Golden Gazette July 2020

Volume 32, Number 7

July 2020

24 Pages

Lubbock, Texas 79401

In July & inside 4th Independence Day 15th Income tax day (thanks to COVID-19) Kids & senior meals ......................page 4 Baseball 1945 ..........page 7 Nelson named Working Cowboy ..................page 9 Low quality may be alternative plastic ..page 12 COVID-19 testing information .........page 13 Small exercises may fix it ..............page 15 Upgrades to Lubbock airport page 17 I.Love.Color. ...........page 24

VOTE.

(See Voting, Page 10)

Runoff elections - July 14 Early voting days & times: June 29-July 2: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Closed July 3-4 July 5: 1 to 6 p.m.

July 6-10: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

America the Beautiful

1. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

3. Oh, beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life!

America! America!

May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And ev’ry gain divine.

2. Oh, beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat Across the wilderness!

America! America!

God mend thine ev’ry flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law.

4. Oh, beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears!

America! America!

God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.

Text: Katherine Lee Bates, 1859–1929 Music: Samuel A. Ward, 1848–1903

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The Lubbock Women’s Club held its annual Presidents’ Luncheon in June. Past Lubbock Women’s Club and Junior Women’s Club presidents in attendance were photographed. The club is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Front row: Peggy Dean, Jerry Grimes, Lyn Phillips, Rebecca Wylie, Betty Wall, Ruth Smith,

June Hogue, Sheri Phillips. Back row: Andrea Bodine (JWC), Wendy – Adele Humphrey (JWC), Erin Gregg (JWC), Elaine Milam, Terry Kruczek, Judy Rostad, Sandy Core, Cindy McCuistion, Pam Tipton, Bobbe Crawford, Carolyn Harding, Nicky Anderson Standlee, Brenda Becknell.

Every moment matters.

Don’t waste a single one.

For over 35 years, Covenant Heart and Vascular Institute has provided everything from routine community health screenings to advanced heart procedures.

There are many serious causes of chest pain including heart attacks, blood clots and aneurysms. If you are experiencing chest pain – come see the specialists at the only certified Chest Pain Center in Lubbock.

Together, we’ll help ensure you’re enjoying every moment with a full heart.

To learn more and take an online risk assessment, visit covenanthealth.org/heart.

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Celebrate America luncheon, July 14 Mae Simmons & Montelongo pools to open July 3 The Lubbock Christian Women’s Connection will host a “Celebrate America” luncheon, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14 at Lubbock Country Club, 3400 Mesa Road.

Bill Fuller, a Navy Vietnam veteran will talk about his Pilgrimage to Freedom.

Musical entertainment

will be provided by Russ and Linda Murphy and Friends.

Cost for the program and buffet lunch is $15 per person.

RSVP by July 10 to LubbockCWC@gmail.com or Shelby at 806-777-5585.

Attendees are welcome to wear red, white and blue to celebrate.

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Parks and Recreation opened Mae Simmons and Montelongo pools on July 3 to kick off the 2020 pool season.

Hours of operation are Tuesday - Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m.

Entrance fees are $2 for youth (17 and under) and $3 for adults. Pool rentals and swim lessons are not available. Following GA-26 and

LERT guidelines, capacity will be limited and admission will be on a first-come first-served basis.

Children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Mae Simmons Pool is at 24th Street & MLK Boulevard, and Montelongo Pool is at 3200 Bates Street.

For more information, contact the Parks and Recreation Office at 775-2673.

What a difference

Yester day my husband thought he saw a cockroach in the kitchen. He sprayed eve r y t h i n g d o w n a n d cleaned thoroughly. Today I’m putting the cockroach in the bathroom.

A homeschooling mom said her child called her on the phone from his room to tell her he missed the bus and won’t be in school today.

Single man w/tp seeks single woman w/hand sanitizer for good clean fun.

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You will make their day, and they will make yours.

Call

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May we ask a favor of you?

Please shop small.

Shop with local small businesses. For many small businesses, it’s now or never.

We’re counting on you!

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Kids & senior meal programs

Parks and Recreation serves meals to children and seniors.

In partnership with the South Plains Food Bank, children ages 18 and under are being fed, from noon to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the sites listed below.

Children must be present to receive a free meal.

All meals will be provided in take-away containers for curbside pick-up.

- Hodges Community Center - 4011 University - Mae Simmons Community Center - 2004 Oak Avenue - Maxey Community Center - 4020 30th Street The Senior Meal Program serves seniors ages 60 and older from noon to 1 p.m. at the sites listed below for a suggested donation of $3.

Those currently enrolled and receiving transportation services are eligible for meal delivery.

All meals will be provided in take away containers for curbside pick-up.

Completion of proper paperwork is required for meal eligibility.

- Lubbock Adult Activity Center – 2001 19th St. - Copper Rawlings Adult Activity Center – 213 40th St. - Mae Simmons Adult Activity Center – 2004 Oak Ave. - Maggie Trejo Supercenter – 3200 Amherst St. - Homestead Adult Program – 5401 56th St. And just like that – having a mask, rubber gloves, duct tape, plastic sheeting, and rope in your trunk is OK.

Need assistance, help or information, and don’t know where to look?

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Cycles of Life…& Death & ‘Easy Rider’ Get your motor runnin’, head out on the highway Lookin’ for adventure and whatever comes our way - Steppenwolf

‘Easy Rider’ was the ultimate epochal—and ultimately doomed—buddy picture, a movie replete with drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, sex and violence as elements of the seductive allure of freedom that the open road can offer.

