Backpack May Color 2010
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Backpack May Color 2010
Did you hear the news...over 360! CB Cares , had over 360 nominations this month for our Boomerang Youth Recognition Award Program. We usually average 100 nominations per month!!! We were overwhelmed with the response to taking the assets into our community and we plan on having many more community celebrations such as this one again in the next school year. Keep those nominations coming for our deserving youth! APRIL’S CELEBRATION OF READING FOR PLEASURE EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS Throughout this past month , CB Cares and many community members and businesses partnered in promoting the Boomerang Award Asset #25, Reading for Pleasure. This first-time community initiative helped spread the word of how important it is to incorporate leisure reading into our busy lives, at any age! Beginning at First Friday Doylestown in April, events were held at the Masonic Lodge, Busy Bee Toys, Borders Bookstore and Café in Warrington, Saxbys, Doylestown Bookstore, Booktenders Secret Garden Children’s Bookstore and Gallery, and the Doylestown Library. We had crowds at every location. Special thanks to this year’s Reading for Pleasure volunteer committee: Lucy Brennan, Hayden Saunier, Sandra Cody, Melissa Yates, and Lisa Pretecrum. Special thanks, also, To Huntington Learning Center for their donation of bookmarks which were given out at various venues. On a Monday afternoon in Miss Lere’s 1st grade classroom there were penguins and popcorn. Low and behold it was the unofficial “Reading for Pleasure” kickoff at Kutz Elementary. Our beloved 40 Assets ambassador Marjie Devlin was awarded a CB Cares mini-grant and with the funding promoted April’s featured Asset #25 – Reading for Please. The class gathered as Mrs. Kahley read to them from this special book. Miss Lere’s students are “Assets in Action”. BOOMERANG YOUTH RECOGNITION AWARD The following students represent our April Boomerang Youth Recognition Award recipients for Asset #25 Reading for Pleasure. Young person reads for pleasure most days of the week, either alone, with family members, or with friends. Elementary School: Sean Cammon, 5th grade, Cold Spring Elementary. Sean does not just read books, he devours them. Late in the evening, after darkness has fallen, a faint glow can always be seen from Sean’s loft bed. At this time Sean enters his own private world of mystery and intrigue, of action and suspense. At times he is so excited by a story that he has to wake up his parents. Reading did not come easy for Sean but he always worked very hard at it. It was not until 4th grade that it all “clicked.” Now in 5th grade he is an avid reader which makes everyone around him very pleased and proud. Middle School: Andrew DeVita, 8th grade, Holicong Middle School. Andrew was nominated by 2 of his peers. When he and his friend walk down to the bus platform after dismissal, he insists that they stop at the library. He is extremely quick when it comes to finishing a book, and he commits himself to finishing all of the books that he reads, even if he doesn’t like the book! His friends are so appreciative that he loves discussing books when he finishes them. As he sits next to his friend on the bus, he talks about the latest book that he has read. When they are not talking about books on the bus, he is reading one. Andrew was so excited to be elected captain of the Reading Olympics team. His passion for reading is evidenced every day by these friends and many others. High School: Colleen Liebel, 12th grade, CB West. From the time she was a 10th grader, Colleen has made it a priority to come to the library to check out books for leisure reading. In her 1st year of high school, when pleasure reading drops off for most students getting acclimated to the rigorous demands of a high school curriculum, Colleen still checked out 35 books. She was one of the first students to sign up for the librarian’s student reviewer program when she was in 10th grade. To this day, Colleen continues to be her most prolific student reviewer, frequently stopping in and asking what book the librarian would like her to read and review next. Her reviews are posted throughout the library, and the librarian has seen more frequent checkouts of those titles that Colleen promotes. In total, Colleen has checked out over 83 books from the CB West library, which puts her at #12 on the librarian’s list of all-time top library patrons and the school year isn’t over yet. For all of her years of high school, she has been a consummate reader who immerses herself in literature and openly shares her love of reading with others. May’s Assset is #31 Restraint. Young person can identify, regulate, and control his/her behaviors and emotions in healthy ways, particularly in stressful or unstructured situations. This will will be the last asset of this academic