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 | It will be three years this April 22 that El Paso homeowners received blue recycling bins, thanks to the city’s Environmental Services Department, and participation has proven even better than expected. EPISD, UTEP, EPCC and Ft. Bliss now participate in the program as well, making Ft. Bliss the only military base in the nation with a recycling program.
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|  | The name Leonardo DaVinci instantly calls up an image of the Mona Lisa, his world-famous portrait with the mysterious smile - but a visit to the History Museum now opens the window on a panorama of amazing exhibits including and far exceeding classical paintings. The exhibition at the Santa Fe Street venue runs until July.
Director Julia H. Bussinger thanked her staff of 12 for six months of concentrated preparation for the exhibit at last month’s opening reception. Bussinger formerly was director at the San Diego museum where this exhibit was shown prior to El Paso.
A true Renaissance man, DaVinci’s passionate interests and imagination soared beyond his life and times.
Anatomy, transportation, engineering, botany, astronomy - a wide range of subjects captured his attention as he explored the limits of human life, curious about improving the potential of man’s existence on earth.
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|  | Every Saturday afternoon behind the Sunland Park Library on Mc Nutt Road in Sunland Park, N.M., a group of kids, college students and seniors get dirty tilling the land, laying bricks, making fountains and planting edible herbs and veggies. The energetic gardeners are part of a collective started by El Paso senior Taylor Moore, 78, a few years ago. Moore saw a need to get the poor children of Anapra off the streets and involved in a cause they could believe in. He now has a substantial group of young participants who enjoy each others’ company and are happy to make their surroundings greener and grow food in uncontaminated soil. The areas targeted by the collaborative are areas that have possible ASARCO contamination in the soil. Moore makes the rounds every Saturday, loading as many kids in his car as fit, and takes them to their latest project. The day usually ends with a visit to Peter Piper Pizza.
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|  | Standing by her heartfelt motto “nothing is ever too much to do for a child,” Mary Virginia Merrick founded the Christ Child Society in Washington, D.C. 126 years ago, starting a movement that would grow across this country with volunteers focusing on newborn babies.
The Christ Child Society is a national volunteer organization embracing members of all denominations, expressing their love of the Christ Child by service to God's children regardless of race, age or creed.
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|  | Step aside, step aerobics.
Put down the medicine ball.
These days, the hot workout in El Paso might be Zumba.
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Starting the first week of February, the City of El Paso Environmental Services Department changed more than 120,000 residences’ trash and recycling collection days.
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|  | There’s a niche reserved in society for artists, writers and performers. They’re free to be who they are, existing somehow differently than the rest of us. Performer/teacher/songwriter and former television reporter Monica Gomez, 58, admits that she too feels wired differently, and says her life has been a continual voyage of self discovery.
Ask her today how she feels about aging and she has definite ideas.
“Perspective is everything,” she says. “I’m grateful for every day that I gain perspective.”
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|  | Jogging with a friend can help keep you motivated and fit. So should your jogging buddy be short or tall, blonde or red-haired, two or four-legged?
“Dogs need exercise just like people and jogging is a good way to do this,” said J. David Sessum, RVT, veterinary technician at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University. “Dogs enjoy being outdoors and spending time with their caretakers.”
Prior to beginning a jogging routine, Sessum suggests a veterinary check up to make sure that your dog is in good physical condition and can cope with the physical strain of running. Additionally, certain dog breeds may make better jogging buddies than others.
“Larger dogs do well with jogging,” explains Sessum. “Small dogs may have a more difficult time jogging due to their short legs. Short muzzled dogs should be evaluated to make sure their airway can handle strenuous activity such as jogging.”
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|  | Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity for seniors. It accounts for 80-85 percent of all cardiac deaths in western countries. Expected age related changes in the cardiovascular system, brain, kidneys, musculoskeletal system, as well as changes in how the body reacts to medication can make the diagnosis and treatment of CAD more challenging in the senior population.
CAD is no longer a “man’s disease.”
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|  | In the ancient world, the Gordian Knot was a nearly unsolvable puzzle. Trying to resolve and find consensus on the issue of health care reform, similarly, produces a wealth of different opinions. Last month, Southwest Senior talked with three local senior physicians to get their thoughts on a few topics related to health care reform.
On Medicare
Dr. David Taber, 70, doesn’t mince words when he says that the doctors he talks to generally don’t want health care reform. In his talks with seniors, Taber reports similar findings and says he thinks seniors would be underserved.
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|  | More than six months before their grand opening in the Shoppes on Mesa last November, owners of María Chuchena Mexican Cuisine gave a simple hint: “Mexico is coming.”
They’ve since unveiled the complexity of the statement. With the opening of their U.S. location, Grupo Root, made up of El Pasoans Omar, Oscar and Roberto Herrera have replicated the service and food offered in the Mexican María Chuchena counterparts. There is currently one María Chuchena Mexican Cuisine in Juárez, on Blvd. Tomas Fernandez in the Campestre district, but at one point the brothers owned two locations in Juárez and one in Chihuahua City. The restaurant is named after an old Mexican folk song about a woman with magical hands who creates wonders in the kitchen.
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