STATE SENATOR MARILYN RASMUSSEN ANNOUNCES TOWN HALL MEETINGS:
Wednesday, April 4
Roy City Hall:
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 7
Orting High School Commons:
9:30-10:30 a.m.
Graham Fire Station:
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Eatonville Library:
1:00-2:30 p.m.
Yelm Middle School:
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Don't miss the The Nisqually Valley Home, Garden & Trade Show
sponsored by the Nisqually Valley News and the Yelm Chamber of Commerce.
this weekend!
"Dreamtime Visual Communications is a diverse business resource.
We provide a wide array of services, from design and fabrication of signs, trade show booths, and vehicle graphics, to complete identity packages, brochures, business cards, and much more.
Give us a call or email us to find out how we can help you create the most effective promotional tool for your business.
Dreamtime Visual Communications, Inc. • 112 Yelm Ave East • Yelm, WA 98597
Voice 360.458.7183 • Fax 360.458.9449 • Toll-Free 866.458.7183"
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"Fine European Pastries
Our Story
Sebastian missed the taste of home. His wife and friends in the U.S. loved the smell and taste of Sebi’s baking. “These flavors are so uncommon!” “There are no desserts like this around here.” “You should really sell this stuff!” were common remarks.
In 2004, Sebi and his wife Amy launched Sebastian’s Best, moving the business to Yelm, WA in December of 2005.
Sebastian makes all his products by hand from the finest natural ingredients, and then delivers them to customers in Yelm and Olympia, and by UPS to people all over the U.S. These pastries are sure to delight your palate with flavors uncommon in the U.S.
We Offer
A delightful menu of Linzer Tortes (rasberry and blueberry), Engadiner Nuss Torte, Swiss Rueblitorte (carrot cake), Apfel Strudel, and a variety of puff pastries and cookies.
For a wholesale or retail price list, please contact us!"
Sebastian's Best
458 9313
105 E Yelm Ave
YOU MUST STOP IN FOR SOME OF THE BEST TREATS THIS SIDE OF OLD EUROPE!
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We provide complete professional service for residential homes, including, Annual Inspections, Quarterly Pest Control Programs, and prompt effective elimination of active infestations of carpenter ants, termites, spiders, mice, rats and many other pests.
Serving the pest control needs of Yelm, Ranier, Roy, Lacey, Olympia, Spanaway, Graham, Dupont, Lakewood, Tacoma, Tumwater, Parkland, Puyallup, Rochester, Tenino, Centralia, Chehalis and all rural areas of Pierce, Thurston and Lewis County.
Call Matt Purcell
1 (877) 720-8800
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"The Prairie Hotel offers wonderful accommodations, whether you´re on vacation or a business trip. We are centrally located between the Tacoma and Olympia areas. This is a great opportunity to enjoy our beautiful country surroundings, while only having a short commute to the city!"
Give them a call when your family or friends visit.
PRAIRIE HOTEL
458-8300
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The City of Yelm has alot of opportunities for area citizens to serve their community, many of which do not require the indvidual to be living within the city limits. Here is a current list of openings:
Elected positions that DO require the person to live within Yelm city limits:
Yelm City Council seats up for election in 2007, each for a 4-year term-
Pos. 1 = Don Miller
Pos. 2 = Joe Baker
Pos. 6 = John Thompson
Pos. 7 = Russ Hendrickson
Positions NOT requiring City of Yelm residency:
Yelm Community Schools all with a 4-year term-
Dist. 2 = Donna Edwards
Dist. 3 = Denise Hendrickson
Dist. 5 = William Hauss
Fire Protection Dist. 17 Bald Hills 6-year term
Pos. 3 = Roger McMaster
Yelm Fire District 6-year term
Pos. 1 = Tim Bruner
Yelm Cemetary District 6-year term
Pos. 1 - Darlene Baker
Yelm Planning Commission
1. seat recently vacated by the resignation of Tami Jenkins
Yelm Timberland Library Advisory Board 5-year term
1. seat recently vacated by the resignation of Tami Jenkins
2. seat recently vacated by the retirement of Pam Walker
Three members must be a resident of the City of Yelm, shall own property inside the city limits or shall have a current City of Yelm business license. The remaining two members shall reside within either the Yelm or Rainier school districts.
Yelm Historic Preservation Commission
Members shall be residents of Yelm’s designated sphere of influence
Yelm Parks Advisory Committee
Two seats are vacant.
Consists of seven members who are residents of the Yelm area, and are appointed by the Mayor.
