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LDS DS church ch plans ns emergency mergency cy expo BELINDA M. PASCHAL bpaschal@civitasmedia.com dia.com

PIQUA PIQU UA — F From rom fir fires fire es and ffloods loods to tornadoes and nd terr terrorism, rorism, emer emergency rgency situa ations ar re best handled when ther re’’s situations are there’s been some pr preparation. reeparration. Too tha that Church T at end, nd, the Chur rch of Jesus Jesus Latter-day Saints Christ of La atterr-daay S aints Piqua and Sidney co-host emergency S idney wards warrds will co -host an emer rgency preparedness from pr reparredness eexpo xpo fro om 10 a.m. to 2 Aug. free p.m. A ugg. 24. 4. The eexpo, xpo, which is fr ree held and open to the he public, will be he eld aatt the church W.. Lo Loyy R Road. Piqua LDS chur hurrch aatt 475 W oad. ““We We believe beelieeve in being prepared prreparred for for any it’s eeventuality, ventualityy, whether w it’ ’s having haaving your your order finances in or rder in case yyou ou become unemployed there’s unemplo oyed or storing ffood ood if ther re’’s a Reed, big storm coming,� ming,� ssaid aid Louise R eed, a Ward who is promoting Piqua W arrd member m promoting pro Puterbaugh the eevent vent with th Lori Puter rbaugh of the Sidney S idney Ward. Warrd. emergency con-When preparing preeparing paring ffor or emer rgency con ditions, people ple should consider such have questions as ““What Whaat if I don’t don’t ha ave clean water?� have w ater?� and “What “Whaat if I ha ave no eelectriclectriccity or ggas as ffor or cooking?� They can learn answers the answ errs at at the eexpo xpo during sessions about water water purification purificaation and alternative alternaative power sources. po ower sour rces. s. feature presentaThe eevent vent also will fea aturre pr pre esentahow tions on ffood ood d storage stor storaagge ideas and ho ow to emergency kit.. “An assemble a 72-hour 2-hour emer rgency kit “An emergency have emer rgency kitt should ha ave basic needs, energy bars, water including ener errgy bar rs, w ater — about a ggallon allon per person p rson per day per day — a light source sour rce and something omethingg to kkeep eep p the kids Reed occupied,� R e ssaid. eed aid. People staples P eople should uld also stock up on st aples like sugar, lik ke sug garr, honey, honey oneyy, powdered powderred milk, rice, butter, jelly wheat, beans, peanut ut but tterr, je elly and whea at, be it in fflour lour ur or rready-to-grind eady-to-grind fform. orm.

A tasting tasting table table will offer rrecipes ecipes made from products demfroom o easy-to-store easy-to-storre pr roducts and a dem monstration given onstr strration will be giv en on cookingg with wheat. whea heaat. “Wheat have “Wheaat is a ggood ood thing to ha ave because store cause you you can stor re it in a dry place and Reed d it will last for for years,� yearrs,� R eed noted. ed. Having stash Having a just-in-case Ha justt-in-case st ash of ffood ood and prevent d supplies will pre prevent those mad dashes shes to the store storre only to find d the shelves “Every wee ha have sheelves depleted. “E Every time w ave a big stores b storm, you you hear about the stor res selling out of different Reed seelling l differrent items,� R eed d ssaid. aid. “It It would would be better bettter if people kkept ept those things thing inggs on hand rrather ather than rushing g out at at the t last minute.� In thee In aaddition ddittion n tto o sspeakers peakers ffrom rroom m th American merican Red Red Cross Crross of the Northern thern Miami Valley, Shelby iami V alleyy, members memberrs of S heelby County ounty EMS Fire EMS M and Fletcher F irre Department nt will be on hand to discuss emer emergency situargency situa ations, ons, safety safety and rreadiness. eadiness. “We want impor“We rreally eally w ant to push the impor mporrtance preparedness tance nce of emergency emerrgency pr reparrednesss and find nd out what whaat the countyy has in linee if an emergency emer merrgency comes up,� Reed Reed said. said. The T expo expo isn’t issn’t just for for grownups. grrownups. nups. There Ther herre will be face-painting face-painting and as inflatinfflaatables Fun Zone les from fro from JJumpy’s umpy’s F un Z one to kkeep eep youngsters entertained. young ung gsterrs entert ained. Reed Reed reiterated reeiiterrated the the importance imporrtancce of families milies having haaving a plan of action in case ase of emergency, sure emer merrgencyy, ssaying, aying, “Make “Makke sur re eeveryone very ryyone in the home kno knows that ows tha at plan and d can work wor ork it. it. And always alw ways have haave a back-up backk-up p plan in case something goes wrong goes wro wrong with h the original iginal plan.� For For more more information infformaation about the expo, expo, contact cont ntact Reed Reed at at (937) 570-0388 or (937) 473-3584 3-3584 or call Puterbaugh Puterrbaugh aatt (937) ( 663-5083. 3-5083.

