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Editorial
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New leave law
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One of the New Year’s resolutions
many people come up with is the desire to exercise more and get in better
physical condition.
There are many reasons people believe
this is an attainable goal as the New
Year begins and other reasons people
don’t follow through on the goal.
One of the best things a person can
do is to dedicate themselves to a fitness
program no matter what the obstacles
may be because in the long run the real
winner will be the individual that looks
out for their fitness no matter what age
or gender you are, said LaDonna Reed,
a personal trainer and Fort Carson
strength and conditioning coach.
Reed knows about the advantage fitness can have on a person’s life because
she has devoted years of her life to being
a personal trainer and teaching people
the value of fitness and physical exercise. Reed also knows about overcoming
obstacles to implementing a good fitness program as she had to come back
from a devastating injury in 2005.
In 2005 Reed tore her left hamstring
right off the pelvic bone at the Rocky
Mountain State Games. She had to wait
about 18 months before she could feel
comfortable enough to run again. The
latter part of 2007 and the beginning of
2008 was big for her because she spent
a majority of 2007 and early 2008 rehabilitating and getting back to a comfortable level of fitness.
The culmination of her rehabilitation occurred in Spokane Washington
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Fort Carson assistant track coach and personal
trainer LaDonna Reed believes stretching is a
major part of a fitness program.
pete competitively even after a doctor
told her that would probably never be
the case again.
“I was told by the top orthopedic surgeon in town after I tore my hamstring
I should hang up my track shoes and I
wouldn’t run again and I didn’t want
to believe him,” she said. “He actually
told me there would be no more running in my future. Of course I didn’t
believe it and I had had higher dreams
and aspirations still to achieve. I have
been running since I was four years
old in Oakland Calif. I love the sport
so much that I was just not ready to let
it go,” Reed said.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – New Military Family
Leave entitlements under the Family Medical Leave Act allow
federal civilian employees time away from work to care for a
servicemember in their family with a serious illness or injury
incurred in the line of duty in the Armed Forces.
The entitlements, which include up to 26 weeks of unpaid leave
during a single 12-month period, became effective Jan. 16.
The new provisions establish military family leave entitlements
for a federal employee who is the spouse, son, daughter or nextof-kin family member of a covered servicemember with a serious
injury or illness. The provisions allow various categories of unpaid
time away from work, while protecting an employee’s job and requiring employers to return the employee to the same or equivalent
position with the same terms after using FMLA leave.
The 26 weeks includes 12 weeks of basic FMLA leave, said
Therese Kilgore, Peterson AFB Civilian Personnel chief of employer and labor relations.
Under basic FMLA regulations, employees are entitled to 12
administrative weeks of unpaid leave in any 12-month period
for instances including birth of a child and care of the new born,
adoption or placement of a child for foster care, care of a family
member with a serious health condition or for care and treatment
of a serious health condition that renders the employee unable to
perform any one or more of the essential functions of his or her
position.
For example, a federal civilian employee may take six weeks of
basic FMLA leave for the birth of a child and military family leave
for care of a servicemember, and the six weeks of basic FMLA
leave is subtracted from 26 weeks, leaving the employee with 20
weeks for care for a service member, she said.
Similar to basic FMLA leave, military family leave is unpaid.
The employee may substitute any accumulated annual or sick leave,
but normal leave year limitations on the use of sick leave to care
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Launched by Joe Wingo in 1994, Angel Food Ministries
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Program organizers estimate participants will save as much
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“People who would spend $60 to $70 on a portion of food at
the grocery store will spend about $30 for that same amount
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That medium-sized box can feed a family of four for one
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Phillips points out that the larger the program grows
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for its recipients.
There’s also no stigma of charity attached.
Participants aren’t required to show economic need.
Anyone who wants to save money on groceries can order
and pay through the Angel Food network of churches.
Monthly order deadlines are typically a couple of weeks
out from distribution dates and Angel Food offers menu
and pricing information on its Web site, www.angelfoodministries.com
“There are no income limitations,” Phillips said. “The more
we buy the better the wholesale price we’ll see across the nation. It really ends up helping those who need it most.”
