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Dear Kids, July is here, and I’m looking forward to watching the fireworks on Independence Day! The birthday of our country is a special holiday, and my family always celebrates with some homemade ice cream. You’ll find a great recipe in Kidsville Kitchen.

You also might notice another theme in this issue. Our Come Out and Play article explores rodeo, we have an interview with a rancher for What’s It Like To Be and our Wildville animal is the Gila monster. What’s the connection? Well, I just visited the Sonora Desert in Arizona, and July 24 is the National Day of the Cowboy!

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Happy Birthday, America!

All of us have a birthday. It’s a time to celebrate the day that we were born and the joy over our existence. Our nation has a birthday, too! Our nation’s birthday is coming up on July 4! Happy Birthday, America!

Do you know how our country, the United States of America, was born? The birthday of the United States of America is known as Independence Day, or the Fourth of July. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. This meant that the colonies were separating from Great Britain and becoming an independent country.

So what led to the birth of our nation? In 1750, there were 13 small colonies in America. Each colony was separate, but they were all ruled by the king of England. The colonies had to send money to England to pay taxes. All of the laws and rules were also made in Great Britain, and there was no representation or input from the people of the American colonies. The people of the colonies began to believe that they should be independent and not ruled by a king who lived across the ocean. They wanted to be free to choose the kind of government they wanted. The king refused to give up the American colonies and sent ships filled with soldiers to America.

The colonies realized that in order to fight the king and his army, they would need to unite. Each colony chose men to go to Philadelphia and meet. This was called the “First Continental Congress.” They drafted a letter to the king and asked him to change unfair laws and to send his soldiers back to England. Instead, the king sent more soldiers to America, and the Revolutionary War began.

The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson in June of 1776. In the Declaration, Jefferson expressed the feelings of the American people. It explained the ideals of individual liberty through “self-evident truths,” proclaiming that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The document also explained that governments are created to help ensure these rights.

When a government abuses the people and denies their rights, it is the duty of the people to remove or change that form of government. The Declaration listed grievances against the King and how the government of

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Great Britain was infringing on the rights of the people, and justified the separation of the colonies from Great Britain.

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted. The ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia signaled that a new nation had been born. It was five more years before the British surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. The United States of America was finally a free nation!

All Americans are encouraged to read the Declaration of Independence, to understand better the rights that our forefathers fought for so that we can live the lives that we do today. Have you read it?

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Million people living in the 13 original colonies back in 1776. (Historial Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970) Number of places in America with “liberty” in their names. (Examples are Liberty, Missouri, Liberty, North Carolina and North Liberty, Iowa.)

Number — in millions — of hot dogs estimated to be eaten at July 4th celebrations.

Million dollars are spent importing American flags, as of last count in 2004. Most of the flags are made in China. percent of America’s potatoes are grown in either Idaho or Washington. Potatoes are common foods at July 4th celebrations, usually in the form of potato salad or potato chips!

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It’s time to get out your globe! You need to know about the imaginary lines on globes and maps. These lines are called lines of latitude and longitude, and they tell a pilot or ship’s captain exactly where in the world a certain place is located. Basically, latitude lines (also called parallels) are the horizontal lines on your map. Lines of longitude (also called meridians) are the vertical lines that run from the North Pole to the South Pole. This mapping system is written in degrees and uses the symbol °. Get ready to travel the world!

Get out your globe, find longitude 30° E, latitude 27º N, and you will find the country of Egypt. Egypt’s official name is Arab Republic of Egypt, and it is located in northern Africa. Egypt is near the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and the Gaza Strip and the Red Sea, north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula.

In terms of size, Egypt is slightly bigger than three times the size of the U.S. state of New Mexico and has hot, desert-like weather, with dry summers and mild winters. Egypt's terrain is an immense desert plateau interrupted by the Nile valley and delta. Its population is 80,471,869 people.

