SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 2 Providence East Medical dence. The Network also offers a health care services company Sierra Center this honor, and I can wide range of outpatient services whose subsidiaries and affiliates say without a doubt that it is including Sierra Providence To - own and operate acute care hos - well deserved.” talCare, Sierra Providence Urgent pitals, ambulatory surgery centers Providence Sierra Providence East Med - Care Centers, Sierra Providence and diagnostic imaging centers. ical Center is part of the Trawood Center and ER, Sierra Tenet’s hospitals and related Sierra Providence Health Teen and Women’s Center, health care facilities are commit - East Network that includes the Wound Care Centers and Sierra ted to providing high quality care hospitals of Sierra Medical Providence Sleep Disorders Cen - to patients in the communities Medical Center, Providence Memorial ter. they serve. For more informa - Hospital and the Regional tion, please visit Center Children’s Hospital at Provi - Tenet Healthcare Corporation is a www.tenethealth.com. Receives Tenet Circle of Excellence Award EL PASO, Texas. – March 13, 2012 – Tenet Healthcare Corpo - ration [NYSE: THC] announced late last month that Sierra Provi - dence East Medical Center has been named to the company’s 2012 Circle of Excellence. A hospital based celebration for physicians, staff and key partners was hosted; allowing public recognition of this accomplish - ment. The Circle of Excellence honors Tenet hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of quality, service and operational performance. Key metrics used to evaluate the hospitals were pa - tient, physician and employee satisfaction scores, clinical qual - ity and financial performance. “The hard work, determination and commitment of the employ - ees at Sierra Providence East Medical Center made 2011 a great year for the hospital,” said Stephen L. Newman, M.D., Tenet’s vice chairman. “The staff and physicians at Sierra Provi - dence East Medical Center con - tinue to build on their high-quality care and outstanding patient satisfaction. I’m proud of everything they have accom - plished and am delighted to honor them with Tenet’s Circle of Excellence Award.” Sierra Providence East Medical Center CEO Sally Hurt added, “The dedication to providing high-quality care by our nurses, physicians and staff earned Sierra SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 3 Saint Patrick’s Day: A celebration for all Americans? By Joe Olvera ©, 2012 the existence of the poisonous folklore tells us that he used the drinking green beer, by holding green, something green, or take in New York hold a parade that wo guys are sitting inside an T adder, there is no evidence that Shamrock, a three-pronged leaf parades, and by going to the chance of being pinched? lasts for two hours. Leading the Irish pub drinking green beer. there were ever snakes in Ire - to explain the Holy Trinity that church. Catholics aren’t the parade are two Irish wolf- One is an Irish guy, the other is land – hence, Saint Patrick did includes in Catholic theology only ones who honor the Saint. Irish guy: The wearing of green hounds, the mascots of the New a Mexican guy. not, as folklore has it, banish the existence of the Father, the Other religions include the is to remind the wearer of the York National Guard Infantry the snakes from Ireland. He Son, and the Holy Spirit. After American Communion, the beautiful green countryside of Regiment, or the “Fighting Irish guy: Drink up, buddy, be - couldn’t have. evangelizing for 30 years, he Eastern Orthodox Church and Ireland. Although St. Pat’s is 69th.” It includes more than cause, you know, Saturday is died on March 17. the Lutheran Church. Saint not a legal U.S. holiday, it is 100 marching bands, with over Saint Patrick’s Day. Mexican guy: So, tell me, why Patrick’s Day was made an of - still observed by millions of 100,000 people following the do we celebrate this guy, this ficial feast day in the early 17th people whether Irish or not. It two mascots. Hundreds of thou - Mexican guy: Saint Patrick? Is saint? What’s so special about Mexican guy: So, in essence, century, and has quickly be - is mainly a celebration of Irish sands of spectators line the pa - it already March 17? Wait a him? we are not celebrating his birth, come a secular celebration by and Irish-American culture. rade route. Not even the parade minute, isn’t Saint Patrick the but, his death – March 17? Irish culture in the U.S. Celebrations include prominent in Dublin, Ireland, matches the man who rid Ireland of all its Irish guy: The Irish in the Why do Mexicans and other displays of the