April 8, 2015 The Julian News 5
Health s ersonal by MicheleHarvey
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Kids today are enjoying the same toys their parents and even their
grandparents once played with.
(NAPSA)-If you could open a time capsule from the most loved toys
from throughout the last 100 years, you'd see that what's old is new
again on the toy aisle this year, and classic brands are expected to
be the biggest hits for Christmas 2015. Many of these brands have
reinvented themselves in modern ways to reach today's savvy kid
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grandparents know and love.
Girl Scouts (103 Years Old)
Founded in 1912, and boasting 59 million women alumnae in the
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Colorforms (64 Years Old)
Founded in 1951, Colorforms is one of the oldest and best-known
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Star Wars (38 Years Old)
Over the course of 1977-1985, more than 300 million Star Wars
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Strawberry Shortcake (35 Years Old)
During the 1980s, Strawberry Shortcake was a megahit for young
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young students. Saturday morning's hunts began at the Julian County
Library and the second hunt was at Frank Lane Park, sponsored by
the Miss Julian Pageant participants and the Julian Lion's Club. I'm
not sure who planned and did most of the work for this event, however
I saw young ladies with bunny ears and crowns helping the children
looking for plastic eggs and I also saw adults in Lions Club vests
Helping. Several of our local churches held their own hunts. This is
what living in a small town is all about. Larger towns and cities have
massive Easter Egg Hunts,where I fear the littlest children will get run
over by massive numbers of bigger children, but unlike the big cities,
we have many of our own little hunts for our local children.
For many of us, Easter is a time of remembering the resurrection
of Jesus and what he represents to each of us. We go to church on
Easter Sunday, some going just this once each year. For others, it is a
time to spend feasting with neighborhood friends and family. For most
of the youngest of us Easter is for decorating eggs, going on local
Easter egg hunts and anticipating the treats that the Easter bunny
will bring.
It seems to me that all of these things happen in a smaller yet more
meaningful way in our small town.
At Christmas time, we have several celebrations that include a fire
engine bringing Santa to Pioneer Park at the Julian Pioneer Museum
on Tree Lighting Night and also, on a different evening, to the Town
Hall where sometimes children can enjoy carriage rides as part of
their special evening.
Our elementary school children can go on a field trip to a real gold
mine without leaving their own school district. They can see special
visitors to their classrooms who may be sheriff deputies or firemen,
people who may also coach their Little League teams.
Julian is so small that many people who work in local businesses
and people who own those local businesses are also neighbors, and
possibly future employers of our young people.
This past weekend I saw 2 bake sales. One in front of the bank,
helping a teenager finance her school trip to Costa Rica, the other
one was for a mother from her grown daughter to help pay the
mother's medical bills. Both are good causes and both are unique
to small towns. Here we have pancake breakfasts to raise money for
our volunteer fire departments. We can eat Sunday breakfasts each
month at our local Americat Legion to help raise money for our local
high school athletics, our local Historical Society, scholarships and
for individuals in special need of financial assistance. When we pay
our money for nearly any worthy cause in Julian, we know who our
money goes to and we can feel good that our money or our volunteer
time has gone to someone we know.
Each year our local Woman's Club hosts a spring fashion show
at the Methodist church, a wild flower show and a quilt show at the
town hall. Our local Triangle (woman's) Club puts on an old fashioned
Melodrama every October with a cast full of local actors. Each club
and many others hold events to raise money to give scholarships to
graduating high school seniors, and to raise money for other worthy
causes. For well over 20 years the Julian High School senior class
students have held a yearly auction to raise money for their class gift
to the school and to pay for their class trip.
Our little town is full of volunteers who do what they can to help
others in our community. Not only do we all help our clubs, churches,
schools and sports groups, we also have people who raised money to
build our local San Diego County Library, one of the best.
In big cities there are events for adults, for families and for children
every weekend throughout the year and sometimes during weekdays
too. However, I never liked taking my children to events that were full
of hundreds or thousands of strangers. In Julian, we can go to most
events and see neighbors and friends. We can feel safe with knowing
that we are surrounded by people we know. To me this is important.
It's part of what makes a small town attractive for many of us.
I moved to this small town of Julian over 31 years ago. I raised my
children here. Their father and I spent many hours volunteering in our
community. Though he died in 2002, the best part of his legacy is the
hours he spent serving his community.
Many of the people I met back in the mid-1980s are still my friends
and we are all still volunteers. My husband Mike is a volunteer and I'm
still volunteering my time when and where I can.
Small town life can be very comforting if we get out and meet our
neighbors. If we make friends by working side by side to help others
in need, we can feel good about ourselves. If any of us help at any of
the variety of events we have in our small town, we see familiar faces
and we all have reasons to smile at each other because we help
again and again. We can work side by side planting daffodil bulbs or
we can work side by side at a local rummage sale or barbecue. As
long as we give our best to our small town, we will always get the best
it can offer us.
These are my thoughts.
Five Things Families With
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students and families. From new expenses to a new lifestyle, being
prepared for what lies ahead can help you avoid common bumps in
the road.
Here are five things families with college-bound students should
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• Getting involved: Being away from home and making new friends
can seem daunting. Encourage your student to get involved in school
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student government, there are a range of extracurricular opportunities
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• Health and wellness: Late nights spent studying instead of
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• Financing College: College may be one of your family's biggest
investments to date. Whether that describes your family or not, there's
no doubt about it, higher education comes with a big price tag. It's
never too late in the process to seek out new financing options, even
if your child is already away out school.
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through the process. Check out resources designed for college-
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Helping To End
The Cycle Of Poverty
In 1975 a minor project for UNICEF took us deep into the slums
of Shahpur in Ahmedabad. One alley was marked by a wall and a
noisome gutter on one side, crude brick rooms opening on the other,
each room a 'house'. At the dead end lived 5th grader Halima and
her family in one of those rooms. Her mother hadn't been out of the
alley for five years, only visiting next door during the day when all the
men were gone. Or before dawn/after dark to use the ditch to relieve
herself.
Sometimes it's the most mundane things that make poverty a real
misery.
Halimah, predictably, dropped out of school and probably lived in
the same kind of house her mother did. Most likely her daughter did
the same but it's possible, just possible, that her granddaughter gets
up in the morning, puts on a pink uniform and trots off to a different
future.
Funded largely by overseas Indian Muslims in Britain and run by
our family friends, Shama School is an English medium school that
is trying to break the cycle of poverty in Shahpur. Classrooms are
clean and bright, the principal oversees activities through a closed
circuit system, a number of middle class kids also attend because it's
good--and 'Muslim'--so poor kids don't remain in a ghetto when they
go to school. No men are allowed in the building while the students
are there. There is religious teaching similar to the religious teaching
in a Christian school but probably more rigorous. These kids learn
Arabic along with English, Urdu and Gujarati. At a young age.
The Principal is bright-eyed and eager, dedicated to changing this
corner of the world. "Can you help?" she asks. "How?" Well...it turns
out that getting money to India for charitable purposes, especially if
the recipients are Christian or Muslim, is complicated so the request
to 'adopt' a particular child and pay fees through high school, about
$20 a month, is on hold for the moment but there is another way and
it's pretty simple for those who have the substantive skills. Skype
makes it possible to chat teacher-to-teacher with the kids' instructors.
Talk about things, teaching methods, perhaps problems. Help a bit
with English--this is an English medium school, after all, but it's not
the first language of most of the teachers. Be a mentor. Be a friend.
If you are interested, let me know. Michael Hart (publisher@
juliannews.com) will pass along messages. That alley needs to be
abolished.
