one cause of lead poisoning in chil-dren. In 1978, lead in new house paint was banned by the Con-sumer Product Safety Commis-sion, but most homes built before then contain lead.

Young children can be ex-posed to lead by eating, chew-ing or sucking on lead-painted objects such as windowsills, toys

or furniture. Over time, painted surfaces crumble into household dust, which clings to toys, fingers and other objects.

Lead paint on the outside of your house can also increase your child’s risk of lead poisoning. As the paint ages, small flakes and chips fall on the ground, mix with the soil and contaminate the area. A small child can ingest the con-taminated dirt while playing.

For more information, call the Vermont Department of Health Childhood Lead Poisoning Pre-vention Program at 652-0358 or 1-800-439-8550.

Information can also be ob-tained from HealthWorks ONE at 802-334-4389 or by e-mailing [email protected].

Lorri LePage is a Vermont Department of Health outreach specialist.

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They range in age from their mid-60s to early-80s. They come from all over – native Vermonter, flatland suburbanite, city mouse, and coun-

try girl. All are retired here now, but during their working years, they were professionals, businesswomen, and homemakers, often at the same time. They are friends and neighbors who regularly travel, hike, garden, volunteer for local charities and organizations, and get together for lunch when they can agree on a time. All are grandmothers; two are great-grandmothers. And they ski.

The Ski Ladies of Burke Mountain is not a formal organization (or any kind of organiza-tion), but anyone who has spent any time on the mountain in winter will come across one or more of these feisty senior citizens. They are Lyndy Burdet and Nancy Lawrence of Lyndon-ville and Judy Anastasia, Merrily Wieland, and Karen Guest of East Burke. They sometimes ski together and sometimes separately, but from Monday to Friday during the season, they are usually on the alpine slopes of Burke Mountain from two to four days each.

Some have skied all their lives. Lyndy Burdet worked as a professional ski instruc-tor, while Karen Guest, an occasional Nordic skier when younger, never tried downhill skiing until she was in her late 50s and had had a knee replacement. Judy Anastasia came back to skiing after many years away from the sport. Among them, they have amassed the usual afflictions of long lives – several cancers, glaucoma, multiple joint replacements, and arthritis. It would be a rare winter day when one of them didn’t ask an accommodating husband for an aspirin or a back rub. As Karen Guest says, “some days ibuprofen is my secret weapon.”

But they’ve all learned to keep at it through the aches and pains. They approach aging realistically, unsentimentally, and with gusto, the same way they approach their skiing. All admit they ski slower now, more cautiously, and avoid those days when conditions are sub-par due to ice, wind, or bitter cold. They all accept that aging is an inexorable process that can’t be stopped, but maybe slowed down a bit. Summed up by Lyndy Burdet, “If you

SENIOR SKI LADIESBurke Mountain’s

rest, you rust.”Older skiers are fortunate to ski at Burke

Mountain. During the week, especially first thing in the morning, Burke is usually quiet and not crowded. The lifts are often running nearly empty. The grooming crew is first-rate, and their overnight efforts will have left a number of trails that are still challenging, but lacking in heart-stopping surprises. And Burke’s senior season pass has always been a bargain.

But is downhill skiing really an older per-son’s sport? Isn’t it dangerous, hard on joints, and difficult for those who may be unsteady on their feet? The answer to all those questions is, “it depends.” Those who ski at Burke enjoy a wide variety of terrain from easy to expert, and the lower mountain has several gentler runs that can be just as much fun for slower, wiser skiers as the upper mountain’s expert trails are for more aggressive folks. And with the newer equipment, prudent skiers rarely suffer serious injury.

So how does skiing stack up as exercise? Anyone who has watched the Nordic, or cross-country, Olympic events on television can see that “skinny-skiing,” as it’s called, provides an excellent aerobic workout. But for older people, that may be the problem. If you’re not in tip-top condition, cross-country skiing can be too much, and especially for someone

taking it up late in life, it could be problematic. Alpine, or downhill, skiing on the other hand is not terribly aerobic, but it has other health benefits. It improves lower body (legs and thigh) strength, aids in honing one’s balance and agility, and there is also an aerobic compo-nent in just moving about in the cold, fresh air. Even getting up and back on your skis after a minor spill can get the heart and lungs work-ing. And the mere act of suiting up and putting on boots and gear requires a lot of bending and stretching.

