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Sep 26

Fire Safety Week is October 8-14

Fire Prevention Week is on record as the longest running public health observance, according to the National Archives and Records Administration’s Library Information Center. President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week on October 4-10, 1925, beginning a tradition of the President of the United States signing a proclamation recognizing the occasion. It […]

Sep 25

Free Showing of “Paper Tigers” on October 11

A free showing of “Paper Tigers” is open to the public on Wednesday, October 11, at 6:30 PM, at the Princess Theater, 101 W. Monroe Street, in Mt. Ayr, Iowa.  “Paper Tigers” is an intimate look into the lives of selected students at Lincoln High School, an alternative school that specializes in educating traumatized youth.  […]

Aug 28

How to Handle a Toddler Tantrum

Toddler Tantrums are like earthquakes. They can be short, localized and relatively painless, or they can be long, far-reaching and destructive. Toddler tantrums have no regard for the time of day or for your current location — they strike without warning and, often, without mercy. Nothing about a toddler tantrum is convenient and when you […]

Aug 28

The Magic of Reading Aloud to Babies

Reading to babies as young as six months of age leads to stronger vocabularies and better early literacy skills four years later, just as the children are getting ready to go to school. How often and how vividly kids and adults engage in books together through the toddler years also mattered, predicting early reading and writing […]