Glen Cunningham stopped me at last Monday's Planning Commission meeting and asked why I commented on his serving on 6 local committees (see Yelm Community Blog entry of February 13, 2007, then scroll down) saying many of these had openings because of lack of community participation & his wealth of knowledge would otherwise go wasted. I told him service to the community is to be acknowledged, however diversity among committee members is what will bring fresh new ideas to the forefront. Does the very same person serving on the Yelm Economic Planning Committee, Yelm Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Yelm Planning Commission encourage diversity and divergent viewpoints, creating a lively discussion about vital issues of the day?
Now is YOUR chance to participate. Those of you living in the county surrounding Yelm can participate in most of these Yelm committees listed above. Now is YOUR chance to have a voice.
What say you?
Will you step up to the plate to serve and fill these committees with your new ideas, new "blood", new passion, and new vigor to will reshape this town for the future?
To learn more, chekout the City of Yelm site under Citizen Committees.
The Pierce County Business Examiner reports,
"Wilcox Family Farms announced today it will keep its milk and egg products free of cloned animals. Wilcox supplies more than 20 percent of the area's milk and is the first major producer in the state to announce it will be free of cloned animals.
Wilcox has agreements with its suppliers to ensure the milk it purchases is free of artificial hormones. Farm officials said the family will add to those agreements to make sure its milk and chickens are not from cloned animals.
In December 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft report saying meat and milk from cloned animals, and their offspring, are as safe to eat as conventionally bred animals. The FDA, however, also kept in place a voluntary moratorium on the use of cloned animals for food."
scroll to Monday, March 19, 2007 stories.
In his monthly Guest Column in the March 16 issue of the Nisqually Valley News (NVN), Yelm Mayor Ron Harding states:
"...Bottom line, this momentum [growth] contributes to our ability to improve the infrastructure and quality of life for our citizenry and the people that travel through and shop in Yelm. Without it, we would still see the demand for road and other improvements, but would not have the financial ability to construct them.
This year we are spending more money on road projects than ever before, our businesses have increased sales, community projects are on the rise, services that at one time were not available in our city are becoming more available, new homes are being built."
So, according to this scenario, growth is required to fund projects?
The Mayor does not list the costs of this growth to the community:
* major traffic
* air quality compromised
* noise & water pollution
* increasing crime
* straining of our natural resources like the aquifer
* permanent loss of our small-town character.
The very reason we must tackle some of these projects like road expansion, water aquifer studies, larger police presence, surveillance cameras in our parks and waste disposal issues is that the Yelm City Council continues to approve any and all development with little attention to providing the infra-structure & properly administered impact fees to support such growth.
And, more developments are approved every month in Yelm, on top of the massive Tahoma Terra & Thurston Higlhands developments.
For example, the Mountain Shadow subdivision was approved on February 27, 2007.
That thinking is how Puyallup and other cities got into a pickle described in the March 19 blog entry below!
That thinking must change to one focused on how the decisions of today affect the future!
Growth alone does not fund these projects, rather wise fiscal management & decision-making does, coupled with how such growth will affect the future of our town and children.
If City Hall thinks more development = more tax revenue, what will they do when Thurston County leads the way in foreclosures and this buidling boom here leads to homes being foreclosed and shuttered, with no tax revenue coming from those properties?
Oh, that won't happen they say?
Such is already fact, as reported in the March 18 Olympian (see March 18 entry below).
What do you think?
Yelm Mayor Ron Harding
Photo from City of Yelm website
"While commercial growth blossoms in the South Sound, so does gridlock. Will congestion spell stalls for small business?
Doing business on Puyallup's South Hill can be a Catch-22.
At least that's what Thomas Anderson, owner of Plaza II Music Center on South Hill, has discovered.
It's where you want to be, as far as growth goes, and it's where you don't want to be, as far as congestion goes," he said. "You want to be where the customers are, right?"
Thousands of prospective customers stream past his South Hill location, but almost all of them are caught in the gridlock traffic that can turn a cross-town commute into a whole-afternoon affair. Giving customers a good enough reason to exit off Meridian can be a challenge for small business owners...
While commercial growth blossoms in the South Sound, so does gridlock. Will congestion spell stalls for small business?
Many people speculate on how South Hill became what it is today. Some blame it on poor planning; others blame the traffic on developers putting rapid commercial growth in motion. Many business owners fear there isn't much that can be done to resolve the grisley bottleneck that South Meridian has become. Bumper stickers even boast: "Pray for me, I drive Meridian."
