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What is Color Me Healthy?
Color Me Healthy is a program developed to reach young children with fun, innovative, interactive learning opportunities that encourage physical activity and healthy eating. The program is designed for children, parents and childcare providers and uses sight, sound, touch and taste to teach children about healthy eating and being active. Color Me Healthy includes classroom activities, songs, games, and imaginary trips, all developed especially for young children. Color Me Healthy’s…
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Letters from Santa and holiday mail
The US Postal Service sees a sharp rise in business during the holidays. Here are a couple of short articles to help with your Christmas plans. How to get a letter from Santa Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus – and the U.S. Postal Service can help you prove it when Santa replies to your child’s letter – complete with a North Pole postmark. Here are the steps for…
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Resisting the Scrooge in all of us
Harvey H. (“Hardy”) Jackson Every year, about this time, I pull out my copy of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and re-read the exchange between Scrooge and some men raising money for those in need: “At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who…
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Grandma’s life an example of strong faith
BY NINA KEENAM “Just call me Grandma, everybody does,” the woman holding a walking cane said, as several persons introduced themselves to me and my husband. We had just arrived in Lillian where my husband was appointed to serve the newly organized United Methodist Church. It was 1982, such a long time ago, but in my mind’s eye I still see Grandma pushing aside her cane to give us both…
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