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DON DIEGO
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Celebrity Spotlight
For the first time on television, Judds fans will enter the private and public lives of Naomi and Wynonna Judd on the new series The Judds. The six-episode show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. follows the mother-daughter duo as they hit the road for their first and final concert tour in ten years. Cameras capture their emotional journey as they work to heal their relationship, reconnect with their fans and share the spotlight once again. Wynonna says they’re in it together, but will have to travel separately from her mom. “Let me tell you why we have to have separate buses. We’re gonna be so busy, the only time I’m gonna have to myself is literally when I’m in the shower and sleeping. When you go on the road with your mother, you’re never alone.” Get an inside peek at The Judds April 10th when it premieres at 9 PM Eastern on OWN.
RIDDLE ME THIS
How can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a widow, or otherwise legally separated, legally marry 10 men?
She was a clergy woman.
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 Jennie Sawyer
Jennie Sawyer, is a long way from as well as the comfort of her classrooms and dormitories. Jennie has been calling Gambia, in Western Africa, her home for the last 18 months. She is completing a two-year assignment as a volunteer with the Peace Corps. Jennie spent most of her high school years in the streets and then dropped out completely. When she realized her choices were leading to a dead end, she became determined to succeed. She worked hard to get her GED and then worked her way into community college. "I realized I had to leave the streets and my environment behind and focus on my education and my future. As part of her Peace Corps assignment, Jennie is an Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Education Volunteer. When Jennie first arrived, she received three months of training and lived with her host family in rural Gambia-the bush country-she reports. Gambia lies on the western side of Africa. During her assignment, Jennie receives a living allowance and stipend. Many essential supplies are provided, such as medical kits and water filters. Jennie explains, "The Peace Corps emphasizes that volunteers live at the same financial level of local people. This is in part why the Peace Corps is one of the most appreciated and highly regarded overseas programs by locals." For the college student who is striving to gain valuable skills and experience that will help in any career path the Peace Corps may be just the ticket.
Jennie Sawyer is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
This Is Nuts
Now that Republicans have the Texas governorship and a supermajority in the Legislature, it looks certain that they will pass a bill requiring public universities to allow students and teachers to carry guns on campus, to stop any potential mass shootings. Utah already has such a law.
* This way, college students can keep the same guns they carried in high school.
HEALTH MOMENT
Want to protect against the effects of Alzheimer's? Learn another language.
That's the takeaway from recent brain research, which shows that bilingual people's brains function better and for longer after developing the disease.
Psychologist at York University in Toronto recently tested about 450 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Half of these patients were bilingual, and half spoke only one language.
Findings were reported Feb. 18 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some results of this research were published in the Nov. 9, 2010 issue of the journal Neurology.
CT brain scans of the Alzheimer's patients showed that, among patients who are functioning at the same level, those who are bilingual have more advanced brain deterioration than those who spoke just one language. But this difference wasn't apparent from the patients' behaviors, or their abilities to function. The bilingual people acted like monolingual patients whose disease was less advanced.
Learning a new lauguage and all the work that goes into it seems to confer a cognitive benefit — an ability to cope when the going gets tough and the brain is besieged with a disease such as Alzheimer's.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
Nevada businessman Sean Smith thinks high rollers are fed up with airlines cutting back the frills, so he wants to bring Las Vegas to the skies.
Smith plans to launch LV Air, a Vegas-themed charter airline that he says won't be the cheapest way to travel to Vegas, but it will be the most exciting. He hopes to partner with casinos to offer high rollers planes that feature club music, mood lighting, reclining seats, wireless iPads, meals prepared by top Vegas chefs and air safety demonstrations performed by holographic images of Las Vegas celebrities.
He's using the exact same hologram of Cher that's been playing Vegas since 1980.
And I leave you with this thought.
"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
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