Food on the Brain

Lunch is a highly treasured, sacred time during the work day. It's during this limited time which we nourish our bodies and recharge our brains. Meal selection is a delicate task, for if we choose the wrong dish, we find ourselves longing for a better bite the rest of the afternoon. Further, we often get burned out on the same few selections from our "top-of-mind" restaurants or last night's leftovers. Fear not, hungry BG readers, WKU student Troy Copeland offers a handy solution. Copeland founded and develops the site http://www.bgmenus.com. Here you'll find a wealth of BG restaurant menus--certainly enough to satiate. As KOB encourages our audience to make healthy food choices, I challenge our readers to check out this site. Dig deeper into a favorite restaurant's menu or discover new places that offer healthy selections. Here's to a happy, healthy lunch break!

Dr. Health'nStein's Body Fun

This week I've had several discussions about obesity. My doctor discussed how a recent vacation with his family in Colorado opened his eyes to the problem here locally. Around the office we joke as we snack on birthday cake. And at my gym, I chatted with a member who's "let himself go" as I soaked in the hot tub after a swim. Even throughout this week I've been writing a mini-grant to send our troupe to Louisville to perform obesity shows as a part of the Mayor's Healthy Hometown Movement.
Instead of harping on how we should eat healthier foods and get a ton of exercise, I want to share with you a really interesting application that I discovered when I was quite a bit younger. About 13 years or so ago, I was introduced to an interactive computer game called Dr. Health'nStein's Body Fun. As a kid, I just thought I was playing a strange, yet cool video game. Something recently brought this game back into memory. A simple google search brought me back to this activity. It's hosted by the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation. The game features mini-challenges in which your character is challenged to put together meals with the appropriate calorie intake, fat content, and fiber concentration. Other mini-challenges focus on exercise. There's even the consideration of peer pressure. The entire activity is developed very well as it is moderately challenging and highly educational without being overbearing. It seems like this could be an effective tool to reach children when paired with traditional teaching methods. I encourage my readers and any children of readers to give this activity a shot.

KOB Goes Live

Throughout this week, WKU broadcasting student, Megan Cross, worked with KOB on a story about our organization in relation to the recession. Her piece focuses on how children will be the ones most affected if the economy would force KOB to shut its doors. The package features interviews with Debbie and Stacy along with footage from a child abuse show. The story is set to air campus wide on Thursday evening; the time which the story airs citywide was unknown at the time of shooting.
In addition to the media time from Megan, WNKY has agreed to partner KOB with a local business to help produce advertisements. Specific details have yet to be ironed out, but we're very excited about this opportunity for some publicity!

We are Busy, Busy!

Let me tell you, last week was a busy one and it's spilling over into this week, too. We're getting geared up on fundraisers by gathering with the respective committees. Garden Tour and Tea is really shaping up. We just received notification on our final gardens, so we're at full capacity with 8 gardens around the city. Everyone seems really excited about the line up for this one. Keeping up with fundraisers, we've set an official date for Festival Sand. We'll be building excitement for the Friday, September 11 event out at the Russell Sims Aquatic Park.

This first half of March is roaring in like a lion with a busy, busy schedule for the puppeteers. By the end of our work week tomorrow, the troupe will have performed 23 shows over the course of 9 days. They've hit the city and county schools to perform 6 different topics including: First Aid/H20 Safety, Fire Safety, Bike Safety, Bullies and School Safety, Child Abuse, and Divorce. And it shows no sign of slowing as the schedule will have the troupe adding another 28 shows in the last half of March. This month will come in like a lion and race right out just as fierce as ever. So as we've been so busy, I've been working on updating our catalog of photos. Here are some of my favorite from the past couple weeks. Enjoy!