= EMPLOYEE BREAKFAST
Great Event Honoring Great Employees
By Henry A. Alvarez, III
What better way to honor those employees that have mainta ined their longevity with SAHA than with an early morningget together? I am always amazed at the dedication that our employees have to serving the housing needs of San Antonio. The Employee Appreciation Breakfast was once again superb, thanks to the hard work of each and every one of you.
Let me express my sincere appreciation to our staff for making this annual event the success that it was. I look forward to next year’s event being even bigger and more fabulous!
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= CUSTOMER SERVICE
Why is service so important?
Today’s customers have high expectations. Many products have virtually become commodities in the eyes of consumers. Service levels are what differentiate our organization from other housing authorities. Employers who are better equipped to handle service issues have less turnover and higher job satisfaction. As a SAHA employee our pledges is to: Demonstrate compassion and respect in every interaction, service we deliver. The SAHA training department will have mandatory Customer Service I training March 10 – 14 at the Central office in the Boardroom times will be which will help retain our customers. Let’s take action now to improve the quality of posted on the desk top.
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= TEXAS THREE STEP
Why is service so important?
From Humana
If you’re always looking for ways to improve your health, here are three steps you can take!
Step One: Make a commitment
Resolve to get healthier. Small changes in your daily habits – like taking a walk or avoiding sweets – can add up to big improvements in your health, lowering your chances for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic conditions.
Step Two: Take the free Humana Health Assessment
Just answer a few basic questions, and you’ll get a confidential health status page with personalized tips on enhancing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Here’s all you have to do:
• Go to Humana.com and log in to MyHumana.
If you haven’t registered, you need to do that first.
• Click on “Health & Wellness” at the top and choose “Health Assessment” from the drop-down box.
• If your Internet browser is set up to block pop-up windows, please disable the blocker before you start.
Step Three: Find out more about good health
At MyHumana, you can take advantage of a wide range of wellness information and tools, including:
• Condition Centers for chronic illnesses, weight management, tobacco cessation, and a Healing Kitchen section in the Related Information box – all under Health & Wellness.
• Complimentary and Alternative Medicine program, with discounts on massages, acupuncturists, and chiropractic services – as well as discounts and coupons for health-related products and programs – all in the Savings Center under Health & Wellness.
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= Hummingbird Cake
A Springtime Favorite for the Fruit Lover
OK. It’s been two whole months since you went on that diet for New Year’s, and you’re craving something sweet. However, you want to avoid the guilt of breaking your commitment to healthy eating. Try this fresh fruit-filled cake that’ sure to satisfy anybody’s sweet tooth!
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 2/3 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cups vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice
21/2 cups diced bananas
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Time
5 minutes prep, 70 minutes cooking time, 20 minutes cooling, 5 minutes frosting
2 minutes and you’re back on your diet!
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 12 cup Bundt pan. Measure flour, sugar, soda, salt, cinnamon, oil, eggs, and vanilla into mixing bowl. Beat until smooth. Stir in pineapple with juice, bananas, and pecans. Pour into prepared pan. Bake in oven for about 70 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack or plate after cooling for 20 minutes. Cool, and ice with cream cheese icing, if you are feeling particularly devious! If you are trying to stick to your diet, top with fresh fruit toppings of your choice. Be sure to keep leftovers refrigerated.
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= VILLALOBOS WINS GOLDEN SPUR
Texas Public Relations Association Awards Banquet
SAHA cosponsored this year’s TPRA conference at the histor  ic St. Anthony Hotel February 29- March 2, 2008. Gavino Ramos, Director of Corporate Relations, along with his “posse” Lilia Swayne, Monica Quiroga, Elvira Martinez, Caren Cuellar, and Dolores Muller, took home two awards for both Insight and the SAHA website. More impressively, SAHA Chief of Staff Melanie Villalobos was awarded the highest honor of the night, the “Golden Spur”.
The Golden Spur is TPRA's highest recognition for member service. The recipient must make significant and long-lasting contributions to TPRA and to the public relations profession during at least 10 years of membership. The award is presented only in years when outstanding candidates are nominated and approved by the TPRA Board of Directors. Melanie has certainly worked hard for SAHA and the TPRA, and we wish to congratulate her on this tremendous accomplishment!
