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by Patricia L. Cook Many people suffer from the blues during the winter months because of a lack of sunshine, but spring will bring us all warmth and sunny days soon! This Tidbits explores the gigantic star that our planet revolves around.

• The sun is a huge star that is the center of our solar system. Earth is tiny compared to the sun.

Our entire planet could fit inside the sun 109 times if it was a hollow ball! Of course, it’s not hollow; it is filled with hot gasses. How hot?

The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The core, or center of the sun, is estimated to be more than 28 million degrees Fahrenheit.

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• On a mountain summit on a hot summer day, it appears that the sun is really close to earth.

However, it is nearly 93 million miles away. It takes sunlight about eight minutes to reach us.

Even with that distance, the light and heat keep our planet warm, allowing plants to grow and even giving us a sunburn if we are not careful.

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Catherine McAuley Center The 9th Annual Movin’ for McAuley Saturday March 10th, 2012 9 am-Noon Westdale Mall 2600 Edgewood Rd SW Cedar Rapids The event hosts a variety of activities for kids including bounce houses, face painting, balloon animals and other games.

Register yourself, your family, or a team online at www.cmc-cr.org or download a printable registration form. Movin’ for McAuley is a fundraiser that supports the community outreach programs of the Catherine McAuley Center.

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Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show March 17-8:30am-6:00pm, March 18-9:30am-5:00pm Hawkey Downs Expo Center, 4400 6th St. SW, Cedar Rapids, IA Cedar Rapids,IA Theme-”Geodes-Nature’s Grab Bags” featuring geodes and cave bear and stegodon skeletons. Vendors, demonstrations, displays, silent auction, bone dig, gem flume, educational programs. Profits suppport geology scholarships at Cornell and University of Iowa,VAST center.

Our Saviors Lutheran Church Spring Fling Vendor Fair March 25th 12:00PM - 3:00PM 3634 First Avenue NE Cedar Rapids, IA 52402 (across from Town and Country) Yummy homebaked treats! All proceeds go to support Our Saviors Youth Program/ Community Outreach.

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• The closer you get to the earth’s poles, the more extreme the days are with and without sunshine.

The North Pole does not have sunshine for 186 days a year.

• Barrow, Alaska, doesn’t have any sunshine in December and January, but when summer rolls around, June through August, they are blessed with continual sunshine 24 hours a day.

• Today, much attention is focused on our need for vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin.

Being in the sun is the best way to satisfy your body’s need for vitamin D; it is produced in your skin when your skin is exposed to sunlight.

• A lack of vitamin D can put you at increased risk for the bone disease osteoporosis. Low vitamin D can also cause poor metabolism, a weakened heart and cause your body to heal slowly from broken bones and cuts.

• Even though Florida is nicknamed the “Sunshine State,” there are five other states that actually have more sunshine. According to the National Weather Service, Arizona, California, Texas, Nevada and New Mexico catch more rays.

• The sunniest place in the United States where you can absorb some natural vitamin D is Yuma, Arizona. The next four places are: Redding, California; Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona; and Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Thank You -- Henry Davison On behalf of the H.D. Youth Center and the Community Health Free Clinic, I would like to thank all those that attended this years Chili Challenge.

The Linn County Blues Society & The Isle of Iowa Parrothead Club who put a lot of work into each years event, donate the proceeds to two charities each year. This year they raised close to or possibly more then $10,000.00 to be split between the H.D. Youth Center and The Community Health Free Clinic. For more information about this years event and to begin following next years activities, check them out on FB. www.facebook.com/pages/Blues-nBuffett-Chili-Challenge

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Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

• Juneau, Alaska, is the cloudiest city in the United States with only 30 percent of the annual possible sunshine. Other areas that lack sunshine, where vitamin D supplements may be needed, are Quillayute, Washington; Elkins, West Virginia; Hilo, Hawaii; and Anchorage, Alaska.

• If you search the internet for businesses, towns, clubs and other organizations that use the word sunshine in their name, you will probably be amazed. It seems that everyone loves sunshine!

The word seems to imply happiness. However, there are a few places borrowing the name that haven’t turned out so sunny. How about ghost towns?

• Sunshine, Tennessee, is also known as Kinsel Springs, after S.J. Kinsel who established the town in the early 1900s. Located in what is now the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, at one time it had a large resort hotel, and people rode the train from Knoxville to enjoy swimming in the Little River and walking across the swinging bridge. After the hotel burned in the 1950s, and the railroad’s demand for the local lumber dried up, the company was discontinued and the town died. The swinging bridge has been renovated, but not much else is there today.

• Mr. Kinsel, known for his wealth, was also known for his generosity. He donated a large sum of money to the International Sunshine Society. The society was started in the early 1900s to help infants and children who were blind, to bring “sunshine” to their sweet lives.

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She didn’t care so much, though, because nobody ever came up to the roof anyway. Which is why she was surprised when she heard footsteps. It was the Maitre’D from the restaurant.

“Ma’am,” he said, “we were all wondering if you could put your top back on.”

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1960’s funny: Mother: 'Why are you home from school so early?' Son: 'I was the only one who could answer a question.'