There are a number of senior skiers at Burke besides these five women who bear witness every winter’s day that an active senior lifestyle is as rewarding as it is healthy. They get up, go outside, take in some fresh oxygen and move their bodies. So whether it’s skiing, snowshoe-ing or walking down the road, it’s the activity itself that is healthy. Plus it’s the perfect cure for cabin fever.

One cold day a few winters back, one of the oldest seniors on the mountain finished buck-ling his boots, turned to a friend who was com-plaining about some minor ache or pain, and said, “At our age, if you wake up one morning and nothing hurts, you’re dead! Let’s go.”

Edmund J. Guest lives and writes in East Burke, and tries to keep up with his wife Karen, one of the Ski Ladies of Burke Mountain.

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Dr. S. Glen Neale is a North Country Hospital ortho-paedic surgeon who treats

a lot of skiing and snowboarding injuries every winter. He’s also a skier and a recipient of bilateral hip replacements.

Having been on both ends of the scalpel, he understands the nuances of being a patient and can relate with empathy to post-operative difficulties and the need to push through the rehabilitative process.

Hearing the news from an emergency room physician that you have a fracture, a dislocation or a tear is certainly distressing, but it is not a life-altering event. You might need to take the rest of the season off, but you’ll likely be hitting the slopes again the next year.

Neale is an athlete who knows what it’s like to have the wind awaken him as he takes his first run down the mountain. An avid skier and cyclist, he also appreci-ates the importance of having a top-notch local orthopaedic ser-

vice available in case something goes wrong.

He works with Dr. Thomas Var-ney and two physician assistants with more than 30 years of expe-rience between them, and most of the athletes who pass through the doors at North Country Or-thopaedic Surgery in Newport are able to return to their previously active lives.

Every year, when nearby Jay Peak opens for skiing, Neale and Varney know they are going to be busy for the next few months be-cause of the popularity of winter

sports in this region. Their patient load increases significantly and, because of the complexity of some of the injuries, the number of sur-geries they perform increases by about 25 percent.

Despite the rise in the popu-larity of snowboarding, they said they typically see more skiing than snowboarding injuries be-cause there are more skiers on the mountain. They treat everything from dislocated shoulders and knees to broken ankles and wrists and shoulders and knee twisting injuries, such as torn anterior cru-ciate ligaments (ACLs).

They said they also treat quite a few injuries to people who were just hanging out in the lodge and fractured their ankles or wrists by tripping over skis or falling in the parking lot.

When Dr. Neale is not doing medical work at North Country Hospital, he may be found on skis at Stowe, where he has volunteered for 20 years and heads the ski pa-trol. While operating in that ca-pacity, he said the most common injuries he sees among skiers are ACL tears and tibia (shinbone) fractures. With snowboarders, he said he mostly encounters wrist, elbow and shoulder fractures.

In this area of the Northeast, where many residents, not to men-tion visitors, are skiers, he said it’s imperative to have orthopaedic surgeons with a solid understand-ing of high-energy injuries. “Frac-turing an ankle or shoulder on a mountain trail involves more than just applying a cast with a subse-

quent visit six to eight weeks later,” he said.

Those types of injuries may in-volve surgical procedures where many bones and ligaments need to be repaired. The swelling and rehabilitation that follows is not easy, he said, but if patients follow instructions, they’ll likely be ready to get in their bindings the next season.

“We can offer our patients high-quality orthopaedic care in a friendly environment,” he said, “and are readily available should issues arise during the post-op-erative period and rehabilitation process.”

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Whenever you read this, you will be involved – knowingly or not – in a numbers game. No, it’s not the return of illegal betting that flourished dur-ing Prohibition. Nor is it the metric-changing theory examined in Money-

ball about how the Oakland A’s switched their hiring, and firing, practices.

Instead you – all of us, actually – are participating in a countdown of minutes of light. It’s been going on since June 21, and really darkened our afternoons after Nov. 4, when we stopped saving daylight. Here, in the upper Connecticut River Valley, with its picturesque hills and tall mountains, the sun appears to set sooner as the earth naturally orbits further away from it.

