1. The Voice
New Staff Member
Charlene Green has joined OME as our
new Student Services Advisor. Charlene has
worked in student and patient counseling at
CSUS and in the Hem Onc Division here at
UCD. She’s located in the Student Commons
area on the 2nd Floor. Welcome, Charlene!
February | 2014
Valentine’s Day Events
Iris Folding Card for Valentine’s Day
Saturday, Feb 1, 1:00pm Sacramento Public
Library, Franklin Library, Elk Grove.
Create elegant looking greeting cards using
simple techniques.
http://events.sacbee.com/sacramento_ca/events/
Sacramento Ballet Studios
Saturday, Feb 8, 7:00pm
Enjoying excerpts from Wild Sweet Love,
Wunderland, and a premiere by Ma Cong...
Bag Your
Valentine Party
The Citizen Hotel,
Sacramento
Saturday, Feb 1, 7:30pm
The Joy of Chocolate
Saturday, Feb 8, 7:00pm
Sacramento Natural Food Coop Learning
Center, Make cocoa nib-crusted filet mignon;
hand-rolled chocolate truffles with a hint of
chili, and other culinary favorites.
11th Annual Valentine Run/Walk‘Race for
Justice’Saturday, Feb 8, 6:30am
Macy’s Country Club Plaza Mall, Sacramento
Presented by Legal Services of Northern
California, the walk/run is a family friendly
featuring kids races and a 1.8mile/4mile run.
Winemaker Dinner with Lange Twins
Friday, Feb 14, 6:00pm Sacramento Natural
Food Coop Learning Center, Sacramento
The Lange family is known for fine wines...
Valentine’s Day Reggae Dinner Party
Friday, Feb 14, 7:00pm
Taste of Jamaica Restaurant
and Sports Bar, Sacramento.
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The XXII Olympic Winter Games Opening
Ceremony is on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014
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OME News and Events
The Voice Staff:
Connie Freeman
James Jennings
Gwenner Miller
Ida Shunk
Melissa Velasquez
Upcoming SOM Events
The Vagina Monologues - Feb. 13th
Cancer Center, 8 - 10 pm
The 2nd Year Class will present the play.
Tickets are available thru the students.. You
will see them in the lobby selling tickets and
chocolate vagina suckers for the fundraiser.
AOA Fundraiser - Feb. 21st
Beer tasting from local craft breweries will be
featured. Watch for advertising for the event.
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, all events and
activities in this publication are listed for
informative purposes only and are not
endorsed by the staff.
Birthdays
Ryan Traynham
Polly Latow
Haydee Pineda-Johnson
Charmaine Allen
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Dates
February
Groundhog Day - Feb. 2
World Cancer Day - Feb. 4
Valentines Day/Snow Moon - Feb. 14
President’s Day Holiday - Feb. 17
Random Acts of Kindness Day - Feb. 17
End of Year 2 - Feb. 24

2. The Voice
February’s full Moon is traditionally called
the Full Snow Moon because usually the
heaviest snows fall in February.
Hunting becomes very difficult, and so
some Native American tribes called this the
“Hunger Moon”.
Other Native American tribes called this
Moon the“Shoulder to Shoulder Around the
Fire Moon”(Wishram Native Americans), the
“No Snow in the Trails Moon”(Zuni Native
Americans), and the“Bone Moon”(Cherokee
Native Americans). The Bone Moon meant
that there was so little food that people
gnawed on bones and ate bone marrow
soup.
Feb. 14th
February’s
Full Moon
February Full Snow Moon
Fun, Fantastic Recipes from OME
Gwenner’s Ground Turkey Tacos
Turkey tacos garnished with green lettuce, chopped tomatos and shredded cheddar cheese
Ingredients
-1 clove garlic finely chopped
-2 tablespoon finely chopped union
-1 teaspoon vegetable oil
-1/2 Lawry’s Seasoning packet
-Thyme
-Pepper
-1/2 pound ground turkey
-10 Corn taco shells
-Chopped green leaf lettuce
-Freshly chopped tomatoes
-Shredded cheddar cheese
-Salsa (optional)
-Sour cream (optional)
Preparation:
Sauté in a separate pan 1 clove finely
chopped garlic and 2 tablespoon finely
chopped onion in vegetable oil until brown
and crisp.