Egypt arose as a unified kingdom around 3200 B.C. From there, dynasties, or empires, took control and ruled Egypt for the next three thousand years. Persians conquered the last dynasty in 341 B.C. and were replaced by Greeks, Romans and Byzantines. In the seventh century, Arabs introduced Islam and the Arabic language to Egypt and ruled for the following six centuries. The Mamluks, a local military group, took over around 1250 and continued their rule after the Ottoman Turks won favor in 1517. Through the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, Egypt Where in the World developed into an important transportation point for the world, but fell heavily into debt. Britain gained control of Egypt’s vulnerable government Word in 1882, and allegiance to the Ottoman Empire continued until 1914. delta [del-tuh], a flat Egypt finally gained full sovereignty through the overthrow of the Britishplain of sandy soil debacked monarchy in 1952 and remains independent today. posit between branches Sources: CIA The World Factbook “Egypt”; Map of Egypt. http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/africa/egypt/ of the mouth of a river map.htm. Article written by contributing writer Ashley Young.

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Back Away from the Black Hole!

If you ever go exploring a black hole, keep your distance.

If you get too close, the black hole will fi first rst stretch you out like a piece of spaghetti, and then it will suck you in. The most powerful rocket in the universe will not help you escape. Not even light escapes the immense pull of a black hole’s gravity.

But don’t worry. Humans won’t be going near a black hole any time soon. There are other, safer ways to study them.

Black holes are among the most mysterious things in space.

A black hole isn’t actually a hole. It’s an object. A black hole has a huge amount of matter in a very tiny package. A “small” black hole may contain as much matter — or mass — as several Suns. A supermassive black hole is another matter — a lot of other matter! It can contain as much This is an artist’s idea of a black hole. The mass as 100 hole is pulling in the surrounding gas, which million or more rotates faster and faster and emits x-rays as it Suns!

A black hole approaches the hole. Then the gas disappears may form when into the hole, adding to its mass. a star dies. When some stars run out of fuel for their nuclear fi fires, res, they blow off their outer layers in a supernova explosion. Then they collapse under their own weight — or gravity — into a small, but super-dense object.

That’s a black hole. Our Sun is too small to form a black hole.

Bigger, supermassive black holes do not form this way, but scientists aren’t sure just how they form. They believe there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and maybe most other galaxies, too.

Scientists would like a way to study black holes without having to visit them and risk being spaghetti-fi spaghetti-fied. ed. That’s why they built LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Black holes in motion make waves in space itself. They are called gravitational waves. LIGO will study black holes by studying their gravitational waves.

If you could hear gravitational waves from black holes, what would they sound like? Find out, and see videos to help you learn about gravitational waves and LIGO at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/ ligo. You can practice “listening” for black holes at http://www. blackholehunter.org.

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The National Science Foundation funds LIGO. Caltech and MIT run it together. The University of Mississippi is an education partner and helped bring LIGO to The Space Place.

This article was written by Diane K. Fisher and provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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What’s it like to be...

A DUDE RANCHER?

I recently had the opportunity to visit Tucson, Arizona, home of the saguaro cactus and beautiful mountains. While I was there, I met a real live dude rancher. Russell True and his brother Michael own White Stallion Ranch, which was started by their parents. Three generations of the True family work hard on the ranch to give their guests the real feeling of the Old West.

White Stallion Ranch is on 3,000 acres of wide-open land at the foot of the rugged Tucson Mountains, adjacent to the Saguaro National Park. Here, ranch hospitality is blended perfectly with the comforts of a top resort, on a real working cattle ranch. see us.” Two years later she did. It was TRUMAN: What does it take to become a dude rancher?

RUSSELL: I think to do it well it takes a wide range of experience. Some people, like my parents who bought a ranch, learned it the hard way — they got in, applied their work ethic, their good minds, and just fi gured it out. To really do this job well, you need to have horse experience, hospitality experience — both hotel and restaurant — and some business experience and training. You also have to be good with people on both sides of the fence, folks that work for you and guests. We have a wide variety of guests: different ages, with families, without familes, Europeans, Asians. You also have to be good at maintenance. The smaller your ranch is, the more diverse you must be because you can’t hire people to do everything.

TRUMAN: When and why did you first become interested in this profession?