From those valleys of darkness spans an invisible illness called SAD, or seasonal affective disorder, a type of depres-sion. It has a spectrum of symptoms from the very mild to those requiring medical supervision. While we might not recognize it by its acronym, many of us are aware that a shift of some kind affects our decisions as the calendar winds down for the year.

“We used to call it the winter blahs. Then we called it the winter blues.” observes Holly Hayward, the proprietor of Sugar Hill Botanicals and a certified herbalist for 24 years. “It happens after the last burst of autumn color disappears and our outdoor surroundings turn gray and overcast.”

Then, come November, she says, people look forward to snow. Why? Because the crystalline water ice that reflects the sun’s light makes the winter naturally brighter. Point of fact: The shortest day of the year, typically Dec. 21, has a lit-tle over nine hours of daylight compared with more than 14

hours on June 21.At the end of every fall, Hayward sees a return of clients

as well as new customers, looking for natural supplements to boost their outlook and productivity. She checks their medi-cal prescriptions before blending a tincture or recommend-ing vitamins.

“I also talk to them about nutrition,” Hayward says. “Of-ten people need to change their eating habits, cutting down on sugar, caffeine and alcohol. They deplete the adrenal glands.”

Sitting on top of our kidneys, those glands use hormones to manage blood sugar levels, to regulate the balance of salt and water in our bodies, and to control the fight-or-flight response to stress, among other functions.

Stress, a huge presence in many lives, is often exacerbated by SAD. Many of us experience mood swings as we juggle caring for children and elderly parents, worrying about the economy and international security, and keeping our fingers crossed we won’t experience a winter weather disaster.

Whether you’re self-employed or go to work in an office, relieving stress and changing your mood, especially during the cold winter months, is critical to both your mental and physical health, says Katrine Barclay, founder of Wellness at Work in Franconia.

“Whether it’s a 10-minute walk during your lunch hour or 10 minutes on that treadmill in the basement,” she advises, “get those endorphins going.”

After 13 years in the corporate world where she directed organizational development, Barclay moved to New Hamp-shire and set up a consultancy to help firms and individuals find balance and fulfillment while increasing their output.

It’s no surprise that part of her mantra is yoga. “It teaches

Light & latitudeFeeling caught in the countdown

By Helen Chantal Pike

Seasonal affective disorder

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you to find your inner light,” she explains. “It makes you more mindful of where you are. In fact, I usually perform 109 sun salutations on the winter solstice to honor the arrival of more light.”

Indeed, after Dec. 21, we pick up one more minute of light each day until our evenings mercifully brighten again with the quantum leap back to daylight savings time in mid-March. Culturally speaking, the end of the calendar as well as the beginning is marked by ceremonies that “take back” the light, accord-ing to Fairbanks Museum Executive Director Charlie Browne.

“It’s no coincidence that December and Jan-uary are filled with all kinds of light festivals,” he says. From the Scandinavian Festival of Santa Lucia to Hanukkah, Christmas and even the Bahamian tradition of Junkanoo that was imported from West Africa, people turn up the wattage, in manner of speaking.

“Here in St. Johnsbury we do it on New Year’s Eve with First Night,” Browne points out. In fact, First Night celebrated its 20th an-niversary this year with 63 different forms of entertainment, including a planetarium show at the museum.

Unlike more urban parts of the country, northern Vermont and New Hampshire don’t have the so-called light pollution that illumi-nates the night sky, fooling people into think-

ing it’s not that dark outside in winter. But a lot of people who follow the farming tradition of “early to bed, early to rise” can experience an uptick in productivity as they work while greeting the rising sun.

“I’m originally from Boston where the of-ficial start time for corporate work is 9 a.m.,” says children’s psychotherapist Gretchen Ham-mer of St. Johnsbury. “Here, where school buses pick up students at 7 a.m., many people begin their shift just about the time the sun starts to shine. It’s a great way to get a lot of work done.”

Because depression is often identified at the extreme end of the SAD spectrum, Hammer says medication is usually prescribed and can include the requisition of a high-wattage, but expensive light box. “I had a young client who couldn’t get out of bed,” she says. “With a doc-tor’s prescription she was able to get a light box and that helped her enormously. But I also counseled her to adopt a healthy diet and an exercise program.”

