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2 Your Health: Cucumbers

Hanne Hansen, L.M.T., P.T.T., C.N., Dip. Hom w/ Bach, Reiki Mstr., Pranic Healer So many people go through life with chronic dehydration, with no idea of negative effect it’s having on their health. Cucumbers are the perfect antidote. They have a fountain of youth effect, hydrating us at the deepest cellular level possible. Plus, cucumbers’…

Word of The Month: Humblebrag

David Zapatka While listening to someone speak self-deprecatingly interspersed with self-directed, attention-grabbing, patting-on-the-back comments recently, a friend leaned over to me and said, “You know, there’s a word for this type of self-indulgent talk.” At first, I wasn’t sure what was being implied but on second thought, I realized there was purpose in the self-deprecating…

In Passing

Darryl Keith Bourret Daryll Keith Bourret, 85, of Lake San Marcos, California, passed away on June 27, 2017, at Palomar Hospital in Escondido, California, with family at his bedside. Daryll was born January 31, 1932, to Macyll (Thompson) and Milton Bourret in Sioux City, Iowa, where he grew up active in baseball, basketball, diving and…

Conservation Corner

Our Changing Environment Part 2: Pauline Lee In recent decades, natural disasters such as drought, floods, extreme storms on land and along seacoasts and wild fires have disrupted human lives, destroyed natural environment and harmed all living species. According to climate scientists, such catastrophes, occurring with evermore ferocity and greater frequency, are caused by increasing…