Town hall all to addresss Common mmon Core The Shelby County T he S helb y Co o un t y Group spon-Liberty G roup will spon town sor a to wn hall meeting eeting Aug. A ug. 20 on Common mmon Coree St State Standards Cor ate St andar dards Partnership and the P artner ership ffor or Assessmentt of Readiness College R ea di nes s ffor or Co o ll ege Career (PARCC), and Car eer (P PAR RCC), which Ohio aree no now schools ar w under contract un der cont ract Thee tto o ffollow. ol low. Th p rree s e n t aatt i o n , ““Why Why Common Coree Is Not Cor Answer,� The Answ er,�� will be led by Kelly Kohls, Dr.. K elly K ohls, Kohls ohls president pr esident of K Springboro the Spring gboro Community School Board City S chool B oarrd of Education. Educa tion. Coree is a Common Cor multi-state initiative multi-st ate initia iativ e thatt sets fforth what stu-tha orth wha at stu know dents should kno w and be able to do in each grade. subject in each gr ade. Since states S ince 2010, 45 st ates have ha ave adopted the ssame ame standards st andards ffor or English nglish math. theo-and ma th. The theo thatt ha having ry is tha ving g the standards helps ssame ame st andards he lps all students gget et a ggood ood education, educa tion, eeven ven iff they changee schools or mo move chang ve different state. to a differ ent st ate.. Coree and “Common Cor PARCC P ARC C Assessment ment federal is the feder al ggovernovernment’s strategy ment’ ’s plan or str rategy

education to ttake ake oover ver educa t tion country,� Kohls in this country ,� K o ohls mustt ssaid. a id . ““Everyone Ever yo ne mus understand thatt w whounder st and tha ho controls eever ver contr ols the tests ests country,, contr controls in the country rols education. Everyone educa tion. E v eryone o have will ha ve to teach to positive the test to gget et positiv tive rresults.� esults.� Kohls K ohls ssaid aid Core Common Cor ore nationis a set of na tion ionstandards al st andarrds developed de v e loped by proa gr ggroup oup p of p pr ogressive gr essive educaeduca ucation rreformers eformer mers Washington. in W ashington. ton. She views S he vie ws them hem illegal as “an illeg egal ooverreach verreach by the United ted States St a tes Department ent Education of Educa tion into our education. local educa tion. These ese standards aree untest untestst andards ar ested, unsupported and unproven, unpr oven, fiscally and d academically.� academically .� standards would The st andards w o ould private also apply to priv vate home sschools c h o o l s aand nd h ome schoolers. schooler s. The Ohio hio Department of Ohio hio Education of Educa tion will not confer a high school ool diploma on students nts PARCC not passing the P AR RCC national standards na tional st andarr ds assessment,, K Kohls assessment ohls ssaid. a aid. schoolerss will Home schooler w have ha ve to ggo o back to the See S ee KOHLS KOHLS | 2

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