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Thursday, November 13, 2014 Page 3 The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado E DUCATION TRINIDAD STATE By Scott Mastro Correspondent The Chronicle-News The new sign went up that morning. The guys in the metal shop did it: “Trinidad State Massage School Hours – Tuesday and Thurs- day – 1-5 p.m. - 719-846-5568.” “It’s brand new,” Trinidad State Mas- sage School Department Head, Kay Evans, said. “We went out for lunch, came back, and there it was on the door.” Kay smiled and set the day’s mood. “Massage school is a 14-week program. We’re in our eleventh week. We’ll be done be- fore Christmas.” “We’ll get out by December 10,” mas- sage student Chris Foerche of Lamar added. Enrolled with him this semester are Tar- ra Clifford of Rocky Ford, Jeremy Gentry of Taylorsville, Geor- gia, T-town native, Anna Almarez, Kat Tamas from Cleveland, Ohio, and Melanie Painter of Nashville, Tennessee via Hawaii. The main studio, at the corner of Nevada and Broom, has a Hawaii 5-0 feel, bamboo par- titions, large ferns, kumquat walls, aromatic island smells, along with everything neces- sary to complete certification in a variety of massage techniques, special massage tables and chairs, and all the oils, rubs, scrubs, brushes, stones, and soothing music that go with the art of muscle, tissue, and attitude ma- nipulation. Last week’s lessons were about Cold-Mit- ten Friction, Dry Brushing, Salt Glows, and Mud Wraps. Cold-Mitten Friction is a simple-but-pow- erful treatment that stimulates blood flow. Dry Brushing awakens the skin, the blood and lymphatic vessels, and the nerves. During a massage, it increases sensory stimulation, making the body more receptive to the mas- sage technique being utilized. A Salt Glow applies moistened salt to the skin, turning it pink, and making it ‘glow’ when rubbed in, blood vessels under the skin dilating and the top layer of dead skin being brushed away with the salt crystal friction. A variety of muds, green and red, were used for the wraps. As with the other tech- niques half the class worked on the other half. Mud was applied to a skin area, and the skin was wrapped in thin plastic and tin foil. Kay advised, “These brushes and the plas- tic and tin foil can be purchased at building supply stores for much less than at the mas- sage websites.” In the afternoon, the students worked on clients who’d made appointments. Erin is a part-time grant-writer. “I started coming for back pain when I was pregnant. It helped a lot. Now I come just for the relaxation aspect. You feel great after a massage.” Pete is from Nebraska. “I’ve been a nurse in Walsenburg, Ramon, and here. I come usually once a week because it’s so affordable, a third of what you’d normally pay with someone with their degree and already in business,” adding, “I getting square dance going at La Casa in Jansen, second and fourth Tuesdays. The students weighed in the effects mas- sage can produce. “Massage offers both physiological and psychological benefits,” Tar- ra said. Jeremy agreed. “The physiological improvements can be increased stimulation, relaxing of over-used muscles, pain relief from migraines, endorphin release which re- duces stress, improved range of motion, and help with sur- gery, post-natal, and injury recovery.” Ann added, “Phys- iologically, massage reduces stress and fatigue, helps with nutrition and overall health, promotes self-confidence, and increases productivity.” As for what the school of- fers, Kat said, “Thirty-minute bodywork can be Chair Mas- sage, Champissage which gives inner peace, Ear Can- dling which cleanses the ear canals and promotes full-body health, Reflexology, a mas- sage technique that targets co-aligned body parts with pressure points in the hands and feet, and Stretching. Chris added, “The hour sessions include Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Hot Stone Massage, Acupressure, Facial Cup- ping, Healing and Comfort Touch, and some special facial treatments.” Melanie explained, “A thirty-minute ses- sion is ten dollars, and an hour is only twenty. Trinidad State students and staff are half off that.” A New Zealander, Kay lived around Eu- rope, studied massage in England, and gravi- tated to T-town. “Trinidad is my destiny. I thought I would come to the U.S. and continue working as a registered nurse, which I did for a while, but life had other ideas. I met my husband here. He’s my good guy.” Kay continued. “I would do this if I was young and starting out. You can take a course, sit for your National Exam, and begin working. Then you can be any- where and earn your way to your next degree. In this day and age, where education costs a great deal, this is a boon. Community College Education is so much cheaper than elsewhere and a strong beginning to build upon.” About the massage school’s community role, Kay said, “It surprises me how many people in town do not know we are here. Many of our classes can be taken by anyone – they do not have to take the whole program. Medi- tation, Managing Life’s Stresses, Aromathera- py, and we have our clinic which is open to the public, run by the students.” TSJC massage school Applied Science As- sociate’s Degrees are in Holistic Health: Mas- sage Therapy, Health and Wellness, or Reflex- ology. The core requirements are English, Math and other basic classes. To find out more about the program or to make an appointment, email – kay.evans@ trinidadstate.edu or phone 71-846-5568. What’s ailin’ you? Massage School smooths out the kinks Photos by Scott Mastro / The Chronicle-News Kay Evans modeled mud-application on student Melanie Painter, as student Chris Foerche ob- served. Jeremy Gentry, center, applies a salt scrub to student Tarra Clifford as instructors Kay Evans assists at another massage table. Kay Evans demonstrated skin-exfoliation on student, Jeremy Gentry. Photo courtesy of Mileene Sanchez / Aguilar School District Aguilar Students of the Week Each week at Aguilar Elementary School, teachers choose a student who exhibits the characteris- tics of the school’s Positive Behavior Incentive Support (PBIS) matrix. The characteristics are: Re- spect, Order, Attitude, Responsibility and Safety (ROARS). Students who are chosen may invite two guests from home to have lunch with them on Thursday and are treated to an ice cream des- sert after lunch. Students are chosen by who has earned the most “High Five Tickets” or “Wildcat Cards” for demonstrating excellent behavior. Congratulations to the Students of the Week! Back row: L-R: Tristen Stillwell (4th Grade), Brandy Stillwell (6th Grade) and Leah Coca (3rd Grade). Front row: L-R: Gracie Holloway (K), Makyla Canales (PreK) and Aria Broach (2nd Grade). TSJC honors area vets on Veterans Day Special to The Chronicle-News Approximately 30 people came to the Pioneer Room at Trinidad State Junior Col- lege (TSJC) on Tuesday to hear two student veterans speak about their wartime experi- ences in Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans Dirk Sheffer (pictured) and Mark Tisdale, both TSJC gunsmithing stu- dents, talked about why they took the oath to defend their country while wearing an American military uniform. Both men said they were proud to have served their coun- try. Sheffer and Tisdale talked about the spe- cial bond of kinship that developed between soldiers fighting in foreign wars, and how difficult it can be for them when they come and lose that special bond. Serving overseas caused both of them to come back home with new perspectives about what Ameri- can freedom truly means. Photo courtesy of Greg Boyce / TSJC

