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< Diane Stollar, foreground, was an active Growing Healthy participant, and shows off an early harvest of radishes. Brandi-Ann Harris, background, was a Growing Healthy volunteer. Growing Healthy was a program designed to help persons with diabetes, or at risk for diabetes, eat healthier, get more exercise and feel better through gardening.

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Autumn’s arrival on the North Olympic Peninsula doesn’t signal the end of hiking opportunities.

In fact, autumn is a great time to stretch your legs on trails across the region. Weekday hikers will �nd nearly empty trails, more open camping spots and cooler, but still pleasant weather.

For those seeking a great fall foliage display, head to the Sol Duc Valley in Olympic National Park.

Sol Duc Hot Springs Road, located 30 miles from Port Angeles off U.S. Highway 101, travels along stands of big-leaf maples whose yellow, red and orange autumn leaves rival aspens in Colorado and the famous East Coast foliage display.

The Salmon Cascades are a great place to witness coho salmon making their way upstream to their spawning grounds. The run normally starts in October.

Amazing hikes to Sol Duc Falls, Mink Lake, the Lover’s Lane loop and more also await.

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As we move into the transition period between summer and fall, life has a tendency to get more chaotic.

Children and teachers are back in the classroom, for those of us who garden, harvest season is in full swing and as the days begin to feel shorter again, we feel pressure to get outside as long as we can and �nish projects that we’ve procrastinated on or postponed.

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Respondents with a prior history of mental health problems and those who had watched six or more hours of daily media coverage of the events sur-rounding the bombings were most likely to report high acute-stress symptoms.

Turning off the TV does not mean you don’t care. In fact, you can actually do more good by focusing on

positive energy, rather than obsessing, feeling helpless or angry and building stress levels in your body.

No. 2 — Start your day with five to 10 minutes set aside for positive emotion

Set aside �ve to 10 minutes every morning to sit and bask in positive emotion.

When you feel pulled into drama or negativity, simply focus your attention in your heart and breathe, taking just a few minutes to appreciate the good in your life.

I know that for some of you, �nding �ve to 10 min-utes, especially in the morning feels impossible.

You might be rolling your eyes, telling me that I don’t know anything about your life.

True. However, I do know that if you �nd those few min-

utes, and make this a practice, you will �nd that you have more energy to deal with your life; and because you’re not using up that time on drama and chaos, you’ll �nd that you actually have more time and energy in your day.

No. 3 — Radiate a positive emotion to the chaos happening around you

This may seem counter-intuitive, but from the place of inner calm you created with tip No. 2, take a few more minutes and imagine that you are sending that calm, positive energy into the areas of your life that feel most chaotic and stressful.

Imagine that you are the sun, dissipating clouds. In your mind’s eye, imagine your positive energy melting away the chaos, stress, fear, anger or sadness.

Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath and other organizations are studying the effects of human coher-ence on the planet.

Coherence is a state of alignment in our autonomic nervous system, represented by a sine-wave like heart rhythm created when we focus attention in our hearts and breathe positive emotions.

You can see your heart rhythm in action with a biofeedback device called an emWave2.

This research suggests that one of the best ways to help create peace on the earth is to imagine and radi-ate peace and joy into your own electromagnetic �eld and to the people, places, and issues you care about.

Learning to change your emotional response from negative to positive may feel a bit like the ostrich bury-ing its head in the sand to avoid taking action, or an inauthentic reaction in the face of real stress.

However, because stress is created by our perception of events and not by the event itself, mastering this simple technique can be very powerful.

When you see and experience results over time, it

can give you a sense of empowerment and control, and lead to higher levels of resilience.

Additionally, because this state of coherence bal-ances your autonomic nervous system, takes you out of �ght-�ight or freeze-mode, and gives you access to the higher functioning part of your brain, it might also help you discover new possibilities you didn’t see before.

Try these three tips daily during the next seven to 21 days, and notice if you start to feel a shift in your perspective and your ability to handle chaotic times.

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With so much information available about children’ nutrition — what to eat, how to supplement and more — it’s hard to get a �rm grasp on what it takes to raise a healthy child.

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“It’s quite dif�cult to get all the essential vitamins and nutrients solely from diet — especially if you have picky eaters in your house,” says Elizabeth Somer, regis-tered dietitian and author of The Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals.

“There are tips and tricks parents can follow to establish healthy eating habits for their kids, but it’s also important for parents to consider adding multivitamins to their child’s routine to �ll in the gaps.”

Somer focuses on �ve important tips parents should follow to ensure their kids are getting adequate amounts of the essential vitamins and nutrients they need.

