by Glendale Sports Center | Oct 22, 2021 | Glendale City News
by Jessica L. Giffin, MPH, CHES, NBC-HWC, Director of Health Partnerships, YMCA of Metro Denver
November marks the beginning of the holiday season — a festive time when our thoughts turn to re-connecting with friends and loved ones to celebrate the holidays. During the colder Colorado months, we are gathering for celebrations that take place indoors and, as we know, that can put some of us at greater risk. Did you know that older adults with diabetes or pre-diabetes can be at higher risk for becoming very ill, particularly with COVID-19?
During November — National Diabetes Awareness Month — it is a call to action for those at risk but there are some steps you can take to protect yourself.
Get Vaccinated
According to a study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, coronavirus vaccines have prevented 265,000 infections, 107,000 hospitalizations, and 39,000 deaths from the virus in the first five months of this year.
Older adults with multiple underlying medical conditions are most at risk of serious illness. Throughout Denver and the state, there are many sites where you can get immunized. Check the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment at covid19.colorado.gov for answers to frequently asked questions about the vaccine and convenient location of vaccine clinics.
Take Precautions While Traveling
Even though you may be vaccinated for COVID-19, there are rare breakthrough cases. In recent domestic travel guidance, the Centers for Disease Control recommends for those who are vaccinated to wear a mask and take precautions like hand washing and social distancing and then self-monitor for symptoms post-travel. For those who are unvaccinated, the recommendation is to take the same precautions in addition to getting tested 1-3 days before travel and 3-5 days after travel.
Reduce Your Diabetes Risk
Your age, lifestyle, and being overweight can put you at risk for diabetes. Taking a risk test or asking your doctor for a blood test. Type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be permanent.
If you have prediabetes, there are things you can do to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes. Consider joining the YMCA Diabetes Prevention program. Trained staff can help you make healthy food choices, get physically active and, in turn, lose weight, all of which can make a big difference! For those with Medicare Part B and United Health Care Advantage, the YMCA program is covered. Learn more and connect with our team at denverymca.org.
Stay healthy and safe this holiday season and beyond!
by Valley Gadfly | Oct 22, 2021 | Valley Gadfly
The transition from fall to winter is getting underway. As winter kicks in with its cold weather and snowy landscapes, everyone feels funny. We’re either cold or getting a cold. November is a whole bunch of mixed feelings and songs about it are the living proof. Cozy sweaters and fashionable scarves are our wind-songs in the pines.
This is the month when night comes early and the dawn comes late. We’re pushed out of the sunlight as the piercing chill creates ice in buckets and frost by the gate.
After a year that so often kept people apart, here are our choices for shopping, dining, and entertainment to harvest happiness and foster a spirit of connectedness:
3 Keep the season bright by enjoying more than a dozen remaining JAAMM Fest events on the JCC campus. November features singer-comedian Jackie Tohn and cookbook author Jake Cohn. Information: 303-399-2600.
3 Cozy up seeing films-documentaries as Denver Film Festival returns to the Sie Film Center, other venues Nov. 3-14. Information: denverfilms.org.
3 Beat the cold at National Jewish Health’s hot Fashion Show Nov. 6th at Mercedes-Benz on S. Colorado Blvd., 6 p.m. Information: 303-728-8748.
3 Don’t miss this year’s sizzling Junior League Holiday Mart at DU’s Gates Field House, Nov. 12-14 with varying hours. Information: 303-682-0270.
3 Enjoy English pub specialties, American fare, at the long bar, patio, and dining room at Glendale’s Bull & Bush. Celebrate the season partying at one of the Valley’s best craft breweries. Information: 303-759-0333.
3 Warm up your Holiday event by treating guests at the Infinity Park Event Center. It’s a cozy winter wonderland with 360-degree video screens to bring your party to life. Information: infinityparkeventcenter.com.
3 See Central City Opera’s L’Esprit de Noel virtual tour of Denver’s 1888 McCourt Mansion, Nov. 19-Dec. 31. Information: lesprithometour.com.
