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ALAMOSA — A micro-greens and sprouts workshop will be held on Saturday, January 21 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Alamosa Community Greenhouse at 12th and Edison. This free workshop will teach participants how to start their own micro-greens and sprouts to use in salads, sandwiches and smoothies. Seeds and soil will be provided. Those with any plastic lettuce containers that could be used for sprouting trays please bring them. E-mail slvlocalfoods@gmail.com or call Jan at 587-5529. ALAMOSA— Adams State College Community Partnerships and Natural Power are offering a hands-on Green Home Design Class available to community members and students currently registered with Adams State College. Contacting Karl Jolliff at 587-8209, or jolliffkg@adams.edu. Classes will be held every other Saturday, starting January 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. VILLA GROVE — Orient Land Trust will hold its quarterly board meeting on Saturday, January 21 beginning at 9 a.m. at OLT/Valley View Hot Springs Welcome Center. Join the board to hear what OLT has planned for 2012, welcome a new director, and support the board’s resolution to protect naturism on the Orient Mine parcel. Call 719-256-5212. ALAMOSA — Sacred Heart Catholic Church, in collaboration with the SLV Area Health Education Center, is hosting a FREE community wide Health and Wellness Fair Saturday January 21 from 7-11 a.m. at 709 4th Street in the Catholic Church Gym. Free screenings will include cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and Body Mass Index (BMI). Lab, results available at event. For optimal results, fasting past midnight with water consumption is suggested. Educational and informational booths as well as activities for children will be available. Please call Lisa Lucero at 588-5363. LA JARA —The North Conejos School Board invites parents and community members of the school district to a focus group meeting on Monday, January 23 at 7 p.m. in the administration office between the high school and the middle school.Rio Primary Health Insurance - News
This class may be used to defer tickets and/or lower insurance rates. Call 587-0450 to register. DEL NORTE - The third community assessment meeting for the Rio Grande Hospital, to which all residents are encouraged to attend, will be held on Tuesday,
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This class may be used to defer tickets and/or lower insurance rates. Call 587-0450 to register and for additional information. DEL NORTE - The third community assessment meeting for the Rio Grande Hospital, to which all residents are encouraged to
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The conference was billed as the way to advance the cause of Closing The Gap in a Generation (1), the report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Cynics had a feeling that it would be nothing of the kind, and once again, the facts supported cynicism, I am sorry to say. Preparations for the conference turned out to be a case study of what is now amounting to a kind of ‘war of the words’. This is being fought between all those in the UN system and member states who believe in public health and public goods, and those who remain committed to ‘business as usual’ at the time when the world’s financial institutions and banks are collapsing under the weight of their own greed. Successive drafts of the final conference’s Political Declaration were covered in crossed-out and bracketed clauses and phrases, as the wealthy nations got to work, ‘toning down’ and eliminating almost all traces of real quantifiable concrete measurable and accountable progress on behalf of the majority of people in the world whose suffering increases. As battle-scarred public health warriors expected, the powerful nations won most of the battles. But not all. We did not come or go quietly, and it became apparent in the conference that more and more key people in the UN system and national governments have also concluded that the current systems of political, financial and social governance are broken. In clear interventions, WHO director-general Margaret Chan indicated this almost in so many words. But UN agencies are choked with executives who believe in alliances with the transnational corporations that with its allies are wrecking our world. Some of these executives will perhaps be working for such corporations in due course. That’s where the stock options and nice pensions are. The frustration in the conference halls was so intense that no less than three alternative declarations were circulated.