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1. LOOK TO MYPLATE TO FILL YOUR PLATE — MyPlate is an updated guide to nutrition from the USDA and First Lady Michelle Obama — think of it as the new Food Guide Pyramid. Check out the tips for a well-rounded diet focused on fruits, veggies and whole grains.

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What happens when you combine the great outdoors, harvesting and eating the vegetables you grew and new friendships? The Growing Healthy project.

Growing Healthy was a 15-week pilot project devel-oped by volunteers and staff from Volunteers in Medi-cine of the Olympics (VIMO) Free Clinic and Clallam County Master Gardeners.

Organizers designed the program to help persons with diabetes, or at risk for diabetes, to eat healthier, get more exercise and feel better through gardening.

Growing Healthy was based on research that shows that through growing their own food, children and adults become more invested in what they eat and are more likely to make nutritious food choices.

The program also took advantage of the fact that gardening is an excellent form of low-impact exercise.

VIMO was awarded a grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation to pilot the project, competing with hundreds of clinics from across the country.

By the time the grant was received, VIMO was already partnering with WSU Clallam County Exten-sion (and Clallam County Master Gardeners), First Step Family Support Center and Port Angeles Com-munity Gardens to start the project and had received contributions from local businesses and residents.

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Growing Healthy participant Scooter Rychlik, left, is instructed by Laurel Moulton, a Clallam County Master Gardener, about how to properly read a vegetable seed packet. Growing Healthy covered vegetable gardening basics including soil preparation, planting, transplanting, water-ing, fertilizing, weed and pest control and harvesting.

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A total of 19 community members participated, with ages ranging from 10 to 65 years.

Some participants also brought their younger children to play in the garden. Due to safety concerns, “Growing Healthy Kids,” a concurrent program for the children and grandchildren (2-9 years of age) of Growing Healthy participants, was launched.

With both programs going, the Fifth Street Commu-nity Garden was alive with activity: Grown-ups dig-ging, planting, watering and harvesting and children doing art and gardening projects and scavenger hunts in the garden.

The programs became so popular that new enroll-ment had to be limited.

Making a differenceGrowing Healthy helped teach participants garden-

ing skills and how to prepare the foods they harvested. By the end of the project, most participants felt that

they could start their own garden, given suf�cient space and resources.

They also thought they were eating healthier, reporting an increase in the number of fruits and vegetables they ate each day.

The harvest from the garden added food to the tables of participants, with attendees harvesting seasonal vegetables (such as kale, radishes, broccoli, zucchini, and tomatoes) to take home each week.

“My kids were as excited about the program as I was and looked forward to the harvest, saying ‘What did you bring home this week?’ and ‘Make sure you bring home some groceries,’” said Amy Jensen, a Growing Healthy participant.

The garden was therapeutic for many. “Getting their hands in the dirt” was like a tonic (and the friendship surrounding them, a salve).

One of the participants, Scooter Rychlik, was off work due to a serious injury.

“The project got me out of the house for two hours each week. [With my injury] . . . the program gave me needed exercise and much more. It helped me to get out of my head,” Rychlik said.

Learning how to garden might have initially at-tracted the participants, but a sense of community or family seemed to be the key in bringing them back. Participants and program organizers became friends and looked forward to seeing each other each week.

Participation in Growing Healthy became a source of pride. In the �nal evaluation, every single par-ticipant reported bringing others to the Community Garden to see the Growing Healthy plots.

Many shared plants and vegetables from the garden or gardening knowledge with neighbors and friends.

Project organizers summed up the experience with: “Growing Healthy led us on an amazing journey and helped us to think differently about the positive im-pact gardening can have on our community. And who would ever have thought that the free clinic would partner with local Master Gardeners and the commu-nity garden?”

The following businesses and individuals contributed to Growing Healthy: American Medical Association Foundation; First Federal; The Home Depot; Gibson

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Last winter, she began recruiting fellow travelers. Eight women ranging in age from 48 to 66 answered the call.

“The 48-year-old was an outlier,” Nolan joked.“Everyone else was in their mid-50s or older.”The intrepid recruits were Colleen Brastad, Sheri

Crain, Helen Freilich, Patti Happe, Marilyn Perkins, Bonnie Rathod, Susan Smith and Amy Ward.

All working professionals, their occupations included a physical therapist, a deputy police chief, a naturalist, a biologist, a school psychologist, a dietitian and three nurses.

Further, all are married with the average length of marriages well exceeding 30 years, and yet all put family, personal lives and jobs on hold for 11 days to take on this adventure.

The journey was staged from Ely, Minn., known as the canoe capital of the world, where Nolan’s family has a cabin.

A local out�tter provided all the gear, equipment and food. Additionally, the out�tters provided a taxi service with the women being transported to the drop-off site by van and left on their own for the next seven days.

