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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI AND ANNIKA TOMLIN

Scottsdale Spencer’s TV & Appliances General Manager John Polainer, center, awards the 4 millionth transaction winners Richard Holmes, left, and Patti Everts, right. (Photo by Annika Tomlin)

Two customers win big at Spencer’s

Two local Spencer’s TV & Appliance customers were awarded major shopping sprees at its original location in Mesa recently.

Patti Everts of Scottsdale and Richard Holmes of Peoria each won $10,000 to spend at the store for being its 4 millionth transaction.

John Polainer, the Scottsdale location’s general manager, gave them certificates. He also served as the salesperson who sold Everts her appliances at the Scottsdale store.

Everts’ prize-winning trip was her first visit to Spencer’s.

“I bought a whole new kitchen,” Everts says gleefully. “I bought everything that a kitchen should be—a washer and dryer, refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher, the whole kitchen.”

Everts said she never won anything like this. At first, she thought she thought the phone call from Spencer’s was a trick.

“I received a phone call in the afternoon, and I thought I was punked; I really did,” Everts says matter of factly. “I didn’t know the person calling me. I didn’t recognize the number on my cellphone. I was trying to be excited for him, but I didn’t want to be super excited and be wrong.

“Then John (Polainer), my salesperson, calls me about an hour later and congratulated me and then I knew it was real.”

Everts is not sure how she will spend her $10,000, but she’s excited to return to Spencer’s when she is ready. 8 | JULY 2020

Holmes is a long-time customer of Spencer’s and was also surprised that he had won.

“One of the managers let me know,” Holmes says. “I was surprised and right after that the salesman called me.”

To enter into the competition, Holmes bought a new stove and refrigerator. He bought all of his appliances at Spencer’s in the last 15 years.

Holmes had also never won something to the magnitude of this prize.

“My first experience with them was really good and every experience since has been great so I just keep coming back,” Holmes says.

He already used most of the gift on more appliances and will finish using the winnings and continue to be “a Spencer’s customer forever.”

“We got another new stove and another new refrigerator, and a deep freezer and a TV. Now we’re just waiting to get some more stuff,” Holmes says.

After buying a new stove, Holmes sold his other one but now has three refrigerators and a freezer in his house.

Spencer’s has 10 Valleywide locations that are practicing social distancing during the pandemic and offers virtual listings of its appliances on its website.

Polainer was happy to award the winners and is hopeful that by next year the company will have reached the 5 millionth transaction mark. dispensary complex with adjoining cafe and classroom, invites the community to learn how to stay healthy in mind, body and spirit by attending its free wellness classes.

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Features PANIC PANDEMIC

Deep breaths, vitamin D are necessary during the quarantine

BY ANNIKA TOMLIN

Stress is a common feeling that has arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s not at all unexpected, but Chandler Naturopath Dr. Crystal Song says stress isn’t limited to events.

“Stress is not really just an event. I think stress should be defi ned by a person’s response to an event,” Song says,

“The same event can occur, and two diff erent people could have a diff erent reaction. Basically, if you feel stressful or if you feel anxious about a certain event than that event is a stress for you.”

Song discussed the many ways that this pandemic can change people’s well-being and ways to consider getting some normalcy back into their lives. Song encourages her patients to maintain their normal intake of vitamins and supplements, especially vitamin D because we’re going outside far less.

Exercise

Song has seen several of her patients’ vitals change during the pandemic. Bloodwork has revealed some of them have high cholesterol now.

“They claim that they are doing the same diet and doing the same exercises and routine but on closer examination what we found when we try to identify the problem as a naturopath is that when they were going to work physically, they 10 | JULY 2020 were defi nitely taking a lot more steps,” Song says.

The quarantine has pushed everyone away from exercise—even easier tasks like going to the mall or shopping. So we are walking less and should add more exercise to our routines.

“All of those things that you used to do would cause you to do more steps and more walking, so now you basically have to increase your exercises whatever your routine is.”

She would emphasize that exercising in open air is always better and even though it is hot outside people can go out in the evening or early mornings.

Alcohol

Song has seen an increase of alcohol consumption among her patients. She attributes it to boredom and the quarantine.

“You’re not supposed to have parties,” she says. “Maybe in the past you just go to a party and drink but now you don’t have the big parties, instead you have small gatherings with family members. There is no question that people are drinking more.”

Moderate amounts of drinking are OK according to Song but she does not feel that alcohol has any benefi ts.

Eating

Food consumption is up, too, because we’re home all the time. Song thinks the limited availability of certain foods should not be a reason to eat unhealthily.

“There’s defi nitely no shortage of fresh fruit and veggies,” she says. “It’s summertime so a lot of these things are on the market now—melons, peaches, nectarines, apricots and berries. Those are all really healthy and they are loaded with antioxidants so they would really help people with the immunity and their natural ability to keep the virus out of the body.”

Oxygen/Anxiety

At her appointments, Song checks her patients’ oxygen level and heart rate. She found one of her patients who had normal oxygen levels and heart rate prior to the pandemic had an oxygen level of 90%.

“The normal range for oxygen saturation is 94% or more. The closer to 100 the better it is. That means your blood is full of oxygen.”

She says the lower oxygen level was due to anxiety because patients hold their breath more during an attack.

“It’s a habit that a lot of people don’t know, and I think I catch myself doing that sometimes when I’m concentrating or something more when I’m nervous. I’m not taking deep breaths; I’m just holding my breath or doing shallow breathing.”

Holding in breath can cause fatigue and more anxiety.

“I think it would be a really good idea for people to exercise their breathing kind of purposely as an exercise taking deep breaths and also consider a pulse oximeter.”

A pulse oximeter is the small device that goes on your index fi nger for nurses and doctors to use to measure pulse and oxygen level. For people who do not have COPD or other chronic respiratory illnesses, oxygen levels should be within the 97 or 98 percentiles, according to Song.

She suggests people buy pulse oximeters, which are relatively inexpensive. The virus can cause a serious drop in oxygen levels.

“A lot of people don’t know this because they don’t have a device to measure their oxygen. They do not know that their oxygen is dropping but they could have symptoms like shortness of breath. Without taking the measurement you just don’t know when or if you should go to the hospital to get the oxygen and be on a ventilator.”

Song tells all of her patients to get a baseline oxygen level while they are well, so they have something to compare it to when they don’t feel well.

Lifestyle change

It is unclear as to when the pandemic will end, and Song hopes people adapt to the “new normal.”

“There is always that mind-body relationship. When your mind is not healthy or not happy it is going to aff ect the body.” Panic...continues on page 11 www.LovinLife.com