THE NEW MEXICO BROADCASTER ASSOCIATION
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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!!!
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Celebrity Spotlight
Most new artists have butterflies and feel stressed when they release their debut single. Not Ronnie Dunn. In fact, he has to be reminded he’s not a veteran as a solo artist. “Oh that’s right, I’m a freshman now. So I’m a freshman now. I’m supposed to have first album jitters. That first album is always supposed to be your best, right? I’m going to wait ‘til the next record to do that. I’m feelin’ pretty good about this one.” Ronnie’s debut song “Bleed Red” is number 12 this week on the Country Aircheck chart.
RIDDLE ME THIS
I end big I start good I'm two in huggin and I surround good white dog. What am I?
The letter g.
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 Victoria Medina
Sunrise Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Victoria Medina has been named the local winner of the "Barnes & Noble My Favorite Teacher Contest," said Barnes & Noble Booksellers of Las Cruces Community Relations Manager Cheryl Graves.
Victoria was chosen from 21 entries. Her students truly benefit from her patient and differentiated approach to teaching and learning.
Students were invited to nominate their teachers by writing essays, poems or thank you letters that share how their teachers have influenced their lives and why they appreciate and admire their teachers. Entries were judged on the compelling nature of the teacher's qualities, the sincerity of the student's appreciation and the quality of expression and writing.
Victoria will be recognized at an event at Barnes & Noble, located at the Mesilla Valley. She will receive a special award acknowledging her achievement and a set of 10 Sterling Children's Classics books for her personal or classroom library. Sage Hemmerlein, who wrote the winning essay, will receive a certificate of recognition and will be honored during Victoria 's recognition ceremony.
Victoria will now be entered into the regional competition, where six winners will be chosen.
Victoria Medina is/are our Hometown Hero Today and we salute you.
HEALTH MOMENT
Acupuncture using a laser beam might help young bedwetters break the nighttime habit, according to a new study from Turkey.
The results show that "laser acupuncture therapy which is noninvasive, painless, short-term therapy with low cost can be considered as an alternative therapy for patients with bedwetting.
But outside researchers were more skeptical that the procedure was any better than other methods currently used to treat bedwetters, which include behavioral therapy and medications that make the body produce less urine.
According to the National Institutes of Health, about 5 million U.S. kids over age 5 are bedwetters. Those kids make more urine during the night than their bladders can hold - but they don't wake up to use the bathroom when their bladders are full.
Using a low-power laser, about two-thirds of the kids in a study received acupuncture therapy on traditional bladder points three times a week for 4 weeks. The other kids, used for comparison, got the same treatment but with a fake laser.
Fifteen days after completing the treatment, 40 percent of kids who got therapy with a real laser had stopped wetting the bed entirely, compared to 8 percent of those with fake laser treatment. After 6 months, rates of complete improvement were 54 percent versus 12 percent.
BREAK TIME CHATTER
The U.S. Postal Service REALLY can't catch a break: On December 9th last year, they released a new stamp honoring the Statue of Liberty. Now, four months later, a stamp collecting magazine called "Linn's" has filled them in on a little problem with it.
--Instead of using a photo of the REAL Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Post Office accidentally used a photo of the FAKE Statue of Liberty outside the 'New York, New York' casino in Las Vegas.
--The real Statue of Liberty is a lot bigger, but you can't tell that from the photo they used, since it just shows her head. And the differences you CAN see are small, but legit.
--The statue in Vegas has more sharply defined facial features, different hair, and is a different color: The real statue is green because it started out as copper and turned green over time, but the Vegas statue is green because they made it green.
--The Postal Service says they selected the photo from a stock photography service and didn't realize that it wasn't the original statue.
--Now, as you might've heard, because of email, the Postal Service doesn't have any money any more. They certainly don't have the money to reprint the stamps . . . they already printed THREE BILLION with the Vegas statue.
--So . . . they're just going to go with it. A spokesman from the USPS decided to lie and tell us all, quote, "We still love the stamp design and would have selected this photograph anyway."
I wonder is they would be interested in that potential beach front property I have in Utah.
And I leave you with this thought.
"When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves."
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