Rinse and season raw ground turkey with
thyme and pepper; mix seasons in ground
turkey well. Be sure to add a little water in
the skillet while cooking the meat (since
ground turkey has a consistency to be drier
than ground beef). Cook ground turkey in a
separate skillet on low to medium heat, while
cooking be sure to constantly mash and
break up ground turkey with a fork in fine
bits until crumbly. Drain ground turkey and
add sautéed garlic and onion, and 1/2 Lawry’s
seasoning packet; mix thoroughly into meat
with a fork. Once ground turkey is cooked
you may need to add a little water to keep
it moist. Turn down heat to low and allow
to simmer with lid tilted on top of skillet so
steam can exit the side of lid.
Place corn taco shells in the oven at 400 and
warm until golden brown. Place desired
amount of ground turkey in taco shells.
Garish with chopped green leaf lettuce,
freshly chopped tomatoes, shredded
cheddar cheese, salsa (optional), sour cream
(optional).
-Gwenner Miller
"Hands that give also receive"
- Ecuadorian Proverb
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3. My husband, James, won a trip to Bora Bora at a
vendor event, and we went in mid-January. Here are
a few snippets from the trip. -Ida
Tahiti - Faa’a Airport, Papeetee
The band is trying hard. Two banjos and a trio of
voices struggle to raise the welcome song into
the spongy air. The song translation is roughly
“welcome to paradise, now relax.” But it’s 6:30AM
and HOT, and the travelers who have debarked from
the plane that just flew in from LAX have not seen
paradise yet. They’ve seen the ass end of an airport
– metal sheds and discarded vehicles. The backdrop
of an exotic mountain and a few spare palm trees
only vaguely hint at the location, Papeetee, Tahiti.
Now they are inside the airport, arranged in four
sprawling, ill-defined, unmoving lines, while the last
vestiges of stirring air are sucked up by the lazily
spinning ceiling fans into the rafters, far over their
heads. The band’s first song is applauded politely;
its second and third songs are greeted with snarls
and stony silence, and they finally pack it in and
leave, sweating like the passengers but not similarly
captive to the customs line.
There are two lines for passengers with EU passports
– and two for“other.” Once Customs opens, the EU
lines vanish with a speed that only makes the solid
queue of Americans, Austrailians and Asians the
more frustrated. A yawning security guard, perhaps
tired of the glare of impatient foreigners, finally
opens up the EU lines to all, and there is a visible
release of tension as the back third of the room
undulates into the new lines. James and I are in the
back of the line, and we too surge forward into the
EU line.
The officer at the immigration booth is almost
comically clichéd in his role. Crisp uniform; crisp
haircut; crisp little mustache. His lean face has sour,
bureaucratic lines. As the passports at his window
start reading“other”instead of“EU,”his lines grow
deeper and he starts yelling at the idiots to get back
into their own queue. En masse, we rebel; or at any
rate, we point fingers to the red-shirted security
guard who let us into his line. He leaves the booth
to confirm this information and we hear a heated
argument in French. When he returns, he takes us,
Ia Orana* From
Bora Bora
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grudgingly, and we meekly hand over our passports
while he mutters to himself.
Finally, we’re in the main airport. No air
conditioning, but there is a McDonalds (one of
only four in all of French Polynesia, we know from
research). We’re here. Tahiti. Leaving the customs
line feels like paradise.
Bora Bora - Coral Gardens
There’s a woman screaming and it’s disorienting.
We’re bobbing around the Bora Bora Coral Garden,
amateur snorklers, and it’s a warm, clear day; the
water is azure, turquoise, cerulean, clear. The
equatorial sun is benignly scorching away my
sunscreen. James is diving up and down, his Go
Pro camera strapped to his chest. I’m staying in
the shallows, staring at the ecosystems of waving
coral, tropical fish, and the squiggly purple and blue
mouths of the oysters.