With light-box prices averaging $300 and special seasonal lamps $100, some individuals become creative to ensure they remain pro-ductive throughout winter’s long nights. Wa-terford author Beth Kanell swags her second-floor home office with decorative lights.

“It’s predictable that more of my writing hours take place in the darker months of the

year – in the bright seasons, I’m often garden-ing!” she writes via e-mail. “Moreover, because I write mysteries, I find the stories getting ac-tive in my typing fingers either after dark, or during long gray afternoons. It’s an issue I watch carefully, because my ‘workaholic’ life-style doesn’t leave time for feeling depressed or slowing down.”

Kanell’s third mystery, Cold Midnight, which was released in early November, is set in 1921 downtown St. Johnsbury. “Cold Mid-night reflects both my writing conditions (all last winter, late each evening!) and the book’s plot,” she writes. “Of course, I found myself writing revisions during warmer, brighter months, yet the plot still gave me shivers, and I needed that extra sense of hope that my brave little writing lights bring to me.”

Kanell describes her office as a space of cel-ebration. “I work at making my writing space magical in terms of light, color, and space,” she writes. “The tiny white lights that I’ve strung near the ceiling give me extra light, yes, but more importantly to me, they remind me that the dark months are a season rich with celebra-tion. Each time I hit the desk, I want that sense of joy and wonder to fuel my writing soul.”

Helen Chantal Pike is a journalist and author of 10 books. She lives in Lower Waterford, Vt. For information, go to helenpike.com.

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Pneumonia is a common illness that affects millions of people each year in the United States and ranges in severity from mild to life-threat-ening.

“It can be serious if not treated in a timely fashion,” says Copley Hospi-tal Emergency Services Nurse Manager Susan Rivera, a registered nurse. “Because symptoms often mimic those of flu, some people do not realize they have pneumonia until they become so ill they need emergent medi-cal attention.”

She warns that young children, adults over 65, and people who have cardiac and respiratory problems or a weakened immune system are par-ticularly vulnerable.

Pneumonia can be the result of a germ that gets into your lungs. “Oth-er causes,” she says, “can be from a brewing illness that can cause you to be immobile or not able to take deep breaths to open your lungs and cough out the mucus.”

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The best way to avoid getting pnemonia, according to Rivera, is by fol-lowing a healthy lifestyle, including washing your hands frequently, not smoking, staying rested, exercising and eating a healthy diet. She recom-mends that people get a seasonal flu shot and that anyone older than 65 get the pneumonia vaccine as well.

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As the cold and snow blows in over the mountains, it causes us to want to stay in, bunker down and whip up our

favorite heavy, comforting food we’ve been craving since September. But, these comfort foods don’t have to be loaded with guilt.

In these three comforting creations I’ve swapped out a few ingredients and added in some new ones. Now, these nutrient loaded recipes will have you thinking of seconds without having second thoughts.

Cinnamon Spiced Vegan Mac and cheese with cranberries and Spinach

Ingredients: » 1 lb. brown rice pasta » 2 tbsp. olive oil » 2 tbsp. chickpea flour » 3.5 cups unsweetened soymilk » 4 tbsp. nutritional yeast flakes » 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon » 1 tsp. salt » 1 ½ tsp. black pepper » 2 heaping handfuls fresh spinach » ½ c. dried cranberries » 1 ½ c. gluten free bread crumbs (if you

cannot find gluten-free crumbs, try using gluten free crackers and pulsing them quickly in a food processor)

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bring to boil a large pot of salted water and cook brown rice pasta according to package directions. Once done, place pasta back in the pot with a little olive oil to prevent from stick-ing. This will be where you mix all your cheesy ingredients together. In a large skillet, over me-dium heat, heat the olive oil. Once heated, add the chickpea flour and whisk together. Allow to bubble. This will be the base and the thickening agent for your “cheese sauce.” Slowly add the unsweetened soymilk, continuing to whisk so the bubbled chickpea flour gets incorporated evenly into the soymilk. Then, add in the nu-

tritional yeast; this will help thicken and flavor your sauce. Add the cinnamon, salt and pepper. Stir to combine.

Add the cheese sauce, spinach, and cranber-ries to the pasta and mix until well blended. Place into a deep dish 9x13-inch baking dish, and cover with your gluten-free bread crumbs; cook in oven for 55 minutes, until bread crumbs are brown and your dish is bubbling. Serve immediately.

