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Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper
Vol. 85 / No. 86
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Thursday, May 31, 2012
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Learning through puppetry Members of the Rotary Club of Tryon and other volunteers will be at Harmon Field this Saturday, June 2, to prepare meals for shipping to Stop Hunger Now, an organization that sends meals to Haiti Outreach Ministries to help feed Haitian children. Volunteers will put the ingredients into packages, seal the packages, put the packages in a box, load the boxes on pallets, wrap the pallets for shipping and load them on a truck. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Charles McKeller at 828-859-9347 or 828-817-9831, or talk to any Tryon Rotary member.
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, old Searcy Mill parking lot, Hwy. 108, Columbus. (Continued on page 2)
With help from a grant from the Polk County Community Foundation, Ms. Grochowski’s second grade class at Saluda Elementar y School uses puppets and cooperative lear ning groups as tools when learning literacy skills. The students work in teams to write scripts based on reading assignments and then perform them through impromptu puppet shows. Grochowski said the use of puppets makes learning fun and provides a practical application for developing communication skills. Pictured is Jade Scarborough, who says “I love using puppets because they’re funny and it’s like they’re coming to life!” (photo submitted by Ronette Dill)
Polk discusses trauma effects, recognizes May as mental health awareness month by Leah Justice
The Polk County Board of Commissioners proclaimed the month of May as mental health awareness month and urged residents to increase awareness and understanding of mental health throughout the county. (See page
4 for the complete proclamation.) This year’s mental health awareness theme is “Healing Trauma’s Invisible Wounds” in an effort to raise awareness of trauma and the impact that it has on mental, physical and emotional well-being and to inform
people that there are therapeutic techniques that can help create dramatic changes in people’s lives. The board of commissioners met May 21 and approved the
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
Welcome, Dr. Lonnie Lassiter and team! We’re proud to announce the opening of
Rutherford Wound Care & Hyperbarics
located at 112 Sparks Drive in Forest City * 828-351-6000
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