History of the Indian Guide Programs

The Parent-Child Program was developed in a deliberated way to support the father’s vital family role as teacher, counselor, and friend to his son. Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA Director, as an integral part of Association work, initiated the program. In 1926 he organized the first tribe in Richmond Heights, Missouri, with the help of his good friend, Joe Friday, an Ojibway Indian, and William H. Hefelfinger, Chief of the first Y-Indian Guide tribe. Inspired by his experiences with Joe Friday, who was his guide on fishing and hunting trips into Canada, Harold Keltner initiated a program of parent-child experiences that now involves a half million children and adults annually in the YMCA.


While Keltner was on a hunting trip in Canada, one evening, Joe Friday, the Indian, said to his white colleague as they sat around a blazing campfire: “The Indian father raises his son. He teaches his son to hunt, to track, to fish, to walk softly and silently in the forest, to know the meaning and purpose of life and all he must know, while the white man allows the mother to raise his son.” These comments struck home, and Harold Keltner arranged for Joe Friday to work with him at the St. Louis YMCA.

The Ojibway Indian spoke before groups of YMCA boys and dads in St. Louis, and Mr. Keltner discovered that fathers, as well as boys, had a keen interest in the traditions and ways of American Indian. At the same time, being greatly influenced by the work of Ernest Thompson Seton, a great lover of the out-of-doors, Harold Keltner conceived the idea of a father and son program based upon the strong qualities of American Indian culture and life-dignity, patience, endurance, spirituality, felling for the earth, and concern for the family. Thus, the Parent-Child Program was born a half century ago.

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INGREDIENTS

* 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into bite size pieces
* 1 cup lemonade
* 2 tablespoons olive oil
* 1 tablespoon lime juice
* 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
* 1 bay leaf
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* 1 (12 ounce) package corn tortillas
* 1 head lettuce, shredded
* 2 large tomatoes, chopped
* 1 (8 ounce) package shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
* 1 (8 ounce) jar salsa
* 1 (8 ounce) container sour cream

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large skillet over medium heat, combine chicken, lemonade, olive oil, lime juice, and Worcestershire sauce. Season with garlic powder, onion powder, and bay leaf. Simmer until chicken is no longer pink, and juices run clear, 15 to 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, warm the tortillas in the oven or microwave until soft. When chicken is fully cooked, transfer to serving bowl. Place lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, salsa, and sour cream in serving dishes. Each person can create their own wrap, using their preferred ingredients.

Puerto Rico

The island of Puerto Rico is almost rectangular in shape, and is the smallest and the most eastern island of the Greater Antilles [Glos.]. Its coasts measures approximately 580 km, and if the adjacent islands Vieques and Culebra are included the coast measures approximately 700 km. To the north and south seas capes measure 8.525 m for the Grave of Puerto Rico and 5.000 m for the Grave of Tanner. In addition to the principal island, the Commonwealth includes: Vieques, Culebra, Culebrita, Palomino (known by some by the Spanish Virgin Islands), Mona, Monito and various others isolated islands. Deep oceans waters fringe Puerto Rico. The Mona Passage, which separates the island from Hispaniola to the west, is about 75 miles (120 km) wide and more that 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) deep. Off the northern coast is the 28,000 feet (8,500 meters) deep Puerto Rico Trench, and to the south the sea bottom descends to the 16,400 feet (5,000 meters) deep Venezuelan Basin of the Caribbean.

Latin Superstar

Roberto Clemente was a major league baseball player. He was elected to the Hall of Fame after he died. He was the only exception to the mandatory five-year waiting period since the Hall of Fame began in 1954.
Roberto Clemente was born in Puerto Rico. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates as an outfielder. On December 31, 1972 he was taking aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua when his plain crashed. Roberto Clemente hit 240 home runs and was said to have one of the most powerful arms in baseball. “Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania,” said a baseball announcer. He lead to Pirates to a World Series victory in 1971.
On December 23, 1972, the capital of Nicaragua was reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. Roberto Clemente went to work sending supplies to the people. An evil dictator who was supported by the United States, “Tachito” Somoza, stole the supplies he was sending to them. Roberto Clemente decided to fly with the supplies to make sure that they would get to the people who needed them. The plane he rented to fly to Nicaragua was not very good, and the pilots did not pay attention when it was loaded. His plane crashed into the ocean and his body was never found. All that was recovered was his briefcase.

Soccer beats jogging for fitness, study suggests

Players had more fun, shed more fat, built more muscle and were less tired
LONDON - A friendly game of soccer works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging, new research shows.

Danish scientists, who conducted their research on 37 men, also found the soccer players felt less tired after exercising than the joggers because they were having more fun.

"This is good news for men who prefer to play football (soccer) with their mates," said Dr. Gary O'Donovan, a sports medicine expert at the University of Exeter who was not connected to the study.

To measure how hard the men were working out, the researchers strapped heart monitors to their chests and compared blood samples and muscle tissue before and after matches and jogging sessions.

The researchers selected men with similar health profiles aged 31 to 33 and split them into groups of soccer players, joggers, and couch potatoes — who not surprisingly ended the three-month study in the worst shape.

Each period of exercise lasted about one hour and took place three times a week. After 12 weeks, researchers found that the body fat percentage in the soccer players dropped by 3.7 percent, compared to about 2 percent for the joggers.

The soccer players also increased their muscle mass by almost 4.5 pounds, whereas the joggers didn't have any significant change. Those who did no exercise registered little change in body fat and muscle mass.

"Even though the football (soccer) players were untrained, there were periods in the game that were so intense that their cardiovascular was maximally taxed, just like professional football (soccer) players," said Dr. Peter Krustrup, head of Copenhagen University's department of exercise and sport sciences, who led the study.

The soccer players and the joggers had the same average heart rate, but the soccer players got a better workout because of intense bursts of activity. Krustrup and his colleagues found there were periods during soccer matches when the players' hearts were pumping at 90 percent their full capacity. But the joggers' hearts were never pushed as hard.

Unlike the soccer players, the joggers consistently thought their runs were exhausting.

"The soccer players were having more fun, so they were more focused on scoring goals and helping the team, rather than the feeling of strain and muscle pain," Krustrup said.