RUSSELL: Really I was born into it. My parents bought the ranch when I was fi ve. When my family bought it there were 30 ranches in Tucson; today there are two. We chose it in the sense that we stayed — for me and my brother, it’s the only thing we’ve ever done. We went to college and came back here. We both studied business and fi nance, and the general business education is very helpful. But I wish I’d gone to hotel school.

Sometimes dude ranchers forget they are running a hotel, but you are — you have to have good rooms, good food. You’ve got to get the whole hospitality part done correctly. My son is at hotel school now, and the plan is that he’ll come back to the family business one day. TRUMAN: What do you do each day? What’s a typical day like?

RUSSELL: There is really essentially no typical day. I do all sorts of things. But a typical day is probably going to start with me heading to the kitchen to cook breakfast with the chef; then I go to the corrals and make sure everything is moving out there. I’ll hit my desk at some point and do paperwork and e-mails. My brother and I divide our responsibilites, so I do most of the marketing and go to meetings, and he is more of the behind-the-scenes guy. I’m also president of the Dude Ranchers Association, so I travel with that some. I take trail rides, manage the corral, and although our shoer [the person who puts horse shoes on the horse] is contracted, I had to shoe three horses the other day because it needed to be done. My day is pretty diverse, and that’s part of the fun for me.

TRUMAN: What is the hardest part of your job?

RUSSELL: I think that historically, the hardest part is dealing with the crew. But since the economy has taken its huge downturn, our crew is really, really good, and essentially there is no turnover. Managing the folks that work here is historically the hardest part, but today it’s more of contending with government coming at you from all different angles, dealing with regulations and such. We are very small, and government is very big, so that is always a challenge.

TRUMAN: What is the best part of your job?

RUSSELL: I love the diversity. Where else do you get to live in one of the prettiest places in the country and meet people from all over the world? Two weeks ago, we had people from six countries here. You meet these amazing people who come here for all kinds of reasons, some to learn to ride horses, some to get a suntan, some to meet other people. I have all this cool stuff around us and get this unique interaction with this group of pretty cool people.

TRUMAN: I understand that you get to meet some very special kids, too, through the Make a Wish Foundation (an organization that grants wishes to children with life threatening medical conditions).

RUSSELL: Yes, we’ve done a lot of them. I have kids, so if you are a parent, there is absolutely nothing worse than a sick kid — a gravely ill kid. It is heart wrenching, and some of these kids aren’t going to get a fair chance at life. But some of these kids have had pretty miraculous recoveries. One kid was so sick she couldn’t come here without her doctor coming with her, and we told her, “When you get better, you come back and

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a tremendous experience to see her recovery. It is just uplifting to see these sick kids who come through Make a Wish and other organizations. I have never seen one of them feel badly for themselves — they are just happy to be here and upbeat and excited to have the opportunity. They never feel sorry for themselves. It renews faith in humanity at its most innocent.

TRUMAN: What’s like to work with horses all the time?

RUSSELL: The average-size horse weighs 1000 pounds, and we have some that are 800 and some that are 2000 pounds. But most people don’t realize that this half-ton animal is pretty fragile.

It’s surprising: 1. They have some fl aws, like they can’t throw up, so if they get an intestinal disorder, it could kill them. And a broken leg or damaged leg could be the end for them. And 2. They are afraid of everything — even though they essentially have no natural predators, they are a prey animal, and a piece of Kleenex can spook them. They are very Above: Russell True. Left: Guests fearful and react to the other horses head out on a trail ride at White around them. Everything you do with Stallion Ranch. horses involves keeping them healthy and coping with them being fearful. The thing that is really cool, is that horses mirror people, so if you’re tense, they are tense; if you’re afraid, they’re afraid. Horses have been used for quite a while in a variety of ways to help people with handicaps, but now they are also being used to just help people discover their strengths and weaknesses. Horses are like people; they are each unique. Some are more fearful, some want to run fast and some want to walk slow. My older son plays polo and rides ropes, and he is a very calm, even person, and the horses absolutely love him and calm around him.

TRUMAN: You help other people have amazing vacations, but what’s your idea of a great vacation?

RUSSELL: I learned early on with my own family that our best vacation was visiting other dude ranches, somewhere different, where there are pine trees and you can go fishing. There is no stress about worrying where your kids are.

