Mira Loma Dance Marathon 2010 - Registration is Open NOW!!!

You have been waiting patiently to register for our grand annual event and your wait is over now! You can now register for Mira Loma Dance Marathon 2010 online at: http://www.helpmakemiracles.org/event/mldm or download a registration packet by clicking here.

If you are submitting a paper registration, please make sure it is completed, signed by a parent and includes your registration fee stapled to your form. Submit your paper registration to any one of the following:
Niki Gupta
Moira Tescher
Shinjini Nunna
Sandhya Jetty
Alagu Chidambaram
Sarah Vallejo
Sarah Alsamman
Jillian Talamantez
Gina Le
Jasmine Sullivan

JHI at Capitol Family Fun Day 2010

The 3rd Annual Capitol Family Fun Day is an incredible FREE event sponsored by UC Davis Children's Hospital-Children's Miracle Network. It will take place on Sunday, October 24, 2010, on the west side (10th Street ) of the State Capitol Building. Just for the Health of It! Club of Mira Loma participates as volunteers in this annual event. This fantastic event will be 10:00 am to 2:00 pm (more info at website: http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/children/newsroom/newsdetail.html?key=4612&svr=http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu&table=published).

Bring your family and friends. The focus of the day will be on Exercise and Fitness, Healthy Eating, Halloween Safety, Injury Prevention...the components of a healthy lifestyle. There will be fun, music, games, and prizes. Meet doctors, nurses, and other specialists from UC Davis Children's Hospital...learn about the incredible work they do to improve and save the lives of our precious children. Those professionals, and the those who plan and run this event, are some of the most caring, dedicate, and loving people you'll ever meet!

Be sure to visit the Fitness and Nutrition Zones, enjoy Radio Disney and other radio personalities for fun, music, games, and prizes. The kids dressed in their Halloween costumes who visit the Trick or Treat For Safety booth will receive a prize.

So come out a have a very fun day...it's a blast!! IT IS FREE AND IT'S FOR THE KIDS!! We are also looking for volunteers to assist during the activities (10 am-12 pm and 12-2 pm). Volunteers can earn CS and CAS hours.

Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes

Together we can stop diabetes, one step at a time.
Just for the Health of It! will be walking around the U.S. Capitol and raising funds for the American Diabetes Association's signature walk: Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes on Saturday October 9. Every step we take and every dollar we raise will make a difference in the lives of the 23.6 million Americans living with diabetes.

What can you do to help?

• Join our team, students and parents are all welcomed! Participating students can earn Community Service and CAS hours.
• Make a donation to support one of our team members! No matter how small or big, your generous donation will help us stop diabetes!

Last year, we were one of the top fundraisers in our city, we are hoping to increase our donations!

To join our team or donate, go to: http://main.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/SacramentoArea?team_id=492185&pg=team&fr_id=7342

Event starts at the capitol on October 9. Registration opens at 8 A.M., walk starts at 9 A.M. expect to be there till 12:00 P.M.

For more information contact: nikigupta3811@gmail.com or smachel0717@sbcglobal.net

Mira Loma Dance Marathon - Website and Facebook

The website for Mira Loma Dance Marathon is up at http://www.mldancemarathon.com. Use the Dance Marathon website for news and updates related to this great event!

Also, join the Mira Loma Dance Marathon on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mira-Loma-Dance-Marathon/172449409778

And follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mldm09

Forward this email to friends and family and help us publicize the Mira Loma Dance Marathon.

We were on 107.9 THE END!

On February 21, 2009, JHI members were interviewed on 107.9 by Chris K. JHI toured the pediatrics floor at UC DAVIS Children's Hospital. Meeting families and children was a truly inspiring moment.

Special Olympics

Congratulations on getting through finals and welcome to a new semester at Mira Loma. Lots of events and activities in Just for the Health of It! are planned, so keep up to date on the blog. Our next meeting, on January 22, 2008, we have a special guest from Special Olympics of Northern Sacramento. Special Olympics is a fantastic way to earn community service and a great organization to be part of.

P.S. Congratulations to Maggie and Angelina Sorokin for becoming a volunteer at Mercy!

Teen CERT in San Juan District News

Mira Loma High School students demonstrate emergency response skills

On Dec. 11, 2008, the Sacramento Region Citizen Corps Council for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a mock disaster drill at Mira Loma High School to test emergency preparedness of the Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members:

A loud explosion in one of the Science Labs at Mira Loma High School sends some students out of the classroom with bloodied noses and arms. There are many other students inside the classroom moaning and wailing still comprehending what happened. The Principal, Ms Valerie Lott and the Vice-Principal, Mr Peyton Fatherree, who recently joined the school, were touring the property and come immediately to the disaster site. They assess the situation and immediately radio for help and for someone to call 911 for emergency services.

For dozen or so freshmen members of the Just for the Health of It! Club - it is a call for duty. Recently in November 2008, these kids volunteered an entire weekend and the Veteran's Day holiday to get trained by Dept of Homeland Security and become certified Teen Community Emergency Response Team - Teen CERT in short.

The Teen CERT members at Mira Loma don their helmets and other protective gear. Niharika Gupta, the founder President of the Just for the Health of It! Club takes lead and divides the team into three groups to "size-up, light search and rescue, triage and treatment" the victims. They collect as much information as possible about the situation till emergency responders from Sac Fire and Sac PD are on site. This helps the emergency responders in taking care of the victims fast and efficiently and minimizes casualties. Tarps are laid out in the lawn and the teams begin search, rescue and triage operations.

Although this was only a mock disaster, the drill was set up to test the knowledge of these students in assisting emergency responders in similar situations at the school or in their communities. The students at Mira Loma were joined in this exercise by students from El Camino High School who attended a similar training during Thanksgiving break. Over fifty students from Mira Loma High School played the role of victims as their teachers - Mrs Rochelle Jacks (Mira Loma), Ms Jennifer Dorunda (El Camino), school administrators from Mira Loma and El Camino along with Mr Ethan Hoff, the Safe schools administrator from San Juan Unified School District watched the events unfold and the students respond to the situation calmly and in an organized manner.

Ms. Carol Willis, Teen CERT coordinator for the Dept of Homeland Security led the team of examiners who evaluated the students. At the end of the exercise, all of the examiners provided their feedback. They were extremely impressed with the professionalism and thoroughness of all teams who scored perfectly and demonstrated that they are well prepared to take on their roles in the event of an actual disaster either at their schools or in their communities.

The Teen CERT program at Mira Loma started with Niharika Gupta, a freshman and founder of the Just for the Health of It! club reading about the Teen CERT program on the Internet and inviting Ms. Carol Willis to present the program at one of the club meetings. The Teen CERT activities and other activities of the Just for the Health of It! Club allow the students at Mira Loma to earn community service credits they need for the International Baccaleurate (IB) program that they attend at Mira Loma. Ms. Rochelle Jacks, the club advisor for the Just for the Health of It! club at Mira Loma High commended the students for their dedication to their communities and volunteering their weekend and break to get trained.

For more information on the Just for the Health of It! club, go to http://jhi-ml.blogspot.com/. For further information on the Teen CERT program, go to http://www.srccc.org/.