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 What’s the Buzz In This  Water Safety Tips

 Healthy Eating Games for kids on Summer break

 Thank You’s, Quotes to inspire ISSUE

What’s the Buzz? The Third Saturday in August is National Honey Bee Awareness Day. August

In the world of gardening, there are good insects, and there are bad insects. You can count bees among the good insects. As a matter of fact, Cool Blogs, Sites Honey Bees and other bees are one of a gardener's best friends. Bees & Online comprise over 80% of the pollinators in the world. Without them, the Resources to growth and harvest of many of our fruits and vegetables would be at serious risk. In the U.S., this represents an agricultural value of $15 Check Out! billion/year.

As honey bees and other bees go about their job of harvesting nectar from flowers, they inadvertently get pollen on their feet and legs. As they travel along, Website to visit this month: this pollen gets deposited onto the stigma of a female flower of the same type of plant. Google Feud

About 3,500 honey bees fly 55,000 miles to make 1 This totally out of ordinary and pound of honey. It takes 10 pounds of nectar to make a awesome website will take your game to the next level. Be warned pound of honey. though, we take no responsibility Honey bees are the only insect that produces food eaten by humans. for wasted time! Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water. This style game is a spanking new website that is super Colony Collapse Disorder fun. You have to complete questions across four different The Honey Bee population in the United States has been decreasing at categories to predict the top ten an alarming rate. This decline could be due to a parasite, climate change, Google autocomplete suggestions. loss of habitat, use of insecticides, or a number of other reasons. But, the The more you guess correctly, the drastic decline in population is an undisputed fact. higher you score. This game has many completely hooked. Give it Consider these statistics: shot. Since 2006, one half of the Honey Bee colonies have disappeared. It’s a Webby Award Winner for From 2007-2013 over 10 million hives have been lost, over two times the Best Game. normal rate. http://www.googlefeud.com/ It is vital for us to recognize this problem, and do our best to keep it from getting worse..

Water Safety Tips from the Red Cross Pharmacist Tip Summer’s here! With the rise in temperatures comes a rise in the of the Month! desire to hit the local pools or beaches to try and keep cool and have fun. Whatever water-related fun you plan on having this summer, remember these important water safety tips from the Red Cross, to reduce the risk of mishap:

 Learn to Swim: The first tip may

seem like a no brainer, but it is the best thing a person can do to stay safe in the water. The Red Cross has swimming courses for those wanting to learn, no matter your current

age or skill level. Contact your local Red Cross chapter to check on availability and to enroll.

 It is always safer to swim with a buddy than to swim alone.  Rules are meant to be followed. Posted rules aren’t designed

to put a damper on your fun – they are in the best interest of

you and those you care about!

 It’s always best to swim under the supervision of trained lifeguards.

 Avoid drinking alcohol while swimming, as it affects your judgment, balance and coordination. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere and  And remember the age-old adage of getting out of the water if saccharine if we tried to pretend there were summer storm clouds move your way. no shadows. ~ Walt Disney

Guard Blood Pressure: Sleep

August Quotes Columbia University researchers give a new reason why it’s

“I may not always be there important to get enough sleep. They find that adults who sleep less than five hours a night are twice as likely to develop high with you, but I will always blood pressure compared with those who get seven to eight be there for you.” hours. ~ unknown To sleep better, they recommend getting some exercise (at least “Our friendship isn’t a big three hours before bedtime), drink herbal tea instead of drinks thing, it’s a million little that contain alcohol or caffeine, and try to go to bed at the same things.” time each night. ~ unknown

Healthy Eating Games & Activities Did You Know? August Fun Facts Using games and activities is a great way to help children learn about healthy eating while having fun at the same time. The ideas below can be used to engage children in healthy eating experiences, teach them to recognize different foods and encourage them to experiment with new foods, tastes, flavors and textures. The Veggie Guessing Bag Try this activity to increase children’s recognition and awareness of different vegetables. Place some vegetables (real or plastic) in a bag. Ask children to feel inside the bag and guess which 1957 - debuted vegetables are there. As a variation, blindfold children and place a on the ABC television network, with vegetable in their hands. Ask them to guess what the vegetable is host Dick Clark. The show began by feeling, smelling and even tasting it. locally on television station WFIL-TV Channel 6 (now Choose a Letter of the Week WPVI-TV) in 1952. Each week taste and discuss healthy foods that start with the chosen letter of the week. For example, for the letter ‘M’ try 1966 - performed their last mushroom, milk and mango. concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Odd One Out 1969 - The Apollo 11 astronauts were Say a series of four words including three vegetables and one odd released from a three-week quarantine word, for example, “Carrot, potato, cat, onion”. Ask children to to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New identify the odd word. York, New York.

Make the game more challenging by using an odd word that is also 1977 - US President Jimmy Carter a food, for example, “Celery, capsicum, carrot, yogurt”. Ask the signed legislation creating the United children why the odd word does not belong with the rest of the States Department of Energy. group. 1994 - Major League Baseball players Create a Vegetable Person went on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. Create a ‘vegetable person’ using real vegetables or pictures of vegetables. Help children use toothpicks to make their vegetable 1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, her person stand up and be three-dimensional. If using real vegetables, companion Dodi Fayed died in a car crash in Paris. encourage children to eat their vegetable person for morning or afternoon snack. 2008 - American swimmer Michael Phelps became the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

2012 - NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.

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