The more food sold through the program lowers the price
for future orders because Angel Food Ministries buyers
can purchase even larger quantities during its next round
of purchases.
Local churches, including Christ Church of Colorado
Springs, provide locations for ordering, payment, pickup
and volunteers to assist in delivery.
Congregation members also purchase Angel Food for their
own families as well as for donations to the communities
surrounding the church. That way, church members can
scour neighborhoods in their vicinity and offer free boxes
of food to people who need it.
For Christ Church of Colorado Springs, the program is
providing a means for reaching military and other local
families unfamiliar with its ministry.
The church has recently moved to a new location near
Circle Drive and Interstate 25, within two miles of Fort
Carson Army post. And in the next few years the church
will move again, to land it purchased along state Highway
116 on the west side of Fort Carson.
Mark and Angela Phillips want to be proactive when it
comes to providing help for hungry families.
“We’ll contact city officials in hopes of finding out where
the need is greatest,” Mark Phillips said. “That’s really the
church not just pointing out everything that is wrong, but
providing a solution to the problem.”
Distribution days have become much-anticipate events as
church volunteers work to deliver food to recipients.
“When our volunteers look into the eyes of families, not
only to deliver food, but give a hug or a handshake and a
smile, they say its one of the greatest days of their lives,”
Mark Phillips said. “We don’t see this as a handout, we see
it as a helping hand up. Our congregation loves making
contact with the community.”
Christ Church of Colorado Springs began distributing
with Angel Food in October, and held its second distribution
in December. The next food truck arrives at the church Jan.
24, when again, volunteers will distribute boxes to recipients
and deliver donated boxes to families around the neighborhood near the church.
Gwen Stimple, Angel Food host site director for Christ
Church of Colorado Springs expects the program to grow
quickly once word of mouth spreads.
The program is already growing locally. Christ Church
ordered 25 more food boxes during its second distribution
in December than in October.
The Angel Food program can be especially beneficial to
local military families.
Christ Church member and Angel Food volunteer
Stephanie Poche’s husband Michael is an Army Captain
who is currently deployed, so she’s familiar with the struggles
military family’s face.
“I think the most important way Angel Food can assist
military families is by helping them provide stability, security
and self sufficiency, especially at a time when spouses are
deployed,” she said. “Military families are proud of what they
do… this is not a step backwards, or government help, this
gives them an opportunity to help themselves.”
Anyone interested in learning more information about
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for a family member do not apply, Kilgore said.
To be eligible for FMLA federal employees that are not
temporary or intermittent must complete 12 months of federal government service, which does not have to be the most
recent 12 months or consecutive months, Kilgore said.
The regulations require that the employee request FMLA
leave no less than 30 calendar days in advance of the absence when the need is foreseeable. If the leave is unforeseen and the employee cannot give the 30 days notice due
to situations such as a medical emergency, the employee
may provide notice within a timeframe reasonable for the
circumstances, she said.
FMLA is intended to promote the interests of the workplace and the family by providing unpaid leave with job
protection to employees in certain specified instances, so
that family members may provide emotional, medical, and
other types of support.
Anything that increases family communication in times
of medical hardship positively impacts the military mission,
said Paul Smith, acting director of the Family Readiness
Center on base.
Provisions of the FMLA also apply to some private sector
civilian employees who are members of military families.
For more information on FMLA visit www.dol.gov/esa/
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TAP Employment Workshop—Held
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February 23-25
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February 19
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M.O.R.E. Job Fair—Elkhorn
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February 5 0800 to 1200
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February 12 0800 to 1200
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February 26 0800 to 1200
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February 25
February 26
VA Benefits Briefing and VA DTAP
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February 5
February 10
February 23
How to Prepare for a Job Fair—
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TAP Employment Workshop—Held
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March 9-11
March 16-18
March 23-25
March 30 –April 1
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March 5 0800 to 1200
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March 12 0800 to 1200
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14 Jan & 11 Mar, 1130 ~ 1300.
