Xmas Gift Hints For Handicapped Youths
Chicago article outlines Easter Seal Society guidelines for gifting to disabled children. It advises coordinating with parents, choosing age and ability appropriate toys, and favoring manipulatives, familiar items, and home made options while avoiding fragile or overly complex toys. It also notes wheeled, textured, and sensory play as beneficial, and warns against gifts likely to frustrate or be unusable.
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Chicago
National Easter Seal Society For
United States
Easter Seal Society
Elm Street PTA Christmas Program Plans
The Elm Street PTA schedules a Christmas meeting Monday December 14 in the school auditorium. Room visitation runs 7:15 to 7:45 p.m. The program begins 7:50 p.m. Mrs Johns third and fourth grades Glee Club perform The Elves and the Shoemaker. Fifth and sixth graders present The Night Before Christmas with a film strip. The event closes with carols by students and parents. refreshments follow.
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Elm Street
PTA
Johns
Glee Club
Shoemaker
Trumpeter Swan Gets Its Name From Trumpet Like Voice
The trumpeter swan is named for its clear trumpetlike calls and deep notes. The mechanism behind producing the deep tones remains a mystery.
Fort Ritchie Christmas events bring carols and concerts
Fort Ritchie hosts three major holiday events next week starting Sunday evening with The Night of Miracles a Christmas cantata by John W Peterson performed by Fort Ritchie Protestant and Catholic choirs and Young Singers with solos by local and base singers. The tree lighting follows Monday at 7 p.m. with Col Dunlap declaring the season open, lights ablaze, and refreshments after in the Club. A post theater screening of The Christmas Spirit Candlemaker and The Nativity runs with no charge. Wednesday features The Catoctones concert at 8 p.m. with Just We Three and 35 voices, free to all. invited guests include Quincy Orphanage Victor Cullen and Fairney Reed Home for the Aged.
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Fort Ritchie
John W. Peterson
Post Chapel
Young Singers
Marshall Rock
Waynesboro
Tony Chase
Samuel Cox
Moneen Dingle
Sally Dutczac
Norman Last
Tennor
Edward McVey
Shirley Thompson
John Townsand
LaVone Bush
David Ashcraft
David Bush
Service Club
Robert E. Dunlap
Mt. Quirault
Post Theater
Quincy
Victor Cullen School For Boys
Fairney -Reedy Home For
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Keiser
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Catoctones
Frederick
Just We
Stan Thomas
Gene Clements
Wally Jones
Hoover Factory
Hoover
Rae
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