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CONTENTS

JUNE 2020

FEATURES 10

Prizes Still In Store For Readers During Library's Distance-Focused Summer Reading Challenge

Over the Fence: Easier To Feel Than To Change

Agency Recognizes Heroics Of Those Working The Home Front During Nurses Week

DEPARTMENTS

Salvation Army Fights Human Need On All Fronts During Pandemic Response

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Rediscover Playtime To Improve Emotional Well-Being

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uarantine cleaning may mean a wealth of treasures for those of us willing to brave the picking adventure – and as these sales are generally outside, they’re a relatively safe activity at this time. Be sure to use hand sanitizer between stops, thoroughly wash your hands when you’re done and either leave your newfound treasures in their own quarantine for a week or so after you get home or wipe them down thoroughly. How do you find garage sales these days? The Facebook Marketplace feature (found at the top of the newsfeed with a store icon) is where I start. Search there for “garage sale,” and you will find several listings made by garage sale hosts. There are also many local groups on Facebook for those looking to buy and sell. These are also where others are listing their sales. Some to look for include “Shawnee Buy, Sell & Trade – Oklahoma” or “Shawnee Swap and Shop.” There are other similar groups if you do a simple search for these types of group names. Search in these groups of local garage sales. The bonus to joining these groups is being able to look for specific items without even driving to multiple sales if you’d prefer. You can copy down the addresses for the sales that interest you and use a mapping app to create the most logical route to hit all of your stops. Don’t forget to keep your eyes open, though, for unexpected sales. While shopping, keep in mind the basic rules for bringing things into your home. Only purchase things you have a specific use for or that truly “spark joy.” If you’re not excited about it at the sale, it won’t get used at home. Be selective about the treasures you bring home, and you’ll save money while having a fun experience.

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A FODMAP Diet Could Find Path To Better Gut Health

aybe you have heard the term FODMAP and wondered what it meant. Maybe the term is brand new to you. Often, doctors will send patients to a registered dietitian to help with digestive issues. A FODMAP diet can possibly help those with gut issues, such as gas, distention, bloating, cramping, constipation and diarrhea. Some patients even have the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome. So what exactly is a FODMAP diet? FODMAP is an acronym that stands for Fermentable Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides And Polyols. These different carbohydrates are grouped together based on the length of their carbohydrate chains. The term FODMAP was coined by a group of Australian researchers who theorized that foods containing these forms of carbohydrates worsen the symptoms of IBS. Now you see why the acronym is used instead of the extremely long name. The FODMAP diet is not a long-term diet because of the extreme restriction. The diet is meant to be done for four to six weeks before food groups are slowly introduced back in one at a time. It is recommended to keep a food journal during the four to six week period of restriction but also as you slowly add back in foods. The goal is to find out what your body is not handling properly. All bodies are different. Some people will never add back dairy while some may never add back in certain fruits and vegetables. If you can stick to it long enough, you will be able to find exactly what yours is. If the above symptoms are something you are struggling with, ask your doctor for a referral to your local dietitian. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics at www.eatright.org also offers a lot of great resources.

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Directions: Put all ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Pour into cups and place the stick in the middle. Place in the freezer for two hours. Cut the cup off when ready to eat. Makes: 8 popsicles, 1 popsicle each Nutritional Information per Serving Calories: 70 Total Fat: 0g Saturated Fat: 0g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 3mg Total Carbohydrates: 18g Dietary Fiber: 2g Protein: 0.8g Nutrition 101: Popsicles can be a fun way to get the kids in the kitchen this summer. They can put in the ingredients, push the button on the blender and put the sticks in the cups. We usually set a timer for the two hours, so when it goes off, it is exciting to go check the freezer. Making popsicles is a great way to use fruit that is about to go bad. Maybe you bought too much at once or maybe it started going bad quicker than expected. By making popsicles out of it all, you can avoid food waste. Kids can be picky eaters, and this is just one way to help. For example, my littlest doesn’t like kiwi, but he eats it in a popsicle. Don’t have kids at home, but like summer treats? These are absolutely for adults as well. I definitely like to enjoy one while the kids do. Andrea Beck, a registered dietitian and personal trainer, received her master’s degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. She offers personal training through an online class and nutrition services through SSM Health St. Anthony in Shawnee. For inquiries, you can contact her at Andrea.beck1@ssmhealth.com or through her Facebook page, Nutrition and Exercise 101 with Andrea.