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The center staff is also open to groups
wanting a class unto themselves, such as
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“We provide opportunities to relax, do
things together and learn together,” Ms.
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In addition to classes and space and
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art work. Materials could include metal,
wood and plastic, and the Center stocks
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shadow boxes.
Every year artists in a wide blend of media are invited to display their work at the
Air Force-wide art show. Winners from the
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The clean, orderly shop houses an abundance of hand and power tools any woodworker would covet.
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as well as clock cases, cradles, hope chests,
bookcases and large furniture pieces like
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Ms. Dickinson is looking to expand the
center’s offerings.
“We’re trying to add new projects,” she
said and added expansion of the fi ne art
side would be one of her priorities.
Hours for the Arts & Crafts Skills Center
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Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is
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Monday holidays.
One exception is the woodshop, which
may be open Sundays depending on the
availability of volunteers. Call 333-4579
or 333-3136 Friday or Saturday to check
Sunday schedules.
Arts and crafts facility use fees are $2 per
hour, with a one-hour minimum. A five-day
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Bumbling, inept men taking care of children might make a good idea for a funny
movie – you could call it “Daddy Daycare,”
and get Eddie Murphy to star in it.
But many prospective and new fathers take
their responsibilities seriously.
They enroll in classes to help them be
good fathers. One such class is “Boot Camp
for New Dads,” offered by Fort Carson
Army Community Service every month.
The classes are scheduled during lunch hour
the first, second and third Wednesdays of
each month. Classes are held in building
5510, the Child, School and Youth Services
building.
More a discussion group than a class,
leader Lawrence Dunbar uses video, personal experiences, lifelike dolls and handson participation by new or expectant dads
to teach the class, as well as excerpts from
a book, “Boot Camp for New Dads.” Each
attendee receives a copy of the book.
Dunbar has 23 years experience helping
families and has degrees in social work.
He looks at taking care of a baby from a
male perspective, sometimes using words
that are familiar to men.
“Babies are portable,” Dunbar reminded
the Soldiers, smiling.
“Use your Walkman or MP3 player – use
one ear bud, leave the other one out so you
can hear baby,” he said. You’ll get to “listen
to a lot of music.”
Dunbar talked with Soldiers in the workshop about getting themselves a support
group – “relatives, neighbors, friends or
people from work. A support group is important, especially with the military,” he said,
because many times there are no relatives
locally. He suggested that new dads might
get support from wives in the unit.
Dunbar talked about crying babies and
suggested ways to find out what might be
wrong: check the diaper, look for something
sticking or pinching the baby, a clogged nipple on the bottle, etc.
If the baby continues to cry, he urged the
Soldiers not to get frustrated and not to shake
the baby. “Make sure the baby’s safe, then
walk away for a few minutes,” he said, “or
do a few pushups.”
It might be a good time for the dad to call
a friend or someone in his support group.
Dunbar discussed equipment to keep the
baby safe around the house, such as safety
latches for cabinets and safety gates. He reminded the Soldiers to get permission from
housing if they live on post or from the landlord if they live in an apartment before attaching something to the walls or cabinets.
The group discussed new developments
in safety gadgets and baby equipment and
talked about car seats and the best places to
shop for formula and diapers.
Dunbar urged that new fathers “Be in the
room when the baby is born if you
can. Attend the (doctor) appointments
when you can. It’s your baby, too. Being
around the mother-to-be in a calm situation gives you a chance to identify and to
relate to the baby” and begin the bonding
process.
After the baby is born, Dunbar urged new
dads to give mom a break when possible.
“There’s no need for both of you to miss a
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“Give mom a break from the baby after
work. Take the baby for a stroll or into another room. Or, feed the baby -- giving mom
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baby,” Dunbar said.
Dunbar recommends the new dads take
the infant massage class that is offered on
post as well as a new class, “nurturing fathers.” He said these classes are also good
places to network with other dads.
