Tag: connections
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Teenage volunteer helps with mountain search and rescue
It’s 3 a.m. Rain pounds on the windows. Tamsen Bell’s pager beeps and she jumps out of bed. Someone is in trouble, and it’s up to Bell and the other members of the Marin Search and Rescue Team to help. The team, which is in Marin County, in northern California, has a motto: “Any time,…
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Re-style maps into souvenirs, home decor
Maps are beautiful: the typography, the pastel colors, the highways connecting cities and towns like a detailed dot-to-dot. So why relegate them to the glove compartment, when they can be used as home decor?Plus, crafting with maps is a great way to save money on vacation souvenirs, allowing you to create your own personalized mementos.Don’t…
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Short science lesson explains the purple in vegetables
It sure would be hard to explain to any young child why cooking would turn purple beans, such as the variety Royal Burgundy, from purple to green. Which cooking does.You can’t respond by just saying, “Anthocyanins, my dear.” You may have to wait a few years before offering a thorough answer.A natural group of chemicals,…
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Local boy sets sights on prize in school fundraiser
Mathew Michael Stanwood wants a camera, and his school’s library wants money. The two could be mutually beneficial. Venetucci Elementary is holding a library fundraiser through Tuesday to raise money for books, technology and its Accelerated Reader program. Students including Mathew, 7, who has cerebral palsy and recently expressed an interest in photography, are raising…
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School style requires a meeting of the minds
Kids clothes have grown up because they demanded it. The youngest are still more prone to embrace bolder colors and layering extremes, but most of them don’t want to look much different than the fashionable adults and superstar teenagers they idolize. Blame it on the media, but it’s just so much easier to formulate a…
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Kids fire up cooking skills at camp
When Meredith Coiner lost her job as a food service administrator for a school, she didn’t fiddle around long before she launched The New and Seasoned Cook business.“I had to find some way to support myself and sons,” she said. “So I started my cooking school in March.”She started by offering adult cooking classes, but…
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Kids will eat what they sow, thanks to Reader’s Digest award
There’s only one explanation for the excitement at the Salvation Army’s summer day camp: The kids will soon be up to their elbows in dirt. With a big plea from the camp’s 30 young students, the organization was chosen as one of five nonprofits in the nation to win an “edible good food garden” in…
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Local 9-year-old wins national model rocket contest
The one thing Taylor Goodwin didn’t like about her model rocket was its loud blastoff. But when she learned she had won the Reach for the Stars Rocket Contest, a nationwide model rocket competition, the noise was nearly as deafening. “I’m not sure I could still hear out of that ear the way she was…
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Monument girl wins $1,000; 5 other area volunteers score prizes
Kohl’s Department Stores in June recognized six area kids for their volunteer efforts. And last week, Kohl’s picked one of them to win a $1,000 scholarship. For making a difference in the community, Kohl’s rewarded Tyler Black, 8, Simon Blevins, 11, Alexandra Brown, 10, and Paul Browning, 16 — all of Colorado Springs — as…
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Simple things can get kids to dig gardening
These are boom times for home gardening, but as many parents know, it still isn’t easy to get kids interested and involved. One way, experts say, is to teach children how to cook what they help harvest from the family garden. Gardening packs an educational punch: It can teach nutrition, biology, mathematics (sizing up rows…