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“Knowing that all decisions made by city government have some impact on its citizens, either directly or indirectly, I will always encourage your input and ensure city operations are an open book.” END THE SILENCE Vote Cody for Shawnee Mayor Mayor.

BOB WEAVER - Ward 2. “Shawnee

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need to tackle long-standing issues like homeless and crime. Until these are under control, Shawnee cannot realize its potential. A Commissioner is a public servant, not a representative for special interests.” RESTORE INTEGRITY TO CITY GOVERNMEN - Vote Bryce for Ward 4. GOVERNMENT Paid for by Shawnee2020 www.shawneeoutlook.com

We’re Growing Healthy Connections In Shawnee Social connections are essential to our health and well-being. Studies have linked social isolation and loneliness to an increased risk of chronic stress, high blood pressure, heart disease, and mortality. Yet loneliness has been on the rise for years. In one large social survey, the number of Americans reporting that they had no one they could talk to about “important matters” tripled over two decades. Research into the places around the world where people reach age 100 most often found that residents are connected within their communities in many ways. People living in these blue zones nurture family connections. They build bonds with their own circle of friends and neighbors for support. And they feel a sense of belonging in the broader community, often as part of a faith-based organization. How can we combat loneliness in Shawnee? How can we potentially add years to our lives? Blue Zones Project Pottawatomie County has been helping residents do that and more, building on successful practices from the world’s blue zones.

FINDING SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP

Shawnee’s Mary Jane Noss has a story to tell about the power of connections. When her husband was ill for several years, she became his caretaker. Every day, she took him to important appointments, made his meals, and tended to his needs. But during that intensive time, she became socially isolated. “It’s amazing how during four years, you can really lose track of your friends,” she said.

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After he passed away, she saw a newspaper advertisement for a Blue Zones Project Moai Launch—an intentional opportunity to connect people around a common purpose. The concept comes from the blue zone of Okinawa, Japan, where a “moai” is a chosen group of friends and neighbors who gather and support one another throughout their lives. In Blue Zones Project communities across the country, moais bring small groups of people together to walk regularly, to eat healthy meals, to strengthen and share purpose in the community, and more. Noss shared the idea of attending Shawnee’s Moai Launch with her daughter and was encouraged to, “Get out, get active again.” She took the advice and became a member of “Jim’s Girls Walking Moai.” Moai members—including Jim Smith, Sherry Lankford, Mary Jane Noss, and Jeri McEntire—have now been walking together regularly for two years. They’ve gotten to know one another and become friends. Many also joined a “Restaurant Moai,” meeting weekly at Blue Zones Project Approved restaurants in Shawnee. For more than a year, that moai has gathered to enjoy meals with a healthy focus. When recent health guidelines limited dining out and in-person moai meetings, members continued to check in with one another and support each other by phone. “It’s been a wonderful experience,” Noss said. “It’s one of the best things that’s happened to me.”

INSPIRING HEALTHY CHANGES Sherry Lankford, another member of Jim’s Girls, has lived in Pottawatomie County for more than 40 years. Joining a Walking Moai gave her the opportunity to make new connections and find support for a well-being journey that has made a big difference in her life.

A desire to improve her health inspired Lankford to get involved in Blue Zones Project. At a kickoff event in August 2017, she took the Blue Zones Project Personal Pledge—a menu of research-driven options that make healthy choices easier in your own life. “I was taking two different blood pressure medicines and was gaining weight that neither the doctor nor I could explain,” she said. “I started walking weekly with a Blue Zones Project Moai and met a few people that I didn’t know before and have become very good friends with them.” Together with her moai, Lankford attended a cooking demonstration, where she was first introduced to a plant forward diet. Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is a healthy practice that is evident in the world’s blue zones. “My interest had been piqued—so the next week when I attended the Healthy Shopping Tour at FireLake Discount Foods, I knew I was ready. My husband and I bought a fresh round of groceries that morning, then went home and cleaned out the fridge.” Lankford made it a priority to eat with a plant slant and removed most meat and processed foods from her home. “I have since lost 34 pounds and have seen a significant reduction in the amount of blood pressure medication I take,” she said. Lankford has enjoyed trying healthier choices at restaurants like The Lunch Box and the Owl Shoppe. She’s also noticed that through Blue Zones Project,

grocery stores like FireLake Discount Foods and Homeland have made it easier to find healthy items. “Because of Blue Zones Project, I am going to live a longer, better life,” she said.