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Thursday, November 13, 2014 Page 3The Chronicle-News Trinidad, Colorado

EducationTRINIDAD STATE

By Scott MastroCorrespondentThe Chronicle-News

The new sign went up that morning. The guys in the metal shop did it: “Trinidad State Massage School Hours – Tuesday and Thurs-day – 1-5 p.m. - 719-846-5568.”

“It’s brand new,” Trinidad State Mas-sage School Department Head, Kay Evans, said. “We went out for lunch, came back, and there it was on the door.” Kay smiled and set the day’s mood. “Massage school is a 14-week program. We’re in our eleventh week. We’ll be done be-fore Christmas.”

“We’ll get out by December 10,” mas-sage student Chris Foerche of Lamar added.

Enrolled with him this semester are Tar-ra Clifford of Rocky Ford, Jeremy Gentry of Taylorsville, Geor-gia, T-town native, Anna Almarez, Kat Tamas from Cleveland, Ohio, and Melanie Painter of Nashville, Tennessee via Hawaii.

The main studio, at the corner of Nevada and Broom, has a Hawaii 5-0 feel, bamboo par-titions, large ferns, kumquat walls, aromatic

island smells, along with everything neces-sary to complete certification in a variety of massage techniques, special massage tables and chairs, and all the oils, rubs, scrubs, brushes, stones, and soothing music that go with the art of muscle, tissue, and attitude ma-

nipulation.Last week’s lessons were about Cold-Mit-

ten Friction, Dry Brushing, Salt Glows, and Mud Wraps.

Cold-Mitten Friction is a simple-but-pow-erful treatment that stimulates blood flow. Dry Brushing awakens the skin, the blood and lymphatic vessels, and the nerves. During a massage, it increases sensory stimulation, making the body more receptive to the mas-

sage technique being utilized. A Salt Glow applies moistened salt to the skin, turning it pink, and making it ‘glow’ when rubbed in, blood vessels under the skin dilating and the top layer of dead skin being brushed away with the salt crystal friction.

A variety of muds, green and red, were used for the wraps. As with the other tech-niques half the class worked on the other half. Mud was applied to a skin area, and the skin was wrapped in thin plastic and tin foil.

Kay advised, “These brushes and the plas-tic and tin foil can be purchased at building supply stores for much less than at the mas-sage websites.”