As an adult, I like to do everything. I’m a huge fan of Europe, so I can go to London twice a year. It’s so different from my regular life. I took my older son to Africa, my younger son to New Zealand and Australia. And, I love to see our own country.

TRUMAN: What advice would you give to kids who are interested in this profession?

RUSSELL: Get out and do it. As a young person, when you are old enough (16 18), go out and get a summer job at a dude ranch. I can guarantee you it will be one of the best jobs you will ever have, in one of the prettiest spots, and you’ll do things you never thought you could do, see nature at its best, meet people, and you’ll get a sense of whether this very specifi c, different type of life is for you. There’s a lot of skills involved, but none of them is rocket science, so go out and get a feel for whether or not this is something you would like to do. This is real — it’s not a Wii horse ride — this is the real thing.

TRUMAN: What an amazing career! Thanks for sharing with Kidsville News!

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Red, White & True Mysteries Former Football Player Becomes National Icon His name was Marion, and he was born in Winterset, Iowa, exactly one hundred years ago. I wasn’ t sure where that was, so I looked it up. Turns out that it is between Missouri and Minnesota. (As for Winterset, it is roughly 30 miles southwest of Des Moines.) His father, Clyde, was the son of a Civil War veteran. Clyde and Mary had one other son named Robert, and they were of Irish descent.

The family moved to Glendale, California, which is not too far from the Rio Grande, when he was 11 years old. His great-nephew, Tommy Morrison, is a professional boxer, who starred in one of the Rocky movies. I think it was Rocky 16, but I could be mistaken.

Marion’ s voice was as distinctive as Paul Harvey’ s, but he wasn’ t a radio star. No, Marion Morrison was an actor. In fact, his father ran a drugstore that was housed in the same building as a movie theatre, and young Marion was allowed to see several movies a week as a boy, for free. This no doubt instilled in him a love of movies. He became one of the most popular actors of all time, and there probably isn’ t a person in this country who hasn’ t heard of him. He made more than 175 movies in his 50-year career, which began in the 1920s with silent movies, and some of his movies are still being shown on TV, more than 30 years after he made his last movie in 1976. He won an athletic scholarship to play football at USC. I don’ t know what his team’ s record was when he played, but I do know that his team wasn’ t one of The Undefeated. An injury cut short his college football career. Marion was too scared to tell his coach how he injured himself — it was a bodysurfi ng accident — and he lost his scholarship and had to get a job in order to pay for school. While he was in school in the late 1920s, he worked at a few of the local fi lm studios. He then went to work as a prop man, earning $75 per week. In 1930, he got his first starring role in a western movie, The Big Trail. He went on to become nearly

synonymous with western movies, and he still went by the name of Marion at that point. This fi rst film was a box offi ce failure, but something good came out of it. The director and the studio head gave him his stage name that is now known all over the world — and Marion wasn’ t even at the meeting when they gave him his new name! Marion’ s movies required him to ride occasionally in a Stagecoach since he stood about 6’ 4” and loved riding horses, you could say that he always stood Tall in the Saddle.

Speaking of horses, his friend James Arness also rode one in the TV show, Gunsmoke. It was Marion Morrison who recommended James Arness for the role of Matt Dillon. Marion became such a star that he even had an airport named after him (in Orange County, California), as well as an elementary school (in Brooklyn, New York) and a trail (in a state park in Washington). Marion was married three times, all to Hispanic women. He was divorced three times, too.

He had four daughters and three sons, and these seven kids produced 18 grandchildren. There are many things for which Marion Morrison is known, but you know him by both his nickname and his stage name: The Duke, John Wayne. He starred with legendary actresses such as Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn and Maureen O’ Hara. It was O’ Hara who once said, “ No other description for John Wayne is necessary than this: American.” There’ s one other thing that you should know about the Duke: His drawl and the way he walked were not natural.

The man born as Marion Morrison made them a part of his character when he became an actor. And how did he get the nickname of Duke? That was the name of the dog he had as a child. The dog was known as “ Big Duke” while Wayne was known as “ Little Duke!” is for all the italicized words in this story, those were the titles ofsome of his most popular movies. © 2010 Paul Niemann. This story is part of the Red, White & TrueMysteries series by author Paul Niemann. For more information, please visit www.InventionMysteries.com.

