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13th Annual Hunterdon Holistic Fair Seeking Sponsors and More

Did you realize one in three American women either live in poverty or on the brink of it? NORWESCAP Career and Life Transitions Center served nearly 200 NJ women last year, helping them to the workforce to support themselves and their children. The success of their program is greatly funded by their annual Hunterdon Holistic Fair. This year, the fair will return to the Flemington Elks Lodge on Saturday, October 29th. All-day workshops will be taking place, a great platform for those with a holistic expertise to speak. This allows for tremendous exposure to a target audience for those in the field. The hope of the CLTC is for the greatest prosperity and success to their supporters and the center alike.

The positive exposure this event attracts caught the attention of Vice News last year, a popular internet media channel. Vice’s Gavin Haynes and his camera crew came to the fair to interview and film a documentary on Indigo Children, released in April 2016.

The CLTC is continuing social media exposure and vamping up community exposure with proposed billboards/banners throughout Hunterdon and surrounding counties. A program book, entitled Healthy Life, filled with recipes, articles, coupons and health tips will printed. They are currently accepting registrations for sponsorship, vendor booths, advertising, hosting workshops, donating silent auction items, musical ensembles and articles for the program book.

 Location: Flemington Elks Lodge, 165 Route 31, Flemington. For more information, call Dawn Hartfelder at 908-788-1453, email her at [email protected] or visit NORWESCAP.org.

News Briefs
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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