Nutritional notes on soymilk: Look for a brand that does not have “carrageenan” in the ingredient list. Carrageenan is a food additive that helps gel foods together. Originally it is derived from red seaweed, so one might think that it should be healthy. However, there have been questions raised about possible links to colon cancer, inflammation and a depressed immune system. I used an unsweetened ver-sion from EdenSoy. It’s delicious and does not contain carrageenan!

Spice of Life ChiliIf the heart is what keeps the body moving

then the “spice of life” most definitely includes red-hot spices like paprika, chili pepper and chipotle (all which are included in this heart-healthy recipe – not by coincidence). These spices include the active ingredient capsaicin, which is associated with increasing blood flow. Capsaicin stimulates a receptor in blood vessels that increases the production of nitric oxide, which helps prevent inflammation and makes pumping blood around your body less stressful to your heart. All this in a spice… who would have thought!

Ingredients: » 4 bell peppers, 2 red, 2 green, diced » 1 large onion, diced » 5 cloves of garlic, diced » 10 crimini mushrooms, diced » 1 small jalapeño, diced

» 1 medium delicata squash, diced » 1 tbsp + 1 tsp olive oil, divided » 2 (28 oz) cans crushed fire roasted tomatoes

(I used Muir Glen) » 1 (15 oz) can red beans » 1 (15 oz) can black beans » 1 jar of your favorite salsa » 1 pound ground turkey » 1 tbsp. chili powder » 1 tbsp. onion powder » 1 tbsp. chipotle powder » 1 tbsp. paprika

Directions: In a large pot heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add diced onions. Let cook until brown, about five minutes. Add in bell pep-pers, jalapeños and garlic and cook down, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a medium-sized fry pan, cook ground turkey until fully cooked. Set aside. To cooked vegetables, add in canned to-matoes, beans, salsa, spices and ground turkey. Stir until blended and allow to simmer over medium-high heat. To cook the squash, place in microwave and heat for three minutes. Cut squash in half, deseed, and cut into bite size piec-es. In a large fry pan, add 1 tsp olive oil and cook squash over medium-high heat until brown and fully cooked, about 5-10 minutes. Once cooked, add squash to the chili. Chili is now complete. Allow to heat through; the longer it cooks the tastier it will be. Serve with your favorite tortilla chips, cornbread and a dollop of sour cream.

rich Split pea and kale SoupSplit pea soup is one of my favorite winter

comfort go-tos; I love the thickness of the soup as well as all the vegetables. For this soup, I wanted an excuse to attempt to add as many vegetables as possible. The result is a nutrient rich, deep green, comforting soup.

Ingredients: » 4 stalks celery, thinly chopped » 1 large carrot, chopped » 1 medium onion, chopped

Simple ComfortsThree nutritious winter recipes By Marion Brown

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» 1 bunch kale, chopped » 2 cups cabbage (red or green), chopped » 16 oz split peas (about 1.5 cups) » 2 cups reduced sodium vegetable broth » 1 tbs dried thyme » 1 tbs celery salt » 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil » salt and pepper to taste

Directions: Heat the oil in a big soup pot. Throw in carrots, onions, celery, salt and dried thyme. Cook until tender, about 8 minutes. Add broth, split peas, 6-7 cups wa-ter, kale and cabbage. Bring up to a low boil, reduce heat to medium-low and let simmer until peas, cabbage and kale are soft, about 45 minutes. (Soup is a great way to pack all your nutrients into one dish. Often when cooking vegetables some of the vitamins and minerals that make it so healthy get cooked out of the dish. With a soup everything stays in one pot, nutrients included. Cook on low, for longer to ensure the nutrients stay intact through-out the cooking process.) In a blender, puree your soup in batches. Add extra water for de-sired consistency. Serve hot with a nice loaf of fresh bread. Enjoy.

Health Scoop: Split peas make a great main ingredient for a soup due to their texture and nutritional components. They are an excel-lent source of protein and fiber, which keeps you satisfied, as well as micronutrients like folate and manganese.

Kale is a cruciferous vegetable, which makes it a nutritional powerhouse. It has a long list of valuable nutrients, including vita-mins E, A, C, B6, K, thiamin, riboflavin and folate. Studies suggest that kale may lower the risks of several cancers, including bladder, breast, colon, ovary and prostate, due to it’s content of antioxidants and glucosinolates.