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The Bookmobile a bus load of fun that comes to you!

Where can you get a combination of 20 books, DVD’s, CD’s, magazines and audio books to enjoy FREE for up to 60 days? Why it’s all at the Bookmobile of course!

What is the bookmobile? I’m glad you asked.

The bookmobile looks like a big bus it has great pictures of the Adirondack high peaks on the outside, but on the inside it’s a library on wheels. It stops in towns that don’t have there own libraries and in towns that do have libraries the bookmobile might have stops in other neighborhoods. The schedule of stops is once a month. You can see the schedule at http://www.cefls.org/bookmobile.htm, click on bookmobile to know when and where the bookmobile will be near you.

Because the bookmobile is a service of the Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Library System they can get just about any book you are looking for through an interlibrary loan. You can go online at www.cefls.org, select the “Find Books” tab and arrange to have your selections brought to you when the bookmobile comes to your stop.

When you visit the bookmobile here are some of the things I learned when I stopped by to visit last week.

You are going to meet two of the nicest people, Mr. Bob and Ms. Debbie, He drives the bookmobile and she is the “onboard” Librarian. Either of them can help you find what you are looking for.

Even if you have a library card for your local library you will need to have a bookmobile card. You just fill out the card and if you are under 12 years old your Parent or Guardian will need to sign too.

Like I mentioned before you can check out up to 20 items!! That should keep us kids from complaining about being bored this summer.

Kid’s books are in the back up the stairs, there is everything from picture books to great fiction and non-fiction stories about any topic that you might be interested in.

I had such a fun visit at the bookmobile, when you stop in remember to pick up your bookmark from Kidsville News! It has a double purpose, first it is a great bookmark, second, write the titles of 4 books you read this summer on the back, send it me and I’ll send you a green Kidsville News bracelet with my picture on it FREE. How cool is that? Free books to read to get a free bracelet!

Mom and Dad will love that!

Even if you don’t get to visit the bookmobile you can still get a bookmark at any library in Clinton, Essex, Franklin or Warren County. I printed their names and addresses in this issue of Kidsville News! on page 12 So, until I get your bookmarks, Have a great summer and read, read, read, read!!!!!

Your friend,

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Alexander died on November 11, 1976, in New York. He was 78.

In 1923, Alexander moved to New York City and took classes at the Art Students League. He also worked as an artist for the National Police Gazette Written by Tamar Burris, a former elementary school teacher who now works as a magazine. In 1925, he spent two weeks with the circus, where he drew pictures freelance writer and curriculum developer for PBS, the Discovery Channel and other eduof circus scenes for the magazine. This experience left a huge impression on him cation-related companies. Sources: Calder Foundation: Calder’s Life, http://calder.org/ and greatly influenced his art. In 1926, he left school and New York behind and life/page/biography.html; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation: Artist Biography moved to Paris, France. There he created Cirque Calder, a one-of-a-kind art exhibit Alexander Calder, http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_26.html.

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LAUREN WRIGHT Age 11 Oliver Whinch Middle School

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That uncertainty makes it all the more important that today’s young families gain control of their finances, a task that many families find is easier said than done. While managing finances can seem intimidating, that doesn’t have to be the case. Young families can gain greater control of their finances with a few easy means to managing money.

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Rocky Mountain National Park: Peril on Longs Peak Author/Illustrator: Mike Graf, Marjorie Leggitt (illustrator) Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing Age Range: 8 to12 From the Publisher: In the seventh book in the Adventures with the Parkers series, the family heads to Colorado to visit the high peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park. When the snow clears, the park’s many famous sites are on display: Trail Ridge Road, spectacular wildflowers, elk, waterfalls and unique alpine tundra. The family’s big adventure? A hike up Longs Peak, a Colorado “fourteener.” But afternoon storms pelt the family during their training hikes, and they begin to question the wisdom of a nighttime summit ascent. Mike Graf, a national park fanatic, is an instructor at Chico State University and a local weatherman.

