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One Spirit Festival Celebrates Seventh Anniversary

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he One Spirit Festival is celebrating its seventh year this spring. The festival will be held on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1, from 10am to 5pm at the Clinton Community Center. Primary sponsor, Christina Lynn Whited, explains, “Since we have expanded to two full days, we have people who are so loyal they come and stay all day, both days. We have so many wonderful and informative free lectures that everyone wants to sit in on as many as possible.”

In addition to lectures on a variety of spiritual, holistic and metaphysical topics, One Spirit Festival features a host of local holistic practitioners and products, handmade American crafts, jewelry and crystals. Attendees can book appointments online with any of the skilled psychic readers for whom the festival is so well known. Each 15-minute reading is $35.

“We are particularly honored to have several very special practitioners coming from other states to the One Spirit Fes- tival. As our reputation grows, we are able to attract vendors from a wider area,” says Whited. “There will be an expanded selection of metaphysical books this year, massage, reflexology, acupuncture, herbs, and healers of every description.”

The One Spirit Festival is sponsored by The Church of All Creation, the Circle of Intention School of Intuitive Sciences, PSI and ShopRite of Hunterdon County.

Location: Clinton Community Center, 63 Halstead Street, Clinton. For more information, call 908-638-9066 or visit OneSpiritFestival.org.

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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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