Mother: 'Oh, really? What was the question?'

Son: 'Who threw the blackboard eraser at the teacher?'

• Sunshine Mine in Utah was expected to be a great gold find but proved to be disappointing and was abandoned after 15 years of work. Only about $400,000 in gold was extracted. Sunshine Canyon, where the mine was located, has been deserted since 1910.

• Sunshine Mine in Idaho, located between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace in the Idaho panhandle, was a silver mine that produced almost 365 million ounces of silver from 1904 through 2001. Unfortunately, the Sunshine Mine has the distinction of being the spot of the worst disaster in Idaho history. A fire in the mine in 1972 killed 91 workers. A monument to the lost miners was erected near the mine and can be viewed there today.

• Sunshine Hill, Texas, near Wichita Falls, got its name from the fact that at 1,208 feet above sea level, it was the highest hill in the area.

The school that was established there in 1889 was the only structure left in the town in recent years. Unfortunately, the school burned to the ground in March 2011.

• North of the border in Alberta, Canada, is Sunshine Village Ski Resort, one of three ski resorts within Banff National Park. It claims to have up to 30 feet of snow in the winter! It also has summer hiking access and fun programs beginning in June.

• All of us need to be thankful for the sun coming up every morning and going down every night.

There have been numerous religions that have the sun as their centerpiece. The Egyptians, Aztecs, Greeks and Japanese all had major tenets of their beliefs based on the sun. The Aztecs actually thought the sun died every night and had to be resurrected each day.

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'Mommy, today in school I was punished for something that I didn't do.'

The mother exclaimed, 'But that's terrible. I'm going to have a talk with your teacher about this ... by the way, what was it that you didn't do?'

The little girl replied, 'My homework.'

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A Change of Seasons I tenuously await the Spring, the dark days have never seemed so long Those that’ll profit from doom and gloom will curse the Robin’s song It’s easy to listen to pessimism, before the early shoots of green appear Signs of Spring should be rejoiced, never lamented, for the loss of fear Rebirth and renewal will lighten souls, reinvigorating the spirits of all Belief and faith will be restored, a vision will be brighter than last Fall Prognosticators predicted dire warnings, disasters for humanity to cope Ears turn deaf, as minds see the future, hearts are again attuned to hope

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To Tell, Or Not If the diagnosis is Mild Cognitive Impairment or Alzheimer’s disease, would you want to be told? Does it matter whether it’s about you, or about a family member? Does that change your mind?

Dozens of studies were brought together to explore all facets of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease.

One of the studies revealed that between 30 percent and 60 percent of doctors don’t disclose a diagnosis if it’s dementia for fear of causing additional stress in both the patient and the families.

But patients with MCI who already have stress didn’t get any worse after being told the diagnosis, and sometimes the stress levels went down for both the patients and their families. Families and patients want to know that the memory or behavior problems have a name, a diagnosis. Three-quarters of individuals in another study said it was important to know so they can explore all possible treatments and plan for the future.

When it comes to Alzheimer’s, 93 percent of people want the diagnosis disclosed if it’s about them. The reasons were possible early treatment and the basic right to know, as well as planning for assistance and learning to cope. But only 76 percent of families felt that the diagnosis should be revealed to the patient -- which means there could be Alzheimer’s patients who won’t get told, if the families have their way.

Now the issue of labeling has taken a turn: It’s been proposed that many patients who’ve been diagnosed with “very mild and mild” Alzheimer’s could more rightly be labeled as having Mild Cognitive Impairment, based on their ability to carry out daily activities.

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• When the Canadian government changed the designation of the area to Rocky Mountain National Park in 1887, it included the town of Banff and the hot springs. The size at that time was 260 square miles. The main transportation to the park was the Canadian Pacific Railway, which is still around today, more commonly known as CP Rail.

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• The most famous landmark in the park and in the entire Canadian Rockies is Lake Louise, a beautiful glacial lake 35 miles west of the town of Banff. Natives of the area were familiar with the lake when Edwin Hunter led Tom Wilson to his “discovery” of Lake Louise in 1882.

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• A modest hotel geared toward adventurers was built at Lake Louise in 1890. With the lake in front and a mountain glacier behind, the hotel became a popular tourist spot. It was renamed Chateau Lake Louise in 1913 and after a fire, was rebuilt much larger. The area then went on to become a major tourist stop.

• Originally opened as summer-only resorts, Chateau Lake Louise and Banff Springs Hotel began opening for skiers during the winter holiday seasons in the 1970s. In 1988, when Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics, Banff National Park was showcased to the world.

• Banff along with Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and the provincial parks of Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber are designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the largest protected areas in the world.

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• The “Great Smog of 1952” in London was a horrendous event that occurred over a fourday period and was the cause of approximately 12,000 deaths. The smog resulted from the widepspread use of coal for heating. In particular, the smog related to this disaster was the type that occurs mostly during cold winter days and is primarily a mixture of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, “soot,” from the burning coal. The episodes of smog in London were nicknamed “pea-soupers.”

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