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Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (In Theaters: July 30) Kitty Galore (voiced by Bette Midler) is a hairless super-spy Sphinx cat with plans to enslave all mankind after going rogue from her secret cat spy organization, called MEOWS. With the help of a smarmy cat named Mr. Tinkles (voiced by Sean Hayes) and a group of mice helpers, Kitty is on a dangerous roll. It’s only if cats and dogs, and a certain pigeon named Seamus (Katt Williams), can work together to stop the evil Kitty that the world of humans and animals stands a chance. Diggs (James Marsden) and Butch (Nick Nolte) are the two dogs paw-picked by the secret Dogs HQ spy team to lead the mission. This 3-D live-action adventure comedy also features the voices of Roger Moore and Neil Patrick Harris in a space-age animal comedy where dogs fly with the help of fancy gadgets that make James Bond look unprepared. Rated PG for animal action and humor. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

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Despicable Me (In Theaters: July 9) Good and bad flip-flop in this 3-D computer-generated animated kids’ movie about an evil inventor named Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) who plans on stealing the moon from the sky. However, an evil upstart villain who calls himself Vector (voiced by Jason Segel) threatens to beat Gru to the punch. To get inside his arch enemy’s hideout, Gru adopts three little orphaned girls named Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) to help him. Gru already has an army of little yellow creatures who build his collection of devices that include things like a “freeze-ray.” Could it be that Gru has a bigger heart for raising three little girls than disrupting the world’s peace?

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Quick! Can you name the official state sport of Wyoming and Texas? It’s rodeo! Rodeo is a popular professional sport involving horses and other livestock and consisting of events like roping, bronc riding, steer wrestling, barrel racing and bull riding.

The word rodeo comes from the Spanish word, rodeo, which is often translated in English as “round up” and was first used around 1834. Rodeo events originated from tasks of the Spanish vaqueros or cowboys in cattle ranching, such as moving cows to different pastures or to market. In the 1820s and ‘30s, informal “rodeos” in the western U.S. and Mexico allowed cowboys and vaqueros to test their work skills against each other.

The first rodeo competition occurred in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after the Civil War, and the first professional rodeo to charge admission and award trophies was held in Prescott, Arizona, in 1888. Between 1890 and 1910, rodeos sometimes featured Wild West Shows with stars like Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley. Rodeos became popular across the U.S. and even took place in Madison Square Gardens in New York City. And rodeos were not just for men! “Prairie Rose” Henderson first competed in 1901, and today, women’s barrel racing is a competitive

event in professional rodeos.

Rodeos include timed and rough stock events. Roping, which involves throwing a rope with a loop, called a lariat or lasso, over a calf’s head or cow’s horns or legs; barrel racing, where a rider races around barrels on a horse without knocking them over and steer wrestling or “bulldogging,” where a cowboy jumps off his running horse and wrestles a steer by the horns to the ground, are all timed events. Bronc riding and bull riding are rough stock events.

As you might imagine, rodeos involve many rules for the many different events, and several professional associations exist. The oldest, formed in 1929, is the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PCRA). Others include the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) and the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA), as well as organizations for youth, high school and college competitions. Rodeo arenas must be at least 100 feet by 175 feet, and all events require medical professionals present for both people and animals. And if you want to “rodeo,” don’t forget your Western hat and boots! They, too, are required.

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Your children have been hearing about the oil spill in the Gulf on the TV news and in the newspaper. But how do you answer their questions and help make sense of everything that you are hearing? Oil spills have profound and immediate effects on the environment. Plus, the damage slicks cause can be long-lasting.

In April 2010, an oil leak occurred from an underwater BP drilling well in the Gulf of Mexico. Five thousand barrels of oil (200,000 gallons) spilled into the ocean each day from a leak that the company said was notoriously difficult to plug quickly. At the time of press, remediation efforts were underway, but some experts anticipate that this spill has the potential to eclipse the Exxon Valdez oil disaster of 1989.

Oil spills certainly attract public attention while under the media spotlight.

Environmental experts come out of the woodwork, and volunteers line up to help do whatever they can to protect the wildlife impacted by the oil. However, what are the ramifications of an oil spill, including what occurs once the media attention has dissipated?

