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August Family Fun

Jump Rope Games

Catch a Wave!

Annual August Surf Events in Wrightsville Beach, NC

Moon Watching & Perseid Meteor Showers

How to Grow a Watermelon

Cool Off With Watermelon Berry Popsicles

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Welcome August August in the North Carolina Triangle is a great time for a weekend trip to the beach! Catch a wave and watch some of the annual surfing competitions in Wrightsville Beach (read all about it on pages 6 and 7).

Visit www.chillkids.com for more ideas for fun family outings year-round.

If you’re a fan of meteor showers, August is going to be an exciting month!

Meteor showers sometimes are referred to as "shooting stars," (although they are meteors, not stars, shooting across the night sky). The Perseid meteor shower is among the best of the year. This year watch for the Perseid meteor shower beginning August 9th through August 11th, peaking the night of August 12 - 13th in the early morning.

Gaze at the full Moon on August 15th, and compare the Moon Map on page 13 to identify the features of the Moon. See if you can find the place where the U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moon 50 years ago!

August 3rd is National Watermelon Day - cool off with a watermelon berry popsicle (recipe on page 11) and check out the Guinness World Record-winning watermelon (weighing in at over 350 pounds!)

August 11 is National 811 Day, a national reminder for everyone to call 811 before you dig in the ground anywhere. Learn all about it (with fun puzzles and games) on page 14.

Have a happy August!

Hidden Picture Puzzles

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Check out the Annual Surf Contests in Wrightsville Beach August 2019!

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SUMMER READING Summer by Alice Low and Roy McKie This classic easy reader book eedited by Dr. Seuss is a visual ffeast of summer fun, with ccharming, simple, and vividly ccolorful illustrations on every p page that bring to life the joy of cchildhood summers.

Swinging, riding bikes, w watering the garden, running aafter butterflies, standing u under a waterfall's shower, ggazing at the twinkling fireflies, ssummer Ferris wheels, huge watermelon slices, toasting w marshmallows over a campfire, m ffireworks, trips to the beach, making sandcastles: Summer's rhymes and illustrations capture the fun of an idyllic summer for beginning readers (ages 6 - 8 years).

Visit www.chillkids.com for more summer reading book selections for kids of all ages, and for fun local family activities year-round in the North Carolina Triangle.

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1. Traveled on a plane 3. It's the salty water that runs down a runner's forehead 8. What comes out of a balloon when it pops 9. When a sprinter bends (other than his knees) when he runs a race 10. What blenders do to whip up a smoothie 13. Finally!: It's all a runner wants to do once the marathon is over 15. As his name tells you, in just minutes, an anteater can use its long tongue to gobble up every _____ in a colony 17. A ______ driver can speed around a track at up to 200 mph (Hint: It's spelled the same way forward and backward) 19. To close both eyes for just an instant 20. Fast and graceful: Springing and leaping with giant strides,

this antelope seems to almost fly through the tall grasses of Africa 22. A frilly skirt that rises and spins whenever a ballerina 5Ds 23. A rocket leaves a fiery trail in the sky as it speeds into outer ______ 24. It's what most kids will say right away if you ask, "Do you want to go to the amusement park today?"

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Surfing Competitions & Events in Wrightsville Beach, NC Catch the Surfing Fun in August 2019!

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC – Three headline surf events return to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in a span of ten days in August.

First, on Aug. 16-18th, one of the largest surf contests on the East Coast returns for its 14th year: the annual O’Neill/Sweetwater Pro-Am Surf Fest.

The Surf Fest attracts 200 professional and amateur surfers from Florida to Rhode Island, with some of the pros flying in from California, Barbados, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Hawaii.

“You have so many good athletes that show up, and a different set of circumstances every year as far as waves and the conditions,” said Brad Beach, Event Manager. “I don’t think we’ve had a repeat pro champion in our 13 years.”

O’Neill/Sweetwater also presents Saturday’s Music and Art Fest in the park, combining local musicians, arts, crafts, and family activities.

Next up on Aug. 19th is Surfers Healing, an organization dedicated to enriching the lives of those with autism by exposing them to the experience of surfing. Surfers Healing is celebrating twenty-two years of providing camps at no cost to children in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and the United States.

