O c to b e r 6, 2010
Minority & Small Business Week
Page 19
Celebrate Healing, Renewal
Events to promote
liberating beliefs
First Lady Michelle Obama joins other first ladies from Colombia
and Haiti on a tour of an herb garden Tarrytown, N. Y. Her
campaign for healthier school lunches has stalled in Congress
after protests on using food stamps to pay for it. (AP Photo)
Child Nutrition
Bill Stalled
First Lady Michelle Obama's
campaign for healthier school
lunches has stalled in Congress
after anti-hunger groups and
more than 100 Democrats pro­
tested the use o f food stamp
dollars to pay for it.
Passage of the child nutrition
bill, w hich w ould im prove
lunches in schools and expand
feeding programs for low-in­
come students, has been a prior­
ity for Democrats and hunger
groups for years. But the groups
and many members of the House
sw itched sides when leaders
proposed a vote on a Senate-
passed version of the legislation
that uses future funding for food
stamp programs to pay for part
of the $4.5 billion cost.
"It's just plain wrong," said
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.,
a longtime advocate for child­
hood nutrition programs. "The
way you are going to pay for a
child nutrition bill is by dipping
into people's food stamps? Give
me a break."
The first lady has lobbied ag­
gressively for the legislation as
part of her "Let's Move" cam ­
paign to combat childhood obe­
sity.
But Democrats declined to
take up the bill before the No­
vember elections, citing many of
their members' concerns about
the food stamp dollars. Support­
ers were working with the White
House to find a new way to pay
for it.
Com m unity Healing Network and People C el­
ebrating People invite the com m unity to partici­
pate in a series o f Com m unity Healing Days.
T he O ct. 15-17 e v en ts are d e sig n e d fo r
A frican A m ericans to take the tim e, as poet
M aya A ngelou has said, “to heal from the lies
that have been told to us and the ones w e've told
o u rse lv e s.”
The goal is to replace lim iting beliefs w ith
liberating beliefs through a ctiv ities ad d ressin g
healing o f the m ind, body and spirit.
“It is time for us as black people to come
together and ‘Love each other U p’. L et’s cel­
ebrate each other!” said organizer Sheila W arren.
A forum on the m ind takes place Friday, Oct.
15 w ith a book and m ovie d iscu ssio n , from
6 :3 0 p.m . to 9:30 p.m . at R eflectio n s, 446 N.E.
K illin g sw o rth . P articip an ts should be prepared
to d iscu ss B rainw ashed by T om B urrell, a v a il­
able at T alking D rum B ookstore (R eflectio n s).
The m ovie L ack aw an n a B lues w ill be screened
w ith a panel and gen eral d iscu ssio n follow ing.
The focus turns to the body on Saturday, Oct.
16, from 8 am. to noon at Urban Bridges, 1465
N.E. Prescott. The same day, activities and ven­
dors relating to health will be available from 12:30
Dr. Billy R. Flowers (above center) and his skilled staff are ready to help those in need.
THE
SPINA COLUMN
Apology for
1940s STD Study
(AP) — The U.S. government
apologized to Guatemala Friday
for a study 60 years ago in which
American scientists deliberately
infected prisoners in that coun­
try with syphilis.
The 1946 experiment was un­
earthed by a Wellesley College
medical historian. It apparently
was conducted to test the effec­
tiveness of penicillin, which was
relatively new then, in treating
sexually transmitted diseases.
Secretary o f State H illary
Rodham Clinton and Health and
H um an S e rv ic e s S e c re ta ry
K athleen Sebelius said they
were, in their words, "outraged
that such rep reh en sib le re ­
search could could have oc­
curred under the guise of pub­
lic health."
Strict regulations today would
prohibit such medical research.
U.S. officials are beginning two
investigations to uncover exactly
what happened and make sure
today's rules are adequate
p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the St. A ndrew s Com m unity
Center, 806 N.E. Alberta. A $5 donation will be
requested, but no one will be turned away.
A forum on sp irit w ill take place Sunday,
O ct. 17, fro m 3 p .m . to 5 p .m . at U rb an
B ridges^ 1465 N .E . P re sc o tt. T he to p ic o f
healing th rough sp iritu al w o rd s from spiritual
leaders ol all b eliefs w ill be d iscu ssed w ith a
social tim e afterw ards.
P eople C eleb ratin g People w ill also host a
fu n d -raisin g dance S atu rd ay , O ct. 16, from
8:30 p.m . to 12:30 a.m . at the B illy W ebb E lks
L odge, 6 N. T illam o o k St. T ick ets are $30 and
include hors d 'oeuvre. E veryone is w elcom e.
People w ishing to reg ister and R SV P for any
ol th e e v e n ts o r th e d a n c e s h o u ld v is it
c o m m u n ity h e a lin g d a y s .e v e n tb rite .c o m . F or
m ore in fo rm atio n , call 503-28 4 -1 4 8 1 .
P eople C eleb ratin g People w as founded in
2006 by S h eila W arren, a w ife, m other, g ran d ­
m other, v o lu n teer and activ ist in o rd er to com -
bat the n e g ativ ity su rro u n d in g d e cisio n s to
clo se and reco n fig u re schools.
The group brings to g eth er p eo p le from all
w alks o f life, all ages, all co lo rs, all b eliefs, all
n eig h b o rh o o d s and all careers to co n n ect w ith
each other. It en co u rag es su p p o rtiv e re la tio n ­
ships to create the c o m m u n ity stren g th and
unity needed to m ake p o sitiv e ch an g es in our
co m m unity and o u r w orld.
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An ongoing series of questions and answers about Americas natural healing profession.
Part 22. Chiropractic and Health
A way of Life... not just a passing diagnosis.
: F ollow ing a thorough ough checkup should include not problem. If you have persistent
check-up my doctor says only blood pressure, weight, chest aches, pains or fatigue, there is a
that I’m “fit as fiddle.” If this and
is eye exam , etc but should also reason for it. If you haven’t had a
true, why do I often suffer pain? and prim arily include a detailed Chiropractic evaluation, you have
: It is indeed interesting evaluation o f the nervous sys­ NOT been examined completely.
that a doctor can give a tem ? In C hiropractic
For the sake of your health now
“thorough checkup” and yet fail We study the nervous system and in the future, call today. Isn’t
to fail to evaluate the spine and and the spine completely to assure it time you stepped up to Chiro­
nervous system. I’m sure that you that we find the cause of your practic?
w hile in school your doctor
learned that the nervous system
controls every other organ and
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function in the body. D oesn’t it
make sense then that a truly thor­
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