What Is Oil? Oil is a natural substance formed over millions of years. It is thought to be created by plankton, decaying matter, sand and rock under extreme pressure. This is crude oil straight out of the ground.

Although crude oil is of natural origin, the oil that is transported and pumped today may contain additives to help it perform better.

Benzene, for example, is an important industrial solvent and precursor in the production of drugs, plastics, synthetic rubber and dyes and can sometimes be found in oil and as an additive to gasoline.

Oil is used to make gasoline, serve as fuel, form a basis for plastic products, and many other purposes.

Immediate Effects of an Oil Spill Oil enters the marine environment daily through run off from everyday living and from natural seeps. Generally, the planet can sustain itself in this type of situation. It’s when a large amount of oil is introduced to an area in a short period of time that serious ramifications can occur.

When a spill or leak occurs, most of the volatile compounds of oil evaporate quickly. However, the oil remains on the surface of the water, mixes with the water and becomes a different consistency. It can be a very sticky composition that some refer to as a “mousse.” The slick can quickly spread through water currents and wind.

Many fish are attracted to the oil slick because of its sweet smell and its resemblance to food. Other marine life simply may not know how to avoid the oil. There are a number of effects that can occur, depending on the animal: * Oil can break down insulating fur or feathers in seals and marine birds, resulting in hypothermia. * Marine life that breathes through gills can suffocate. * Oil can coat the body, making mobility difficult and resulting in inability to forage for food or escape predators. * It may foul breeding grounds or result in mutation or death

of young. * Oil can taint algae and other marine food sources, resulting in elimination of certain species of plants and animals.

Longer Effects of an Oil Spill After the cleanup efforts have ceased and the attention on the spill has slowed, oil can still have an impact on the environment. Eventually the oil can sink into the sea bed or remain under the water. This can impact burrowing animals, such as crabs or bottom feeders.

Other marine life and birds may eat these animals and then become contaminated.

The cycle of poisoning can continue for many years.

More Than Marine Life Affected It’s not just the animals that live in and around the water that are impacted by an oil spill. It can have profound effects on humans, too. * Cost: People often pay the financial price for an oil spill. Costs of everything from plastic products to gasoline may rise as oil companies attempt to recuperate the lost money from the oil spill. * Fishing: Individuals who make their living from the water could lose significant portions of their income. Fishing may be banned in and around the oil spill area for an extended period. * Tourism: Many coastal towns and cities make their living from the tourists who frequent the seaside. An oil spill close to the shore can spoil fishing, boating and swimming in these areas. * Contamination: Individuals who live by a spill may come in contact with the same toxins as the marine life. Oil may infiltrate water systems or end up in the soil. Some oil additives can be carcinogenic. Also, inadvertently eating contaminated seafood can lead to poisoning.

How Oil Spills Are Remediated While no two oil spills are the same, there are some common methods of cleanup. * If there is no chance for coastal contamination, some oil is left to break down by natural means and be dispersed by the currents and wind. * Skimmer nets are used to collect oil from the water’s surface.

Booms and other devices may be used to push oil into a centralized location for collection. * Dispersants may be used to break down oil and have it biodegrade more quickly. Dispersants act by reducing the surface tension that stops oil and water from mixing. However, careful consideration must be given to dispersants and weigh the factors of how the oil will contaminate underwater sea life. * Biological agents are introduced. These agents feed on components of the oil and break it down into harmless substances such as fatty acids and carbon dioxide. * Animal life impacted by the spill may be collected, cleaned and tested for contamination.

Oil spills have the potential to be an environmental disaster if not quickly assessed and handled by professionals.

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ere in the North Country everyone says we only have 3 seasons, Summer, Winter and Mud season. Bikes and rollerblades also account for a huge number of fractures.

According to experts in children’s health at • Children sustain approximately 267,000 non-fatal American Family Children’s Hospital there is a fourth season and we are in the heart of it right now, it’s fracture bicycle injuries each year. season.

• Some 135 children are killed as bicyclists annually.