2018 O'Neill-Sweetwater Pro-Am Surf Fest Photo Courtesy of Brad Styron

Izzy Paskowitz, a professional surfer and father of Isaiah, a child with autism, is the founder of Surfers Healing. When Isaiah was five, Izzy discovered the power of surf therapy for his child, inspiring him to start a camp for children with autism.

“I wanted to do something to give back,” said Paskowitz, in an interview on Boston public radio, WBUR. “I am so grateful for the gift that he’s [Isaiah] given me. I have the most unique life, and I get to share that with thousands of people. I love my autism family.”

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Above: 2018 O'Neill-Sweetwater Pro-Am Surf Fest Courtesy of Brad Styron

Above and right: Surfers Healing, Wrightsville Beach, NC Photos Courtesy of D.J. Struntz

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Wrightsville Beach August Surf Contests & Events (cont. from page 6 ) Wrapping up the trio of surf events on August 23-25th is the 7th annual Wrightsville Beach Wahine Classic, open to lady surfers of all ages.

Competitors include teenie-wahines, amateurs, and professionals.

“There are only a handful of surf competitions on the East Coast for ladies,” said Jo Pickett, Event Organizer. “The Wahine Classic at Wrightsville Beach is recognized as one of the major events. The Classic offers a fun weekend at the beach for the family, and the athletes enjoy the surfing competition and building camaraderie.”

Pickett expects 90 to 100 surfers, with most coming from North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.

“Young girls are competing in increasing numbers,” said Pickett.

“Surfing is now in the 2020 Olympics in Japan, with each country represented by female and male surfers.”

"The idea is to bring all girls to the playing field," Pickett says. "The developing surfers learn from the most accomplished."

Surfer kids at the O'Neill-Sweetwater Pro-Am Surf Fest – Photo Courtesy of Brad Styron

The Wahini Classic founders note that an aall-female contest like this is a real platform tto dive into surfing. There is a competitive eedge to it, but it's a fun community event.

A crowd favorite is the teeny wahine division. "My daughter Airlie calls the teeny wahines 'the dads and daughters' because ... you see the dads as happy as the girls bonding and assisting so their little girls can ride waves," Pickett says.

Pickett's philosophy of instruction is rooted in mentoring. For decades she has mentored many female surfers including two daughters, Airlie Pickett and Lelaini Pickett.

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Catch the 7th Annual Wrightsville Beach Wahine Classic August 23rd - 25th!

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SUMMER SNACK

Watermelon Berry Popsicles

These Watermelon Berry Popsicles are a treat and very easy to make. Just add some raspberries, blueberries, honey, watermelon to your favorite popsicle molds and put them in the freezer. Makes 12 servings.

Ingredients 5-6 cups seedless watermelon 1 cup blueberries 1 cup raspberries Optional: 3 tablespoons honey

Instructions Add watermelon, ½ cup of blueberries, ½ cup of raspberries, and (optional) honey to a blender. Blend until smooth.

Note: If you aren't using a high-speed blender that completely blends the raspberry seeds to a smooth liquid, you may want to press through a fine mesh strainer to remove pulp and seeds.

Fill popsicle molds ž full with liquid. Add whole blueberries and raspberries to each mold. Insert sticks and freeze for at least 4 hours or until completely frozen. Enjoy!

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Jump Roping

Games for exercise and fun!

Have you ever watched the Bouncing Bulldogs in action? Based in Chapel Hill-Durham, NC, the Bouncing Bulldogs have performed around the U.S. and in countries around the world.

The Bouncing Bulldogs' innovative jumping style includes fancy footwork, flips, and other acrobatic skills with ropes of various lengths.

The team has won more than 200 national championship awards in both single and double dutch events, and has 18 world champions.

Learn more about the Bouncing Bulldogs at www. bouncingbulldogs.org.

It's a lot of fun to watch the amazing jump ropers leap through the air! The Bouncing Bulldogs inspire us to grab a jump rope and just start jumping for fun and exercise. You can also have fun jump roping with your friends or your family playing jump roping games.

Here are some jump roping game ideas you can try at home or on the playground.

Freeze Jump Rope A great way to jump and have fun with friends is to play a game called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freeze Jump Rope.â&#x20AC;? For this game, you need some friends, upbeat music and jump ropes. To begin, have everyone who is playing spread out with their jump ropes so they have enough space to jump. One person in the game will need to be the person controlling the music. When everyone is ready, the music controller will play the music and everyone will start to jump. The jumpers can do any tricks or steps as they would like, as long as they keep jumping with their rope. When the music controller is ready, they will stop the music and immediately, the jumpers must freeze. The music controller must watch carefully to see who is the last to freeze.

