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Isn’t summer great? It’s the perfect time to explore the outdoors, do a little sightseeing, catch up with family and friends and read some good books. It’s hard to believe that summer is half over!

Where does the time fly?

This is also one of the best times to enjoy colorful flowers, vegetable gardens growing, and orchards producing crops. Now, as in years past, families will can and freeze vegetables and fruits to eat during the cold, winter months. It’s a lot of work but it sure tastes great!

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Discovering Insects

One warm summer day when I was five years old, I climbed underneath a bush to play. To my surprise, I saw hundreds of ladybugs crawling over the moist ground under the bush. I had discovered “a ladybug garden party”. I watched these wonderful insects for a long time. What an exciting discovery I had made in my Gram’s garden that day!

As you enjoy your summer vacation, take time to slow down and discover the world of insects. Being an insect detective and searching for amazing insects can be really fun. Sit beneath a tree, beside a pond, or by a flower garden. You may find a ladybug, grasshopper, ant, or even a stick bug. Whatever you find, look at its shape, color, legs, and eyes. Sometimes we only find insects we have seen before, but other times we can discover new ones. My favorite insects are ladybugs and grasshoppers. Do you have a favorite insect?

It is wonderful to watch insects living, working, eating and playing all around us. There is always a new discovery waiting in the summer outdoors when you take the time to look.

Have fun in the beautiful outdoors!

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The S.S. Badger The S.S. Badger is the largest car ferry ever to sail Lake Michigan, and has provided a safe, fun, and reliable shortcut across the huge inland sea for more than fifty years. As the only coal-fired steamship in operation in the United States, the S.S. Badger operates on domestic fuel, and the company has an extraordinary commitment to maintaining a unique propulsion system that has been designated as a national mechanical engineering landmark.

The S.S. Badger offers an authentic steamship experience unmatched anywhere else.

The 410' S.S. Badger entered service in 1953, designed specifically to handle the rough conditions that it would likely encounter during year around sailing on Lake Michigan. Built primarily to transport railroad freight cars, but with superior passenger accommodations, the Badger reigned as Queen of the Lakes during the car ferries' Golden Era in the late Fifties, with Manitowoc, Milwaukee, and Kewaunee as her Wisconsin ports of call. By the Seventies, changing railroad economics were condemning other car ferries to mothballs or the scrap yard. With little railroad freight business left, and without ever tapping into the opportunity to serve the needs of the vacation traveler, the Badger sailed from

Wisconsin to Ludington and tied up for the last time in November 1990 - signaling the end of the century-old tradition of car ferry service on Lake Michigan.

The end of the car ferries was devastating to the communities they had served and the thousands of passengers who loved them. However, in 1991, an entrepreneur named Charles Conrad committed his own financial resources to reinvent the S.S. Badger to carry leisure passengers and their vehicles.

Since then, this legend of the Great Lakes has delighted a whole new generation of people, allowing them to experience a bit of history that almost slipped away while cruising to fun destinations on both sides of Lake Michigan. The S.S. Badger now sails daily between Manitowoc, Wisconsin and Ludington, Michigan from midMay through mid-October.

DIMENSIONS: • Length: 410 feet, 6 inches • Width: 59 feet, 6 inches • Height: 106 feet, 9 inches (7 stories) • Weight: 6650 tons displaced • Staterooms: 40 • Propellers: Two cast steel, 4-blade propellers, 13' 10'' in diameter and weighing 13,800 pounds each • Anchors: Two Stockless anchors weighing 7,000 pounds each • Engines: Two Skinner Unaflow four-cylinder steam engines rated 3,500 horsepower at 125 RPM (total 7,000 horsepower).

The Badger's propulsion system burns domestic fuel, and is designated as a mechanical engineering landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

• Boilers: Four Foster-Wheeler "D - type" coal-burning • Average speed: 18 miles per hour (15.6 knots) • Number of crew members on each trip: 50-60 • Capacity: 600 passengers, 180 automobiles, tour buses, RVs, motorcycles, and commercial trucks • Number of crossings per season: Approx. 450

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Fun for All! Lakewood Elementary Schools during Field Day at “Unity Field” June 4th all the four elementary schools enjoyed the combined Unity Field Day. They had a full day of games, activities, and lunch provided by the parent teacher organizations and local business donations. The kids, staff, and volunteers were given a Lakewood Field Day 2015 T-shirt for the event.

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Students learned how supplies are ordered and delivered to the different departments.

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Students celebrated reaching their fall fundraising goal with a bounce party!

Young Kindergarten students enjoyed a spring field trip to Grand Rapids Children’s Museum.

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Honey Bees!

People farm with bees for many reasons. Bees are beneficial insects because they produce honey, beeswax, and pollinate crops.

