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With the start of school around the corner, back-toschool nights often feature an activity fair or two. As part of these fairs, it’s possible to find school troops for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Camp Fire. So where to begin?
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Jeff Randolph, the marketing vice president for Camp Fire, headquartered here in the metropolitan area, said Camp Fire has several programs available for school-aged youth, including its traditional club program. “Our traditional club uses a troop model, giving youth and teens the ability to take on leadership roles at school and in their communities,” he said.“Other programs, like our Teens In Action program, are youth-led and youth-driven, guided by trained, caring adults. We are also currently in talks with several Northland after-school and home school locations to offer Camp Fire after-school programs in the area.” Camp Fire programming engages the whole family and is meant to start discussions between adults and youth.
“Many Camp Fire parents want to participate in our programs and be part of the Camp Fire experience alongside their children,” Randolph said.“Remember, Camp Fire is for everyone. Our programs welcome, and encourage, adult volunteers. While not everyone can volunteer, many do want to support Camp Fire and the youth we aim to serve.” Being a Camp Fire kid means lots of things. What are some of the first things a Camp Fire kid will do? “That depends on the program,” Randolph said.“Every day,we see youth building positive relationships, learning life skills that include selfreflection and goal management, and practicing these skills in our Out-OfSchool-Time, Camp and Environmental Education, and Teen Service and Leadership programs. Experiences in those programs will certainly vary, where you’re likely to experience fire building, archery, learning about (science, technology, engineering and math) careers, understand text etiquette, learning conflict resolution skills ... and much more.”
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Woven into every Camp Fire experience is the proven framework for thriving. The approach enables youth to achieve their full potential through four components: IDENTIFY SPARKS: Identifying and growing Sparks and Spark Champions. GROWTH: Adopting a growth mindset (the belief that you can learn new skills all the time). GOALS: Building goal management skills. REFLECT: Creating the opportunity to reflect on activities and outcomes.
family camping day camp, overnights at summer camp and fun events like the pinewood derby are available. Early on, there is a Cub Family Campout.This year the campout will be the weekend of Oct. 2 and 3 at Camp Branch at Smithville Lake. “It’s open to Cub Scouts new and old, which covers first- through fifth-grade boys. This is their first real taste of the adventure of scouting, and they do lots of great outdoor activities including shooting BB guns, bow and arrow, and we even have a climbing tower,” said Stephanie Regalia, district director. Meetings take place in dens with small groups organized by grades. With fun and discovery at every turn, Boy Scouts provides boys a foundation they can stand on to embrace opportunity, overcome obstacles and make new discoveries.
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In Girl Scouts, the youngest girls — ages kindergarten and first grade — can be
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO An Eagle Court of Honor was held earlier this year for Northlanders Will Crabtree, left, and Austin Voelker. Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America. in Daisies. Brownies are for girls in second and third grades.The Girl Scouts of NE Kansas and NW Missouri is chartered by Girl Scouts of the USA and supports about 23,000 youth members and 8,000 adult
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volunteers in its 47 counties surrounding the Greater Kansas City,Topeka, Kansas, and St. Joseph areas. Marketing Officer Gina Garvin shared a fact sheet about how girls who join Girl Scouts start developing their leadership potential through activities that enable them to discover their values, skills and the world around them; connect with others in a multicultural environment; and take action to make a difference in the world. Girls can participate individually or in a troop setting through diverse program opportunities including camping (day, troop and resident), challenge (archery, ziplining and rappelling), equestrian, STEM and other leadership skill-building activities. Girl Scouts is more than 100 years old. With many children and youth programming, participants are often more likely to stay in school, demonstrate social competence, lead a healthy lifestyle, be environmentally conscious, have a sense of purpose and often achieve their full potential.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Kaycee Biermann, left, celebrates her high school graduation with older sister Katrina Biermann. Rick and Sheryl said they learned the most sending their first-born to college. “We educated ourselves,” Sheryl said. “You go to all the meetings at the high school and read all the articles and talk to other people who have been through it.” When it came to finding schools, the Biermanns said they required their daughters to look in state. They said other parents would need to determine
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Trainer: Sports injuries can be prevented By Corey Edwards This month student athletes return to the field hoping to find glory on the gridiron, pitch and court. While high school athletics are meant to teach life lessons, sometimes those lessons hurt. Kearney High School athletic trainer Owen Iseminger sees his fair share of injuries among high school athletes throughout the year but said there are lots of ways to keep children
healthy while competing. “The biggest thing is they get a good night’s sleep the night before (competing),” Iseminger said.“They should have a good, nutritious breakfast, lunch and dinner.They should also stay hydrated and stretch before practice.” Iseminger said hydrating throughout the day at the high-school level can be troublesome for athletes who may not think about the importance of drinking plenty of water prior to
practices and games. Iseminger suggests athletes stay away from unhealthy drinks such as energy drinks and coffee. “If you need some sort of supplemental energy to get you going for a high school sport, you probably need to get checked out,” he said, adding athletes should also stay away from empty calories. Iseminger said he talks to athletes every day about checking their helmets, shoulder pads and shin guards to make sure the equipment is operating properly to avoid injuries like bruises and concussions. “My biggest thing is to get it checked out,” Iseminger said of concussions. “Call a health care provider, get that kid
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Book Buzz: Barnyard animal stars Little Boy Blue was too sleepy to blow his horn in alarm, but Newsbee is tooting his horn in sheer delight. Give a standing ovation to his August Book Buzz Picks featuring “Barnyard Animal Stars” that will steal the show, and your hearts as well. You’re sure to love reading about a ditzy donkey, a wandering chicken and a creamy cow headed for a dreaded destination. Page On! Enjoy!