James paddles over to me and we stare at the couple
who are swimming toward the motu. This is the
private island on which we are staying and which
is surrounded by Coral Gardens, one of the best of
Bora Bora’s coral reefs. It’s a popular destination for
divers, and boats keep coming to unload them at
the outskirts of the garden, beyond the bouys. If the
couple came from one of the boats, we don’t know,
but they are near us suddenly, swimming choppily
toward the motu, and the woman is screaming.
James calls out to them, asking if they need help.
But as they surface from the water, she now crying
and yelling in French, they ignore him completely.
They are a matched pair, young, bronze from head
to foot, both of them topless. She struggles up
to the rocky beach and he tries to follow her, but
she turns to him and puts her hand in the water
and splashes at him, trying to keep away. I watch
anxiously as James moves toward them, again
asking them if they need help – again he’s ignored.
He moves toward one of the boats of divers, yells at
them to take care of their passengers, but everyone
continues to ignore him. Eventually, the couple
move on, walk together-apart to the other side of
the motu and the day is calm and sweet again.
Bora Bora - Vaitape
We leave the pearl shop reluctantly. It’s one of
the high end stores in the village, the interior
design all white and avant garde; air conditioned.
The saleswoman sat us down at a glass desk and
brought out boxes of loose pearls from the safe to
pick over and inspect with tiny magnifying glasses
(as if we could identify flaws). I just looked for one
with a pretty color, and we filled out the duty free
paperwork feeling odd and self-indulgent.
Outside, we are back“downtown,”as the locals call
Vaitape, and it is hot and stuffy again.
Vaitape sits on the southwest shores of Bora Bora, on
either side of the small island-encircling road the US
military built during WWII. It nestles up to the quay
where the cruise ships come in from Tahiti.
“Occupational Wellness”is finding
personal satisfaction and enrichment
from paid or unpaid work.
- Create a balance between
work and leisure.
- Practice safety every day:
Think safe. Act Safe. Be Safe.
- De-clutter and organize
your home or workplace.
- Find ways to make your vocation
or avocation challenging and meaningful,
or find another opportunity.
-Gwenner Miller
Chin Lee, the island’s only supermarket, runs low
on fresh vegetables today, but the Tahitian rum is
available in cheap 3-packs and we replenish our
supply (the hotel bar having disappointed us greatly
by now), along with boxes of LU brand cookies.
Today, the lagoon breeze is not in our favor and the
humidity presses in on us as we visit the other shops.
It’s all for the tourists on main street – the locals are
tucked in concrete block houses behind the main
street on little side roads that go inland toward
Mounts Pahia and Otemanu. On main street are the
pearl shops, the art galleries, the gift shops – bright
sarongs waving like flags on the outside racks - and
the roadside stands where women sell baskets of
fruit and baguettes alongside baskets of pearls.
By now, James is in love with Bora Bora, although he
has been dehydrated twice and his white Russian
skin is now the color of borscht. He’s handing out
virtual business cards everywhere he goes, asking
about IT jobs on the island. I’m thinking about taking
the rum back to our overwater bungalow on the
lagoon, where the trade wind blowing on our deck
will wipe out the heat and the humidity - as it has all
week, bless it. We stop and look at some $19 black
pearls and $30 bunches of tiny finger-sized bananas
and James grins and asks the woman how she’s
doing in the heat of the day. She smiles back and
says,“I’m here – and there’s nothing better.”
- Ida Shunk
*Pron. Yo Oh-rah-nah: Hello!
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4. In 2009, Caitlin Boyle, a health
blogger and author (Healthy Tipping
Point), started “Operation Beautiful”,
a campaign to promote a healthy
body image in girls, women and men
by combatting negative self-talk.
The campaign is simple – anyone,
anywhere, can participate by leaving
an encouraging sticky note in a public
place such as a bathroom mirror, a gym
locker room, a car windshield.
Over the years since the campaign
has started, people have reported
on Caitlin’s blog finding Operation
Beautiful notes in library books,
computer labs, and cubicles. The
power of random encouragement is not
surprising. One interesting byproduct
of the project, however, is its positive
effects on the participants, many of
whom have reported on the blog feeling
better about themselves as they left
notes for others. As one participant
noted, “I never feel confident about my
body, face … but now that I tell people
through these notes to be themselves
and to not care what others think, I
guess I have to start believing in myself,
too.”
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