color green, one in New York City. It’s re - snakes? United States have been here ethnic groups also celebrate? feasting, consumption of large ally a big deal. for a long time. Much like your We’re not Irish. Mexican guy: Okay, so tell me, quantities of alcohol, religious Mexican ancestors, they why are we drinking green observances, ad numerous pa - Irish guy: Well, yes, and no. brought to these shores their Irish guy: For some strange rea - beer? It tastes good, actually rades. In El Paso, we do have Mexican guy: Okay, I’ll buy. Yes, it’s already going to be traditions and their culture. As son, everybody wants to be the same as regular beer, but, parades, but, none is bigger Let’s celebrate. A toast to St. March 17 on Saturday, and, no, you know, the United States is Irish on that special day. Here, why dye it green? And, why do than the one held in New York. Patrick. You know, I really like he didn’t really rid Ireland of comprised of people from virtu - in El Paso, we celebrate by people say you have to wear The many Irish people who live this green beer. all its snakes. For your informa - ally every nation on earth – I tion, many people, especially believe there’s 137 nations rep - religious ones, use the snakes resented here. Irish-Americans, as a metaphor. That is to say, much like your Mexican-Amer - when Saint Patrick began to icans, celebrate Saint Patrick’s evangelize about Christianity, Day because he was a deity that there were many religions – transformed the Emerald Isle. Ireland was Polytheistic – Just as you Mexicans venerate which means there was the La Virgen de Guadalupe – al - worship of many gods. though she’s a Mexican icon - Through the influence of Saint so do we Irish venerate Saint Patrick, Ireland became Patrick. Catholic, or Christian, honoring only one God. Mexican guy: Okay, I’ll give. So tell me more about this Mexican guy: Wait a minute. Saint Patrick guy. Who is he, I’d heard that Saint Patrick did where did he come from and drive all the snakes out of Ire - why should everybody cele - land. That he chased them into brate his birth? the sea after they had attacked him during a 40-day fast he was undergoing. Did he or did - Irish guy: In the first place, he n’t he? wasn’t just a guy. He was a Saint. Legend tells us that he was born in the fourth century Irish guy: I already told you, in Roman Britain to a wealthy the snake story is a metaphor. Romano-British family. He was In other words, he drove other kidnapped by Irish raiders and religions out of Ireland. In taken captive to Ireland as a those days, pagan religions slave. According to his confes - often used a snake as a symbol. sion, he was told by God in a No snake is known to have suc - dream to flee from captivity to cessfully migrated across the the coast. In 432, he was called open ocean to their new home back to Ireland as a bishop to on dry land – Ireland’s. Despite Christianize the heathen. Irish SPOTLIGHT EP NEWS MARCH 16, 2012 PAGE 4 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF LINCOLN Mars Bugs, Killer Asteroids & Spy TWELFTH JUDICIAL Equal College DISTRICT COURT Satellites Highlight Summer Camp BYRON L. AIKEN, JR., Activities Opportunities Petitioner, v. Program Features New Director and Curriculum MARIA L. AIKEN Whether its hunting Mars two years as curriculum de - can be found on the museum’s If there is any one issue that has been picked apart for its impor - Respondent. bugs, building a spy satellite veloper for U.S. Space Acad - website or at the museum’s tance to the future of Texas, that issue is education. Elected offi - or trying to stop a killer aster - emy. He also is one of the few education offices inside the cials, political pundits, party leaders and teacher groups have all SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF oid, it’s all on the list of reporters to make a two-hour, IMAX Theater. repeatedly stated that educating all of our students equally well “things to do this summer” at underwater spacewalk simula - SUIT PENDING means a better economy in the future. the NM Space Academy’s tion and ride NASA’s KC-135 Mars Base One features as - It would be impossible for anyone to win an argument supporting summer science camps. For “Vomit Comet.” trobiology and how scientists a different opinion. Our future does depend on a well educated TO: MARIA L. AIKEN twenty six years, summer He is author of The Christmas hunt for life on other worlds, younger generation taking entering the workplace. camp at the New Mexico Mu - Planet (2010) and co-author including the illusive Mars If we all agree on that issue, then why is it not translated into fact? 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