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Through the Placer SPCAs youth education programs, kids learn kindness and respect for all living creatures.
California Education Code requires that schools include the promotion of harmonious relations, kindness toward domestic pets and the humane treatment of living creatures in curriculum.
The Roseville-based animal shelter designed programs to meet this requirement, which they present in local elementary schools throughout Placer County, said Humane Educator Mary Terrell.
In addition, we know that children have a natural love of animals and we use that feeling to teach compassion, empathy and kindness toward animals as well as people, Terrell said.
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By Tommy Keeler Jr. – tkeeler@nvdaily.com
For the first time ever, the Civilian Military Combine is coming to Virginia, and even more importantly its coming to Bryce Resort.
The resort is hosting the combine today starting at 9 am The combine is a unique adventure race. Its a 5-mile run as well as a competition in The PIT, which is the size of a football field and has different stations of different strength tests.
Race day structure consists of events in The PIT followed by a 5-mile mountain race with strategically placed military obstacles. Some of the exercise elements of The PIT include barbell thrusters, burpee, box jump and kettlebell swing.
After participants...
By Chick Jacobs
Staff writer
For most of the kids in the Cape Fear region, were just a few weeks away from the end of school. Unless, of course, their summers are like mine were – with a healthy dose of summer-school math. For the lucky rest, summer opportunities beckon. Whether you use the time for fun, fitness or even education, there are countless opportunities.
What follows is a collection of the regions summer camp opportunities
Compiled by Chick Jacobs
4-H program: Camp Millstone offers a variety of programs June and July, including horsemanship, outdoor studies and target shooting. Costs range from $345 to $375, depending on the camp. It is at 1296...
That police in Bahawalpur stepped in to prevent a forced marriage on April 19, is a faint ray of hope in an otherwise bleak landscape of human rights in the country. According to a news report, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly being married off to her cousin in order to settle a debt her father owed. The marriage was against her wishes and also against the laws governing the minimum age of marriage in Pakistan. The Muslim Family Law Ordinance of 1961 stipulates that a girl under the age of 16 is a child whose marriage is illegal.
However, the facts on the ground are that child marriages are distressingly common in Pakistan. Children are often betrothed at birth and marriages of pre-teen...
Visitors to the General Electric Co. website were met Friday by an image of a shiny, new, Erie-built locomotive.
Maybe it was a coincidence. Or maybe it was a tip of the cap to GE Transportation for its starring role in the companys earnings report.
That Friday morning report brought a mixed bag of news for the Fairfield, Conn.-based conglomerate, which beat the predictions of analysts but saw profits fall 12 percent compared with the first quarter of 2011.
But the news was all good from GE Transportation, Erie Countys top employer.
Revenue grew 41 percent from $903 million to $1.27 billion, easily outpacing all other GE business...
NEVER Tshuma is a stumpy, bow-legged youth, with a nose that spreads half across his pimply face and for a Nambya man, it is time to marry. As is the norm, he has to go through rigorous tests for maturity and depth of character in order to beaccepted by the brides family.
Early in the morning, the time that elephants normally bath in the Zambezi, (euphemistically known here as Kasambabezi) before daybreak, the girls aunts or grandmothers take him to the river for his first test.
Dense bushes and thorns grow on either side of the path to the river. Thorn bushes tear their clothes and feet and help shake off the lethargy of sleep. It is a test of strength.
Quickly they strip...
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. George Santayana
Santayanas warning could apply equally to personal history, like a divorce. Yet despite this, past statistics have shown that in the US, 50 percent of first marriages, 67 percent of second, and 73 percent of third marriages end in divorce. What are the reasons for this progressive increase in divorce rates?
Theories abound. One common explanation is that a significant number of people enter a second or third marriage on the rebound of a first or second divorce. Often the people concerned are vulnerable; they do not allow sufficient time to recover from their divorce or to get their priorities straight...
Kochi adventure awakens the hero within
Shingo Masuda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
KAMI, Kochi–Ah…Anpanman! In contrast to his usual, friendly look in kids anime and picture books, the statue of the beloved national hero standing in this mountainous region in Shikoku looks rather serious. He raises his round fist toward the sky. Whats on his mind?
The statue of Anpanman stands in front of the Yanase Takashi Memorial Hall Anpanman Museum in Kami. The characters creator, Takashi Yanase, hails from the city and donated the three-meter-tall statue in July to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the museum.
Last year was a grueling year as we faced the earthquake,...
11-year-old Welch boy died Sunday in hunting accident
James Ridge Foster, of Welch, died from a gunshot wound to the head while hunting with a 12-year-old friend.