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Launched with the sponsorship of Avedis Foundation, Blue Zones Project Pottawatomie County is now in its third year, working with volunteers across the community to make more healthy choices available and easier to find. Efforts not only help residents to build healthy connections but to eat wisely, to move naturally, and to develop a positive outlook. To date, more than 5,000 people have signed a Blue Zones Personal Pledge. More than 1,300 community members have attended a plantbased cooking demonstration. More than 200 residents have joined a moai, and more than 70 plant slant dished have been added to menus at local restaurants. Schools, worksites, churches, grocery stores, and other community organizations are also involved. Recent data from the Well-Being Index (WBI) survey show that a majority of Shawnee residents are aware of Blue Zones Project. Healthy connections are evident among that group. Almost 57 percent report that friends and family give them positive energy every day, and almost 50 percent say that they have someone who encourages them to be healthy. Shawnee also outperformed Oklahoma on four major health risks, with fewer people at risk for poor nutrition (23 percent less), lack of exercise (17 percent less), lack of purpose (29 percent less), and dissatisfaction with standard of living (38 percent less). The greater our involvement across the community, the greater our shared results. Let’s continue to surround ourselves with healthy support for living longer and better.

HEALTHY CONNECTIONS AT HOME Blue Zones Project offers online resources to help people shape their home environments for healthier, easier choices. For tips and ideas visit bluezonesproject.com/healthier-at-home.

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Prizes Still In Store For Readers During Library's Distance-Focused Summer Learning Challenge

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The Challenge runs until ily recipe, creating and acting out a The “Imagine Your Story” themed Aug. 15. It is a systemwide program fairy tale, building something unique event rewards readers of all ages with that includes Cleveland, McClain and using items from around the house, books and a chance for prizes for Pottawatomie counties. creating art based on a favorite book, time spent reading either a physical Peggy Cook, Shawnee Public Li- exploring your neighborhood in an book or through the library’s down- brary branch manager, emphasized outdoor scavenger hunt and more.” loadable collection at pioneerlibrary- that with the abrupt end to this past Patrons can follow Pioneer Li- The Pioneer Library System will still be resystem.org/download, said Mary school year, it’s even more important brary Service on Facebook and check warding readers of all ages to dive into books this summer with its annual Summer LearnSims, adult and teen service library for children and teens to keep read- out the library’s YouTube page to see ing Challenge – including a chance at prizes associate. ing during the summer. upcoming programming. like Beats earbuds and a mini-drone for There are many ways to interact “Studies show that time spent For more information about the some age groups – though the program will with the library these days without reading every day keeps reading abil- Summer Learning Challenge or any be focusing primarily on virtual and distance going to the building itself. 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Over the Fence:

By Brandon Dyer, Executive Director of Community Renewal of Pottawatomie County

Easier To Feel Than Change

hen my wife and I were first married, I worked for Nextel Communications at their corporate office in Oklahoma City. Do you remember Nextel? They had the “walkie talkie” phones with the pushto-talk feature. They later merged with Sprint, and now they are a forgotten name. To be honest, I hated that job, but I loved my boss. His name was Ed. I think Ed hated his job, too. Like me, he didn’t really care about phones; he cared about people. I still have a notebook from those days with notes from staff meetings. There is not one note about sales projections or quotas. The notes are leadership quotes from Ed. He loved building people, and I was a willing student. He consistently encouraged us to care about people first, and he meant it. The one thing I remember him saying all the time was this: “The deepest desire of the human heart is to be heard and understood. Your job is to sell phones, but your mission is to listen to people.” I’ve thought about that so many times through the years. Sometimes, you hear something, and it just resonates as truth. I think he’s right. People, deep down, just want to be heard and understood. I know I do, but if we all want to be heard and understood, someone has to do the listening. Sadly, human beings are far more adept at speaking than listening. Have you ever seen two people arguing where

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need to be heard on behalf of our black neighbors whose cries have fallen on deaf ears for centuries? No more counters and rebuttals. Just listening and learning. Once we understand better, let’s do better. African-American author, James Baldwin, was born in Harlem in 1924. In an interview with the New York Times in July 1977, he acknowledged fleeing to Europe to escape the “everyday insults and humiliation, the continual sadness and the rage.” In reference to returning home, he told reporter Robert Coles, “Of course, people tell me all the time [back home] that they are trying, they are trying hard. Some have tears in their eyes and let me know how awful they feel about the way our poor live, our blacks or those in dozens of other countries. People can cry much easier than they can change,

a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street." We are all outraged and distraught by these events. Yet another unarmed black man killed by police, but James Baldwin’s words are too often true. “People can cry much easier than they can change.” We are moved, to tears even. Then, the next event catches our attention, and we move on. May it not be true this time. May we finally say enough is enough. May we subject ourselves to the deep, deep soul searching required to drive out even the tiniest remnants of racism hiding in the darkest chambers of our humanity. May we speak out against any form of racism, be it overt or covert. May our country truly be the land of the free as we at last learn to love our neighbor as ourselves.

