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Archive for August, 2005
Grade A Teachers
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Sticker shock
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Gone are the days when a student showed up on the first day of school with a few sharpened yellow pencils and a binder full of loose-leaf paper. Today’s typical school supply list — several notebooks, a half dozen folders, a pack of markers, the latest pens and highlighters, not to mention a backpack — [...]
Grade A teachers
Thursday, August 18th, 2005There’s always that one teacher in just about everyone’s history who affects the direction they take in life. My journalism teacher in high school made me feel like I had a true gift for writing despite the fact that, at the time, my spelling and grammar were atrocious. And here I am today, editor of [...]
FLocking to 4H
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Last summer 14-year-old Vincent Testerman, a two-year member of the West Friendship Livestock 4-H Club, wanted to raise a dairy cow and show her at the Howard County Fair. The only problem was the yard of his parents’ Sykesville home was only an acre and barely had room for the patio, a shed and Mom’s [...]
Fun among the ruins
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Some liken it to a modern day Mayberry. Others say it reminds them of the neighborhoods where they grew up. What the residents of the Terra Maria neighborhood in Ellicott City all agree on, however, is that it’s a great place to raise a family. Located along Route 144 west of Route 40, Terra Maria [...]
PC-Turnoff Week set for Aug. 1 through 7
Thursday, August 18th, 2005We’ve all heard of TV-Turnoff Week, held every April. Now there’s PC-Turnoff Week. Set for Aug. 1 to 7, PC-Turnoff Week is sponsored by the newly formed PC-Turnoff Organization, or PC-TOO. The plan is to encourage parents and their children to turn off the family computer during the week and enjoy other activities such as [...]
Baby Outfitters pushes strollers to the stars
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Julia Roberts, Britney Spears and Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins) are all pushing strollers from a small boutique right in our own backyard. Baby Outfitters in Columbia is a small boutique with a growing number of famous clientele. What’s all the fuss about? The store’s custom Valco strollers. Ellicott City moms Kit Orloff [...]
The Maryland Zoo welcomes Rozi, the baby chimpanzee
Thursday, August 18th, 2005Six-week-old Rozi is much like any other baby — she sucks her thumb, drinks Similac with Iron every two to three hours and wears preemie size diapers. But baby Rozi also spends part of each day on a miniature jungle gym. She builds her upper body strength by hanging from the shirts of her caretakers, [...]
New books on line for littlest readers
Thursday, August 18th, 2005“One more story, please!” Every parent has heard this plea when story time ends, but now there’s a Web site that can make any time story time for children with access to a computer. At www.onemorestory.com, children ages 2 to 9 can choose from a list of classic and contemporary titles and have the book [...]
After Hours center opens at St. Joseph
Thursday, August 18th, 2005It’s 10 p.m. and your toddler has been screaming for an hour and pulling on his ear. Or your baby suddenly starts coughing and you’re not sure if it’s a chest cold or croup. Now parents don’t have to wait until morning to see a pediatrician. On July 15, St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson [...]