Anyone can keep bees but there are also problems that go with it.

They have the ability to sting!

The farmer needs a suitable location, proper equipment and to find out where to get their bees from a supplier. They also need to learn as much as possible about bees from expert beekeepers and books before they get started.

Let’s talk about bees. They are four-winged, flower feeding insects. They have body hairs and enlarged hind feet. Most bees have a stinger! Honeybees and bumble bees are the most common.

Bumblebees are larger and stronger than honeybees. Honeybees are very popular and have been adopted by at least sixteen states as their state insect. There are actually 10,000 to 20,000 species of bees!

Honeybees are social bees and live in colonies. They are small insects. A small colony or hive contains about 20,000 bees. They hive is made up of one queen, hundreds of drones and thousands of worker bees. The queen bee creates all the babies for the hive. The drones are male bees without stingers and the worker bees are all females that can’t have babies.

The hive ismade up of cells made of wax.

This is where the queen bee lays her eggs. She can lay 1500 eggs in a single day.

When they hatch, they are fed by the worker bees. The worker bees also clean the hive and COLOR they build comb cells.

ME! It is in the comb cells

they store the honey.

The workers collect pollen and nectar from flowers. They use a form of dancing to communicate information to each other regarding where the food they find is at. The pollen is used as the protein source and the nector as the energy source. When the pollen lands on the pistils of the flower, it results in cross-pollination. This is important for the farmer’s crops and flowers.

Watermelon, cantaloupe and cucumbers are just a few of the crops that require honeybees to pollinate. Bees then turn the nectar into honey.

It takes over four thousand flowers to make just a tablespoon of honey!

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Betsy Ross Betsy Ross was born in 1752 as Elizabeth Pheobe Griscom. She was born as the eighth child out of seventeen, but only eight of her siblings lived to be adults. Betsy grew up in Philadelphia and attended a Quaker-run school. Her great aunt taught her how to sew, and after her school she took up an apprenticeship with a carpender.

There she met a young man named John Ross, and the young couple married in 1773 when Betsy was only 21 years old.

The legend says that Betsy Ross created the first American flag in 1776, and she presented it to George Washington himself. This information was given by her grandson, and no record was kept, but the legend lived and Betsy Ross was viewed as an American role-model for many young girls in the years to come. She was credited for replacing the original six -pointed stars with easier fivepointed stars. This new design made her legend famous. Legend has it that George Ross - a respected Philadelphian, Robert Morris - was prehaps the wealthiest citizen in the Colonies and General George Washington asked her to sew the first flag. Betsy Ross was acquainted with General Washington as they both worshiped at Christ Church and her pew was next to George and Martha Washington. Her daughter recalled, “That she was previously well acquainted with Washington, and that he had often been in her house in friendly visits, as well as on business. That she had embroidered ruffles for his shirt bosoms and cuffs, and that it was partly owing to his friendship for her that she was chosen to make the flag.”

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, seeking to promote national pride and unity, adopted the national flag. "Resolved:

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Above is: Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to General George Washington, by Edward Percy Moran. that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

John Ross died in the Revolutionary war, and Betsy Ross remarried twice after his death. Her second husband was Joseph Ashburn, a mariner who was later captured and died in an English prison. Betsy married agan in 1783 to John Claypoole and they had five daughters together. The family remained in Philadelphia, and kept her upholstery business running herself until the eldest daughter Clarissa took over the business. In 1836, Betsy Ross died at the age of 84. Her house today is open for visits, and is a very popular sight to see.

The Barry County Bar Association is very excited about the Kids World News publication. Our membership thought it would be fun to submit a short statement each month related to children and the law.

Did you know that Massachusetts was the first State to recognize the Fourth of July as a Holiday?

Massachusetts passed a law recognizing the holiday in 1781.

The United States Government did not pass a law making the Fourth of July (Independence Day) a Federal Holiday until 1870, and even then it was an unpaid holiday for all Federal Employees.

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Math Puzzle Fun!

These puzzles are fun to do! Going across the puzzle, you will either add or subtract 1. Going down you add or subtract 10. We give you one number to start and you take it from there!

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Circle The 7 Differences!

Circle The 2 Identical Pictures

Complete The Dot-To-Dot and Color The Picture!

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William McKinley Jr. 25th President of the United States 1897-1901

William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. At first, he attended school in a one room schoolhouse.

After moving at the age of nine to Poland, Ohio, he and his siblings attended a private school called Poland Academy.

In school he enjoyed reading, debating, pubic speaking and became the president of the school’s debate club. At 16, he attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania until illness sent him home.

