My sister-in-law Roxanne raises poultry, to feed her family food she trusts and as a hobby. Last spring my husband asked if she would be willing to raise a goose for us for Christmas. Roxanne is a cautious person and knows how vulnerable small free range birds (as all of hers are) to predators, so she bought eight. As it happens, 7 of them have now lived full and happy lives. She has fed them grain as well as what they graze on their own, and they follow her all around. Roxanne says that while… Continue

 

The Arnett Branch Library has packets of Halloween poems for you to give to your trick-or-treaters.  They were written as part of the Halloween Poetry Project sponsored by the Friends of Arnett.  Last year folks each gave each kid a piece of candy and a poem to put in their bags, and they loved it!  It is a fun and sneaky way to get kids to read, so stop in and ask at the desk for some poems.

Halloween is fast approaching.  We stand on our porches and hand out lots of candy.  So why not make it more fun. Much to my family's embarassment every other year or so, children who come to our house meet, not me, but the "Math Wizard".  The math wizard has a silly cape and requires each trick or treeter to answer a math problem before getting a candy. Answer but not answer correctly.  For children under 5 this entails counting fingers, for early elementary students answering simple…

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The Arnett Branch Library has packets of Halloween poems for you to give to your trick-or-treaters.  They were written as part of the Halloween Poetry Project sponsored by the Friends of Arnett.  Last year folks each gave each kid a piece of candy and a poem to put in their bags, and they loved it!  It is a fun and sneaky way to get kids to read, so stop in and ask at the desk for some poems.

On Tuesday, October 4th my daughter's car was broken into in the driveway.  I was parked behind her and they tried to break into mind but couldn't get in.  They stole an iPod and some other items out of the car.  We are at 643 Post Avenue, so burglaries are still occurring in our area.

 

Jackie D.

Reminder.  The next PCIC meeting is Wednesday October 12th, 7pm at the Staybridge Suites.

There was a great story in the Business section of Saturday's D&C about Mr. Hunt and his retirement.  Here's a link if you missed it:  http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20111001/BUSINESS/110010316/Hunt-s-Hardware-passes-next-generation?odyssey=tab|topnews|img|Business

 

At 85, he worked in the hardware store…

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