In the afternoon, the students worked on clients who’d made appointments. Erin is a part-time grant-writer. “I started coming for back pain when I was pregnant. It helped a lot. Now I come just for the relaxation aspect. You feel great after a massage.”

Pete is from Nebraska. “I’ve been a nurse in Walsenburg, Ramon, and here. I come usually once a week because it’s so affordable, a third of what you’d normally pay with someone with their degree and already in business,” adding, “I getting square dance going at La Casa in Jansen, second and fourth Tuesdays.

The students weighed in the effects mas-sage can produce.

“Massage offers both physiological and psychological benefits,” Tar-ra said. Jeremy agreed. “The physiological improvements can be increased stimulation, relaxing of over-used muscles, pain relief from migraines, endorphin release which re-duces stress, improved range of motion, and help with sur-gery, post-natal, and injury recovery.” Ann added, “Phys-iologically, massage reduces stress and fatigue, helps with nutrition and overall health, promotes self-confidence, and increases productivity.”

As for what the school of-fers, Kat said, “Thirty-minute bodywork can be Chair Mas-sage, Champissage which gives inner peace, Ear Can-dling which cleanses the ear canals and promotes full-body health, Reflexology, a mas-sage technique that targets co-aligned body parts with pressure points in the hands and feet, and Stretching.

Chris added, “The hour sessions include Swedish, Deep Tissue, and Hot Stone Massage, Acupressure, Facial Cup-ping, Healing and Comfort Touch, and some special facial treatments.”

Melanie explained, “A thirty-minute ses-sion is ten dollars, and an hour is only twenty. Trinidad State students and staff are half off that.”

A New Zealander, Kay lived around Eu-rope, studied massage in England, and gravi-tated to T-town.

“Trinidad is my destiny. I thought I would come to the U.S. and continue working as a registered nurse, which I did for a while, but life had other ideas. I met my husband here.

He’s my good guy.” Kay continued. “I would do this if I was young and starting out. You can take a course, sit for your National Exam, and begin working. Then you can be any-where and earn your way to your next degree. In this day and age, where education costs a great deal, this is a boon. Community College Education is so much cheaper than elsewhere and a strong beginning to build upon.”

About the massage school’s community

role, Kay said, “It surprises me how many people in town do not know we are here. Many of our classes can be taken by anyone – they do not have to take the whole program. Medi-tation, Managing Life’s Stresses, Aromathera-py, and we have our clinic which is open to the public, run by the students.”

TSJC massage school Applied Science As-sociate’s Degrees are in Holistic Health: Mas-sage Therapy, Health and Wellness, or Reflex-ology. The core requirements are English, Math and other basic classes.

To find out more about the program or to make an appointment, email – [email protected] or phone 71-846-5568.

What’s ailin’ you?Massage School smooths out the kinks

Photos by Scott Mastro / The Chronicle-NewsKay Evans modeled mud-application on student Melanie Painter, as student Chris Foerche ob-served. Jeremy Gentry, center, applies a salt scrub to student Tarra Clifford as instructors Kay Evans assists at another massage table. Kay Evans demonstrated skin-exfoliation on student, Jeremy Gentry.

Photo courtesy of Mileene Sanchez / Aguilar School District

Aguilar Students of the WeekEach week at Aguilar Elementary School, teachers choose a student who exhibits the characteris-tics of the school’s Positive Behavior Incentive Support (PBIS) matrix. The characteristics are: Re-spect, Order, Attitude, Responsibility and Safety (ROARS). Students who are chosen may invite two guests from home to have lunch with them on Thursday and are treated to an ice cream des-sert after lunch. Students are chosen by who has earned the most “High Five Tickets” or “Wildcat Cards” for demonstrating excellent behavior. Congratulations to the Students of the Week!

Back row: L-R: Tristen Stillwell (4th Grade), Brandy Stillwell (6th Grade) and Leah Coca (3rd Grade). Front row: L-R: Gracie Holloway (K), Makyla Canales (PreK) and Aria Broach (2nd Grade).

TSJC honors area vets on Veterans DaySpecial to The Chronicle-News

Approximately 30 people came to the Pioneer Room at Trinidad State Junior Col-lege (TSJC) on Tuesday to hear two student

veterans speak about their wartime experi-ences in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Veterans Dirk Sheffer (pictured) and Mark Tisdale, both TSJC gunsmithing stu-dents, talked about why they took the oath to defend their country while wearing an American military uniform. Both men said they were proud to have served their coun-try.

Sheffer and Tisdale talked about the spe-cial bond of kinship that developed between soldiers fighting in foreign wars, and how difficult it can be for them when they come and lose that special bond. Serving overseas caused both of them to come back home with new perspectives about what Ameri-can freedom truly means.

Photo courtesy of Greg Boyce / TSJC