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Ridgewater Comm. Health Fair, Healthcare Job Fair al'i
The 12th Annual Ridgewater well-being of yourself and your videagreatwayfortheHutchinson
College Community Health Fair family, and have fun doing it," area and Ridgewatercommunities
kicks off Tuesday, April 7, in the Youngren said. Many exhibitors to become more acquainted with
Hutchinson Campus Commons. offer hands-on explorations, inter- the healthcare services and oppor-
From 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., community active learning, or samples. New tunities available in Hutchinson
members are invited to join stu- this year will be a 1 p.m. presen- and surrounding area," said Youn-
dents and staff to check out the tation on nutrition, presented by gren. It is a great opportunity for
free health fair. "Our theme again Dr. Adam Fink. It is no secret that area healthcare providers to make
is 'Healthy Bodies Make Healthy the standard American diet is less contact with Current and soon-to-
Minds'," said Naomi Youngren, than optimal. People need to learn graduate healthcare students, as
Ridgewater College Health Fair that they can have good health well as community members con-
coordinator, through good nutrition, according sidering or looking for employ-
The Community Health Fair to Fink. ment in the healthcarefield.
traditionally includes about 30 This year Ridgewater will again For more information about the
exhibitors from a wide variety of host a Healthcare Job Fair in con- Health Fair or Healthcare Job Fair,
perspectives and practices. "It's a junction with the Community contact Naomi at (320) 234-8562
great opportunity to learn about Health Fair. "We feel these two or .
Kimball maWs 32 Annual Relief Association
Palm Sunday 7 adition
will used ta purchase equipmmd for tho Kimball [
What's funnier than a young sorting out their social hierarchy
male dog confusing someone's leg which is a very real structure in
for a female in heat? Not much ... groups of animals. Every animal
unless it's your dog, then I guess it knows who is boss, and if they get
might be described as embarrass- out of line they might get jumped
ing. I had a client tell me about his on. If a young ambitious beast
dog always mounting his other dog wanted to challenge the "alpha" of
and he said I should write an arti- the group, he or she might take a
cle about the phenomenon (and I chance and mount the leader, an
bet he didn't think I'd actually do encounter which would, of course,
it.) Spring is in the air, and there end badly for one of the two. This
are intactmale dogs, stallions, and is the situation with my client's
bulls all over getting ready to self- dogs: the younger one is challeng-
lessly do their part to perpetuate ing the dominance of the estab-
their respective species, lished dog by mounting him. The
It's not always about actual troubleisthattheolderdogdoesn't
breeding, however, as we see care, completely unimpressed and
mounting behavior in groups of unthreatened, so he neither snaps
femalessuchasthecaseindairyorat the puppy to put him in his
beef cows, and in dominance situ- place nor does he ever really sub-
ations like my client's young male mit to the youngster. If the stub-
dog who is always trying to mount born older dog would ever do one
the older male. It's not always even of the two, the mounting would
in intact animals - spayed and probably stop. Again, really funny,
neutered dogs will sometimes dis- unless it's your own dogs doing it.
play the behavior. For cows, one Spaying and neutering pets,
theory is that females will help castrating bulls, and gelding stal-
identify other females in heat'by lions at the recommended ages
jumping up on them so the bulls can minimize this behavior, but
will eventually find their way to it can occasionally transcend our
them. Every animal in a herd is best efforts. Some tissues in the
safer from predators if there are body besides the gonads can pro-
more animals around them (espe- duce sex hormones, some of the
cially younger, slower ones) so it's behavior is learned and not,from
in every cow's best interest that all the influence of hormones, some is
others are pregnant. I once over- dominance display, and some may
heardachildatthezooask"Whyis not have much scientific explana-
that cow trying to look over the top tion beyond it being natural, nor-
of the other one?" as one cow was mal, and let's be honest, they get
on its hind legs mounting the other some enjoyment out of it. Speak-
- I think the parent tried to change ing along those lines, of the dogs
the subject. Cattle, male or female, hit by cars, an overwhelming pro-
bulls or steers also sometimes use portion of them are intact males.
mounting behavior as one way of Neutering saves lives because dogs
don't look both ways before cross-
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DU sponsorships
explained
The Maine Prairie Ducks
Unlimited is having their Sec-
ond Annual Banquet at Genera-
tions Ballroom in Kimball Friday
April 17. The question has been
asked:"What are sponsorships?"
Bill Liedman replied. "Spon-
sorships are a method of paying
for those items in the raffles at
the banquet. There are two levels
of sponsorships. The silver spon-
sorship includes two meal tick-
ets, a Scott Storms print, and a raf-
fle pacl~age worth $140. The gold
sponsorship includes four meal
tickets, a Scott Storms print, a
decoy, and a raffle package worth
$280."
These sponsorships, when
accumulated [o $10,000, will be
entitled special recognition by
North American Ducks Unlimited.
Sponsorships can be purchased by
individuals, groups of individuals.
or businesses. Call Bill at (320) 398-
5523 for additional information.
