Our New Public Health Logo – It’s Really Not New at All …
Beginning January 1, 2008, the City of El Paso Department of Public Health began using a new logo. But did you know that this logo isn’t really new at all? We’re part of a national strategy to promote the field of public health and all the fantastic things we do. In fact, hundreds of local health departments around the United States are currently using the logo as part of their marketing.
NACCHO, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, created the logo to help increase the visibility of local health departments and public understanding about what they do. The strategy, as NACCHO describes it, is called “the national identity for local public health” and it combines the use of words and a symbol that in time will come to identify the people and the work of local health departments throughout the United States.
Local governmental health departments, unlike police, fire and emergency response agencies or voluntary organizations such as the Red Cross, historically lacked a visual identity that everyone could recognize. If widely and consistently used by local health departments like ours, the symbol and message will create a “visual identity,” which has the potential to become a universally recognized and understood symbol.
The logo has three features: 1) a three-sided blue shield; 2) a stylized “plus” sign inside on a khaki background; and 3) a tag line with the words “Prevent. Promote. Protect.” The logo is also accompanied by three carefully chosen words, “Prevent. Promote. Protect.” The logo will help local governmental health departments become recognizable to everyone.
In the past, public health personnel have done about their work in a way that is invisible in neighborhoods and communities where they work.
Using the logo and messages frequently and prominently helps shoe pride and gives power to people in public health who work everyday serving our communities. Isn’t it time for local health departments to become visible and understood by all?
More information about the identity and communications initiative can be found by visiting the NACCHO website at www.naccho.org/LocalPublicHealthBrand.
Pedal Power at the El Paso Zoo!
By Liz Kern El Paso Zoo Marketing Coordinator
Just as the City of El Paso is trying to create a greener world for our citizens, the El Paso Zoo has been kicking its ownrecycling program into high gear to help save the planet. You could say the Zoo is literally shifting into a greener gear with a new mode of transportation for our Zoo staff.
Now, when guests visit the El Paso Zoo, they might see a Zoo keeper whizzing past on a bike!
(RIGHT: Zoo Educator Rick LoBello goes for a spin!)
Our Zoo Green Team has been coming up with different ways to conserve energy, so three of these attractive yellow bikes were purchased as part of the El Paso Zoo’s plans to be eco-friendly, and to be honest, these new pedal-power people propellers are positively popular! Positive benefits are exercise for the staff and no nasty emissions from a gasoline engine. Plus they look really cool and send a good message to our visitors – that we are striving to be green and bicycling is one way we can all reduce pollution*.
Even Steve Marshall, our fearless Zoo Director got on one of our new Green Machine bicycles and showed his fellow zoo employees just how the bike works. Motorcycle jacket, goggles and all – it was quite a sight!
Now, somebody just has to find our Mr. Marshall to get the bike back!
| *For a change, this weekend, walk to a restaurant instead of drive, or bike with your kids to a place to eat lunch. You can even bike to the El Paso Zoo for HALF PRICE DAY on May 17th, in honor of Armed Forces Day. (www.elpasozoo.org). You’ll burn off some calories, bond with your family and see neighborhood details you wouldn’t normally notice. |
Ground shaking, Dirt tossing!
‘Twas the luck of the Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day for Environmental Services. March 17th marked the “unofficial” groundbreaking for the department. The official day for the rumbling of equipment was March 24th.
With golden shovels, decorated for the occasion, Director Ellen Smyth, Engineer John Garza and Code Manager Cindy Chavez scratched the surface to commemorate the groundbreaking for a three-year dream. “It’s been a long time in the works, and thank each and every one of you for your patience,” Smyth addressed employees that attended. “It will be state of the art, voicemail, faster computers, and you won’t have to wait for pictures that lock you computer,” she chuckled. John Garza who has meticulously overseen the planning added that the building would be “climate controlled.”
The 24,000 square foot building will house both the Environmental Services and Street Departments administrative areas respectfully. The project has a nine month projection, just in time for Environmental Services to celebrate Christmas in their new home.
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El Paso Museum of History Presents: Rock ‘n’ Roll El Paso
An exhibit based on 1950s and 1960s Rock & Roll in El Paso, TX
Till May 18th, 2008, Free
Dalton Powell, Bobby Fuller’s original drummer, stands next to the drum kit he played with the Bobby Fuller Four of “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” fame. This is just one of the many musical items in this one-of-a-kind exhibit. This exhibit will bring back many memories to those that grew up in this era and it is a real learning experience for the younger generation. Transistor radios, 45 rpm records and record players, guitars, amplifiers, photos and much more are on display.
