Trio holds Community Health Fair Sept. 2

A community health fair by Trio Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy in Linden, Columbus, will hold on Saturday, September 2, 2017 from 11am to 3pm at 1570 Cleveland Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.

Organizer of the fair, Ijeoma Nnani said that “the purpose of this health festival is to provide a relaxing day for our community members during which they receive free healthful information, food and fun from us and different health organization vendors who are participating.”

According to her, “we are committed to promoting healing, health and happiness in our community and beyond,” adding that "spaces are still available to vendors and other interested contributors.”

10 get State Board District Teachers of the Year award

Ten teachers now bear the title of 2018 Teacher of the Year for their State Board of Education districts, according to an announcement made by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria. The awards are part of the Ohio Teacher of the Year program.

Paolo DeMaria

“Teachers are changing lives and creating futures – not only for the students, but for our communities, our state and our nation,” DeMaria said. “The Ohio Teacher of the Year program recognizes influential and inspiring educators who demonstrate some of the things I love most about teachers: they take our system to higher heights and continue the path toward excellence.”

School administrators, fellow educators, parents, students and community members nominated teachers for the district awards. State Board of Education members worked with local committees of educators, parents and business leaders to select award recipients.

A state panel of education and community stakeholders interviews five state finalists from the pool of State Board district winners to select the Ohio Teacher of the Year. The state superintendent will announce the statewide honoree in the fall.

The Ohio Teacher of the Year will represent our state in the national Teacher of the Year selection process sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers in 2018.

Teachers of the Year for State Board Districts:

State Board District 1
Mark Suter (State Finalist)
Elida High School, Elida Local Schools, Allen County 

State Board District 2Jay Welenc
Toledo School for the Arts, Toledo Public Schools, Lucas County

State Board District 3Rachel Murdock (State Finalist)
Stivers School for the Arts, Dayton City Schools, Montgomery County

State Board District 5Bobbie Foy
Medina High School, Medina City Schools, Medina County

State Board District 6Jonathan Juravich (State Finalist)
Liberty Tree Elementary School, Olentangy Local Schools, Delaware County

State Board District 7Daniel Scarmack
Hubbard High School, Hubbard Exempted Village School District , Trumbull County

State Board District 8Kiel Gallina
Lake Middle School, Lake Local Schools, Stark County

State Board District 9Patty Couts (State Finalist)
Port Washington Elementary School, Indian Valley Local Schools, Tuscarawas County

State Board District 10Megan Large
South Webster High School, Bloom-Vernon Local Schools, Scioto County

State Board District 11
Dr. Matthew Luginbill (State Finalist)
Cuyahoga Heights Elementary School, Cuyahoga Heights Local Schools, Cuyahoga County

Events in Columbus: ETSS, YMCA

Call to Action Youth Summit holds Friday, Aug 4

The Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services (ETSS), will host the 7th annual Call to Action Youth Summit on Friday, August 4, at the Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, beginning 9am.

The summit is the culmination and celebration of two youth programs organized by ETSS each year, the Youth Summer Enrichment Camp and the Summer Youth Employment Program.

The goal of this event is to empower youth and celebrate diversity in the Columbus community.

YMCA holds Child Care open interviews August 5

The YMCA will conduct an open interview for interested

candidates in Child Care positions at YMCA Youth and Family Services, 1907 Leonard Avenue, Columbus, OH.  The exercise will start at 9am and end at 12pm.

Health and Physical Activity

By Patrick Olabode
 

Patrick Olaode

Physical activity simply means movement of the body that uses energy. Walking, gardening, briskly pushing a baby stroller, climbing the stairs, playing soccer, or dancing the night away are all good examples of being active. For health benefits, physical activity should be moderate or of vigorous intensity.

Moderate physical activities include:

•                       Walking briskly (about 3½ miles per hour)

•                       Bicycling (less than 10 miles per hour)

• General gardening (raking, trimming shrubs)

• Dancing

• Golf (walking and carrying clubs)

• Water aerobics

• Canoeing

• Tennis (doubles)

Vigorous physical activities include:

• Running/jogging (5 miles per hour)

• Walking very fast (4½ miles per hour)

• Bicycling (more than 10 miles per hour)

• Heavy yard work, such as chopping wood

• Swimming (freestyle laps)

• Aerobics

• Basketball (competitive)

• Tennis (singles)

Regular physical activity can produce long term health benefits. People of all ages, shapes, sizes, and abilities can benefit from being physically active. The more physical activity one does the greater the health benefits. You may choose light, moderate or vigorous intensity activities, or a mix of both each week. This depends on the extent to which they make breathing harder and heart beat faster.

However, only moderate and vigorous intensity activities count towards meeting physical activity needs. With vigorous activities, similar health benefits can be achieved in half the time it takes with moderate ones by replacing some or all moderate activity with vigorous activity. Although movement is involved, light intensity activities do not increase heart rate, so this should not be counted towards meeting the physical activity recommendations. These activities include walking at a casual pace, such as while grocery shopping, and doing light household chores.

Being physically active can help:

• Increase your chances of living longer

• Feel better about yourself

• Decrease your chances of becoming depressed

• Sleep well at night

• Move around more easily

• Have stronger muscles and bones

• Stay at or get to a healthy weight

• Be with friends or meet new people

• Enjoy yourself and have fun

When not physically active, one is more likely to:

• Get heart disease

• Get type 2 diabetes

• Have high blood pressure

• Have high blood cholesterol

• Have a stroke

Patrick Olabode MSN, RN, CNP (patolabode@yahoo.com)