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WATCH: Serving Telluride, Mountain Village, Ridgway, Ouray, T U E U R JANUARY 2012 N RN SAN JUANS Montrose, Norwood and the Western San Juans PARENTING IN THE WESTE the In a Bacterial World, Plain Old Soap and Water Is Best EWENS BY JESSICA N - numerous plastic products commonly con - ucts – triclosan – has recently come under - tain triclosan or triclocarban. Considering today’s germ phobic cul significant scrutiny not only for health rea Our willingness to consider anything dubbed antibacterial as being somehow W ith kids and their inherent germs, ture, this fact might not bother you. But be- sons, but because it may be damaging the healthier has turned into a huge marketing hand-washing is a must, especially when fore you use antibacterial products, consider environment. Triclosan and its sibling triclocarban opportunity. As a result, it’s almost impossi- kids are in school. But has concern over this: Antibacterial soaps do not kill cold or ble to find non-antibacterial liquid hand soap- illness got you stocking your house with flu viruses, and they are considered no more emerged as antibacterial and preservative - in grocery stores, not to mention in public re antibacterial products? Are you washing effective at cleansing the skin than regular agents in consumer products more than 30 strooms. Whether it’s a gas station, restaurant, your hands, washing your dishes, washing soap and water. years ago. Reportedly, antibacterial chemi school or airport restroom, it’s rare to find an your laundry, spraying your countertops It’s the act of scrubbing with soap, and cals can now be found in almost 80 percent : E ID NS I alternative to the industrial pink goop coming and scrubbing your floors with antibacterial not the soap itself, that rids your skin of of all liquid soaps and almost 30 percent out of wall-mounted soap-dispensers. cleaning agents? germs. of bar soaps. Toothpaste, deodorants, dog Chances are, you’re not alone, in a world Even more important is the fact that the- shampoo, cutting boards, clothing, toys, and see SOAP on page 4 where many of us brush our teeth with what active ingredient in most antibacterial prod is effectively antibacterial toothpaste. Recycling is easy! CAR SEAT ETIQUETTE . 5 Teach your children to recycle. The Earth will thank you. 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National Fickle Guard Medical The Pattern Should Supply Be Similar to Last Company Year’s, But Isn’t BY PETER SHELTON BY MARTA TARBELL Ski resorts in the eastern U.S. MONTROSE – They didn’t got a nice surprise storm over make it home for Christmas, New Year’s weekend. Colder but the 85-member Colorado temperatures and 5-8 inches of National Guard Medical Sup- snow from West Virginia up to ply Company that left Montrose Vermont helped remind New for Afghanistan with a rousing Englanders what winter is sup- daylong sendoff more than a posed to be like. Prior to the year ago returns to a mid-Jan- storm, flowers were popping uary Christmas celebration in up, and temps were too warm in Friendship Hall, complete with many places to make snow. a specially donated 14-foot-tall Colorado is not the only part Colorado spruce, presents for of ski country that is hurting right them and their families, and now. California’s usually snowy daylong festivities. Sierra is limping along with snow The best reason to cele- totals in the teens. The Midwest is brate: Each and every one of the white in places, but not much to Witch Doctors’ members (the write home about. Vail is report- nickname is a reference to their ing 18 inches. Winter Park and year spent working in urban Steamboat are in the low 20s. Tel- and field hospitals as well as in luride and Purgatory, with 30-inch Mobile Army Surgical Hospital bases, look on paper to be among Ice, Baby! (M.A.S.H.) units, in Afghani- the favored. But the snow cover is stan) is coming home. thin and getting thinner, and the Ouray Ice Festival No. 17 Sgt. Rick Bresett, who orga- National Weather Service forecast nized last year’s sendoff, com- for the period immediately ahead plete with a parade, an escort by isn’t promising. Starts Today Patriot Guard Riders, flag-wav- ing and a formation flyover, is NWS is predicting sunny New This Year: Hot Tub, Zip Line, Adult Walk-up Climbing days for western Colorado with at it again. highs in the 40s and 50s through He has issued a call for ev- BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT the end of the weekend. “We may eryone – “Blue Star Mothers, see a quick shortwave energy pass the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts through the dominant ridge of Ouray is bracing for its biggest weekend of the winter, as the 17th Annual and Girl Scouts, 4-H Clubs, the high pressure, mostly north and Ouray Ice Festival gets underway here today. Grand Valley Combined Honor with little to no precipitation. 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