Rock & Roll El Paso Panel Discussion
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Noon – 2pm, free
Monitored by George Reynoso of El Paso’s All That Music, a group of six El Paso R&R performers will discuss what the El Paso music scene used to be like back in the 50s and 60s. Panelists include Rick Kern, Doug Neal, Rod Crosby, Bobby Rosales, Carlos Ruse and Bobby Fuller’s original drummer, Dalton Powell. A question and answer period will follow the discussion.
El Paso Museum of History
510 N. Santa Fe Street
El Paso, TX 79901
915-351-3588
Tuesday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sunday 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays and City holidays
Human Value and Image: Recent Work by Gabriel Villa
Valor humano e imagen: Obras recientes de Gabriel Villa
April 10, 2008 – July 20, 2008
At the El Paso Museum of Art
Human Value and Image: Recent Work by Gabriel Villa - Valor humano e imagen: Obras recientes de Gabriel Villa will consist of five, large, portrait drawings and one installation of 18 smaller drawings that all focus on the human form and are, according to the artist, "developed out of personal examination and curiosity regarding the human condition." The subjects of Villa's idiosyncratic portraits are people from the artist's neighborhood and are highly realistic, but the details included reveal the inner psyche of the artist and the sitter.
Gabriel Villa’s most recent project includes the self published, The Art of Gabriel Villa. This 100-page book focuses on Villa’s paintings and drawings created from 1990-Present. Color plates of Villa’s paintings and drawings are featured, essays by writers including Fred Camper from The Chicago Reader and Christian Gersthiemer, curator from the El Paso Museum of Art. Villa recently attended the Ragdale Foundation Artists Residency in Forest Lake, IL. Winter/Spring Season 2008. Villa’s work will be featured in the upcoming group exhibitions entitled RASQUACHE at the Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2008 and LANDSCAPE OF EXPERIENCE AND IMAGINATION at Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL. Spring 2008. Villa received his MFA from Delaware State University and a BFA from Corpus Christi State University-Texas A& M. Gabriel Villa was born and raised in the El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez border region. Villa currently lives in Chicago, IL. For further information please go to www.gabrielvilla.net
The Chicano Collection/La Coleccion Chicana
Through July 27, 2008
El Paso Museum of Art
Art advocate and entertainer Cheech Marin presents this exhibition of 26 limited-edition reproductions (giclées) of paintings by prominent Chicano artists. The archival-quality digital prints depict images of urban life and the Chicano experience during 1969 through 2001.
Original linocut-print portraits by Artemio Rodriguez of La Mano Press, a one-hour documentary by award-winning director Tamara Hernandez, and an essay by Chon A. Noriega, Ph.D. of UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center are included with the exhibition. The giclées were produced by Richard S. Duardo through his studio, Modern Multiples Fine Art Editions.
The exhibition is the culmination of a one-year project spearheaded by Mr. Marin in partnership with Bank of America and Farmers Insurance that is designed to advance Chicano art as a recognized school of American art and increase public accessibility to it. In addition to donating 50 commemorative sets to major U.S. art museums (with EPMA being one of them) and universities, 25 sets will be sold privately with net proceeds to benefit the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
This exhibition is free to the public.
For more information please call (915) 532-1707
El Paso Museum of Art announces the exhibition
Picasso’s Women
On loan and view at the El Paso Public Library Judge Marquez Branch
Through June 8, 2008
Picasso’s Women seeks to analyze the bond between his lovers and how they are uniquely represented through prints from the El Paso Museum of Art’s extensive collection given by Phyllis Bounds in 1986. Known for his innovations in Cubism, Picasso commonly exploited his lovers as subjects. This exhibition only represents a small portion of his lovers but it highlights some of his more influential and long-term relationships. From these images, one can attain a sense of Picasso’s personal perception of these women through specific attributes.
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Barry Russell, Assistant Director for Land Management for El Paso Parks and Recreation Department for the last 2 ½ years, will be leaving the City April 25th, as he accepts a new position as Director of Parks and Recreation in Spokane, Washington.
In its first year of existence, Ciclovia was a tremendous event. Ciclovia is a temporary urban space in which public streets are closed to motor vehicles so that pedestrians, cyclists, rollerbladers and walkers can take over. It is much different than a race, parade, trail or bike lane. During Ciclovia, participants experience the outdoors with the additional thrill of free movement on a road that is usually congested with automobile traffic.
