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Children’s menus don’t promote healthy eating

By BROOKE VANCLEAVE St. Joseph News-Press

Tucson, Ariz., preteen has been making headlines recently for her efforts to change the way America thinks about kids’ food.

Twelve-year-old Haile Thomas is a kid chef who’s received national attention stemming from a YouTube cooking show she started in 2010 called Kids Can Cook. Since then, Haile has been featured on

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national television shows, cooked for the fi rst lady and even teamed up with Hyatt Hotels to develop a healthy kids’ menu.

In a piece she contributed to Today.com, Haile explains her food philosophy, which is heavily influenced by her parents’ Jamaican heritage. “Baby food is one thing, but when we get to the ‘kid’ stage in life, shouldn’t it just be food? ... I never got the memo that I was supposed to only be eating nuggets, tenders, fries, mac ‘n cheese, pizza and burgers,� she writes.

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The simple answer is residual values. By not placing tens of thousands of GM’s hottest selling crossovers into fleet service, they can maintain exceptional residual, (resale) values. Right now, a local dealer specializing in low mileage fleet returns, Randy Reed Buick GMC, is firing a broadside into GM’s best laid plans by offering literally truckloads of low-mileage Captivas for thousands below the current market price.

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Randy Reed, a local dealer specializing in exceptionally low mileage, fleet-returns, recently captured an entire f leet of these gorgeous Captivas and is passing the savings directly to you beginning today. For more information contact one of their friendly, non-commissioned, staff members today. Randy Reed Chevrolet is located at 3921 Frederick Ave in St. Joseph.

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Comfort for the creatures

St. Joseph woman rescues unwanted unusual pets

Bowling fundraiser Creatures by Theresa will have a fundraiser from 7 to 10 p.m. June 18 at the Southside Family Fun Center.

Proceeds will help with supplies for the animals.

Creatures by Theresa also accepts donations. For a list of supplies needed, please visit the organization’s website, http://teescritters.weebly.com/

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heresa Harrington’s love of all things icky, sticky, creepy and crawly takes up the front room of her home and some of her dining area.

There simply isn’t enough space to keep the rescues her St. Joseph-based nonprofit, Creatures by Theresa, collects. Currently, she has a hamster, mice, rats, chinchillas, ferrets, a rabbit, hedgehogs, naked mole rats, seven snakes, a chameleon, a dwarf monitor, a leopard gecko, a bearded dragon, guinea pigs, a salamander and three dogs.

Creatures by Theresa began a few years ago.

Someone offered her some ferrets they couldn’t take care of, and Mrs. Harrington, who has a degree in animal science, took them in.

“One thing lead to another, and it’s like, yeah, this is my house,” she says, as she sits across from the bearded dragon’s cage in the family dining room.

Mrs. Harrington’s passion for helping strays began in childhood.

She used to bring stray animals to her home in Fairfield, Ohio. As soon as her parents found a new home for the strays, Mrs. Harrington would bring something else home.

“If my dad had let me have more pets as a kid, I could have been a female crocodile hunter,” she laughs.

Other than a brief 18-month stretch as a graphic designer, Mrs. Harrington spent her career working with animals. She’s held jobs at pet stores and clinics.

She worked at the Kansas City and Fort Worth zoos,

Theresa Harrington with her corn snake named Whiskey. where she learned she had a knack for rhinoceros care. She and her husband, Jon, held their wedding ceremony at the Cincinnati Zoo. (Their second choice was Newport Aquarium in Newport, Ky.) For her day job, Mrs. Harrington works at PetSmart. There she sees the same problem that has led to Creatures by Theresa.

Pet owners often don’t realize the amount of care that their animal needs when they purchase it.

The bearded dragon, she says, is a prime example.

A heated bulb for the bearded dragon costs about $15.

Then there’s its food and the maintenance of

its cage.

“It bothers her to see some of the mistreatment that some of the animals end up living with because an owner just has no clue,” says Trish McGilton, a friend of Mrs. Harrington’s who helps out with Creatures by Theresa.

Because traditional animal shelters aren’t equipped with crickets and heat bulbs, unwanted reptiles wind up with Mrs. Harrington.

Mrs. Harrington’s home and the animals’ cages are regularly inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make sure everything’s up to code.

Ms. McGilton and her daughter live in Kansas City but try to come up

to help feed and clean the animal cages whenever possible. With the three of them working, it still takes about two hours to get through it, Ms. McGilton says. If Mrs. Harrington works alone, the process takes closer to three hours.

Mrs. Harrington’s hopeful that one day she’ll be able to move the animals to a separate building. Her husband’s family has some property out by Dearborn, Mo., and she’d like to build a space for the animals there.

She puts on educational events for private groups and at the Remington Nature Center to help raise money for the eventual shelter. She does a program called Icky, Creepy and Sticky with the animals and insects that have more of a misconception about them, like her colorful, nonvenomous snakes and the cockroaches.

Mrs. Harrington’s programs serve another purpose, too, says Ms. McGilton.

“We want to educate people as much as we can so through that education, we don’t end up with as many rescues,” Ms. McGilton says.

But as long as there are unwanted exotic animals out there, Ms. McGilton says her friend will be there to help them. It’s Mrs. Harrington’s goal to rescue as many of them as she can, Ms. McGilton says.

For Mrs. Harrington, caring for the creatures is a labor of love.

“I have a great time with them,” she says. “I’m always talking to them.”

The way Mrs. Harrington sees it, some people have children. She has her creatures.

Jennifer Gordon can be reached at jennifer.gordon@newspressnow.com.

Follow her on Twitter: @SJNPGordon.