When the music controller picks the last person who froze, that person will now help the music controller with their job. Continue this until there is only one person left and they will be declared the winner! Have fun!

JUMP! This fun jump rope game is similar to the popular basketball game HORSE. JUMP is a fun way to work on different skills and can be played with any number of people. One person starts out and does any skill they want, such as, turning in a circle, squatting down, jumping on one foot, side swings, or any other jump roping skills that person may know. Every other person playing the game attempts to do the skill that the first person did, and whoever does not complete the skill receives a J. The next person in the group does a different skill, and once again everybody attempts to do it, and again whoever does not complete the skill receives a J, if a person already had a J then they continue spelling out JUMP. The players continue going through the group doing different tricks, and spelling out JUMP. The last person to not have JUMP is the winner!

Remember to have fun and try to learn new skills from your friends!

Pirate Ship ARRRGGG MATEY, jump into the fun and play Pirate ship with all your friends! It's important to be active, and that is easier to do when you are playing fun games. Pirate ship is a simple jump rope game consisting of few rules. The first thing you need is a really long rope, so all players can fit comfortably inside. Pick two people to become the turners. Each turner will stand on one side of the long rope while the rest of the players line up alongside the rope. Turners will call, "ready, set, go!" and the players will begin jumping up and down at the same time. They will continue to jump until the rope catches someone's foot. When this happens, the player who missed will "jump ship" by exiting the long rope and call out some kind of pirate lingo. For example, "arrrg" or "ahoy." The game will continue until there is only one pirate left, that player becomes the captain.

Feel free to add obstacles for the players by asking them to do tricks while in the rope, jumping on one foot, spinning in a circle, touching the ground, to make it more interesting.

Photos this page courtesy of Bouncing Bulldogs.

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A Skywatcher's Guide to the Moon This summer marks 50 years since U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts "Buzz" Aldrin, Neill Armstrong and Michael Collins made their daring journey to the moon. Use this Moon Map to identify features on the Moon. Learn what the light and dark areas are, and what created the craters.

Compare the Moon Map below as you look at the full Moon this month (August 15th).

Find out where the Apollo 11 astronauts landed (near the edge of the Moon's "Sea of Tranquility"), where the other Apollo missions (12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) landed, and discover what actually fills the moon's famous "seas."

Also watch for the Perseid meteor showers in the night sky beginning around August 9th, peaking on August 11th, 12th and 13th!

The light from the full Moon may make the Perseids harder to see, so plan to watch for the Perseid meteors early this year, the weekend of August 9 to August 11th.

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Photos: James Scala. Layout and text for Moon map: Robert Roy Britt/SPACE.com.

0HOTOS *AMES 3CALA ,AYOUT AND TEXT FOR -OON MAP USED WITH PERMISSION 2OBERT 2OY "RITT 30!#% COM .!3! .IGHT 3KY .ETWORK NIGHTSKY JPL NASA GOV ADMINISTERED BY !STRONOMICAL 3OCIETY OF THE 0ACIlC WWW ASTROSOCIETY ORG

Naming Lunar Landmarks During their original explorations of the Moon, U.S. Astronauts gave informal names to lunar landmarks as navigational aids while they

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maneuvered the first human explorations of the lunar frontier. Visual navigation was a critical check for the Apollo astronauts as they descended upon the lunar surface, and these landmarks

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played a key role in the success of their missions.

Source: http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/educators/history To learn more about the Moon visit https:// solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/earths-moon/overview/

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Ahoy, Matey! Call 811 Before You Dig!

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August 11 is National 811 Day

August 11 is National 811 Day, and it's a great time to remind everyone that they must call 811 before digging in the ground.

A pirate might safely dig for buried treasure on an island surrounded by the ocean, where there are not any underground utility lines, like gas/oil, water, telecommunications/cable/alarm lines, electric power lines, sewer and drain lines.

But unlike a pirate digging for treasure on an island at sea, anyone who wants to dig in the ground in the U.S. must first pick up the phone and call 811 (the same number works in all of the United States) to make sure that their digging or excavation project will not hit any utility lines.