3 Catch Cherry Creek Theatre’s classic play Just A Second at the Wolf Theatre on the JCC campus through Nov. 21. Information: 303-800-6578.
3 To help you enjoy this month’s weather, the Colorado Symphony and Natasha Paaremski fire-up DCPA’s Boettcher Concert Hall playing Piano Concerto No. 2, Nov. 19-21. The work is concise and playful, contrasting the daring music with those more typical of Mozart’s time. Performances are Fri.-Sat. 7:30 p.m. Sun. at 1 p.m. Music by the two titans shines in the hands of Maestro Andrew Litton. Information: 303-893-4200.
We’ve polished off the last of the Halloween candy and pulled out our cozy sweaters. Now we need to take a deep breath of crisp air and settle into November — the very best month of the season. It’s a holiday month, but instead of the rush of Christmas, we get to spend time with family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving traditions. Enjoy the month to the fullest. Live life to the maximum by taking a moment to reflect on all that makes you grateful.
Relish November’s warm temperatures — Indian Summer is Nov. 11-20 — because all too soon frost and snow will force us indoors. Most Denver nights drop below freezing, with an inch of snow on the ground for six days during the month. If winter is early, it won’t be late meteorologists warn. Trees simply say, “leave me alone.”
— Glen Richardson
The Valley Gadfly can be reached at newspaper@glendalecherrycreek.com.
by Peter Boyles | Oct 22, 2021 | Blasting with Boyles
Only a few things in the ’40s and ’50s media ever affected me as a little boy. One thing that was for sure, I would never end up working in radio. But my memories about that golden time are pretty significant. One of my earliest memories is my sister, and my grandma, and my mother, and myself, marching around the breakfast table to Don McNeil’s Breakfast Club. The television shows that really influenced me were I Love Lucy, You Asked For It, Science Fiction Theater, and, of course, Superman.
It’s been announced that the original Superman motto of “Truth, Justice and the American Way” has been been ditched.
So now the super motto is “Truth, Justice and a Better Tomorrow.” Doesn’t that sound like Stalinism? “Glorious people build glorious tomorrow,” or “glorious people build new hydroelectric dam,” or in the case of DIA, “glorious people build glorious airport.”
Now old Superman really had an impact on me until, of course, I discovered my uncle’s collection of Playboy magazines, and the first time I ever kissed a girl after a baseball game. But Superman was all of our alter egos. I wore those Allegheny County welfare glasses and there were many times I wished I could have ducked into a phone booth and come out and kicked some big kid’s ass. But George Reeves was Superman. And Bud Collyer was Superman on radio. These people meant something and now…. a better tomorrow?
There is another part of this and by now I’m sure you’ve heard Superman’s son is bisexual. His name is Jon Kent. On October 11, Jon Kent, Superman’s son who wears the iconic “S” on his shield, came out as bisexual. As you well know, I too am bisexual. All the sex I get I buy. So, I guess it’s sort of a modern world. But the American way? Have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris killed the American way? Have Jared Polis and Michael Hancock killed the American way? Who can my grandson look up to?
The bisexual part doesn’t bother me a bit. It’s that American way thing. As you know when those young guys Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel invented Superman in the Spring of ’38 they were staring down the barrel of the Nazis. They were using professional wrestlers and body builders and they were going to keep the bad guys away from America.
I think it’s too late. The bad guys are here. I was also saddened to hear that they were going to build a better tomorrow. As Nancy Reagan said when Barbara Bush said that they were going to have a kinder, gentler American, Nancy quipped “kinder and gentler than who?” We’re going to build a better tomorrow. Better than the greatest generation? Better than the men who stood at Valley Forge? Better than the men at Gettysburg? Better than the young men and women who gave their souls in Southeast Asia and Iraq? A better tomorrow? Yeah? Look up in the sky.
— Peter Boyles
by Mark Smiley | Oct 22, 2021 | Featured Stories & Advertisers