I Yam a Donkey Dripping with humor, readers young and old will bust a gut, from first page to last, with “I Yam a Donkey,” by clever Cece Bell, a fave from the barnyard to the schoolyard. Though Donkey thinks he’s much brighter than a yam attempting to teach him grammar skills, that ain’t the case. Try as he might, Yam can’t get Donkey to catch his drift, even though he repeats and clarifies time and again. Despite Yam’s best efforts, Donkey keeps messing up on his subject/verb agreement. Interpersonal disagreements arise as the discussion between the two becomes more heated, eventually growing hot enough to melt butter on a pile of peas. Any effort Yam extends goes up in smoke in this charmer full of silly word play and line drawings depicting the characters’ exaggerated expressions. Cece hams it up with this yam yarn, complete with a moral at the end of the story: “Good grammar, don’t matter!”
follow … someone else home.” The last illustration proves that true as a child in yellow boots walks off the page, followed by three Rock Island Reds. Squawk!
Audrey Cow Get ready to be moo-ved to laughter by “Audrey Cow,” by Dan Bar-el, a wild caper about a barnyard bovine determined to avoid being shipped off to market. Audrey, a gorgeous Charolais, a breed that originated in France, enjoys a serene life at Bittersweet Farm. That changes on the fateful day her mother is loaded on a truck — for a one-way trip to Abbot’s War, a slaughterhouse. Tearfully, Audrey bids her mama goodbye, all the while knowing the truck will soon come for her. But Audrey Cow won’t go peacefully. Her pals Eddie Dog, Roy Horse, Buster Pig and a menagerie of other four-legged wonders devise a plan to set Audrey free. Told in the voices of farmland animals, and later by a bevy of forest creatures, readers learn about Audrey’s fate, and the crazy capers her friends go through to keep her from being turned into burgers and steaks. Madcap antics ensue in this story loosely based on a real Ohio cow that escaped a slaughterhouse. Illustrations by Tatjana Mai-Wyss give plenty of personality to the animals and their adventures.
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Hecky pecky! A tennis-shoe-clad child has his hands full in “A Chicken Followed Me Home! Questions and Answers About a Familiar Fowl,” a picture book about chicken this-and-that by Robin Page. Brightly colored illustrations and lots of fowl facts make this a book to crow on and on about. “What do I do now?” the child asks, after noticing the chicken, placidly pacing along. The strange situation piques the child’s curiosity and more questions follow: “What will my chicken eat? “ “What kind of chicken is it?” “How can I keep my chicken safe?” so on and so forth, until every kernel of knowledge about chickens has been pecked clean, from chick to pullet. Investigating the life cycle of the chicken results in a bunch more being born. “Now what do I do with all of these chickens?” the child asks. “Maybe they’ll
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FamilySearch indexes Freedmen’s Bureau records FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, recently announced the digital release of 4 million Freedmen’s Bureau historical records and encourages the public to participate in a nationwide volunteer indexing effort. At least two Northlanders who have done so have been able to better define their own family trees. Recently the members of the Liberty area and the Lenexa, Kansas, area of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in an indexing challenge. Almost 400 people participated, and in one month more than 185,000 names were indexed. Northlanders Sheila Bridges and Pat Lozier are two women who participated in this project. Each has been the beneficiary of indexing. Lozier has been able to be reunited with some of her half siblings. Bridges has searched for a number of years for a record of her great-grandmother’s ancestors. She was finally successful through a “hint” from an indexed record. “I don’t know the person who indexed that particular Tennessee record, but I am eternally thankful they sacrificed their time to index,” Bridges said.
Details to be available for free online genealogical searches The Freedman’s Bureau was organized near the end of the American Civil War to assist newly freed slaves in 15 states and the District of Columbia. From 1865 to 1872, the bureau opened schools to educate the illiterate, managed hospitals, rationed food and clothing for the destitute and even solemnized marriages. In the process, it gathered handwritten personal information on potentially 4 million African Americans. FamilySearch is working in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the California African American Museum to make these records available. Volunteers are needed to help search and index these records, making the information, details and histories readily discoverable for free online genealogical searches. This effort will allow many African Americans to
discover their Civil War-era ancestors for the first time. There are more than 1.5 million documents in the bureau collection. FamilySearch indexing is done by volunteers sitting at their own computers. These volunteers view a digital image of a record, then type in the names, dates and places listed on the record. Each record is viewed by two different volunteers and possibly a third if there is any discrepancy. The information can then be read by a computer, which organizes the data into a searchable format. As the images are read and organized, FamilySearch adds them to their database. Searching this database is free to the general public. The Freedman’s Bureau has records for millions of ancestors of African American heritage. “The Freedmen’s Bureau papers open the door to literally millions of untold stories,” said Bill Pretzer, senior curator for History at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “They are a major contribution to the mission of the museum in bringing to life the experiences of the African-American community.” To help, visit www.discoverfreedmen.org.
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