After recovering from his illness, he worked as a postal clerk and taught at Kerr School. When the Civil War broke out, he and his cousin, Will, enlisted as privates in the 23rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was under the command of Rutherford B. Hayes (who was a future president). By the end of the war and through acts of bravery, he had elevated to the rank of Brevet Major.

After the war, he returned to his hometown of Poland, Ohio where he studied law with Judge Glidden. In 1866, he entered law school in Albany, New York and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1867. After working for Judge Belden, he opened his own practice and became involved with the Republican Party. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County in 1869.

He married Ida Saxton in January 1871 and had two daughters.

After losing both her children (one as an infant and one to typhoid

fever) and her mother, Mrs. McKinley through illness and depression became a semi-invalid who needed constant care. Mr. McKinley was always concerned and was known for his devotion to her.

At the age of 34, he won a seat in Congress. McKinley was appointed to the Ways and Means Committee. He was known for his personality, exemplary character and quick intelligence. He was also the leading Republican tariff expert, giving his name to the measure enacted called the McKinley Tariff of 1890. The next year, he was elected as governor of Ohio and served two terms.

In 1896, at the Republican Convention (during the depression), he was nominated as the “advance agent of prosperity.” During the campaign, McKinley met delegations on his front porch in Canton, Ohio and won by the largest majority of popular votes since 1872.

While president, at the tail of the depression, in 1900, Congress passed the Gold Standard Act to make gold as a standard of our money system. Industrial combinations began developing, but foreign policy dominated McKinley’s Administration. With Spanish forces and revolutionaries in Cuba, the public brought pressure on the President for war. In the 110 day Spanish-American War, the United States destroyed the Spanish fleet in Cuba, siezed Manila in the Philippines and occupied Puerto Rico. At the “Treaty of Paris”, Puerto Rico and Guam became U.S. possessions and for $20 million, we acquired the Philippines as a territory. With these lands, the U.S. became a world power under President McKinley.

Cuba was set up as a protectorate. He also presided over the annexation of the formerly independent Kingdom of Hawaii.

In 1900, McKinley won a second term. In this same year, the Hay Pauncefote Treaty gave to the U.S. the right to build the Panama Canal. His second term came to a horrible end on September 1901. While standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo PanAmerican Exposition, a deranged anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days later and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt became the next president.

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Asteroids!

An asteroid is one among millions of small solar bodies which revolve around the sun every day. They consist of rocks, metals and they can also contain organic compounds. Asteroids are concentrated mainly in the region known as the asteroid belt which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They can be as very large in diameter or can be just as small as a grain of sand. They are neither big enough to be called planets nor are they as small as comets. The asteroid belt is divided into an inner belt and an outer belt. The inner belt, which is made up of asteroids that are within 250 million miles of the sun, contains asteroids that are made of metals. The outer belt consists of rocky asteroids.

On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid which he thought at first was a comet. He named this asteroid Ceres, after the Sicilian Goddess of grain. It is now, since 2006 considered a dwarf planet, along with Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. Soon, other large asteroids like Pallas, Juno and Vista were discovered. By the end of the 19th century, several hundred asteroids have been discovered.

According to present day astronomers, asteroids are debris left behind by the formation of the Solar System that could not come together to form a planet because of the effect of Jupiter’s gravitational pull.

Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for millions of years. However, due to the friction with Earth’s atmosphere most of the asteroids get burnt up. The asteroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere are called meteors, while the ones that get burnt and appear as shooting stars are called meteorites. The largest crater caused by an asteroid hit is the Chicxulub Crater in Mexico that is approximately 111 miles in diameter. The largest evidence of an asteroid hit is in the Vredefort Crater in South Africa that is approximately 186 miles in diameter. It is believed by many scientists and researchers that an asteroid impact was the cause behind the extinction of the dinosaurs around 65 million years ago.

Did you know that asteroids have moons? The reason as to why an asteroid is often confused with a planet is because like planets, they too have their own moons. In 1993, a spacecraft

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discovered that the asteroid 243 Ida has its own moon!

The asteroids which are situated close to earth are known as near-earth asteroids. There are three types of near-earth asteroids, termed as the Amors, the Apollos and the Atens.

ç 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl. Dactyl is the first satellite of an asteroid to be discovered

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“I Can’t Stop Itching!”

You may have a rash! A rash can also be called dermatitis (pronounced dur-muh-tahy-tis), which is a swelling or irritation of the skin. It can look red, dry, scaly, include lumps, bumps, blisters and pimples plus it’s itchy. Some rashes, combined with a fever can be signs of serious illnesses.

A type of rash called Hives can be serious because they can be a sign of an allergic reaction and you would need immediate medical attention. Hives are reddish or pale swellings that appear on your body when a chemical called histamine (pronounced his-tuh-meen) is released in response to an allergen.

