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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.
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