year. Nominations will be due the week of May 24th. We vote on May 27th. CB Cares partners with The Bucks County Herald and Outback Steakhouse, Jamison PA on this award. YOUTH TO COMMUNITY (Y2C) ARTS SERIES We had a great month of community performances in April. At several venues our teen musicians were part of programs where we featured Asset #25, Reading for Pleasure. Some groups performed for the first time- a string quintet from Lenape (the music teacher joined this performance) and a jazz quartet from Lenape. Our monthly Saxby’s CB Cares music night on April 24th included a full evening of performers along with, for the very first time, middle and high school poets reading their work in between the musical sets. We called it the Words and Music Café at Saxbys. As an aside, we also featured short original work by our local teens all month long at Saxbys—this work hung on the wall of the shop, for customers to grab if they were looking for something to read. We called it “Writings on the Wall,” and we hope to repeat this program again. ***We will be back at Saxbys for our musical night on Saturday, May 15th, between 6-9 pm. A quintet with music teacher from Lenape at Borders May also brings a new venue, the Chalfont Borough Krupp Park behind the Borough Administration Building on Rte. 152, right off Rte. 202 in Chalfont. They have a lovely gazebo where our teen musicians will be playing on Saturday night, May 22, from 6-8. Please come sit outside on the grass with a blanket or chair. It should be a wonderful night of music! Y2C will be featured at First Friday Doylestown on June 4th. Come out to State and Hamilton to hear some great sounds! Also in June, two of our performers will be featured at the opening of the June Balloon exhibit at the Children’s Gallery of the Michener Art Museum. The date is Saturday, June 6 and the program begins at 10:45 a.m. We hope to begin our performances at Chubby’s Dairy Barn in Plumsteadville in the next month or two. Look for us there! WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE CBFYMCA TEEN CENTER? Here are just a few of the fun activities featured at the Y: The Skate Park is now open! • • • • • Counselor in Training for teens ages 13-15 years old at Camp Takoda this summer. Sign up for Teen Trip Camp all summer at Camp Takoda! Track and Field Camp for ages 12-15 years old, June 21-25 and June 28-July 2nd. Teen Leaders group meets every Thursday 5-7:30 pm in the Teen Center Jr. High Friday Night Live, 3rd Friday of the month, in the Teen Center For more info, contact Kevin Crail at [email protected] TEEN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Do you enjoy speaking Spanish or German and would like to use it as you work with young children? FUN AND GAMES WITH WORLD LANGUAGES is a parent initiative and foreign language immersion after-school program at Pine Run Elementary School. They are looking for high school students to work along with their native speakers as game assistants in their highly interactive program ( join now or in the fall!) A minimum of 3 years of Spanish or German knowledge as well as an interest in working with young children are prerequisites. The program runs in 7-week sessions during the school year on Friday afternoons from 3:30-4:30 p.m. This can be used for community service credit or as a graduation project. For more info, contact Marianne Schmidt at 215-996-1219 or email [email protected]. PARENT COMMUNITY NETWORK WE’RE HEATING UP THINGS - GALA STYLE Chef Chris Tavares and David Zuckerman from Earl’s Bucks County in Peddler’s Village will be in the Parent Connection kitchen talking about local farms and being a part of this year’s Celebrity Gala. Chef Tavares prepares an asparagus ravioli dish with farm fresh asparagus from None Such Farms and serves up the side dish that will be on the menu for the Celebrity Gala, Davidson wild mushroom Vidalia onion potato tart. Mmmmmm... Hungry, you don’t have to be…tune in to watch and we’ll feed you good stuff for your mind. Want to come to the table for CB Cares? Gala information is on the back page of the Backpack Newsflash. Where: Your Family Room - turn to Comcast 28 or Verizon FiOs 40 When: Tuesday evenings, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at 1:30 p.m. Sundays at 1:30 and 8:30 p.m. PARENT RAP Bring your parenting questions to local psychologist Dr. Barry Ginsberg, a CB Cares staff member, and a representative from a local police department, Sgt. J.R. Landis from Buckingham Township. Share your experiences and concerns as you learn from other parents and professionals. The next Parent Rap session will take place on : Friday, April 16, 2010 Open “Drop In” Discussion 9:30-11:00 a.m., CB Cares Offices, 252 W. Swamp Road, Suite #5, Doylestown. Contact our offices for more information, 215-489-9120. Voluntary donation appreciated 252 W Swamp Road, Unit 5, Bailiwick, Doylestown, PA 18901 215.489.9120 Fax 215.489.9166 www.cb-cares.org