The trigger can be a certain food, medicine or bug bite. A virus can also cause hives.

Here are some other common types of rashes: •Eczema is a common rash for kids. Eczema can cause dry, chapped, bumpy areas around the elbows and knees or more serious cases of red, scaly, and swollen skin all over the body.

•Irritant contact dermatitis is caused by contact with something irritating, such as a chemical, soap, or detergent. It can be red, swollen, and itchy. Even sunburn can be a kind of irritant dermatitis because it's red and might itch while it's healing.

•Allergic contact dermatitis is a rash caused by contact with an allergen. An allergen is something you are allergic to, such as rubber, hair dye, or nickel (a metal found in some jewelry).

Urushiol (pronounced yoo-roo-shee-ol), is an oil or resin contained in poison ivy, oak, and sumac, can cause this kind of rash.

Some rashes form right away and others can take several days to occur. When a rash appears, you usually know it because it will start to bother you. If you develop a rash, tell a parent or another adult as soon as you can. Try not to scratch it.

If you do, the rash may take longer to heal and you'll be more

likely to develop an infection or scar.

A visit to the doctor is a good idea. Although all rashes may look alike to you, a skin doctor called a dermatologist knows the difference. Knowing which kind of rash you have can help the dermatologist choose the best treatment to heal.

Here are some ideas to help you prevent rashes: • If a poison plant is the problem, learn what the plant looks like and avoid it. It also may help to wear long sleeves and pants when you're camping or hiking in the woods.

• If bugs are biting you, have a parent help you apply some insect repellent when you'll be going outside.

• For allergic dermatitis or irritant contact dermatitis, try to avoid that substance. If you are allergic to nickel, wear only nickel-free jewelry. If you discover that bubble bath bothers your skin, don't use it.

• With eczema, stay away from harsh soaps that might dry out your skin. Make an effort to moisturize your skin with creams or lotions. Short, cool showers are a good idea, too, because hot showers and baths can further dry out your skin.

• When it comes to the sun, you should always wear sunscreen to avoid a red and itchy sunburn.

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Cookin’ Fun Chicken Divan Crescent Squares

Chicken Pot Pie

1 (8 oz.) can refrigerated quick crescent dinner rolls 1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese 1 (9 oz.) pkg. frozen cut broccoli, cooked & drained 4 eggs, beaten 1 (10 3/4 oz.) can condensed cream of chicken soup 1/4 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing 1 tsp. Dijon mustard 1 (5 oz.) can chunk chicken, drained and flaked or 1 c. chopped cooked chicken or turkey 1 tablespoon instant minced onion or 1/4 cup chopped onion Paprika

Pastry for a 2 crust pie 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper 1/8 teaspoon thyme 1/2 cup chicken broth or cubes 1/2 cup light cream 2 cups cubed chicken or turkey 1 can of peas (or frozen) 1 can carrots drained (or fresh diced) 1 can of whole onions (frozen or cooked fresh)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unroll dough into 2 long rectangles.

Place in ungreased 13 x 9 inch pan, press over bottom and 1/2 inch up sides to form crust. Sprinkle with cheese over crust, arrange the broccoli over the cheese. In small bowl, combine eggs, soup, mayonnaise and mustard. Then stir in the chicken and onion. Pour over the broccoli and sprinkle with paprika. Bake for 26 to 31 minutes or until filling is set. Cut into squares to serve.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare pastry for a 9 inch pie.

Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Blend in the flour, salt, pepper, and thyme. Cook over low heat. Stir in until mixture is creamy and bubbly.

Remove from heat. Stir in chicken broth and cream. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in chicken and vegetables. Pour into a pastry pan lined with a crust. Cover with pastry or do lattice strips. Trim edges, seal and flute. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown.

Rules For The Kitchen!

1. Always ask an adult if you can use the kitchen.

2. Have all the ingredients before you start.

3. Wash your hands before you touch food.

4. Wear an apron or towel to keep your clothes clean.

5. Always clean up when you are finished.

Waldorf Chicken Salad 2 cups cooked boneless, skinless chicken breast, shredded or cubed 2 cups red and/or green apples, coarsely chopped 1/4 cup thinly sliced celery 1/3 cup dried tart cherries 1/3 cup coarsely chopped pecans or peanuts 1/3 cup mayonnaise dressing or salad dressing 1/3 cup dairy sour cream 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon honey Combine chicken, apples, celery, cherries, and nuts in medium bowl. For dressing, stir together the mayonnaise or salad dressing, sour cream, rosemary, lemon juice, and honey in a small bowl. Stir dressing into chicken mixture just until evenly coated. Refrigerate, covered, for up to 24 hours.

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