As Captain America (a well-groomed, leather-clad Peter Fonda) and Billy (a slovenly, fringe-jacketed Dennis Hopper), the pair journey across America in an attempt to abandon mainstream life for one sans responsibilities.

Flush with cash from a Los Angeles cocaine deal (which features a cameo appearance by record producer Phil Spector, who hands over the money), the two modernday cowboys roar east on flashy motorcycles, bound for Mardi Gras and, eventually, a cushy retirement in Florida.

‘Easy Rider,’ whose script began as ‘The Loners,’ is all about freedom—what it means and what it costs.

Filmed in 1968, it took a year to edit 80 hours of often-freewheeling guerrilla footage down to a marketable 95-minute offering.

Fonda and Hopper, the film’s producer/director

team, found Columbia Pictures’ bean counters reluctant to dole out adequate funds for the endeavor. So tight became the allotted budget that the idea of an original music score was scrapped in lieu of using rock singles on the soundtrack.

Throughout the odyssey, a reflective Captain America seems to appreciate and respect everything and everyone he encounters, whereas Billy stumbles about in a pot-induced fog while rhap-

been to portray the pair sailing off into the sunset out of Key West at the movie’s end.

“It wasn’t until the end that it took on a genuinely artistic dimension—when it suddenly evolved into an indictment of the American redneck, and his hatred and intolerance for anything remotely different from himself,” Southern said.

The shocking demise of the two bikers comes at the hands of a shotgun-wielding assailant.

sodizing about the hedonistic bacchanal that awaits in New Orleans.

On the way, they meet an alcoholic ACLU lawyer named George Hansen (Jack Nicholson, at the time a virtual unknown).

George decides to head east with the two but is brutally murdered after all three unintentionally stir up trouble at a small-town Louisiana café.

Following a nightmarish LSD trip during Mardi Gras, Captain America and Billy continue their travels.

Writer Terry Southern worked on the script with Hopper and Fonda and later told Creative Screenwriting that the original idea had

After Peter Fonda previewed the movie for his father, the legendary Henry (who had worked in mainstream motion pictures for 35 years) admitted to his son, “I’m worried about it because the film is inaccessible…I just don’t think many people will get it.”

Not so. Aimed at the high school- and college-age audience, ‘Easy Rider’ offered an unflinching look at the dying days of the 1960s counterculture.

Shot on a shoestring budget of $900,000, Easy Rider’ raked in $60 million dollars at the box office and garnered a Best First Work award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

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Water Quality report available

The 2019 Water Quality Report for Lubbock is available to the public.

A water quality report, sometimes referred to as a consumer confidence report, is produced annually and provides water utility customers with important information about the quality of their drinking water.

The report is available at mylubbock.us/waterqualityreport or a hard copy of the report can be requested by calling 806775-2586.

Lubbock’s Water Quality Report explains to customers where Lubbock gets its supply of water, what Lubbock is doing to plan for future water supplies, the effectiveness of the community’s water conservation efforts, and how the water is treated and delivered to customers.

Most importantly, the report provides the concentration of substances found in Lubbock’s drinking water and if their levels meet regulatory drinking water standards.

“The City of Lubbock’s drinking water meets all regulatory standards,” said Director of Water Utilities Aubrey Spear.

“We are proud to continuously deliver clean and safe drinking water to the citizens of Lubbock for their enjoyment.”

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What’s new at the ‘Markets’ in Lubbock Guess what?

Yes folks, this month I have some great info about new and expanded products at United and Market Street stores. Obviously the larger stores offer more variety due to more shelf space.

I enlisted the help of Brenda Garcia, M.S., R.D., who is the health and wellness manager and is often on radio as a spokesperson for United.

We met recently at the 98th and Quaker Market Street, so items listed, may or may not be found at other locations.

We started at the “ready-made” section. I couldn’t believe my eyes, seeing the extensive variety of beautiful veggies and gourmet selections of meats and seafood; ie: stuffed pork tenderloin, shrimp scampi, and even ribeye complete with herb and garlic butter.

The latter I couldn’t resist and tried it for dinner – absolutely delicious! Most all items come complete with their own containers for use in either type of oven. I used my own cast iron grill pan for the ribeye and added more seasonings.

Also in this category are family size “Crock Meals.” This is a great

time-saving item for all those busy moms. A lot of other meals are also available in the single serve size.

The next stop was the deli area.

Brand new is a “Red Cheddar, extra mature (aged 14 months), also available are a “carmelized onion” cheese, and a “liver pate with cognac.” You now have a choice of two chocolate flavored hummus, one is labeled as a dip; the two brands are Boreshead and Sabra. Try them for your next party!

The produce department at the 98th Street location is quite extensive. Brenda showed me a brand new melon (USA) called “Summer Kiss.”

It looks like a cantaloupe on the outside, but inside the flesh resembles a Honey Dew. It even comes wrapped with its own green netting, complete with an attached label.

Brenda said this variety of melons is creamy, sweet and delicious.

Another produce convenience is the pre-bagged fruits - apples, oranges, even “Heirloom Navel Oranges.”

I’ve never heard of them, but they were $5 for a 3 lb. bag.

A real bargain was the 2-pound

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bag of lemons on sale, at that time for $2.99. There’s also a variety and many choices of pre-bagged veggies.

There’s two fairly new grapes for the connoisseur. Cotton Candy and Sapphire. The latter is in an elongated black grape that is easier for cutting in half and is used in fruit salads.

