For two years, Discovery Duck — the Children’s Discovery Museum’s inflated, yellow mascot — has had a big purple mask covering her beak. It served as a way to let the learning center’s young visitors know that it wasn’t so scary to wear a mask, and maybe as a reminder to their grown-up companions that everyone needed to be masked up during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with most Santa Clara County restrictions relaxed because of widespread vaccinations and schools returning this fall without masks, Discovery Duck had her mask removed Friday afternoon. And it’s still symbolic because…
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City Limits, the nonprofit news organization, is now accepting applications from high school students for its paid youth journalism training program for the fall semester. Interns will be trained in the essential tenets of reporting and news writing, hear from guest speaker journalists in the industry, and work on locally focused news stories for City Limits and for a student-produced newsletter. For questions, go to Clarify and/or contact editor Jeanmarie Evelly at [email protected]. From Gale Brewers Update. Related Articles VIDEO “We re-imagine, recreate, and redeem cultural omissions and misrepresentations of Blackness, for the culture. ….” This post is made in partnership…
A West Virginia high school senior donated the classic book “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” to 20 children at the Molokaʻi Head Start in Kaunakakai. The books were given this week by Rania Zuri of Morgantown, W. Va., and her Fifty Nifty Head Start book donation project. It is part of the LiTEArary Society, her nonprofit whose mission is to end book deserts for children in Head Start programs nationwide. Zuri said in an email that “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” was one of her very favorite books as a child, “I hope that the Head…
WAUSAU – When it comes to entertaining children, getting them interested in literacy and setting them up to become successful readers, there’s no better place to turn than your local Marathon County Public Library (MCPL) location. Story times are intended to introduce children to literature and reading through storytelling, songs, games, puppets and fingerplays. Some even include extra activities and craftmaking, too! MCPL has numerous recurring story times scheduled throughout October at all nine of its locations, allowing families across the county to easily attend no matter where they live. The following story times will be held at the locations…
As the team of director Anudeep’s eagerly awaited bilingual film ‘Prince’, featuring actor Sivakarthikeyan in the lead, announced that the shooting of the film had been wrapped up with a song’s shoot, its music director Thaman disclosed that the next single from the film would be even more fun.Taking to Twitter, Thaman said: “Super fun o fun laugh riot Diwali coming to you guys from our dear darling brother Siva Kartikeyan! Next song is even more fun. Pan Ganna song coming o coming.”The unit has released two singles so far, ‘Bimbilikki Pilapi’ and ‘Jessica’, both of which have become hits.…
PHOTO COURTESY OF KATRINA LINSCOTT SOUTHWEST HARBOR — Visit the Southwest Harbor Public Library in October to view the colored pencil drawings of Katrina Linscott, including original images from her French and English children’s book “Disco and Me: An Unexpected Adventure in Quebec,” which received the Skipping Stones Honor Award for being an exceptional contribution to multicultural awareness in children’s literature. “Disco and Me,” which Linscott wrote and illustrated, is the story of a boy whose wish to discover Quebec comes true when he meets Disco, a black Labrador. As a K-8 French teacher for 17 years, Linscott saw the…
A group of volunteers in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, is making sure that children staying in hospitals, orphanages, and underprivileged communities do not lack moments of joy and fun. The Doctors of Hope project was launched with the goal of doing good to others, especially those on the margins of society.Volunteers for the project, first launched in 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, are carrying out social initiatives in area hospitals, orphanages, parks, and nursing homes across several Brazilian states. Since the first event in in Rio de Janeiro, the project has grown to include 11 volunteer teams and has…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Survivors and victims impacted from 1 October get to express all the feelings they continue to feel by customizing lanterns and reflecting five years later.The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center held a virtual lantern ceremony where people impacted by the 1 October shooting could pre-register for a free kit to create a lantern.Fuente de Vida Mental Health Services, a bilingual organization, hosted an in-person lantern ceremony at United Way.Fuente de Vida and Make the Road to Nevada were two organizations that immediately helped victims families and survivors that were undocumented, immigrant and only spoke Spanish.Leo Murrieta…
Now a new reading guide celebrating picture books and illustrations available in every branch library in Cork aims to break down barriers to children’s reading.Picture This features over 230 recommended reads for children and young people aged 0–18, each one reviewed by experts in children’s literature. The guide makes books of all kinds accessible to children across Cork, including those who may have reading difficulties or whose first language may not be English or Irish.Each review is accompanied by a ‘Read also’ recommendation, bringing the total of books included to over 450.Picture This focuses on books with strong visual narratives,…
Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health to provide enhanced rooms and equipment to Pediatric Behavioral Health patients OKLAHOMA CITY — Pediatric behavioral health patients who arrive in emergency rooms are often placed in spaces with limited privacy, space and safety mechanisms as parents are unsure of where to take their children in a behavioral health crisis. Three emergency department rooms at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health have been renovated to create an environment that is not only safer for these patients and providers, but also conducive to healing. Pediatric behavioral health patients often wait for long periods for placement in appropriate…