October 2015 • FREE
It Came From
America
Heritage Mall Welcomes Samaritan Living Well Expo Mark your calendars now as The Samaritan Health Services Living Well Expo returns to Albany’s Heritage Mall from 10AM until 6PM on Saturday, October 10th. This will be the sixth year for the one day event, drawing hundreds of spectators. It is co-sponsored by Bi-Mart and Rife’s Home Furnishings. Over 75 commercial, retail and home-based business, as well as non-profit organizations, will fill the mall with all kinds of activities displays with services offered to make your lives healthier and happier. There will also be special door prizes, gift bags and a chance to collect millions of points for you favorite participating Points for Profit non-profit organization. Samaritan Health Services will have staff and volunteers on hand to offer important health screenings . and advice on how to keep your family healthy and fit. Be sure to bring all members of your family to take advantage of these important health checks. Besides the opportunity to browse the booths and
displays, there will be continuous entertainment throughout the day on the All Star Staffing main stage located in the mall’s food court. Entertainers including musicians, magicians, puppeteers, performing arts groups and more will keep the stage hopping during all ours of the event. This year will also mark the premier of the redesigned Hall of Honor paying tribute to all who have lost their lives in military service to our country. The wall has been enlarged, completely revamped, updated and enlarged by the Albany based all-volunteer Vets Helping Vets HQ. The wall will remain up at the mall through November 14th and is being sponsored by Cadwell Realty Group presenting The Homes For Heroes program. The program helps military, local police, firefighters and teachers get into home ownership. Information will be available at the display and Vets Helping Vets HQ will also be on hand to talk with military veterans about their eligibility for VA programs. For more information about the Samaritan Living Well expo, or to reserve a booth space for your business or organization call Lauralee Beck at 541990-2324.
Children take the All Star Staffing Stage at the Samaritan Living Well Expo.
Samaritan Living Well Expo offers advice on all kinds of subjects, even your families financial health.
by Rick Rogers
These vegetables our our friends! If no one had discovered America, we wouldn’t be eating any of them.
by Karen Rogers October 12th is Columbus Day and all dedicated foodies must stand up and salute!!! Although he was not personally responsible for them, many of the most popular foods today came from the voyages of discovery to the New World. Imagine life without potatoes, corn, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, squash, green beans, sweet potatoes, turkey, black pepper, vanilla and CHOCOLATE!!! Sure, there were other foods, but America added a whole lot of piquant tastiness that quite frankly improved most cuisines. Think about spaghetti without tomato sauce and pizza, which existed in Roman times and was called offellae and was topped with ...dormice!!?? I think I’ll take a sausage and peppers any day, with extra sauce. Vanilla goes into everything from perfume to ice cream. Have you priced a bottle of Coty’s Vanilla Fields recently? Can you conceive of a chili cook-off without chilis? And no corn bread to sop it up. A childhood without PB and J sandwiches. Thanksgiving without turkey, sweet and mashed potatoes, cranberries or pumpkin pie!?! We’d all starve! Sorry, I got carried away. A few years ago, a doctor advised my daughter to give up coffee, tea and chocolate. She replied, “I heard the coffee and tea.” Some things you just don’t mess with. And never come between my Dad and chocolate. So as we are deep in harvest, just remember how many things we eat are “home grown”. And thanks again, Chris.