The produce gentleman on duty was kind enough to give me a taste of the “Kiwano” or “Horned Melon.” The gelatinous center is loaded with edible seeds, but is sweet and is easy to eat.

The next example was of the “Dragon Fruit.” It was quite different in texture and taste, but delicious. The flesh resembles soft pudding with tiny black flecks. It has a sweet and mild taste.

Also alongside the “exotics” were small papayas, pineapples, passion fruit, and very large pomegranates.

There’s so much more info, but we’ll have to wait for next time, due to space allowances.

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By Laurie Foster Founder/director Backyard Mission Guess what?

All policemen aren’t prejudice.

Guess what?

All protestors aren’t rioters.

Sitting on the throat of a man with your hands in your pockets, resulting in death?

Intolerable. Justice is required.

Destroying and looting the businesses of hard-working innocent people?

Intolerable. Justice is required.

Guess what?

HATE is the sword of the enemy.

Guess what?

LOVE is still the answer, and his name is still Jesus.

Are we living in fear of each other?

The father’s heart is that his children live in peace with each other.

2 Chronicles 7:14 – “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

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Baseball 1945 is written on the back of this photo. The photo was in the file of old photos recently uncovered. If you know names of any of the players or coaches, contact the Golden Gazette via maedwards@wordpub.com or call 806-744-2220.

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My goal for 2020 was to lose 10 pounds.

Only have 14 to go.

I just did a week’s worth of cardio after walking into a spider web.

Rio Grande Valley Arroz con Pollo

(Sylvia Casares returns to her Brownsville roots Serves 6 with this frontera-style family dish.)

4 tablespoons vegetable oil 12 pieces chicken (legs, thighs, wings, breast quarters), or 18 drumettes, or 2 cups shredded cooked chicken 1 ½ cups coarsely chopped tomatoes 1 clove garlic 1 1⁄3 cups long-grain white rice (don’t use short-grained or parboiled) ¼ cup chopped white onion 3 tablespoons tomato sauce Rio Grande Valley Arroz con 2 teaspoons Tex-Mex Holy Trinity Pollo from The Enchilada Queen Cookbook by Sylvia Casares with (see below) Dotty Griffith.

1 teaspoon salt Photograph by Jody Horton

Directions: 1. If you’re using chicken pieces or the drumettes: in a large skillet with a lid over medium heat, heat 2 tablespoons of the oil until it shimmers.

Add the chicken. Cover and cook for about 20 minutes, turning occasionally, to brown all sides.

Remove the chicken and its juices to a shallow pan and keep warm.

Omit this step if using shredded cooked chicken.

2. In a blender jar or work bowl of a food processor, combine the tomatoes, garlic, and 1/4 cup water.

Process for 20 seconds, or until smooth.

Set aside.

3. In a large skillet over medium heat (use the same pan you used to cook the chicken, if applicable), combine the remaining 2 tablespoons oil and the rice.

Cook, stirring every minute, until the rice turns a light golden yellow, about 5 minutes.

4. To the rice in the skillet, carefully stir in the processed tomato mixture, the onion, 2½ cups water,

the tomato sauce, Holy Trinity, and salt.

Stir well to combine.

5. If using bone-in chicken, crowd the pieces in a single layer over the rice, otherwise skip to the next step.

6. Return the skillet to high heat.

Bring the liquid to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes.

7. Set aside off the heat, covered, for 5 minutes to finish cooking.

8. If using shredded chicken, stir the chicken into the rice to heat through just before serving.

The Tex-Mex Holy Trinity

(Small Batch) Makes 4 teaspoons 3 garlic cloves, peeled 1½ teaspoons cumin seeds 1½ teaspoons whole black peppercorns Combine the garlic, cumin, peppercorns, and 1 tablespoon water in a molcajete, mortar and pestle, or spice or coffee grinder. Process until the garlic is a smooth paste and the spices are finely ground. Transfer to a small container with a lid, and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

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Nelson named Working Cowboy Award recipient Joel Nelson, a Texas cowboy who has considerable talent with horses, will be the third recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award during the 43rd Annual National Golden Spur Award dinner at 6 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Overton Hotel in Lubbock.

“This award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily on horseback and caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, director of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University.

“Although Joel grew up in Seymour, Texas, and now ranches in Alpine, his impact has been felt from the King Ranch in South Texas to the Parker Ranch in Hawaii.”

Nelson has spent decades working on some of the most respected ranches in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Hawaii, specializing in breaking colts.

He and his wife, Sylvia, work together on horseback operating the Anchor Ranch near Alpine and raising Angus cattle.

Nelson’s skills on the ranch are rivaled only by his widespread reputation as a cowboy poet.

He takes the raw materials of ranch life and expresses them in poetry. In 2009, Nelson was named a National

Cows and horses have Heritage Fellow been part of Nelson’s life by the National ever since, and he has Endowment managed to merge his two for the Arts for great passions: poetry and “major contrithe cowboy lifestyle. butions to the “There’s rhythm and excellence, vimeter to everything when tality and public you work outside,” Nelappreciation of son said. the folk and tra“Trotting across a ditional arts.” grassy flat, working cattle, In addition, the day-to-day changes of his “Breaker the seasons; they all have in the Pen” ala poetic cadence.” bum of cowboy To register for the Naverse is the only tional Golden Spur Award cowboy poetry Photo by Ross Hecox dinner, call Vicki Quinnever nominated for a Grammy Texas cowboy Joel Nelson, recipient of the 2020 Working Cowboy Award, Williams at 806-834-0469 Award. stands with his horse Stoney on the Anchor Ranch in the Davis Mountains near or register online at www.

