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HaveIgota story for you about the Hubs and me. I don't like to think that we cave eas- ily to peer pressure, but apparently that is the case. We have these friends who are way into healthy lifestyle — clean eating and extreme exer- cise. I call anything with the words running, jog- ging and cycling in it, ex- treme. They're so into these things, they don't even think about taking a short hiatus when we visit. Oh, no. We're talk- ing green smoothies all around, every morning. No question, no excuse. Let me just say right here that my husband has never met a vegetable he enjoys. He's just not into them. Never has been. But he's kinder than he is fin- icky, and so in the interest of friendship, he (OK, me too) would put on a happy face and down the green whenever we visited our friends Carol and Steve. And Harold would kind of shudder in a way that only I was aware — the way kids do when they have to eat some- thing they think is really gross. This always made me laugh, but I tried really hard not to show it. I cannot fully explain this, but after several of these occasions, some- thing went off inside of both of us, suggesting that perhaps, just maybe we might think about doing this ourselves. At home. One thing led to another — and by that I mean we started with bananas, ap- ples and one teeny tiny leaf of baby spinach — un- til without quite knowing what hit us, we were actu- ally making smoothies ev- ery morning that turned out the color of wet con- crete. We decided to gradu- ally increase the spinach to just shy of the amount that would be required to actually taste it. And we added cucumber to see if we could get the color a bit more greenish. Long story short, it's been more than a year. Once again, I bow to the power of habit. Mostly green smoothies each morning have become a real, bonafide habit. It is our new way of life. It's so easy too, since I came up with a way to do all the work ahead of time, assembly line style — once every two weeks. I start by opening these bread bags (I got a box of 1,000 to demonstrate my level of commitment) and fashion them into "bowls" on the counter. Into each bag goes a chopped up ba- nana, a handful of baby spinach leaves, four baby carrots, four fat slices of cucumber and one-half chopped apple. That's it. I twist the bags, tie them loosely and into the freezer they go. Done. Each morning we take out one bag, whack it on the counter a couple of times, dump the contents into our Blendtec, along with about cup wa- ter (juice, kefir or what- ever's handy) and hit the "smoothie" button. In less than 3 minutes, voila! Smoothies for two. Don't tell a soul, but with each batch I'm in- creasing the amount of spinach. I'm trying to get our green up to a color that is actually pretty — the way green smoothies are supposed to be. Wouldyouliketosend a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@ everydaycheapskate. com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. EVERYDAYCHEAPSKATE Turns out it is easy being green Mary Hunt Jennifer Ragsdale, of Red Bluff, was awarded a $1,000 scholarship March 11 at a luncheon in Chico held by the Soroptimist In- ternational Chico. The award Ragsdale re- ceived was called the "Live Your Dream Award" and is given to women for recog- nition and support of their efforts to enhance their ca- reer potential. Ragsdale was chosen be- cause of her hard work and dedication to further her education while being a single mother of two small children, and her success in helping other women fulfill their dreams. Ragsdale has brought herself from being home- less at the PATH winter shelter and then moving into the PATH Sale House for women and children nearly five years ago, to now being employed by PATH as the case manager for the Sale House and proj- ect manager for PATH. Ragsdale also found out at the luncheon that her application was sent to the regional Soroptimist International, along with 60 other applicants, to win a $5,000 scholarship. She was chosen as the winner of that scholarship as well. She will be recognized at the regional meeting to be held in April in Reno, Nev. Ragsdale is busy work- ing to help plan the annual PATH dinner and auction, which will be held on Sat- urday, May 9 at Bethel church gymnasium. For more information about this event, call Allene De- ring 529-5599. SOROPTIMISTS JenniferRagsdale WomanfromRedBluff honored by Chico group Environmental leaders from around the country will present the latest in sustainability research and thinking at the This Way to Sustainability X confer- ence, slated for March 26- 27 at California State Uni- versity, Chico's Bell Memo- rial Union. Themed "Building Resil- ient Communities," the con- ference will focus on ways to fortify communities in the face of emerging nat- ural hazards, changing so- cial dynamics and increas- ing resource constraints. The 10th annual event is hosted by the CSU, Chico's Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD) with ex- tensive involvement by the Associated Students, a cam- pus auxiliary. "This conference is an ex- pression of hope in our stu- dents as they face an uncer- tain future and are looking for a more desirable out- come," said ISD Director Jim Pushnik. "We've put it on every year to communi- cate the threats that loom in the not-so-distant future that are challenging the balance between humans and ecological systems. A 'resilient' outcome is one that provides for environ- mental quality but also the potential for a vital econ- omy and a stable and just society." Conference program- ming will explore these ideas from a number of an- gles. Thursday's keynot- ers are Scott McNall, ISD founder and former uni- versity provost; Dennis Dimick, executive editor for environment for National Geographic magazine; and Dune Lankard, Alaskan native and founder of Red- zone, a project aimed at conserving wild salmon in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. On Friday, attendees will hear from Jose Gonzalez, founder and director of La- tino Outdoors, an organi- zation supporting Latinos in environmental leader- ship roles; Anne Waple, vice president and chief innova- tion office at Second Nature, a nonprofit promoting sus- tainability through higher education; Patricia Dutcher, environmental researcher and former professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Marissa Mom- maerts, communications manager at Transition US, a nonprofit supporting local communities' efforts to be- come environmentally and socially resilient. Each year, students play an important role in This Way to Sustainability, run- ning registration, hosting speakers and acting as cam- pus liaisons. The confer- ence is known as the larg- est of its kind in the United States. Online registration ends March 20. Regular confer- ence sessions are free for students. General admis- sion, including faculty and staff, is $35 per day or $50 for both days; a buffet lun- cheon each day is $13. The full conference pro- gram is available online. Sponsorships are still avail- able; for more information, contact Teri Randolph, In- stitute for Sustainable De- velopment, at 898-3333. 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