Mary Enzman Hines, a Colorado Springs nurse and professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, has been chosen president of the American Holistic Nurses Association.

Enzman chairs the Graduate Nursing Department at UCCS’s Beth El College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She has served as education coordinator for the AHNA and associate editor of the Journal of Holistic Nursing, the association said in a news release.

Enzman was chosen at the assocation’s recent annual conference and is scheduled to serve until 2011.

The association is a nonprofit for nurses and other holistic practioners. It strives to act as a bridge between conventional health care and complementary health practices, according to the news release.

For more information, visit www.ahna.org.

Members of a family that were displaced by a fire talk to firefighters after their home burned Monday morning. Photo by JERILEE BENNETT, THE GAZETTE

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