Cabbage is also a cruciferous vegetable with as many health benefits as kale. Unique to cabbage is vitamin U, which may help al-leviate stomach problems such as ulcers.

Marion Brown grew up in Lyndonville and graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in nutrition, food science and dietetics. She lives in Burlington and teaches pilates and writes her healthy food blog: www.healthy-retreat.com.

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Jan says, “I am just a small-scale organic gardener who has been cultivating his plot of land, first in Holland for ten years, and then in Barnet for the last twenty years. The question I ask myself is how can I help foster an interest and appreciation, even among hardened skeptics, for the magnificent, daz-zling interconnectedness of life on earth?”

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“I have developed a ritual where before entering the garden I consciously unload all my psychological baggage: preoccupations, expectations and judgments of all kind, so I can enter with an uncluttered mind.

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“Not only do the flowers appear more vibrant, you also smell the earth with subtle distinctions, you feel the breeze against your skin, you become more receptive to your co-workers’ needs and you feel ready to relate with whatever challenge pops up.

“This easy trick, or method, of ‘stop, drop and meet the world of the senses free from commentary’ can be repeated throughout day. In the middle of harvesting a long bed of spinach, for instance, you remind yourself to stand up for a moment, look at the skyline and feel the richness of the space around you. There are many variations on this theme. See what works for you.”

“Stop, drop and touch the speechless sky” is a slogan for healthy living.

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What if seniors in Vermont could remain in their homes longer, visit the hospital

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The initial group of participants included 14 students from the third through sixth grades at Hardwick Elementary School’s REACH! Program. As the volunteer leader of the group, Dr. Morgan encourages participa-tion each week in fun physical activities, such as hula-hooping, exploring the Hardwick Trails, Zumba demonstrations and fieldtrips to local recreational facilities. Participants share personal fitness goals and encourage each other to be more active and eat healthy foods.

Simultaneously, a group of eight students from the fourth through sixth grades has been meeting weekly at the Wonder & Wis-dom program in Greensboro. The students have enjoyed a range of outside activities at Hosmer Point Camp at the Craftsbury Out-door Center. With the generously donated time of staff and numerous community vol-

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practice residency program that aims to improve access to care for many of the state’s most vulnerable populations. The Physician of the Year Award is granted annually to a physician licensed in the state of Vermont who has demonstrated outstanding performance in quality of patient care; skillful and compassionate patient care; and dedica-tion to the welfare of patients in accordance with accepted principles of good medical practice.

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MEDICAL & ADVERTISER DIRECTORYAcupuncture

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Interiors Green2121 Main St., Bethlehem N.H.www.interiorsgreen.com603-616-6499

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Newport Natural Foods194 Main St., Newportwww.newportnaturalfoods.com334-2626

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Northern Physical Therapy31 Middle Street, Lyndonville VTwww.northern-physicaltherapy.com626-4224

Real Estate

Begin RealtySt. Johnsbury & Danville VTwww.beginrealty.com748-2045, 684-1127

Burke Mill Properties234 VT Route 114, East Burke, [email protected]

Century 21 Farm & Forest Realty5043 US Route 5, Derby VT623 VT Route 114, East Burke VTwww.farmandforest.com, [email protected], 626-4222

Recreation

Kingdom Trails478 Route 114, East Burkewww.kingdomtrails.com626-0737

Still Waters Run DeepMonroe, NHwww.stillwatersrundeepkayaking.com(603) 638-3017

Rehabilitation

St. Johnsbury Health & Rehab1248 Hospital Drive. St. Johnsburywww.reverastjohnsbury.com748-8757

Reflexology

Reflexology for the sole231 Concord Ave., St. Johnsbury VTwww.vermontreflexology.com282-3538

Sporting Goods

East Burke SportsRoute 114, East Burke VTwww.eastburkesports.com626-3215

Power Play Sports64 Portland Street, Morrisville VT888-6557

Yoga

Kingdom Yoga316 Dry Pond Road, Glover [email protected]

Heartspace Yoga446 Railroad Street, St. Johnsbury VTwww.heartspaceyogacenter.com626-3398

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