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DON DIEGO
Your Family Friendly Hometown Country
Morning Show
Living here, playing here, and working here, it’s Don Diego in Southern New Mexico!!!
TODAY’S FUN LINKS:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/04/13/sot.auctioneer.congress.debt.cnn
Celebrity Spotlight
Blake Shelton has set a new record with the release of the song “Honey Bee” which he debuted during the ACM Awards. He managed to sell 138-thousand downloads of the song in just one week which is a feat no other male artist has managed to achieve. But that’s not the only feat he’s achieved - he recently joined American Airline’s prestigious Admiral’s Club and calls the experience breath taking. “Have you ever seen, uh, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory? Everything in the Admiral’s Club is edible. It’s like there’s voices when you open the doors. It’s like, ‘Ahhhhh.’” “Honey Bee” is number 31on Billboard’s Country Singles chart this week.
RIDDLE ME THIS
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet how you miss me, When I have flown.
What am I?
I am time
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 Micky Hatch
Micky is on a mission to eliminate profanity and vulgarity in everyday conversation. Words mean something. Words affect things, says Micky, they’re not just words. Micky has been on a crusade to lift our language since he insisted that his peers stop cussing in his presence five years ago. After a while, I just couldnt handle it anymore, he says. I challenged my friends: If you want to hang around me, I dont want to hear cussing. They stopped, which I thought was really cool. That positive experience gave Micky an idea. If his friends were up to the challenge why not the rest of his classmates? In 2007, Micky organized the No Cussing Club to encourage students at his school to stop using foul language. By the start of the next school year, more than 120 students had joined. Mickys school club meetings are simple: Members drop money into a jar for each time they slipped and accidentally cussed. They discuss non-profane substitutions to usesuch as Oh, pickles! or Sassafrass! They also discuss the difficulties in going cold turkey seeming like an insurmountable task. And they discuss which charity should be the recipient of their donations once the money jar is filled. Today, the No Cussing Club has more than 30 chapters around the world, and an estimated 100,000 people have taken the No Cussing Challenge on Micky website www.nocussing.com. Micky has been recognized for his courage and determination. Hes been interviewed by Dr. Phil and featured on Good Morning America, and last year, he even confronted a teacher.
Micky Hatch is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
HEALTH MOMENT
Brain scans of healthy people showed signs that the brain was shrinking in Alzheimer's-affected areas nearly a decade before the disease was diagnosed, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
The finding, published in the journal Neurology, may offer a new way to detect the disease early, an advance that could help in the development of effective treatments for Alzheimer's, a brain-wasting disease that affects up to 26 million people globally.
The magnetic resonance measurements could be very important indicators to help identify who may be at risk of developing Alzheimer's dementia. If a drug therapy or treatment is developed in the future, those who are still without symptoms but at great risk would benefit the most from treatment.
The study involved two groups of healthy people in their 70s who had brain scans at Rush University in Chicago and at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston and were followed for an average of nine years.
During the study, 50 participants remained cognitively normal and 15 developed Alzheimer's disease.
At the end of the study, people who had the highest amount of shrinkage in specific areas of the cerebral cortex were three times more likely to develop the disease.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
When did we all get so happy about letting the government take our money?
--In case you forgot, taxes are due Monday. And apparently most of us are fine donating one-third of our hard-earned income to the cause.
--In a new poll by the Associated Press, 54% of Americans say that their taxes are either somewhat or very fair.
--46% of people say their taxes are unfair.
--Democrats were more likely than Republicans to say their taxes are fair. Women were more likely than men . . . whites were more likely than non-whites . . . and people under 30 and over 65 were more likely than other adults.
--And when it comes to trying to cut down the federal deficit, 29% of people say they'd be OK if the government RAISED TAXES to make that happen.
--62% think the best strategy would be cutting government services.
--Only 51% of people say they're expecting a tax refund this year. But according to the IRS, 87% of people have qualified for refunds so far this year.
I gotta get me some of that action!
And I leave you with this thought.
"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul."
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