Regardless of how it got that way, South Hill has become the universal example in the South Sound of what not to do when planning a community.
Gig Harbor ultimately has become an example of good planning, he said, while South Hill is the poster child of the need for growth management.
While there doesn't seem to be another community to match South Hill as far as congestion paired with rapid development, potential for the same nightmarish result seems to be present to a lesser degree in communities such as Federal Way, Covington, Black Diamond, Hawks Prairie and Bonney Lake [Ed. Note: And Yelm!]," quoting the Business Examiner.
Is Yelm doomed become another South Hill?
What do you think?
The Olympian reports in today's edition,
"County foreclosure rate highest in Washington
More local homeowners unable to pay their mortgages
All those low-interest and no-interest mortgage loans that helped fuel South Sound’s hot housing market last year are coming back to haunt some homeowners.
Thurston County led the state in foreclosures as a percentage of households last year, according to Realty Trac, a Southern California company that tracks foreclosure data nationwide.
The company’s data show:
• One in every 61 mortgages, or 1.64 percent of Thurston County’s households, recorded a foreclosure last year, compared with one foreclosure for every 129 mortgages statewide, a rate of 0.77 percent.
• Foreclosures in Thurston County increased nearly 8 percent last year, from 413 in 2005 to 446 in 2006...
South Sound real estate agents and mortgage lenders blame some of the increases on programs that enticed buyers into the market with mortgages that required no money down or allowed buyers to pay interest only for several years."
WILL THE BUILDING BOOM IN YELM HOME DEVELOPMENTS ADD TO THE FORECLOSURE AMOUNTS?
WILL YELM HAVE ALOT OF FORECLOSED HOMES?
YIKES!
Rep. Tom Campbell has announced
that he will hold a Town Hall Meeting in Yelm
Saturday, March 24
11:00am until 1:00pm
Yelm City Hall
105 Yelm Ave W
Further, "Washington State is getting closer to becoming the 16th state to require hospitals to report hospital-acquired infections. The House today [March 8] approved by 86-10 House Bill 1106 to require such reporting. Sponsor of the bill, Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Roy) said such a law is "long overdue."
Campbell's bill now goes to the Senate for consideration, where he says he's hopeful it will pass this year. Campbell has introduced similar legislation for the past two years. Last year it passed the House with a strong bi-partisan vote, but the Senate turned action into a study, Campbell said," quoting Rep. Campbell's Press Release.
SE THURSTON FIRE/EMS DISTRICT MAP
Red & Yellow areas are upcoming fire levy voting precincts
Photo courtesy of SE Thurston Fire/EMS, used with permission
The once-rejected SE Thurston Fire/EMS Levy, which encompasses and area from Four Corners to Lawrence Lake, to Vail Loop to Rainier and out to MacIntosh Lake is again on the ballot for voters within that district and set for May 15, 2007.
This levy is vital for this area just to maintain response time when calling in an emergency. There has been a 27% increase in call volume for emergency services in just 6 years.
If this levy fails, then call response time will decrease in emergencies due to lack of staffing.
Bottom line:
"S.E.Thurston Fire/EMS serves the Thurston County areas of Yelm, Rainier and Bald Hill which encompases an area of 105 square miles. Last year we responded to 3031 unique calls from ONE station. This is more calls than most other Fire Districts ran from any ONE of their stations. Our calls have been growing each of the last 4 years and we expect them to increase greatly in the next few years. Our area is growing rapidly with over 5000 new homes planned in the very near future. Since State law limits our budget growth to one percent a year we will definitely need the help of our voters in order to maintain our levy rate of $1.50. This is necessary so that we can acquire more response personnel to handle the increased call load," quoting the SE Thurston Fire site.
See co-chief Hutcheson's "Important Message."
Please educate yourself on the ramifications of this vote and spead the word!
If you have any questions, our co-chiefs are always available: please contact Chief Hutcheson or Chief King at 360-458-2799
Yelm Fire
Rainier Fire
Bald Hills Fire
"Remember that Daylight Savings Time begins when you retire this Saturday night (Sunday, March 11 at 2am), so you will set your clocks ahead one hour in most of the USA.
This reader found this story to be very credible and contemplated how Yelm's housing boom will be affected by the issues listed.
The story is reprinted here with permission of the author:
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
By Dean Baker
t r u t h o u t | Columnist
Tuesday 06 March 2007
Is there anything as beautiful as the sound of surprised economists in the springtime? I haven't had this much fun since the NASDAQ started to deflate seven years ago.
