The Twister Times Student Editors: Samantha Cowick & Brianna Keese Faculty Advisor: Mrs. Perrin 2020-2021 Volume 2 Christmas Donation Programs for Children Table of Contents: Page 1— Editorial By: Brianna L. Keese Page 2— Dog Breeds that Need Lots of Attention There are many programs and places you can donate to help Page 2—12 Random Facts about Everything children and families in need this holiday season. There is a program to Page 3 & 4— Three Recipes for Quarantined Chefs help children in need just at your local Walmart. There are so many Page 5— Funny Youtubers to Watch ways you can give back to your community such as buying toys, Page 5— Family Outings donating money, shopping for people in need, even writing a Christmas Page 6— Jokes to Share with Friends and Family list can donate money to help children. Try to check out a donation Page 7— Competitive Card Games to Play program this season; it can be one of the programs I show you or one Page 8— Three Science Experiments for Explosive you find yourself. Fun Page 9— Laptop Tips Toys for Tots is a great program where you can donate toys; Page 9— Activities Still Happening! they have been collecting toys for children since 1947. This organization Page 10— SFT Believe It or Not has several different ways to donate to their program. First, you can Page 10— Important Breaks and Dates purchase a toy and donate it to one of the local toy drop locations. Page 11— Device-Free Living Second, you can shop online for a toy and donate it to them. Or, third, Page 11— Online School you can donate money online on their website. Their ages for children Page 12— Fall Crafts for toy donations is usually twelve and under. However, some locations Page 13— Movie Review: Operation Christmas will accept donations for kids up to sixteen. Drop Another great program is the Make-A-Wish foundation. They are a program that is open all year long to help children and during the Twister Times Staff: holidays, they partner up organizations to collect money for the holidays. If you write a letter to Santa and give it to a Macy’s store location, the Editors: store donates a dollar per child or per letter. You can also help by Samantha Cowick looking at more promotions through the partnered companies that also Brianna Keese donate for the holidays from what you buy on their websites. Reporters/Writers: Finally, there is the Salvation Army Angel Tree program. The Tiffany Castaneda Auces Salvation Army collaborates with Walmart for their program. The stores have Christmas trees with tags on them. Every tag has a wish list of a Desra Lusby child; you pick a tag and shop for the gifts. Items can be bought Jacqueline Vilches-gomez anywhere, not just at Walmart. I hope you try to find a donation program to help a family in need. There are many great programs out there. There are so many ways to help and not all programs are asking for just money, some are asking for volunteer time as well. It can be fun picking out gifts for kids and knowing you probably just gave them one of the best Christmases they may have ever had. Check out this website if you want to know more about programs that help children. https://www.thespruce.com/ 1 Dog Breeds That Need Lots of 12 Random Facts About Attention Everything By: Brianna L. Keese By: Sam Cowick There are some dog breeds that can be Random facts are one of the best types alone during the day and some dogs that need of knowledge. It is always useful and very a lot of attention and cannot be left alone. entertaining. So, to catch you up, here are Before getting a dog, you might want to do twelve random facts about everything. some research on their breed and behavior. Number one: the medical term for a brain Although, dogs that need more attention tend to freeze is Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia. Try be more loving dogs who just want to be with saying that five times fast. Number two: if a people. polar bear and a grizzly bear mate, the baby is Here are five dog breeds that hate being called a pizzly bear. Number three: a single alone Toy Poodles, American Pit Bull Terriers, spaghetti noodle is called a spagetto. Number Chihuahua, Bichon Frise, and French Bulldogs. four: in Ancient Greek, astronaut means “star Toy Poodles are affectionate dogs and will build sailor.” a bond with you, but they can become Still with me? Good. Number five: there dependent on your presence. If you leave them are more Lego minifigures than people on for long periods of time, they can give them earth. Number six: The Bagheera Kiplingi severe anxiety and can cause bad behavior. Spider is the only known vegetarian spider. American Pit Bull Terriers love to guard and Number seven: Pluto was named by an protect their family but if left alone they can eleven-year-old girl. What an achievement! become anxious, destructive, or noisy. If you Number eight: Vatican City and Tirana are the must leave them for a while you might want to only two European capitals that do not have a find a way to entertain them. When Chihuahuas McDonald's. are left alone, their anxiety may make them destructive or aggressive. Bichon Frise crave Almost done. Number nine: Scotland attention and if left alone they may develop spent $146,400 (US dollars) in a competition for anxiety issues. French Bulldogs love to snuggle a new national slogan. The winner was and can be addicted to human company. If you “Welcome to Scotland.” Number ten: the song are spending a lot more time with another pet “Happy Birthday” was technically illegal to use or person, they can become jealous. People until 2016, because the song had been often compare French Bulldogs to a small child; copyrighted. Number eleven: there is a town in most hate being alone. Nebraska where there is only one resident, a woman who is the mayor, bartender, and I found all the information about these librarian. Talk about responsibility. Finally, breeds on https://shopus.furbo.com/blogs/ number twelve: the Ethiopian calendar is 7.5 knowledge/10-dog-breeds-that-dont-tolerate- years behind the Gregorian calendar (the being-left-alone calendar most people use today), since it has Most of these dogs, when left alone, get thirteen months instead of twelve. anxiety and can be destructive and that can be Now you are all caught up on these very unsafe for the animal. These dogs have random facts. Hopefully, they can be used in the biggest hearts and just love people and any situation, from family dinner to the middle of attention. 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