To stay safe and to make sure you don't damage any utility lines, before digging in the ground first take these steps:

CALL 811before digging WAIT the required amount of time (three business days in North Carolina) so that the locators can come out and mark the locations of the underground utilities.

Watch the NC 811 Pirate Video online! www.nc811.org/kids.html

RESPECT the marks, and

DIG with care North Carolina 811 (NC811.org) has videos on its website to teach children (and grown-ups) about NC811, and the importance of calling 811 before digging.

Parents can find these short, fun educational videos for kids including a fun Pirate Video (images shown on this page) at http://www.nc811. org/kids.html.

811 DOUBLE PUZZLE Unscramble each of the *clue words.

(*Hint: The clue words can be found in the paragraphs above.)

Copy the letters in the numbered boxes to the boxes with the same number.

REPTAI

9 5

3

TUAERRES

1

REUGODRUDNN

10

TTSIUIELI C

1 2 2

4 7

2 B

3

F

4 5 6

8

6 Y

4 7

8 9 10

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Solution on page 2.

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Call 811 Before You Dig Stay Safe & Protect Underground Utilities from Damage Since 1978, North Carolina 811 provides North Carolina residents a fast and easy communications link with their local utility providers. Call 811 to give NC 811 information about the place where you plan to dig/excavate (for example, before digging to plant a tree, install a mail box, install a fence, or any project that requires digging.) NC 811 transmits the information to the utilities and then they send out locators to mark the underground lines for FREE. So remember, call 811 or 1-800-632-4949 three working days before you plan to dig.

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AUGUST 2019 Flick Picks Dora and the Lost City of Gold

The Angry Birds Movie 2 In Theaters: August 16, 2019

In Theaters: August 9, 2019

The Angry Birds are back! Based on the wildly popular video game, in which multicolored birds try to save their eggs from green-colored pigs, the film series brings the comical style characters to life. Red, Chuck, Bomb, and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put aside their differences and unite to fight a common threat.

Aggressive birds from an island covered in ice are planning to use an elaborate weapon to destroy the fowl and swine way of life.

After picking their best and brightest, the birds and pigs come up with a scheme to infiltrate the island, deactivate the device, and return to their respective paradises intact.

Rated PG. 1 hr. 39 min. Rovio Animation, Columbia Pictures, Sony

Pictures Animation.

Dora the Explorer comes to life with actors and live action! Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a live action adaptation and continuation of Nickelodeon's (cartoon) television series, "Dora the Explorer," starring Isabela Moner as Dora.

Dora has spent most of her young life exploring the jungle, but nothing could prepare her for her most dangerous adventure yet: high school!

Accompanied by a ragtag group of teens and Boots the monkey, Dora embarks on a quest to save her parents while trying to solve the seemingly impossible mystery behind a lost Incan civilization.

Rated PG, 1 hour, 40 min., Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Walden Media, and Nickelodeon Movies.

2019 Free Summer Kids Movie Series at Northgate Stadium 10 Theater Kids Stay Cool and Enjoy FREE Movies June 11 - August 15, 2019 Northgate Stadium 10 Theater presents a Free Summer Northgate Stadium 10 Theater Kids' Movie Series, with films screening three days a 2019 Free Summer Kids’ Movie Series week—Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays—at 9:30 a.m.

Schedule beginning Tuesday, June11 and concluding Thursday, Kids Summer Series Movies start at 9:30 a.m., August 15. $5 Kids Summer Fun Snack Packs available. every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

Northgate Stadium 10 Theater is located at 1058 West Club Boulevard, Durham.

For more information call (919) 286-1001 or visit www.stadium10northgatemall.com.

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Week 1 June 11, 12, 13 - Storks - PG Week 2 June 18, 19, 20 - Dr. Seuss' The Grinch - PG Week 3 June 25, 26, 27 - Trolls - PG Week 4 July 2, 3, 4 - Wonder Park - PG Week 5 July 9, 10, 11 - Minions - PG Week 6 July 16, 17, 18 - Secret Life of Pets - PG Week 7 July 23, 24, 25 - Lego Movie 2 - PG Week 8 July 30, 31, Aug 1 - How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World - PG Week 9 Aug 6, 7, 8 - Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation - PG Week 10 Aug 13, 14, 15 - Despicable Me 3 - PG

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