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Hospitals follow stringent weather protocol

By JENNIFER GORDON

interim chief nursing officer for the hospital. “They had been evacuated from their rooms, and they were in the hallways. Now here we have lots of debris and glass and everything else and people didn’t have their shoes.�

Mr. Manley has shared much of what staff learned about its disaster readiness with other emergency management groups. No hospital system he’s met with put the shoes into the emergency plan, either.

Mercy now has every patient and staff member locate shoes during a tornado watch. That way, should the watch turn into a warning, there’s no confusion.

Hospitals go through in-services on their emergency plans frequently before the start of tornado season. What happened in Joplin more than two years ago has brought a greater importance to those drills, says Tami Easton, director of nursing at Cameron Regional Medical Center. Six staff members from the hospital in Cameron,

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verything went as well as it could have gone the night of May 22, 2011, at St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Joplin, Mo. Staff helped gather patients in tornado-safe areas designated by the hospital system’s emergency action plan. They prepared for the worst as the EF-5 tornado ripped through the southwest Missouri town toward the hospital.

The tornado irreparably damaged the hospital, and St. John’s opened at a new location under the name Mercy Hospital Joplin.

In the aftermath of the storm, staff learned a few things about its emergency preparedness plan. Like the importance of footwear. “Patients didn’t have their shoes,� says Dennis Manley, vice president for quality and

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Mo., went to Joplin to help with the cleanup. They witnessed the devastation a tornado can cause. “I think it became real then,�

Ms. Easton says of the tornado training. “It became more personal.�

Cameron puts its plan to the test at least twice a tornado season, Ms. Easton says. Last year, the entire hospital moved to the designated safe areas in three and a half minutes during a tornado warning.

Hiawatha Community Hospital recently had to put its plan into action during a spell of bad weather. Paulo Bruxellas, risk manager and emergency management coordinator for the hospital, says everything went smoothly.

Staff decided to put televisions in the safety areas. “They were there for 45 minutes,� Mr. Bruxellas says of the people who were at the hospital that evening. “We figured by putting the TV there they could follow the TV and the weather radar.�

The length of time staff have to be braced for severe weather to strike can make the plan a little more complicated.

Mr. Manley says another lesson he gleaned from the Joplin tornado was the importance of staying alert.

If a tornado watch lasts for several hours, shifts may change. Staff may forget about the severe weather threat. After the tornado, Mercy hospital

changed its policy. Now, if Mercy is under a tornado warning, an announcement about the warning goes out every hour.

Janie Schumaker, service leader for emergent urgent services at Heartland Health, says the health system sends out information about the severe weather plan every week during the inclement weather season. “Being proactive is number one, always,� she says.

In the event of severe weather, Heartland has employees who monitor the radar and let the other staff know if a warning changes to a watch.

She says after what happened in Joplin, Heartland tries to make sure all the employees understand the level of the weather threat and that they know what to do should the worst conditions strike.

Jennifer Gordon can be reached at jennifer.gordon@newspressnow.com.

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Food for thought: Children’s menus don’t promote healthy eating rants embrace the idea of “atypical� menu options so families can escape what she calls the “kids’ menu trap.�

Kids’ menu fare looks virtually the same in many national chains, with items like fried chicken tenders and grilled cheese topping the list. Some restaurants have started embracing healthier options, but the choices still are limited.

The Ground Round’s kids’ menu offers grilled chicken, steak bites or fish bites served with vegetables in addition to standards like mini burgers and corn dogs.

Owner Marcia Hayes says they give kids a choice of grapes as a side instead of french fries. The “sketti� with marinara sauce also is a healthier option than fried items. However, these choices aren’t as popular among the restaurant’s youngest patrons. “I see the mac ‘n cheese and the corn dogs go more than anything else,� she says.

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Ms. Hayes believes many children don’t realize there are other options out there because they are so used to the kids’ foods that are continually marketed to them. “For so long that’s what kids are used to. That’s what they served in schools, and I think kids get channeled into thinking that’s just the choices available,� she says.

Jessica Anderson, a registered dietitian with Heartland Wellness Connections, says the food industry has picked up on sweet, salty and fatty flavors kids crave and plays off of it. However, the food choices kids make also reflect the education they’re receiving about food from their parents. “There’s just a big gap right now between parent education and what’s good for kids and what they need to be doing,� she says.

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try it. Let them pick out new things at the grocery store so they have a say in what they’re eating. As good habits develop gradually, kids hopefully will be open to making more changes both at home and at restaurants.

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Along with better parent education, Ms. Anderson says it’s important to make healthy changes as a whole family rather than singling out one child who is overweight or very picky. Although it can be challenging to change bad habits, especially with busy lifestyles, she encourages parents to be patient and not give up. “You really don’t want to introduce too much too fast,� she adds.

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With more media coverage about America’s obesity problem and the push for healthier foods in schools and at home, Ms. Hayes thinks there’s finally more awareness about teaching children to eat better. “I see a lot more children drinking water. ... I have seen kids that choose to go to the salad bar for lunch,� she says.

One way to encourage children to eat healthier options is to let them order off of the regular menu, which has much more variety and will let them explore new flavors.

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Tater tots are a childhood favorite like these tots as well. They’re a bit and an adulthood guilty pleasure. smaller than other tater tot brands Alexia Foods offers a grown-up so they’re perfect for little fi ngers, version of these crunchy classics to plus it will introduce kids to new please more sophisticated flavors. The products also palates. are all-natural and have no The Alexia is an all-natural Testing Ground trans fats. They might not frozen foods brand specialby Brooke VanCleave necessarily be low-calorie, izing in unique flavor variabut they contain less of the tions to well known staples chemicals many parents She tries out like fries and onion rings. worry about being in pronew products Their Crispy Seasoned so you don’t have to cessed foods.

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