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any people across the world have taken the opportunity during the response to the coronavirus pandemic to heap praise on nurses and doctors in hospitals and clinics treating those stricken by COVID-19. New protocols and practices have impacted how health care providers take care of their patients, and this is no different for those outside of the clinical setting treating people in their homes. National Nurses Week happened to fall in early May in the midst of most communities’ strictest lockdown conditions, but agencies like Heartland Home Health Care and Hospice in Shawnee wanted to make sure their staff knew just how much work their means to the people they treat and communities in which they live. Heartland leadership ordered signs for each of their nurses and had them placed in their yards to let their family members and neighbors know that a “Health Care Hero Lives Here,” administrator Susan Ward said. The organization also provided breakfast for the nurses twice that week along with other food and snacks throughout the week. They provided the nurses gift cards from Sonic so they could get an extra drink or two during the week. Later in the month, they each also received a customized thermal mug to help keep them going during their patient visits. “The fact that they've kept going is probably the thing that's most remarkable to me,” Ward said. “Honestly, I have a couple of employees who have immunosuppression diseases, and they immediately started wearing masks and wear them all the time whenever they see a patient. They're very careful and cautious, but they have kept on working. I have been really impressed.” Having to wear all the appropriate protective equipment provides its own challenges as the weath-

er warms and some patients’ conditions cause them to keep their homes warmer than most, Ward said. Still, the members of her staff still have continued providing quality care for their patients as they can. Beyond the changes in protocols and extra equipment, nurses have also had to find a way to work with patients now facing new concerns and uncertainty about who and how they should conduct themselves around others. “We have had some patients that are so afraid they won't even let our nurses in the door,” Ward said. Some of the illnesses for which these patients need home care, however, could continue worsening if medical personnel do not address them properly and frequently, which could lead to emergency room visits and hospital admissions. Those types of outcomes had their own set of risks during the height of the uncertainty about the local spread of the novel coronavirus. “That’s kind of been the conversation we've had with a lot of patients who really are scared to see anybody,” Ward said. “Their disease processes are such that if they don't see somebody, they're going to land back in the ER, which is the one place they don't want to be.” Along with adhering to strict protection equipment guidelines, more data coming from the state’s department of health – which includes county- and community-specific numbers that show total cases since the start of recording in March, number of deaths and recoveries, number of active patients and some demographic information about those affected – has helped nurses and patients discuss the virus’s local impact to help ease some of the fears about continuing proper home care. “(The fear factor) makes me worried for home

care patients, because they tend to be pretty fragile,” Ward said. “And if you refuse to go for help, you end up with something that could be preventable (unrelated to the pandemic) and it turns into something that might be fatal. So, it gets a little scary.” Patient care manager Jinger Claytor said they have also had to get creative in caring for their patients who live facilities that have the strictest access restrictions as a result of the pandemic response. “My biggest obstacle with that is just trying to keep them from feeling the effects of isolation,” said Claytor, a registered nurse who works with a variety of patients with Heartland. “My patients in the facilities are there confined to their room. They don't get to see their family face-to-face. My biggest challenge is just trying to provide care for them and manage their symptoms all while doing it over the phone or through the window.” The isolation and its effects are as much of a concern for some patients as the disease their home health care workers are trying to help them manage, Claytor said. This has led to some new and creative ways of not just treating their patients but also providing care for them as people, whether it is arranging video calls with family members if and when the nurses have been able to meet with their patients inperson or helping plan special events. “We've had to be very innovative in how we do things to take care of people,” Claytor said. “We've helped families find different ways to interact with their loved ones. We’ve helped them use FaceTime or Zoom instead of just phone calls. They've been going to the windows. I even had a patient that had a birthday party outside of a window. “We’ve been able to teach families how to be more creative in how they can interact with their loved ones.”

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