AUGUST 2019 Volume 13 Issue 10 MandarinNewsLineA Florida NewsLine Publication page 13 page 3 page 12 Get To Know . page 16 BFF Best Furry Friend Back In Time Zoe Keffer Puzzles Back-to-school, book Native Sons and Daughters provides clubs, business and opportunity for quality time By Martie Thompson blooms — at
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[email protected] school, it is also time to consider extracurricular activities for the new school year. According As you gear up for the new school to Native Sons and Daugh- year, remember that Duval County ters Florida State Chief Brian Public Schools students have a great Quirk, one of the best ways to Photos courtesy Brian Quirk. resource right at hand — they can use spend quality time with your name, members. Quirk said many tribes stay their DCPS student ID number as son or daughter, away from the their Jacksonville Public Library card. Native together for the full five years of the competitiveness of team sports, program. That’s a good reason to bring kids to Sons and is by joining or forming a Native Daughters. your Mandarin and South Mandarin Sons or Native Daughters tribe. Once formed, each tribe is assigned a libraries often. What’s more, educa- “We have sponsor from the longhouse who will tors who teach in Duval County — “When I first joined when my children always tried to be attend the first few meetings and help were young, one of the other fathers very respectful to all with organization and guidance.