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Hunger agency starts summer meals for kids - Palo Alto Online border=

Hunger agency starts summer meals for kids - Palo Alto Online

Palo Alto Online, CA
Breakfasts are offered from 9 to 10 am; lunches from 1 to 2 pm Following each meal, the nonprofit plans to provide short activities focused around health and nutrition, through arts and crafts or gardening, Martinez said. Located at 2411 Pulgas Ave., …

Editorial: Shontale Taylor breaks the mold for foster kids - San Jose Mercury News border=

Editorial: Shontale Taylor breaks the mold for foster kids - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
They're having conferences with social workers and advocates to figure out how to meet their needs, including housing, emotional support and help with job and college applications. In Santa Clara County, there is not enough housing for all the kids, …

Thieves make off with school kids' garden tools - San Jose Mercury News border=

Thieves make off with school kids' garden tools - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
This time thieves prowled the low-income school's basketball court-sized garden plot, breaking into two locked sheds. The kids were shocked at the crime, asking if the thieves had swiped their lovingly watered lettuce or carefully-tended tomatoes. …

Should kids walk to school? - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Should kids walk to school? - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
I learned how to ask strangers gardening in their front yards if I could pick cherries from their trees. I gained independence, confidence, and basic survival skills. A few weeks ago I retraced my childhood steps between my parents' house and my former …

Kids take to the perc ponds to hook fish in Campbell - San Jose Mercury News border=

Kids take to the perc ponds to hook fish in Campbell - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
"Video games and technology has its place, but traditional stuff — the staples of being outside with the fresh air — we can't let it get away," Cain said. Doug Dodd was also back for his second year at the perc ponds. Dodd, an avid fisherman, …

Red Bulls NYPD Soccer to Travel to Coloumbia for "Soccer for Kids ... - OurSports Central (press release) border=

Red Bulls NYPD Soccer to Travel to Coloumbia for "Soccer for Kids … - OurSports Central (press release)

OurSports Central (press release), WI
SECAUCUS, NJ (May 7, 2009) - Under the "Soccer for Kids - Breaking Borders" program, implemented by the New York Red Bulls in conjunction with the New York Police Department Soccer Team, a delegation from both entities will travel to Colombia from May …
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Mitali Perkins: Kids books that pass the peace - Boston Globe border=

Mitali Perkins: Kids books that pass the peace - Boston Globe

Boston Globe, United States - , 
Their community widens and deepens when Hildamar and her cousin meet Pura Bulpré, the librarian at the local public library who not only speaks Spanish but invites families to the library to celebrate Three King's Day! With text in Spanish and English …
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Bay Area school closed after kids get sick - San Francisco Chronicle border=

Bay Area school closed after kids get sick - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
"The magnitude of what's going on in Mexico, combined with the amount of back-and-forth travel we have between the Bay Area and Mexico, makes it highly likely that there are more cases in the Bay Area that we are currently not aware of," said Dr. Karen …

Pelosi takes Q's from kids, hits GOP - msnbc.com border=

Pelosi takes Q's from kids, hits GOP - msnbc.com

msnbc.com
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday played one part schoolteacher, one part grandma, one part elected official . On Bring Your Son or Daughter to Work Day, Pelosi moved away from the podium and sat to take questions from children of staffers, …
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In rich towns, more kids - San Jose Mercury News border=

In rich towns, more kids - San Jose Mercury News

San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Sharon Keplinger, coordinator of the Preschool Family and Young Fives program in the Palo Alto Unified School District, said she now sees as many three-children families as two-children families. In the mid-1990s, "if we had a set of twins in a class, …