Nelson was Alpine. The award is given annually by the Ranching Heritage Association, a ranchingheritage.org/spur. invited in 1999 nationwide non-profit organization supporting the programs of the National Reservations are required

by Oct. 1. to Rothbury, Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech.

Tickets are $95 for RHA Northumberland, England, horn between my legs,” said the ground and taught me to for one month as a poet-in- 74-year-old Nelson. “I must tell the difference between a members and $125 for nonmembers. residence visiting school have been 3. He pointed to cow and a horse track.” classrooms, young farmers’ meetings and public gatherings.

An article in “Poetry Review” described him as captivating his audience and “incomparable as an inspirational force for poetry.”

Since 1986 he has been a regular performer at the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and helped found the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, where he served on the organizing committee for 33 years.

“My earliest memory is of my father carrying me in the saddle with the saddle

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Voting for primary runoffs

Runoff elections are set for 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. July 14 to finalize which candidates will be on the November ballot.

Early voting continues through July 10 for the runoff primary elections. For questions, call the elections office at 775-1338.

Lubbock runoffs are for the 99th District Court that primarily handles civil cases, and the 140th District Court that handles criminal cases.

Kara Darnell and Phillip Hays are vying for the 99th court; Douglas Freitag and Tom Brummett, for the 140th court.

Navigating the storm: We’re not in the same boat I heard that we are all in the same boat, but it’s not like that. We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat.

Your ship could be shipwrecked and mine might not be. Or vice versa.

For some, quarantine is optimal. A moment of reflection, of re-connection, easy in flip flops, with a cocktail or coffee.

For others, this is a desperate financial & family crisis.

For some who live alone, they’re facing endless loneliness. While for others it is peace, rest & time with

their mother, father, sons & daughters.

With the $600 weekly increase in unemployment, some are bringing in more money to their households than they were working.

Others are working more hours for less money due to pay cuts or loss in sales.

Some were concerned about getting a certain candy for Easter while others were concerned if there would be enough bread, milk and eggs for the weekend.

Some want to go back to work because they don’t qualify for unemployment

and are running out of money. Others want to kill those who break the quarantine.

Some are home spending 2-3 hours a day helping a child with online schooling, while others are spending 2-3 hours/day to educate their children on top of a 1012 hour workday.

Some have experienced the near death of the virus, some have already lost someone from it, and some are not sure if their loved ones are going to make it.

Others don’t believe this is a big deal.

Some have faith in God

and expect miracles during this 2020. Others say the worst is yet to come.

So, friends, we are not in the same boat. We are going through a time when our perceptions and needs are completely different. Each will emerge from this storm.

It is important to see beyond what is seen at first glance. Not just looking, actually seeing.

We are all on different ships during this storm experiencing a very different journey.

Realize that and be kind.

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Eye scanner detects molecular aging in humans People often say that eyes are windows to the soul.

Now it appears they may also be windows to human aging.

All people age, but individuals do so at different rates, some faster and others slower. While this observation is common knowledge, there is no universally accepted measure of biological aging.

Numerous aging-related metrics have been proposed and tested, but no marker to date has been identified or noninvasive method developed that can accurately measure and track biological aging in individuals.

In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have discovered that a specialized eye scanner that accurately measures spectroscopic signals from proteins in lens of the eye can detect and track biological aging in living humans.

According to the researchers, chronological age does not adequately measure individual variation in the rate of biological aging.

Their findings appear in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.

“The absence of clinical tools and metrics to quantitatively evaluate how each person is aging at the molecular level represents a major impediment to understanding

aging and maximizing health throughout life,” explained corresponding author Lee E. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, pathology & laboratory medicine, psychiatry, and ophthalmology at Boston University.

“The lens contains proteins that accumulate agingrelated changes throughout life.

“These lens proteins provide a permanent record of each person’s life history of aging. Our eye scanner can decode this record of how a person is aging at the molecular level.”

Researchers believe these results pave the way for a potentially transformative clinical tool for objective assessment and tracking of molecular aging in humans.

“The framework for clinical implementation of this technology to measure molecular aging is similar to other recently adopted clinical biomarkers, including PET brain imaging for Alzheimer’s disease, bone densitometry for osteoporosis, and serum blood tests for diabetes mellitus,” said Goldstein, who also holds an appointment at Boston University College of Engineering.

While large test batteries incorporating composite metrics have been developed to track human aging, these are far removed from underlying molecular mechanisms

of aging and are ill-suited for personalized longitudinal medical care.

“By contrast, eye scanning technology that probes lens

protein affords a rapid, noninvasive, objective technique for direct measurement of molecular aging that can be easily, quickly, and safely

implemented at the point of care. Such a metric affords potential for precision medical care across the lifespan,” Goldstein said.

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Low-quality cotton may not make nice shirt,

By Karen Michael When cotton is abundant but the quality is low, farmers still need to sell the product.

Texas Tech University researchers are exploring ways

to use cotton that may not be ideal for a shirt or jeans.

Noureddine Abidi is a professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science and the director of the Fiber & Biopolymer Research In-

stitute, or FBRI. One of the possible ways he has found to make a profit from lowquality cotton is in mimicking another product entirely.

Researchers at FBRI have found a way to make a gel from low-quality cotton that can be formed into a product very much like plastic.

When handled, the smooth and pliable product looks and feels very much like the same plastic found in sandwich bags. It can also be made into thicker forms for other needs.

Normal plastic is a petroleum-based product. It does not decompose easily.

