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DON DIEGO
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Living here, playing here, and working here, it’s Don Diego in Southern New Mexico!!!
Celebrity Spotlight
RONNIE DUNN FEELING THE PRESSURE.
Ronnie Dunn is set to perform during the ACM Awards in April which shouldn't be a problem for a veteran who has performed in front of peers for years. This will mark his first award performance as a solo artist but he says his nerves are the same as they've always been. "Nothing new, pressure you know. I feel it every time I walk up there to do it hoping that I can do that vocal." Ronnie couldn't spill all the beans but he did hint at a show in Las Vegas he'll put on prior to his ACM Award performance and the weather conditions have him worried.
MAKE YOU LAUGH
14-year-old Andrew Mikel II was bored at lunchtime in Virginia's Spotsylvania High School, so he used the tube from his pen as a peashooter and blew some tiny plastic pellets at three classmates. Nobody was injured. But school officials expelled him for the rest of the year and had him charged with three counts of assault. His father and even the school's hearing officer thought it was an overreaction, but school officials were adamant. They said the pen tube met the definition of a projectile weapon under the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act because it was "used to intimidate, threaten or harm others." Principal Russell Davis said, "We have an obligation to protect the students in our building from others who pose a threat to the overall safe learning environment." Mikel will have to take a year-long diversion program to clear his record and be home-schooled for the rest of the year.
* Just as well: when he's home-schooled, he won't be around as many pea-brains.
RIDDLE ME THIS
I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow.
What am I?
The Wind.
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 Glenn and Peggy Coppola
Since 1995, the Coppolas have given away more than 24,000 free bicycle helmets to local children. The couple’s mission was launched after their only child, 8-year-old Timothy, collided on a bicycle with a neighbor’s car in a cul-de-sac only 100 feet away from his home. Timothy, on his friend’s bike without his helmet, suffered a permanent brain injury and died 22 months later.
Research has proven that wearing a helmet can reduce the risk of a head injury by 85 percent. The Coppolas have transformed the heartache of their own loss into a joyous event for the entire community. “Because of Timmy and the program,” says Peggy, “we know that we have saved at least one child. And even if it was only one child, it was worth it.”
Glenn and Peggy Coppola is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
This Is Nuts
University of California researchers discovered why hugs reduce pain: for women at least, the touch or sight of their partner seems to anesthetize them. When female test subjects in good relationships were exposed to a moderately painful burn on the forearm, they reported feeling less pain if they were looking at a photo of their boyfriends, and less still if they were holding their boyfriends' hands. This could also explain why a child feels less pain from a boo-boo when mom "kisses it and makes it better," and why married couples who hug at least four times a day rate themselves as the happiest.
* Holding your wife's hand also prevents pain for the husband, since it keeps her from hitting him.
HEALTH MOMENT
For larger, more efficient muscles, looks like Popeye’s favorite food was a good choice, according to a study published in the February issue of Cell Metabolism.
After participants of the study took a small dose of inorganic nitrate – found prominently in spinach – for three days, they needed less oxygen while riding an exercise bike, due to better cell performance in muscles.
Although researchers are not advising that people take inorganic nitrate supplements, they instead are encouraging finding the nutrient by eating leafy green vegetables like spinach.
We're talking about an amount of nitrate equivalent to what is found in two or three red beets or a plate of spinach. We know that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can help prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes but the active nutrients haven't been clear. This shows inorganic nitrate as a candidate to explain those benefits.
The dietary nitrate has an immediate effect on the body, and further studies will show the effects of higher levels of the nutrient over a longer period of time.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
The Dallas Zoo's famous elephant Jenny has picked the Super Bowl winner. She chooses between two watermelons with the team logos on them. She sniffed at the Green Bay melon, but then turned to the Pittsburgh Steelers melon, stomped it and ate it. That means the Packers will win.
• Well, of course: she's a Packer-derm.
And I leave you with this thought.
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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