Our warm summer temperatures plus the end of •Additionally, more than 176,000 children ages 5 to 14 school combine to send thousands of kids into backyards are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms for and onto playgrounds, where they’re breaking their bones injuries related to skateboards, scooters and skates. at startling rates—on rollerblades, on bikes, playground “When participating in any ‘wheeled’ sports, wearing a equipment and trampolines. helmet is critical to preventing head injuries—that’s the “Of all the walk-in injuries seen in clinics from single most effective safety device we have to reduce play equipment, fractures account for 25 to 30 percent of head injury and death from crashes,” says Kerry Haley, them,” says Dr. Blaise Nemeth, a pediatric orthopedics spokesperson for Adirondack SAFEkids program of specialist at American Family Children’s. Each year, Clinton Co. “Kids who inline skate should also wear 200,000 children injure themselves on playgrounds in knee, wrist and elbow pads, and skate on a smooth America. Most of these injuries occur in kids under age surface where there’s no traffic.”

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The list of trampoline injuries goes well beyond just fractures that is why the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines suggest the safest course of action is to not buy or use them. Given their popularity in American backyards, however, careful parental supervision seems a more realistic approach. Keep in mind in addition to the 200,000 kids injured on the playground each year an additional 200,000 get hurt on trampolines.

These injuries can range from broken bones that may require surgery, concussions and other head injuries to sprains and strains, bruises, scrapes and cuts.

Children may also be prone to neck and spinal-cord injuries that can result in permanent paralysis or even death.

These injuries occur when they land the wrong way while jumping, try dangerous stunts or collide with other kids. Most injuries occur on the mat itself.

One of the biggest dangers, however, comes when a teen is bouncing on the trampoline with a smaller child—especially when the younger child comes down as the teen is bouncing up. The large spring-back effect that is created makes it almost like landing on the ground for the smaller kid.

On the playground, falling off monkey bars and Being aware of situations slides are big culprits; arms are the most frequently like this can go a long way toward fractured bones. But one dangerous situation is making fracture season a lot safer. something parents often don’t immediately recognize: “Supervision is key,” sliding down the slide with their toddlers. The initial agrees Nemeth. “While even the thought is this is actually safer but what happens closest supervision won’t prevent is that the child’s foot catches on the slide every injury, it can play a major and then twists backwards as the adult’s part in reducing the dangerous weight pushes them both forward, and situations that lead to fractures.” fracturing the child’s shin bone.

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Wild blueberries are a different berry from cultivated blueberries.

They grow naturally in the fields and barrens of Maine and Canada. They are smaller in size, have a unique sweet-tart taste and are only available frozen.

WILD BLUEBERRY ICE CREAM POPS Prep Time: Approximately 15 minutes, plus thaw and freezing time Yield: 6 Pops WHAT YOU NEED: •1 cup frozen wild blueberries •1 ounce milk chocolate chips •2 cups fat-free vanilla frozen yogurt, softened slightly HOW TO MAKE IT: Materials: small wooden or plastic sticks Thaw wild blueberries and purée. In a bowl, combine puréed wild blueberries, chocolate and frozen yogurt. Mix thoroughly.

Rinse 6 standard muffin cups with cold water and spoon in wild blueberry mixture, dividing it evenly between the cups (silicone muffin cups need not be rinsed first). Place a stick in the center of each “muffin” and freeze until firm, at least 2 hours.

Tip: Mixture can also be frozen with plastic sticks in small glasses or espresso cups.

WILD BLUEBERRY LEMON JAM Prep Time: 25 to 30 minutes Yield: about 8 half-pints WHAT YOU NEED: •5 cups frozen wild blueberries •1 package dry pectin •5 cups sugar •1 tablespoon lemon zest •1/3 cup lemon juice HOW TO MAKE IT: • With adult help: Crush thawed wild blueberries one layer at a time, or chop frozen in food processor.

• Combine thawed, crushed wild blueberries and pectin in a large saucepot.

Bring to a boil, stirring frequently. Add sugar, stirring until dissolved. Stir in grated lemon zest and lemon juice. Return to a rolling boil. Boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly.

• Remove from heat. Skim foam if necessary. Ladle hot jam into hot jars, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Adjust two-piece caps. Process 15 minutes in a boiling water canner.

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