But the benefit of using cotton for a similar purpose, such as the ubiquitous gro-

cery bags overflowing from under the sink of almost every home, is that once that product is tossed in the trash and exposed to rain and soil bacteria, it will decompose.

“It is basically going from the soil to the soil,” Abidi said.

The tricky part of using cellulose in cotton fibers to form a product is that it cannot simply be melted into the desired shape.

Cotton fibers must be dissolved and molded in a gel form and film because cotton does not melt.

Abidi said the new product was not developed as a way to make a new product out of cotton necessarily, but as a way to make a product

from low-quality, or lowmicronaire, cotton.

“We are not just going to tell cotton producers, ‘Don’t worry about cotton quality, just make fiber,’” Abidi said.

There is plenty of demand for high-quality cotton from textile mills in Asia, Abidi said.

However, growing cotton can be impacted by mother nature, so when cotton producers harvest cotton that is less desirable for textile processing, they need a place to sell it.

“We are still going to find a market for that,” Abidi said. “Every year, we have a good amount of cotton that is discounted. That is really

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Bioplastic, made from cellulose, can mimic petroleum-based plastic, but will decompose when thrown away. The product can also be made thicker to transform it for other needs.

Source of information: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/discoveries/posts/spring-2020/ Bioplastics-from-low-grade-cotton.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_ medium=alumni&utm_campaign=spring2020&utm_content=bioplastics

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what we are looking for.”

The FBRI has been for many years a leader in interdisciplinary, collaborative research with different entities within and outside Texas Tech. The FBRI labs provide valuable research and evaluation services to cotton breeders, researchers, producers, and seed companies. They also provide excellent opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to perform their research projects on cotton.

The FBRI facility, located off East Loop 289 in Lubbock, tests every aspect of the cotton fibers, from seed cotton ginning, to processing, spinning, dyeing, and finishing.

“Everything is under one roof. We gin the cotton. We test for the quality. We spin, and then we form a small piece of textile product, either knitted or woven, and then we can test for the quality of

that textile product. We can also do dyeing here, and we can also finish.

“Everything here is under one roof,” he said. “I think we are the only one in the world going all the way from the seed to the final product. FBRI is becoming the premier institute to do this kind of work on cotton.”

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Small exercises: you can sometimes fix it yourself By this age, we all have a few aches and pains, at least occasionally.

Today I want to write about a problem I see with patients in my office that might apply to you. Let’s say you hurt yourself. It isn’t a bad hurt where you go to the emergency room. But perhaps you have been to a doctor or perhaps not, and yet the pain lingers.

Let’s say it is a shoulder.

Maybe you were working in the closet with clothes and shoes and moving things around, reaching toward the top shelf and moving clothes on hangers. When you were done, you had pain in right shoulder. Often, we don’t actually know what we did that caused our pain.

Sometimes people have an X-ray, sometimes not. This is a most common ailment.

Most of the time, if imaging is done, it is negative meaning nothing can be seen on an X-ray to point to a reason for the pain. The same could be said for an MRI or cat scan.

As good as imaging is, it isn’t perfect, and it doesn’t show everything. When you hurt and you can’t find a reason, it doesn’t mean it is all in your head. If we took a biopsy of the tissue (which I am not suggesting), we would probably find that at that micro-level, there are changes that can be seen that can account for the pain.

This is what the research tells us.

Most people start babying their painful shoulder. They don’t want to use that shoulder. Instead they overwork the other side of the body.

Not using your arm causes even more difficulties. It is the use of the arm, the contracting and relaxing of the muscles that push the fluids

often we do the opposite. We baby the problem thinking we shouldn’t stress it. By babying the shoulder, you are likely stressing out the opposite shoulder.

Many people think of exercise as a four-letter word because they conjure up an image of running for miles and sweating. That isn’t what I am talking about. If you

through. So, swelling is relieved more by movement than being stationary.

Years ago, I was with my aunt in Portland, Oregon. We played tourist a bit and at the end, her knee hurt. She went home. Her knee still hurt. I can’t recall if she went to the doctor or not.

She wasn’t sure exactly what she did that hurt her knee. She just knew it was on our trip. I vividly remember what happened. She started going to a gym and exercising and, lo and behold, her knee stopped hurting. She didn’t know why.

People really don’t like to hear one more word about exercising. But if you want to get back the use of a knee, a shoulder, or a neck that is hurting, then exercise it. Too

will do simple ranges of motion where you put the joint, as best as you can, in all the positions it normally goes in, that is exercise.

If you can do that, then put a can of beans in your hand and continue those ranges of motion. Do it numerous times a day. And keep doing it to regain your function. Even with that can of beans, you are exercising the muscles.

Obviously, I’m not talking about severe problems, just the everyday aches and pains that many people want to ignore. Why ignore it when you can fix it?

Many exercise programs are not about hours of sweating. For example, I have a patient who came in with her oxygen machine, breath-

ing hard from just walking from the parking lot into my waiting room. She told me she had seen her doctor the week before, and he said she needed to do more exercise.

I know how hard exercise is for this woman.

But I knew her doctor was right. I asked what she does with her time. She has been sewing. I suggested she get a timer and set it for 30 minutes.

When the timer goes off, get up, walk to the back door of her house, then walk to the front door, and then return to her chair at the sewing machine.

Hold onto the chair and turn her body, at the hips, from side to side. I did it for her in the office. She smiled.

She thought that would be a good idea.

Some people think exercising means you have to get out and walk around the block. This woman wouldn’t be able to make it around the block. Just a little exercise will go a long way.

