Filled with a variety of rising stars, this night will bring about laughter the easy way … no need to practice Laughter Yoga now!! Paul has brought to us in previous shows some great comedians who have gone on to make names for themselves such as Joe List.
Visit buttonwood.org for more info and to purchase a ticket.
The Rockfall Foundation is
seeking nominations for the
2021 Environmental Champion Awards!
Do you know an individual, nonprofit, or business leading the way in environmental efforts in areas like sustainability, preservation, conservation, restoration, or environmental education? This work deserves to be recognized!
Through our Environmental Champion Awards, The Rockfall Foundation aims to highlight this important work: make a nomination today and honor their dedication to greening & growing the Lower Connecticut River Valley.
The Tom Odell Distinguished Service Award is given for outstanding life-long accomplishments. Certificates of Appreciation are awarded to recognized significant programs and projects.
Nominations for 2021 are now open!
Applications are due to liz@rockfallfoundation.org by July 30.
Awards nomination form can be downloaded on our website.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to Liz Britney at liz@rockfallfoundation.org if you have any questions.
Carol Ansel, Library Director of the Godfrey Memorial Library, will present "Mapping It All Out: A Geographic Approach to Genealogy."
Who doesn't love old maps? Visualizing your ancestors' geographic location(s) with the help of maps can sometimes bring about new realizations.
Carol will share a number of online sources for historic maps and present examples of how she has used maps in her own genealogical research.
The Zoom presentation will take place at 1:30 pm (EDT). The new time will make it more convenient for the library's West Coast members to join the meeting.
Premium Godfrey Scholar members can register for free at the following email: zoomregistration@godfrey.org
If you are not a GML Premium member and want to attend the presentation, you can pay $10 via PayPal (send to Godfrey Memorial Library). Then register using the above email.
Please register by 4:00 pm Friday, July 16.
Meet Your Greens:
Middletown’s Zero Waste
Initiatives – What’s Happening?
with Kim O’Rourke
Thursday, July 15 at 5:30pm
Wadsworth Mansion, 421 Wadsworth Street,
Middletown
Rain or Shine
Meet Your Greens is a monthly networking opportunity for anyone interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep the Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green and growing.
Join us on Thursday, July 15 to hear from speaker Kim O’Rourke, Recycling Coordinator for the City of Middletown. Kim will discuss what the City of Middletown is doing to reduce waste in the light of the looming trash crisis. Come learn about composting and food scrap diversion efforts and other waste prevention and recycling programs the City is promoting and planning.
Get all your waste and recycling questions answered!
No registration required – we hope to see you there!
In honor of Plastic Free July, bring your plastic film and bags to the event and Kim will make sure they get recycled - remember, those items don't belong in the recycling cart!
Feel free to join our Facebook event page and invite your friends.
We will meet at the Wadsworth Mansion at 421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown – rain or shine!
Plan to arrive around 5:30, with our speaker beginning at 5:45. Bring your own food & drink. Free to participate.
See here to learn more about Meet Your
Greens: https://www.rockfallfoundation.org/programs/meet-your-greens/
Summer Sounds Concert
Performance Postponed.
Orquestra Afinke to Play
NEXT Thursday
July 15, 2021, 6-8pm
Worth a Try: Exercise
for Easing Hip & Leg Pain
If you are of a certain age and have
spent much of your working life at a desk, chances are you'll
eventually experience tight hips, with symptoms of tightness or pain, a
change in the way you walk or both. And frustration because
you don't know why this happened or how to fix it.
Resolution for hip & leg pain may be less complicated than you think. My recent discovery
and practice of targeted exercise videos on youtube (Silver Sneakers & others) has resulted
in an apparent complete recovery from what seemed on its way to
debilitating pain in legs and hips. So I have an inclination to spread the good word of something that might help others.**
Try these
4-Min Stretch Routine for Hip Mobility
Lower Body Workout for Active Exercisers**
About Tight Hips (from Healthline.com) What does it mean to have tight hips? A feeling of tightness across the hips comes from tension around the hip flexors. The hip flexors are a group of muscles around the top of the thighs that connect the upper leg to the hip. These muscles allow you to bend at the waist and raise your leg. (Some of the main hip flexors are the Iliopsoas, rectus femoris, tensor fasciae latae, sartorius.)
Many
people have tight hips, including both people who spend several hours a
day
sitting as well as regular gym-goers and professional athletes. Some
people are
more prone to tightness in that area of their body, too. Tight hips may
put you at increased risk for injury due to the increased demands on
tissues that aren’t moving properly. Before going to a physical
therapist or doctor for treatment, try some of these exercises and see
how you respond. Practice slowly and carefully at first, and see your
doctor if you feel a need for reassurance.
More advanced stretches**
7 Stretches to loosen up tight hips
*If you've found relief with these moves, stay tuned for a set of 6-minute
exercises next week. Some will likely be from Silver Sneakers (SS) selections. If
you have SS with your insurance plan, take a look & see if you can log in to get
started at silversneakers.com.
*Snake Hips Tucker
(1920s-30s dancer)
Did You Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?
Here is a follow-up to my article last week about “Did You Get The COVID-19 Vaccine?
For those of you who are hesitant or refuse to get the COVID-19 Vaccines please consider these facts that I discovered from an article that appeared in the Denver Post newspaper on June 24, 2021 titled “Nearly All COVID Deaths In U.S. Are Now Among Unvaccinated.”
The article reported that the majority of COVID-19 related deaths in the nation are those who are not vaccinated from the COVID-19 virus. It states, “Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.” It further stated about the Associated Press explanation from, “…available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%.
The article provides examples of people who did not vaccinate themselves from the COVID-19 virus when they had the opportunity who became infected with it and eventually died from it.
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stated this about the effectiveness of the COVID-19 Vaccines ““nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable,” from the Denver Post article. Walensky stated on June 18th that there is increasing evidence that the COVID-19 Vaccines are “moving us out of this pandemic,” according to Healio.com.
For those of you who claim that the COVID-19 Vaccines are experimental drugs that is not true. It was approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration. The Pfizer Vaccine was approved last December 11, 2020, the Moderna Vaccine December 18, 2020 and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine February 27, 2021.
Please get vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and protect yourself, your relatives, your friends, your co-workers and neighbors. The COVID-19 Vaccines are F-R-E-E-FREE.
Please do not become another casualty from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
For more information about how to get the COVID-19 Vaccine and the articles I mentioned in the article please see the following websites:
https://portal.ct.gov/vaccine-portal
https://portal.ct.gov/vaccine-portal/COVID-19-Vaccination-Walkup?language=en_US
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/06/24/covid-deaths-us-unvaccinated/
Enjoy the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gymnt-UeEKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGkwaESsGBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITIF-i40dto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXDWFBiJ7I
Happy Independence Day!
This year July 4, 2021 will mark the 245th birthday of our young nation. This was the day when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence stating our separation from Great Britain so we could form our own country. On this day 245 years ago the 2nd Continental Congress unanimously ratified the Declaration of Independence which resulted in the thirteen colonies breaking away from England.
The opening of the Declaration of Independence states "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
For more information about the Declaration of Independence and the founding of our nation please see the following websites:
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
Again, Happy Independence Day. Enjoy the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE-tqe0xsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZ8QJgFHOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-7XWhyvIpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ze_OB1I5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZ8XCobUUM