Okay, enough of the gloating; while the collapse of the housing bubble was both predictable and inevitable, it is not pretty. Tens of millions of people will be hurt as they see much of the equity in their homes - money that most had counted on to support their retirement - disappear. Millions more will be forced out of their homes as they find that they are unable to meet the payments on adjustable rate mortgages that reset at higher rates. People who had worked hard and saved in order to become homeowners will see their dream disappear.
The timing and process of the unwinding of the bubble cannot be known, but the basic story is clear. Investors are finally realizing that the high-risk mortgages they have been holding are high-risk.
Mortgage brokers, who make their money on issuing mortgages, not holding them, had been anxious to get as many people as possible to buy mortgages. While old-fashioned bankers would demand large down payments and good credit histories, many mortgage brokers were happy to issue mortgages that they knew buyers could not pay off. Since the brokers dump their mortgages in the secondary market almost immediately after they are issued, they have little reason to be concerned about whether the buyer can actually meet the payments.
Mortgage brokers were able to entice more people into the housing market with low "teaser rates" that were often several percentage points below the market rate to which the loan would eventually reset. Many homebuyers who could meet their monthly payment on a mortgage with a 1.5 percent interest rate would be hopelessly over their heads when the mortgage reset to a 6.5 percent rate.
But, everything was fine, as long as home prices continued their rapid appreciation. If a homebuyer's income wasn't high enough to make the mortgage payment, the homebuyer could draw on the new equity created by a rising home price. As a result, delinquency and foreclosure rates remained low through 2004 and 2005, even as the number of high-risk mortgages soared.
However, the party began to end last year as house prices started to fall. The fall thus far has been relatively modest (around 3 percent nationwide), but with prices going in the wrong direction, most new homebuyers have no equity that they could rely upon to meet their monthly payments. As a result, delinquency rates began to soar in 2006. More than 10 percent of the subprime adjustable rate mortgages issued last year (the most risky category) were already seriously delinquent or foreclosed within 10 months of issuance. This is even before any of these mortgages reset to a higher interest rate.
With foreclosure rates soaring, the music is about to stop. The investors who bought up these mortgages in the secondary market are now refusing to lend more money. Credit is drying up for both the subprime and the Alt-A market, which is a notch above subprime in creditworthiness. These two segments of the housing market together accounted for 40 percent of the mortgages issued in the last two years.
If 40 percent of potential homebuyers suddenly have problems getting credit, it has to have a large impact on the housing market. Throw into the mix that the inventory of unsold homes is 25 percent higher than at the same time last year. And, the number of vacant units up for sale (normally an indication of a highly motivated seller) is up more than 40 percent compared to last year. Since house prices fell by three percent last year (six percent in real terms), it looks like we have the beginnings of a serious slide in house prices. And, a sharp fall in house prices will lead to more problems in the mortgage market.
That is the story of a collapsing housing bubble. It is not pretty. It was predictable. However, the experts either looked the other way or said everything was fine. And, the politicians pushed policies that persuaded many moderate-income families to buy overvalued homes that they could not afford. And the mortgage brokers made a fortune selling bad mortgages.
That is the way the US economy works these days. Those who mess up the economy do well, while their victims - in this case millions of moderate-income homebuyers who will lose their homes - pay the price for the experts' mistakes.
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/Dean Baker
The Tacoma News Tribune reported this week that there is a glut of unsold homes in Pierce County,
"New figures released Wednesday by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service show more than 6,000 homes were for sale in Pierce County in February – an increase of 45 percent from the same month a year ago.
The crush of listings hit elsewhere too, with double-digit percentage increases in all but two of the 19 counties tracked by the MLS.
The number of closed sales in Pierce County also weakened last month, declining from 1,003 in February 2006 to 892.
Thurston County prices barely moved, from $249,000 to $250,000 – a 0.4 percent increase. However, sales inched upward from last year, with 295 sales closed in February compared with 280 for the same month in 2006."
In January, 2007, this writer found himself along 103rd Ave. in Yelm taking pictures of the high groundwater areas
surrounding the Wal-Mart construction site from the backside, doing research for a story about flooding and high groundwater hazards in Yelm, and in particular the shutdown of Yelm's well # 1 due to contamination, which draws its water just downstream from the aquifer beneath the Wal-Mart site.