There is only one person who is really watching out for your body. That is you.

As I tell my patients, you are in here with me for 30 minutes. I can’t do what you can do with the rest of those hours. Be your best advocate.

Do what is necessary to keep yourself healthy and active. If you are active, you are exercising.

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Let’s talk about hearing loss & the benefits of treatment “Would you like a roll, Dad?” Marilyn asked her dad, age 84, across the restaurant table.

Her dad kept eating, his gaze focused on his plate.

Marilyn tried again. Touching her dad’s forearm, she said more loudly, “Dad! Would you like a roll?”

This time Marilyn’s dad looked up with raised eyebrows, his signal that he knew his daughter was speaking to him, but he had not caught what she said.

“DAD,” Marilyn fairly shouted, leaning toward him and speaking slowly.

“WOULD YOU LIKE A ROLL?” “Ah,” her dad said, with a smile, “yes, I would. Thank you.”

Marilyn saw a couple of heads turn her way and felt embarrassed. She wondered if those other diners thought she was yelling at her dad in anger or something.

She tried to wrap up their lunch as quickly as possible, avoiding further conversation to save them both the frustration.

Like thousands of other family caregivers, Marilyn

was learning how to cope with her dad’s hearing loss.

She knew the situation was stressful for him because he frequently expressed his frustration at not being able to participate in conversations.

What hurt him the most, he said, was not being able to hear the first words his greatgranddaughter said.

But Dad’s hearing loss was stressful for Marilyn, too. She constantly had to repeat herself or even write things down to communicate. At the end of some days with Dad, her vocal cords felt strained. And she grew ever-more reluctant to take her dad out in public because of the way strangers stared at them as she raised her voice to communicate.

Effects of hearing loss

The effects of hearing loss can extend beyond the most obvious frustrations. The following are a few effects to be aware of:

• Social isolation

As people lose their hearing, they may become less likely to participate in social activities that involve con-

versation, which can lead caused by hearing loss. to isolation. But the effects How to recognize the of hearing loss extend far signs of hearing loss beyond the social conseFor many older adults, quences. hearing loss occurs gradu• Sadness & depression ally over the course of many Untreated hearing loss years. also has been implicated in Because humans tend to sadness and depression. adapt to sensory deficits, One study by the U.S. people with hearing loss may National Council on Aging find ways to compensate befound that people who did cause they don’t realize they not treat their hearing loss are losing their hearing. were 50 percent more likely Older adults with hearing to report symptoms of de- loss might: pression.

• Frequently complain of • Increased risk of falls a “poor connection” to exThe ear plays a key role in cuse an inability to hear telebalance, and hearing loss is phone conversations clearly considered a “modifiable risk • Not participate in confactor” for falls, according to versations in group settings, a report by doctors Frank R. such as a family gathering Lin and Luigi Ferrucci.

• Become withdrawn If a loved one experiences when they used to be talkfrequent falls, it may be ative worthwhile to suggest they • Make comments that have their hearing checked. don’t match the conversation that’s underway • Stress on caregivers • Turn up the TV volume Hearing loss can exact a or speak in a loud voice toll on family caregivers.

• Avoid face-to-face Trying to communicate chats and turn to email or with a person who can’t hear is often exasperating and texting instead disheartening.

How to talk about Spousal caregivers, in hearing loss particular, might experience Like many aging adults, sadness due to the loss of Marilyn’s dad initially companionship that can be

scoffed when his daughter suggested he have his hearing tested.

He believed hearing aids were only for the elderly, and he wasn’t going to wear any.

For many people, hearing aids still carry a social stigma. But if you broach the conversation with compassion, you may be able to help a family member recognize the benefits of treating hearing loss.

• Start with empathy

Use phrases like, “You look frustrated when you have trouble understanding what I’m saying,” or “It must be hard to watch your friends talking and not be able to understand them.”

Empathy conveys your sensitivity to the other person’s feelings and makes clear your desire to help.

• Share your feelings

Share how the situation affects you. Feel free to share your feelings regarding the impact of a loved one’s hearing loss on your own quality of life.

It’s OK to say things like, “I miss our conversations so much,” or “I feel embarrassed when I have to raise

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my voice in public for you to hear me.”

• Benefits of treatment

Follow up with the benefits of treating hearing loss.

Point out the many ways in which a loved one might benefit from addressing their inability to hear clearly.

Being able to participate in conversations again or hearing what the grandchildren have to say might persuade an adult to treat hearing loss.

• Solutions

Offer solutions beyond hearing aids. Many types of assistive devices are available for people with various degrees of hearing loss.

A captioned telephone service might help with phone conversations, and devices such as alarm clocks and doorbells that provide visual cues by flashing might be all a relative needs to live safely with mild to moderate hearing loss.

After the incident in the restaurant, Marilyn took her dad home and had a conversation about his hearing.

Initially resistant, he eventually said he had noticed his hearing declining for some time.

He admitted he had missed a parcel delivery recently because he didn’t hear the doorbell, and he wished he could have followed the family’s conversation around the Christmas dinner table.

For her part, Marilyn expressed how much she missed those easy conversations they used to have in Dad’s workshop, and how she wished her children could experience those moments, too.

Marilyn’s dad eventually

made a trip to an audiologist for recommendations.

Having the hearing conversation can feel as daunting as the car keys talk, but the benefits of treating hearing loss can pay big dividends.

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TEXAS TECH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

By Well, it is now July and most of us have been in lockdown since mid-March.

It seems like forever!