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Canoeists making their way through the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

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Packing all their equipment, food and canoes, the group made their way on foot to the Moose River, about a half-mile from the drop off.

Given the amount of gear and food necessary to sustain a group of nine for a week, each woman made two trips over the portages.

One woman carried the 49-pound canoe while another backpacker spotted her. They all then returned to the exit site to retrieve a second load. Each portage took about 20 to 40 minutes.

The party paddled up Moose River to Lake Agnes and headed for Lac La Croix, a large body of water bordering the United States and Canada.

Smith and Nolan navigated with assistance from Happe on a GPS. They proceeded east hugging the Canadian border following an 18th and early 19th century route used by French fur traders known as the voyageurs.

“We all put our heads together to �gure out the route we were taking,” Marilyn Perkins of Port Angeles noted. “We’d pull up our canoes on the water to �gure out where we were.”

Getting up-close looks at remotely located Indian pictographs, identifying the �ora and fauna and viewing incredible waterfalls encountered along the way, the trip was a fantastic learning experience as well as an awesome outdoor adventure. The landscape was spectacular.

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Except for the calling of loons, the group’s privacy was complete night after night.

Paddling three to a canoe, the women’s expedition covered roughly 70 miles of physically demanding terrain and water. With the waters �owing west from one body of water to the next, the party frequently found themselves paddling against the current.

“We did quite well,” Nolan said. “We are very proud of what we accomplished.”

Their success was not an accident. They had prepared with an extensive reading list to familiarize themselves with the environment and a workout schedule to condition themselves for the challenges of the journey.

Nolan stored a couple of canoes at East Sequim Bay for practicing canoe paddling technique and teamwork leading up to the trip. They also spent time working out in the gym.

The sense of history and the wonder of nature combined with the strong bonds formed by nine independently minded women living and working closely together proved a memorable experience for all.

Bonnie Rathod summed it up, saying, “It was the trip of a lifetime.”

If you are interested in planning a trip, be sure to plan ahead. Access to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is strictly regulated to preserve the wilderness and insure the safety of visitors.

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points to a balloon at the checkout aisle. You say to her, “Look. The pink balloon has a �ower on it.” She claps her hands in happy response. And then you smile and wave again.

This brief interaction with this child is not just a friendly exchange. It is much more. You are actually supporting the development of her brain circuitry.

Serve and return“This simple interaction is called serve and return. It is this back-and-forth

communication between children and responsive adults that builds a young child’s brain architecture,” said Dr. Elanna S. Yalow, chief executive of�cer of KinderCare Early Learning Programs.

Yalow is a strong proponent for the importance of serve and return for all young children, starting with infants.

“Serve and return is like a game of tennis between a young child and a caring, responsive adult,” said Yalow.

“A baby coos or cries, or a preschool child asks “Why?” The adult returns the child’s “serve” with interest, and the back and forth begins.“Serve and return promotes learning because these interactions actually help

to develop the neural pathways in a child’s brain,” Yalow said. Because 70 percent of all brain development occurs within the �rst three years

of life, consistent use of serve and return is essential to establishing a strong foundation for success in school and later life.

Open-ended engagementSimply giving children directions does not foster healthy brain development.

Children need rich, meaningful exchanges to develop the brain connections that pave the way for continued learning and growth.

Asking children open-ended questions is an easy way to start serve and return. If a child draws a picture, parents and teachers should do more than compliment the picture.

Asking the child “What is happening in your picture?” or “Why did you draw that?” creates an opportunity for back and forth dialogue. Praise is important for young children, but serve and return is essential to their development.

Serve and return and language developmentServe and return also plays an important role in developing literacy skills.

Here’s an example: a baby points to a ball and a parent or teacher says, “ball.”This helps the child make a connection between the word and the correspond-

ing object. Through this process, early literacy skills form. And as children grow older

and adults read to them, asking children to react to what is being read or to predict what might happen next in the story also helps develop new connections in the brain.

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The absence of serve and returnWithout serve and return, the development of

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Adults who simply satisfy a child’s physical needs without providing serve and return interactions don’t adequately support the healthy development of the child.

Neural pathways that may be important to a child’s future may never be formed or will fade away through a process called “pruning.”

The foundation for all learningEnsuring that children engage with caring adults

who consistently engage in serve and return, begin-ning in infancy, builds the foundation for learning into adulthood.

“Serve and return is the fundamental difference between custodial care and high quality early child-hood education,” said Yalow.

“Vibrant serve and return should be the goal in every home and classroom, something that every parent and teacher should practice.”

Engaging with young children in intentional, meaningful ways not only helps them build relation-ships, it impacts their ability to develop language and cognitive skills.

Serve and return is a crucial base on which all future development is built; it is the foundation for learning.

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