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6 area news august14 2012 VHS Volleyball St. Helens Backpack Program Receives Start-up Prepares for Upcoming Season Boost From Credit Union Battery Collection as Team Fundraiser In these hard economic times, it is often children who suffer the most when a family is struggling to make ends meet. Nearly 50 percent of children enrolled in the St. Helens Elementary Schools are receiving free or reduced price meals during the school year. For many of these children, these meals might be the most substantial meals they get during the week. On weekends, when school meals are not available, many children go hungry. Hungry children are sick more often, and experience more learning problems than children who are getting enough to eat, making it difficult for them to succeed at school. A volunteer committee established earlier in 2012 has been working diligently to implement a new program that will serve the students of St. Helens School District elementary schools. The Backpack Program will provide bags filled with child-friendly, non-perishable food that children take home on the weekends (during the school year) in their backpacks. The St. Helens Backpack program is currently established as a local member agency of Columbia Pacific Food Bank a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. The program is scheduled to kick-off October 2012. On March 15, 2012 St. Helens Community Federal Credit Union, through its community outreach program CU 4 A CAUSE, announced a donation match up to $5000 for all funds deposited to the St. Helens Backpack Program through March 31, 2012. The total sum donated by March 31st was $1684.50 adding in the donation match from SHCU the total amount raised for the program is now close to $3400. Additional funds are still needed to pilot this program for 20 students at each elementary school during the 2012-2013 school year. The credit union will continue to raise awareness and funds for the program through the CU 4 A CAUSE community outreach program. Food drives will be held at First United Methodist Church. Businesses or individuals in Columbia County can sponsor a child for an entire year for just $250. Businesses that sponsor a child receive a banner ad and link to their website on the CU 4 A CAUSE website sponsor page for an entire year. To download the sponsorship form visit http://www.cu4acause. com/Community_Sponsors.html. For more information, a list of food items, and sponsorship info for the St. Helens Backpack Program visit www.cu4acause.com or call Pastor Michael Gregor – First United Methodist Church 503-397- 0061. St. Helens Community Federal Credit Union (SHCU) has been serving Columbia County residents and businesses since 1938. SHCU is headquartered in St. Helens, Oregon, and has branches in Rainier, St. Helens, and Scappoose. For more information about SHCU, call our toll-free number 800.275.6434 or visit our website at www.shcu.org. Between now and August 25th the VHS Volleyball team will be doing a Battery Collection fundraiser. If you have any old lawn mower, car, truck or larger batteries laying around and need to get rid of them, you can take them down to Napa Auto Parts and donate them, and support your local high school Volleyball team. The girls will be at Napa on Saturday the 25th collecting batteries. If you need the girls to pick your batteries up on Saturday please call Head Coach Teresa Williams at 503-799-3424 to make arrangements. The Volleyball girls will also be selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts on Saturday the 25th starting at 8:00 AM at Napa. You can pre-order until August 23 rd for pick up on the 25 th -- please call 503- 799-3424. Glazed doughnuts are available for 10.00/dz. Reminder for all 9-12th grade girls: Volleyball Daily Doubles start on August 20th at 8:30 AM. For more information please contact Head Coach Teresa Williams at 503-799-3424. Vernonia High School Cross Country practice will start at 10:00 AM on Monday, August 20, 2012. The team will meet in the football grandstands. Runners will need to have had a medical physical exam within the last 2 years and insurance before they can begin practice. Runners who have completed those preliminaries should show up ready to practice. “Last year, we finished a close 2nd in the Northwest League to Nestucca and our goal this year is to win the league championship and make it to the state meet,” said Head Coach Byron Brown. The annual picnic of the Vernonia Society, VHS “Old Grads” and Oregon- American Alumni will be held Sunday, August 19, at Anderson Park. Registration begins at 10:00 AM. Coffee will be provided. Bring a picnic lunch or buy a hot dog, chips and drinks from the ladies of P.E.O. who will offer this service as a fundraiser for girls’ and women’s scholarships. All current and former Vernonians are welcome. In conventional research circles, weight loss is most successful with cardiovascular fitness that increases your heart rate, a minimum of 3 days per week, at a sustained intensity of 30 or more minutes. While this is generally effective at keeping the weight off (or dropping a few pounds), there is also research that suggests weight gain happens as a result of increased stress, and how one responds to that stress. Generally speaking, when we are stressed out, we exhibit “stress response” behaviors. Such responses might include reactive behaviors that may make us feel better in the short run, but do little to no good in the long run. Examples of these types of reactive behaviors include over-eating, eating emotionally (when sad, anxious, or depressed), or simply not being mindful about when the tummy is full, and therefore consuming just a little too much too often: a.k.a. putting on weight. Research suggests that one of the benefits of yoga is “increased mindfulness,” which essentially is a training of the mind and body, to help us lay down neurological pathways that result in making more thoughtful choices, (including what we put in our mouth) and taking better care of our bodies, (which results in taking better care of those we love). Being more mindful means we are more kind to ourselves and to others, and have fewer moments where we say to ourselves, “Darn! Why did I eat/drink/say/ do that?” So, not only does yoga improve your health, it also has the potential to slim down your waist line. There’s the “skinny” on yoga. VHS Cross Country Practice to Start August 20 Old Grads Picnic August 19 The “Skinny” On Yoga Britt B Steele, MPH, teaches yoga at the Vernonia Grange, every Tue, Thr, and Sat morning at 7:30 AM. Check out the ad on page 2 for more information. TOO BUSY? 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