I presented the Wal-Mart site flooding as an issue to both the Yelm Planning Commission and the Yelm City Council in 2006 and will do so again in 2007 during the Comprehensive Plan Update sessions.
That research was printed as a Letter to the Editor in the local Nisqually Valley News (NVN) on Feb. 2nd (subscriber access only).
Just after that January photography date, a story appeared on Linda Moulton Howe's Earthfiles site about UFO's spotted over Yelm's Wal-Mart construction site by Wal-Mart construction employees [see http://yelmcommunity.org/ then scroll to February 15, 2007]. Coincidentally, Ms. Howe has been in Yelm in the past as a speaker during the early 1990's at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, presenting her findings in her then-published book "A Strange Harvest" which explored the worldwide animal mutilation mystery which has haunted the United States and other countries from the mid-20th century to date."
Now that we're just weeks away from a Wal-Mart opening here & during the January photo session, I paused to contemplate several things about this site:
A. What about the high ground-water flooding issue?
During the rainy season in subsequent years, the 750 vehicles that Wal-Mart states will traffic through its parking lots will add oil drippings runoff that will infiltrate into the aquifer. This year, there was no vehicular runoff except from a few construction vehicles. How will Wal-Mart's projected traffic pollution affect the aquifer in the future after store opening?
B. Then Mayor Pro-Tem Harding and the 2005 Yelm City Council supported the approval of this store here to the effect being the recipient of the 2006 Jefferson Muzzle Awards for inhibiting citizen comment about Wal-Mart.
With the Mayor, City Council and others pressing for better-paying jobs here, are they aware of the opportunities for training programs, apprenticeships and internships, high school tech field visits, etc. on the Wal Mart site during the construction phase?
The Wal-Mart construction site is a golden opportunity for City of Yelm officials to follow through on their stated desire to help our young people get some skills, maybe earn a few bucks, & keep their minds growing.
Further, these kinds of activities would be perfect opportunities for our youth to be active, instead of being idle and causing problems for the community and Yelm Library, in particular. Mayor Harding addressed this issue in the March 2 NVN regarding the February 27th Yelm Timberland Library Board presentation to the City Council about youth problems at the Library saying "It's not so much the lack of places to go as it is a behavior issue, Harding said... Harding said the city has lots of ideas for some kind of youth center, but engaging students and teaching them to have a respect level is what will help the library."
Lack of a youth center, the dissolution of and non-interest by city officials to support continuity of the fine community Drew Harvey Theater and other youth programs are a large part of the problem, too. Our youth want and deserve great programs to keep their minds and bodies active and expanding.
Bottom line:
Are the high-groundwater areas surrounding the Wal-Mart site going to be addressed by the City, or just be allowed to flood, with subsequent oil pollution runoff in wet years?
Has Mayor Harding, the Yelm City Council & Mayor appointed Yelm Economic Development Committee (EDC) worked with Wal-Mart seeking educational opportunities and jobs for our youth during the construction phase?
It's about the Future!
What say you?
Yelm Earth Worm & Castings Farm is reporting in their February Newsletter that:
"The Yelm Co-op has signed a lease agreement and will be opening a store soon in downtown Yelm across the street from Lemuria in the location of most recently Fine Consign and previously the RSE Book Store location. The YFC is looking for new members and no doubt people whom would like to help with their effort. You can find out more information, sign up for membership and check on the status of their developments at www.yelmcoop.com."
A record high temperature was reported for this date at Olympia Regional Airport.
70 degrees broke the previous all time high for this date of 67 degrees set in 2005.
From the Washington State Department of Health, Division of Environemtnal Health, Office of Drinking Water
New Water Use Efficiency Rule Goes Into Effect January 22, 2007[for Municipal Water Suppliers like the City of Yelm]
The Office of Drinking Water has taken an important step in conserving water for the environment and meeting the needs of future generations by adopting rules that require public water systems to use water more efficiently.
Who is Affected?
These rules apply to water systems that are municipal water suppliers. Municipal water suppliers include:
Group A community water systems with 15 or more residential connections.
Non-community water systems that use water in a residential manner.
What are the Requirements?
The rules require water systems to use water efficiently and demonstrate that they are doing so. Specifically, water systems must:
Develop a plan through a public process and enact measures to manage water use.
Reduce distribution system leakage to 10 percent or less.
Install service meters within 10 years, if not already installed, to accurately account for water usage and leakage.
Reporting annually on their progress in using water efficiently.
