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The Emerging Self Festival Opens This Fall in North Brunswick

Touch Mother Earth Non-Profit announces The Emerging Self Festival, enabling people to experience a life-style change event on September 17-19. It is offered either by day or as a camping weekend to adults and families.

The festival is a mind-body-spirit, Earth-oriented event that includes music, drum and dance circles, classes, Earth-based workshops, yoga, martial arts, children’s activities, self-improvement workshops, unique vendors, camping, hiking and other outdoor “rain or shine” activities.

Early Bird tickets are on sale now. Vendors, volunteers, performers and workshop facilitators are also invited to apply to be part of the festival.

Founded in 2020, Touch Mother Earth Non-Profit is a registered 501c3, “We Bring the Outside In” for challenged individuals in institutional settings like nursing homes. The organization integrates the virtual community with physical events to accomplish cultural synergy. Its commitment is to produce innovative content that informs, teaches, enhances wellness, enriches cultural experience through the humanities, promotes thought leadership, expands physical and emotional awareness, encourages spiritual and psychological expression, and provides practical education of earth-oriented topics and subjects.

Location:  North Brunswick. For tickets, vendors, volunteers, performers and workshop facilitators, visit TouchMotherEarth.com/Touch-Mother-Earth-Festival. See ad, page 9.

In-Print, Community August 2021
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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