Before the shut-down, there were things we just ‘did’ without thinking. Now we have second thoughts.

Here are some of mine.

• When I pick up an item in the store and put it back down, have I contracted or possibly spread the virus?

• When passing a neighbor on a walk…they have a mask and I do not…should I stay further away than six feet?

• Do I just jump in the car and go to the store for an item or two or wait until I need to make a larger purchase?

• When is it safe to return to the doctor, dentist, hair salon, or nail salon?

• Is it safe for my grandkids to play on the playground?

• What can I do to help those in my neighborhood without getting in close touch?

I am continuing to have second thoughts as I am sure most of you are as well. My recommendation is to put the shoe on the other foot. Do to your friends and neighbors as they would for you.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is slowly re-opening. Our office remains closed to the public, but we are hopeful that soon

we can open our doors. If you have questions about our services, call our office 806743-7787 or 806-743-7821.

The Care Partner Academy has resumed sessions via ZOOM. If you are interested in joining our sessions, notify me via email at joan. blackmon@ttuhsc.edu. You can join on a computer or via phone. Sessions are 60 minutes in length and can provide you with an opportunity to discuss topics with others in the community.

July is noted for U.S. Independence. This probably means more this year than ever before. Many festivities usually held in this month have been cancelled or delayed. But for areas that have been slowly re-opening. it is truly an independence day.

A few quotes about independence.

• The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~ James G. Blaine • America is a tune. It must be sung together ~Gerald Stanley Lee • America means opportunity, freedom, power. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson • Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. ~ John F. Kennedy July will give us a new meaning for ‘freedom’ as we continue to evolve.

Here are some things I like about summer.

Some of the best memories are made in flip flops ~ Kellie Elmore A man says a lot of things in summer he does not mean in winter. ~ Patricia Briggs A perfect summer day is

when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing and the lawnmower is broken. ~ James Dent Enjoy life, stay safe. We’ll get through this together.

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‘Am I going to be OK?’ Giving people confidence & freedom

By Zach Holtzman Financial Advisor I believe the people who have paved the way for the rest of us should be highly valued and well cared for in having the retirement strategy they deserve.

At Holtzman Wealth Strategies, we often work with these couples and individuals who are nearing or are already in retirement and who have unfortunately not been well cared for by their previous finan-

cial advisor, and they are uncertain if their money will be able to last through retirement. Because of that, we find they are spending too much time worrying about their money instead of enjoying their precious years.

In addition, we work with many people who have sadly lost a loved one and feel overwhelmed by the burden of navigating their financial journey alone.

When I was first starting my

career in the financial advising industry, I met Harold. Harold was a retired dentist and was working in his front yard. I immediately knew he was someone I would like to work with because of how kind he was and how he wanted to make sure his finances were working best for him and his wife, Joan.

We would visit on occasion and he would reiterate to me that we should get together soon because they had not heard from their financial advisor in many years, and they felt lost not knowing what to do.

Unfortunately, 3 weeks later, Harold passed away and left Joan to navigate the financial journey alone.

I knew this was not OK. God puts people in your life who leave a legacy of how you care for others. The connection and commitment I have with people in their “golden years,” I attribute to my strong relationship I had with my grandparents. Specifically, my grandfather.

Growing up in Austin, Texas, I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with my grandparents.

My grandfather, who worked in the financial industry as well, had a big impact on my life. “Grandad” fought in WWII and was actually shot down from his plane over the ocean near Germany.

Thankfully, he survived and went on to make a difference for so many people, including myself. Hearing stories of his sacrifice and dedication to our country and family was inspiring. People like him truly paved the way for the rest of us. As I read books like “The Greatest Generation” by Tom Brokaw, I knew these kinds of people were valuable to the fabric of our country.

After graduating Texas Tech University, I had a “career crisis.” I finished school, but was working in a job that was about serving the company and not as much about serving others. I was struggling trying to figure out how I could best use the gifts God had given me to benefit others.

Many months went by where I would go to work and not enjoy what I was doing. Sometimes God brings you to a point where you have to reflect on what is most important and evaluate what you truly enjoy doing.

I knew I wanted to work with people in their retirement years because I have the most respect for them. Thankfully, I got to spend time talking with a lot of other financial advisors and knew right away this industry was going to be the best use of my gifts to serve those nearing or already in retirement.

In May 2018, after more than 10 successful years with a large brokerage company, I decided to take my focus even deeper by serving those nearing or already in retirement, and established an independent financial advising business called Holtzman Wealth Strategies.

From my experience of working with this group of people, I am now fulfilling what God had truly called me to do.

As a result of working with folks nearing or already in retirement, I have established a three-step planning process.

Step 1

Step 1 is called the “Seen and Heard” stage. You have a story behind the money you have worked so hard to accumulate. We want to see and hear how you have gotten (See Confidence, Page 22)

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Story of Adam & Eve’s dog

Adam and Eve said, Lord, when we were in the garden, you walked with us every day.

Now we do not see you anymore. We are lonesome here, and it is difficult for us to remember how much you love us.

And God said, “I will create a companion for you that will be with you and who will be a reflection of my love for you, so that you will love me even when you cannot see me.”

Regardless of how selfish or childish or unlovable you may be, this new companion will accept you as you are and will love you as I do, in spite of yourselves.

And God created a new animal to be a companion for Adam and Eve. And it

was a good animal, and God was pleased.

And the new animal was pleased to be with Adam and Eve, and he wagged his tail.

And Adam said, “Lord, I have already named all the animals in the kingdom, and I cannot think of a name for this new animal.”