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= FOOD PORTIONS
Food portions quiz
If you think popcorn tastes better now than when you were younger, it’s true – only today it has three times as many calories, too. Coffee with milk has more than doubled in calories now that it’s mocha coffee. And today’s chocolate chip cookies are wider and have many more calories than grandma’s over-baked version.
It’s no wonder our bodies have expanded over the past few decades. So have our food portions. It has been a subtle, but dangerous, increase in our calorie consumption.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed a quiz on how food portions have grown in the past 20 years. The quiz checks our knowledge of calories, and then tells us
how much physical activity is necessary to burn those extra calories. See if you can guess correctly.
Choose the option you think is correct
1.Muffin: 20 years ago muffins had ____ calories, as compared to today’s ___ calories, and it takes this much time vacuuming to burn those extra calories _____.
a. 210 calories / 500 calories / 90 minutes of vacuuming
b. 100 calories / 350 calories / 50 minutes of vacuuming
2. Pepperoni Pizza: 20 years ago a slice had ___ calories, as compared to today’s ___ calories, and it takes this much time playing golf, walking and carrying your own
clubs, to burn those extra calories _____.
a. 350 calories / 500 calories / 30 minutes of golf
b. 500 calories / 850 calories / 60 minutes of golf
3. Bagel: 20 years ago a bagel had a 3-inch diameter and ___ calories, as compared to today’s 6-inch diameter and ___ calories, and it takes this much time raking leaves in order to burn the extra calories _____.
a. 140 calories / 350 calories / 50 minutes of raking leaves
b. 50 calories / 200 calories / 25 minutes of raking leaves
4. Cheeseburger: 20 years ago a cheeseburger had ___ calories, as compared to today’s cheeseburger with ___ calories, and you’ll need to spend this much time lifting
weights to burn the extra calories _____.
a. 330 calories / 590 calories / 90 minutes of lifting weights
b. 440 calories / 660 calories / 180 minutes of lifting weights
5. Soda: 20 years ago a soda was 6.5 oz. and had ___ calories, as compared to today’s 20 oz. soda with ___ calories. You would have to work in the garden for ____ to burn those extra calories.
a. 115 calories / 350 calories / 55 minutes
b. 85 calories / 250 calories / 35 minutes
Food portions quiz answers:
1. a.
20 years ago, a 1.5 oz. muffin had 210 calories, and today’s muffin is 4 oz. and has 500 calories. It will take approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes of vacuuming to burn the extra 290 calories.
2. b.
20 years ago, a slice of pepperoni pizza was 500 calories; today it’s 850 calories, and you would have to play golf for one hour to burn the extra 350 calories.
3. a.
20 years ago, a bagel was smaller (3-inch diameter) and had 140 calories, as compared to today’s 6-inch bagel with 350 calories. It would take 50 minutes of raking leaves to burn off the extra 210 calories.
4. a.
20 years ago, a cheeseburger had 330 calories; today it’s 590 calories. You would have to lift weights for 1 hour and 30 minutes to burn the extra 260 calories.
5. b.
20 years ago, a soda had 85 calories, and today it has 250 calories; it takes 35 minutes of working in the garden to burn off the extra 165 calories.
Note: For more information, including food portion slide shows, go to: http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/oei_ss/menu.htm
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= LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Your Opportunity to Shine!
The Leadership Program is intended to identify and develop employees for future leadership positions throughout SAHA. This is your opportunity to reveal your leadership talents to the Senior Management Team.
Through this program, you will establish strong networks within various departments and enhance your knowledge of SAHA and its services. This is a 6-month program, with meetings scheduled as full-day events once a month. You can nominate ourself, or you can nominate a colleague or coworker. Nomination forms are now being accepted thru Friday, March 14, 2008. Class begins this April.
Click here to view the program overview. Click here for the nomination form.
Submit your form today to Sandy Patel, Executive Project Coordinator in the Executive Office.
For questions, please feel free to contact Sandy Patel via email at Sandy_Patel@saha.org or by phone at 477-6128.
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