Dunbar told the class of new or expecting
fathers about “white noise,” which sometimes
helps babies sleep. “The packages ACS gives
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One member of the class, Sgt. Ryan
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He recommends the book, “Boot Camp for
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“It’s been an eye-opener,” Butcher said.
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Dunbar said during the first session of
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years old.
The former heptathlete said she now wants
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“When I finished I remember thinking about
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so bad that basic things like cooking in the
kitchen and bending over to get pots and pans
put me in a lot of pain,” Reed said.
“The stretching exercise was probably the
most important factor in my healing process.
When I came to the finish line (in Spokane) I
was in a lot of pain but I was happy because I
knew what I went through to get to that point,”
Reed added.
Reed said the key to staying committed to
a physical exercise program is to understand
how much better a person’s life can be. She said
there are a number of things a person can do
to promote a better standard of living through
a fitness program that is right for them. The
first step is to understand things don’t happen
overnight and to have the patience to know
that it will take time to see results.
“You start small with baby steps. I always advise people who tell me they haven’t worked out
in a while to go for a short walk. Eventually they
will find they want to walk longer distances.
Then I suggest they go to the gym once a week
and learn how to do the exercises. When people
say they don’t know how to start, I suggest they
look and see what small baby steps they can
take. If they are talking about complete fitness
as a personal trainer the first thing I am going
to do is to ask the person to look inward and
see what factors are in play that prohibit you
from exercising. I want to see where you can
balance those things out because if you don’t
have good health everything else around you
will be affected,” Reed said.
Reed said one of the things she learned in
Spokane and during her rehabilitation is anything is possible at any age when it comes to
fitness. She said she watched a 93-year-old
man compete in the 400 meter. She said he
didn’t jog, he ran.
“He is the masters champ in his age group
but it just showed that he wakes up days when
his knees probably hurt and I have days when
my knees hurt but he is out there on the track
training. When people think they can’t do it
because of their age, they may have hit their 40s
or 50s and think I am done with sports or my
body can’t do that anymore I have seen people
in their 50s, 60s and 70s that still train and still
compete. I think they have found the fountain
of youth because many times they don’t even
look their age. I always say that when people
think they can’t do physical fitness and want
to have more energy, the fountain of youth is
in exercise,” Reed said.
Reed said diet is a big factor in health. One
thing she said she noticed is when people start
working out but don’t change their diet initially, they eventually will change their diet.
She said it’s easier to change people’s fitness
routine than it is to change their eating habits.
She said people have been eating all their lives
and if you tell someone to go for a walk they
may find that easier than if I told them they
can’t go to Burger King or McDonald’s.
“Dieting is a mental process and if you can
teach people that there body will tell them
they need to drink more water or not want the
greasy foods. I eat six small meals a day and
with each meal I try to think how I can add
fruits and vegetables to the meal. If I didn’t
have a clock my body would tell me when it
was time to eat. My body has been so regulated
and I believe that starting out with breakfast is
important. I believe breakfast is truly the most
important meal of the day,” reed said.
Reed said if anyone really wants to commit
to getting in better physical condition they
should keep in mind that it’s all right to find
something they like to do and begin the process that way.
“Before my mom passed she was active in
fitness. She was in a senior citizen exercise class
and she would tell me about exercises that you
can do in a chair and I would say that won’t
help much but it really did for her. It helped her
avoid arthritis because she was always active
and was also part of a bowling league two or
three times a week. If people can find those
different things to do, it could be gardening; it
could be waxing your car that is still activity.
Dancing is one of the best exercises out there.
If you don’t have the financial means there
are also things you can do in your own living
room. In Colorado you have so many things
you can do whether it’s warm or cold to have
a good fitness program,” Reed said.
All of the military fitness centers have great
facilities for anyone who wants to maintain
or develop a good fitness routine. Call your
local facility and get started on that New Year’s
resolution or make one to get started, your
body will thank you.
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