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DON DIEGO
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Morning Show
Living here, playing here, and working here, it’s Don Diego in Southern New Mexico!!!
Celebrity Spotlight
DIERKS BENTLEY'S CATCH PHRASE, "WHERE ARE MY KEYS?" Grammy-nominee Dierks Bentley may walk the red carpets as a country music superstar, but at home, he’s just a regular guy. The proud father of two admits that keeping up with his hectic schedule is easy. But keeping up with his keys is different story. “Like I come home, at eleven o’clock, twelve o’clock at night from playing a hockey game or something, and my dogs will start barking like crazy and wake the whole house up. So I’m like, always trying to fumble for my keys. I can’t ever tell which one is my house key, so I found a way now, where if I hold the bottle opener by the very end, the longest key—the very last key at the bottom—is my house key. So I can slip it in the house real quick and get in there before the dogs recognize I’m trying to get in and go crazy.” Dierks will attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 13th where he is nominated for three awards, including Best Country Album for Up On The Ridge.
AROUND THE TOWN
Don Diego Kettle Corn – Exclusively at the Las Cruces Farmers & Crafts Market (FREE PRIZE WITH EVERY BAG). Saturday morning from 9 a.m. - 1:30. TRY IT WITH PECANS !!!!
“Peacemaker Services." Peacemaker Services is a Christian Counseling and conflict resolution service, 575-571-6849, with a sliding scale fee structure.
The City of Las Cruces is offering fitness classes at community and recreation centers. All classes that suggest a donation fee are offered to individuals 50 years and older only. All other classes are $1.50 and are open to everyone.
Rise and Shine Walk
The City of Las Cruces encourages the public to join the Rise and Shine Walking Group at 6 a.m.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The group meets at the Meerscheidt Recreation Center, 1600 E. Hadley Ave. The cost is $1.50 per person per day and a 30-day punch pass is $36. For more infor¬mation, call the Meerscheidt Recreation Center at 541-2563. The TTY number is 541-2661.
MAKE YOU LAUGH
Last Week, the FBI and New York police launched the biggest multi-state Mafia bust in history, rounding up 127 suspected mobsters from major gangs like the Gambino and Colombo families. The charges go back for years and include murder, extortion, narcotics, racketeering and more. One allegedly killed two people in a bar just because of a dispute over a spilled drink. Their nicknames sound like they were invented by Hollywood scriptwriters. They included Lumpy, Meatball, The Beard, The Claw, The Bull, Vinny Carwash, Tony Bagels and Johnny Pizza.
* They all got fingered by Mickey the Rat.
RIDDLE ME THIS
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off.
What am I?
A Candle.
HOMETOWN HERO’S
HOMETOWN HERO’S are people who serve other people, their community, and take pride in honoring, restoring, preserving, or celebrating an aspect of American hometown life, be it their work, passion, or pastime. Thus, the truest meaning of “HOMETOWN HERO ” is people protecting, defending, caring for or serving others. With that as the background, WHO is a “HOMETOWN HERO ” in your life or the life of others ? E-mail me, dondiego@kgrt.com and let me know who they are. Or call me at 523-KGRT and we can discuss the detials of your HOMETOWN HERO. Some of the greatest “HOMETOWN HERO’S ” in our lives are unknown to the outside world and garner very little, if any, attention. Call today 523-KGRT.
Our Hometown Hero(’s) Today is/are Linda McMahan
To see Linda on the street you might wonder about her because she has a dog with her 99% of the time. Linda is paying it forward by raising pups for Canine Companions for Independence, a 501c3 non profit organization that breeds raises and trains dog for the disabled. Linda became interested in CCI while attending one of the CCI fundraisers. She inquired about the Puupy Raising Program and applied after talking with a couple of other puppy raisers. Raising a puppy is a daunting task, after all they are the only pups you will ever receive that come with not one but two training manuals. A Puppy Raiser for CCI is responsible for laying the foundation on which all the commands this pup will use to become a working service will need. Raising a puppy for CCI is a full time job with no guarantee that the puppy they are raising will graduate as working dog. When they have reached 14 to 18 month age, the pups are returned to the training center and presented in a graduating ceremony which is the culmination of a two week training period where the adult fully trained dog is partnered with his life time human. Separation is a tearful process but Linda knows that the bundle of fur will give a most precious gift to someone who has no idea what the love of a dog can do for them.
Linda McMahan is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
This Is Nuts
Yesterday, several conservative members of the new GOP House kept their campaign promise by proposing the sure-to-be-controversial "Spending Reduction Act of 2011." It lists over 100 proposals to slash spending by $2.5 trillion over 10 years. They include canceling $45 billion in remaining stimulus spending and cutting $1.56 billion a year from Amtrak, $445 million from public broadcasting, $330 million from the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, $530 million from weatherization grants to states, and $1 million in mohair subsidies. Aside from defense, homeland security and veterans' programs, it would roll total federal spending back to what it was in 2008.
• By the time they're done, EVERYBODY on "Sesame Street" will be living in garbage cans.
HEALTH MOMENT
People who drink regularly, especially heavy drinkers, may be more likely than teetotalers to suffer atrial fibrillation, a type of abnormal heart rhythm, according to a research review.
Though definitions of "heavy" drinking varied, it meant at least two or more drinks per day for men, and one or more per day for women. In some studies, heavy drinkers downed at least six drinks per day.
While doctors have long known that a drinking binge can trigger an episode of atrial fibrillation (AF), the findings — reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology — suggest that usual drinking habits may also matter.
When all the study results were combined, heavy drinkers were 51 percent more likely to suffer atrial fibrillation than either non-drinkers or occasional drinkers.
Overall, the risk edged up 8 percent for every increase of 10 grams in participants' daily alcohol intake.
More than 2.6 million U.S. citizens will suffer from atrial fibrillation this year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The condition becomes more common with age and additional risk factors include high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
Sarah Palin isn't the only public figure who's under attack for her incendiary rhetoric. The Governors Highway Safety Association reports that pedestrian deaths were in decline for four years, but rose in the first half of 2010. A spokesman blamed it partly on Michelle Obama urging Americans to improve their health by getting off the couch and walking more. He said that's good, but it increases your exposure to risk. He added that there are other factors, too, like drivers who are texting and pedestrians walking out in traffic while yakking on cell phones or fiddling with iPads.
* If staying on the couch kills you, and walking kills you, too, I'll just stick with the couch.
And I leave you with this thought.
"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due."
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