The Yelm Timberland Library Board of Directors gave their annual report to the Yelm City Council on Tuesday, February 27 including the following highlights:
- new patrons increased by 8% over 2005
- checked out items increased by 6% year over year
- Wi-Fi now offered at Yelm's libraryThe Friends' of the Library Book Tile fundraiser has sold 409 tiles, with 48 remaining. You can make a tax-deductible donation for $40 each.
- There are two open seats on the Yelm Library Board:
"The Yelm Library Advisory Board advises the Mayor and City Council on specific library matters. It consists of five members appointed by the Mayor for a period of five years, on the basis of demonstrated interest in, or knowledge and support of public libraries, who serve without compensation for their service. Three of the members appointed to a position on the board shall be either a resident of the City of Yelm or shall own property inside the city limits or shall have a current City of Yelm business license. The remaining two members shall reside within either the Yelm or Rainier school districts," quoting the City of Yelm website.
The Library's current lease exprires in 5 years, so the time is now to start thinking about a future home for Yelm's Library.
The current Yelm Library Advisory Board members are:
Jeanette Burnham
Steve Klein
Ronni Nutter
The Yelm Timberland librarian [Kristen Blalack] serves as Timberland Regional Library Board liaison to the Yelm Library Advisory Board.
If you are interested in being a Board member, please let Ms. Blalack know at the Yelm Library.
Yelm's Timberland Regional Library Branch
Photo courtesy of Free Flow Media
A new blog has been announced using the Nisqually Valley News website (NVN) as host.
Award-winning local author Bettye Johnson's Blog "Winds of Change" can be accessed on the NVN website
under "Reader Blogs."
Ms. Johnson is the author of Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls and was named the winner of the prestigious 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category "Religious Fiction."
HMMM! Remember the op/ed piece by NVN publisher/managing editor Keven Graves printed in Spring, 2006 condemning blogs and a local blogger?
Congratulations to Mr. Graves and his newspaper for now sponsoring readers' blogs!
Bettye Johnson
Photo courtesy of Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls website
Our Toxic World: Environmental Pollution and Our Health
Do you know someone with cancer, heart disease, or diabetes? What about autoimmune disease, neurological disease, hormone disorders, or children with behavioral disorders? The answer is more than likely a big YES! As the rates for these disorders are increasing around the world, especially among our children, it begs the question….Why?
Despite being one of the wealthiest, Americans have fallen to one of the sickest countries in the world. Besides the declining nutritional intake from our fast-food diets, one possible explanation for this increasing disease is the effect pollution and toxic chemicals are having on the entire animal population.
In today’s polluted world, toxic chemicals can be found in our air, our water, and yes…our food! They are unavoidable and found virtually EVERYWHERE and now in EVERY LIVING THING… including in YOU!!
They have complex names like heavy metals, pesticides, chlorofluorocarbons and phthalates, yet they are found in less complex, everyday places like our homes and workplaces. Our hygiene products, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, clothing, carpets and even dental fillings are just a few of their “seemingly safe” sources. Research proves that we are slowly being poisoned by industrial chemicals, smoke from burning garbage, and gasoline-diesel fumes.
According to the Environmental Working Group, the average American is known to have 56 toxic chemicals in their bloodstream. Medical studies link these toxins as potential causes of our nation’s biggest killers such as heart disease, cancer, and neurological disease like strokes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s to name a few.
Could these chemicals be compromising you or your family’s health?
Dr. Andrew Iverson, a Yelm graduate, will present these topics and how you and your family can avoid these harmful chemicals. This presentation will focus on what chemical pollutants and environmental toxins are, where they are found, and how they affect you. You will learn about eliminating these pollutants through tissue cleansing and detoxification with good nutrition, hydrotherapy, and botanical medicine. He will also speak about fasting and its purpose in detoxification and treating medical conditions.
Dr. Iverson has been conducting therapeutic cleanses since 1993 as well as acting as head intern at a well known fasting center in California. He enjoys medical outreaches in third world countries when he isn’t practicing at his clinic in Tacoma. He is the director of a family practice that focuses on health education and treating the cause of patient’s disease with nutritional medicine, herbal and homeopathic remedies, hydrotherapy and exercise.
Bring your family and friends to see a presentation that is sure to have you on the edge of your seat, taking notes, and asking questions. You will come away with a new appreciation of the increasing global problem of Our Toxic World.
Monday, March 5th at 7 pm in Yelm Middle School Commons- Admission $4
This is printed with permission of Dr. Andrew Iverson.
Dr. Andrew Iverson
Photo from Trilium Foundation
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