And God said, “I have created this new animal to be a reflection of my love for you, his name will be a reflection of my own name, and you will call him DOG.” And dog lived with Adam and Eve and was a companion to them and loved them.

And they were comforted.

And God was pleased.

And dog was content and wagged his tail.

After a while, it came to pass that an angel came to the Lord and said, “Lord,

Adam and Eve have become filled with pride.

They strut and preen like peacocks, and they believe they are worthy of adoration.”

Dog has indeed taught them that they are loved, but perhaps too well.

And God said, “I will create for them a companion who will be with them and who will see them as they are.

“The companion will remind them of their limitations, so they will know that they are not always worthy of adoration.”

And God created CAT to be a companion to Adam and Eve. And cat would not obey them. And when Adam and Eve gazed into cat’s eyes, they were reminded that they were not the supreme beings.

And Adam and Eve learned humility.

And they were greatly improved.

And God was pleased.

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I was so bored last night that I called Jake from State Farm just to talk to somebody. He asked me what I was wearing.

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The money was raised during the 38th Annual State of the City address in January. Every year a portion of the proceeds from the State of the City address go to a charity chosen by the mayor.

Over the past 38 years, the Lubbock Apartment Association has donated more than $200,000 to local charities selected by the mayor.

Confidence & freedom

way that mirrors your priorities, our job is to care for it well.

We have ongoing follow up meetings with you each year to make sure you continue to be taken care of.

This is exactly what we did with Joan. She was alone now and needed help and she allowed me to help her. Once we went through this process with Joan, she felt confident that her Step 2 is called the “Guide” financial plan was hers. stage. During this time, we anaWe were able to answer the lyze what you have done and question “Am I going to be offer proven solutions that have OK?” of which she thankfully worked well for others like was. you. Your money and financial She now had the freedom to plan is specific to you, and this spend valuable time on things stage is where we “guide” you that have meaning to her. toward your confident retireGiving people confidence ment path. that they will be well taken care of through retirement is what I do.

Step 3 is called the “Care” But giving them the freedom stage. Now that we have your to spend valuable time on what financial plan in place and your is most important to them is plan is working for you in a who I am.

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Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) by Melanie Melanie (full name Melanie Anne Safka) began her performing career as a folk singer in such hip Big Apple coffeehouses as the Café Wha? Later, at the Brill Building—the New York music-world hotspot—she met record producer Peter Schekeryk, her future manager and husband.

With his connections, Melanie recorded a demo (demonstration

record) called “Beautiful People,” a haunting original ballad that earned her some airplay on New York’s underground radio kingpin, WNEWFM. (“It became a little bit of a buzz in the industry.”)

That “little bit of buzz” would explode into an overpowering roar in 1969 after the little-known artist signed to perform at the Woodstock festival, the biggest concert event in history.

“I had an out-of-body experience…and I wasn’t altered by drugs,” Melanie recalled in 2019.

“The terror kept building in me.

The thought of me performing in front of all those people and that huge stage…Then it started to rain, and I truly believed that everyone was going to get up and go home. It’s raining. I’m free. I’ll go back to life as it was.”

But life for her would never be as it was before Woodstock.

Finally, someone said to her, “You’re next.”

Moments later, Melanie bravely

launched into her seven-song set while many of the drenched attendees there tried to negate the gloom by lighting candles, thousands of which were dispensed by Woodstock emcee Wavy Gravy (formerly known as poet Hugh Romney).

Before long, the vast hillside at the concert site was aglow, countless lights blooming and shooing away the darkness.

Melanie later wanted to commemorate the candle-lighting ceremony and created “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” the next year to honor the milestone event.

She recorded the future hit with Buddah Records-labelmates the Edwin Hawkins Singers, whose dynamic “Oh Happy Day” had been a worldwide smash two years earlier.

(They initially balked about being Melanie’s backup group and requested top billing, which they were never granted.)

She was young and attractive, but it was her histrionic emoting of her first hit 45 that truly imprinted her name on the music world.

Her performance drew comparisons to that of blues-based (and highly regarded) fellow Woodstock performer Janis Joplin.

In “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” Melanie’s lyrics of collective spirituality included such lines as So raise the candles high ‘Cause if you don’t we could stay black against the sky Oh, oh, raise them higher again And if you do we could stay dry against the rain

“I would think only one percent of that audience knew anything about me before I went on that stage,” she told songfacts.com.

“I instantly resonated with 500,000 people at that one moment,” Melanie claims with confidence. “I walked on the stage an unknown

person and walked off a celebrity.”

“Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” became a Top 10 winner and paved the way for five more Melanie hit singles, including “Peace Will Come,” “Ring the Living Bell” and her lone Number One winner, “Brand New Key.”

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‘I. LOVE. COLOR.’ Exhibit at Buddy Holly Center

A new exhibition is on - I. LOVE. COLOR. The tistic development in the fall of 2008 after retiring from a career display at the Buddy Holly Art of Kathryn Thomas.

Kathryn began her ar- in healthcare. She is primarily Center, 1801 Crickets Ave., self-taught through individual study, workshops, and trial and error. Her primary mediums are watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Kathryn made the journey from fledgling artist to professional painter while discovering the deeper meaning behind the statement “I love color.”

The exhibit continues through July 19, in the Buddy Holly Center’s Fine Arts Gallery, 1801 Crickets Ave. The Fine Arts Gallery is free.

For more information about this exhibit, a virtual exhibition, or museum resources accessible from your home, visit www. buddyhollycenter.org, or view on social media.

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