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Audrey Peterson, 3 checked out her candy at the Black Diamond Gun Club annual Easter egg hunt Friday. The event drew a large gathering of children of all ages and parents. Photo by Dennis Box
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he Mediterranean diet has become a hot topic on the Plateau. St. Elizabeth Hospital in Enumclaw recommends the Mediterranean diet so highly it has been offering classes for anyone who wants to know more about it. A study published by the New England Journal of Medicine in February showed people who primarily follow a Mediterranean diet can greatly reduce their risk of cardiovascular events. Registered Dietitian Tricia Sinek has facilitated several health talks at Franciscan hospitals
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through the years and recently the program has grown more popular. Two talks were offered at St. Elizabeth this year and, due to high demand, a third will be offered on April 30. The two-hour health talk is titled “Healthy is Delicious – Eating a Mediterranean Diet.” It covers the diet fundamentals and includes recipes, a cooking demonstration and taste testing. The diet itself is based on the historical lifestyle of people in countries like Italy, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Syria and many others that straddle the Mediterranean Sea. These populations ate what they had available to them, based on their financial status and geographic placement. Meals focused on vegetables, fruits, beans, legumes and lean meats like fish. “It’s not a diet, per se, it’s a lifestyle,” she said. “It’s about learning to eat in a way that is life giving.” To register for a health talk at St. Elizabeth or another Franciscan Health System hospital, call 1-888-825-3227 or visit www.FHShealth.org.
Enumclaw will formally sit silent as King County moves ahead with plans to prohibit commercial development on 43,000 acres of timbered land east of town. The issue came to light March 21 when King County Executive Dow Constantine announced he had reached an agreement with Hancock Timber Resource Group. The plan calls for the county to pay Hancock $11.1 million to purchase “development rights” on the White River Forest, a swath of land running along state Route 410 and abutting the White River. Constantine and supporters of the county plan say the goal is to protect the forestland from future development. Critics would argue the move has the potential to limit economic enterprise. Under terms of the agreement, Hancock would retain ownership of the land and continue to use it as a working forest. The public would retain access to the land for recreation purposes, for a fee set by Hancock. The issue arose during the most recent meeting of the Enumclaw City Council, when Councilman Darrel Dickson questioned the logic of shutting off potential development so close to the city’s eastern border. City Administrator Mike Thomas doesn’t share Dickson’s concern. There is plenty of room within the city’s Urban Growth Boundary, he said, questioning the notion that limitations on property to the east would have a negative impact. As the issue works its way through county channels, Thomas said, the city will not be a participant. The discussion, he added, is solely between King County and Hancock. The proposal was to be discussed Tuesday during a meeting of the County Council’s Budget Committee. According to a spokesman for the county’s Department of Natural Resources and Parks, two options remain: if the proposal passed through the Budget Committee, it will be addressed by the full council April 15; if the committee continues discussion to its April 16 meeting, it would then go to full council on April 29.
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