Education

Congratulations to Heather Hren and her Kindergarten class, the most recent receipts of the Service Learning Northland Award of $200 from maurices.  Her kindergarten class and other first graders in Hermantown put on a health and wellness fair to allow families, students, and community to learn from agencies and volunteers about healthy habits!

Cathy and I delivered the check yesterday and visited with the class about their service learning project and how their spreading the word about healthy lifestyle changes

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Take that step, come on, take it....I'll help you.  While you are distracted by your fear of failure in the program, your body will begin the transformation.  Before you know it, you'll begin to notice things....little things, but you'll notice.   Then, your mind will begin focusing on the changes your body and now, your attitude has gone through, during your 8 week heart health makeover.  Fear of ....what?  Doesn't matter anymore, that word doesn't exist in your vocabulary.  You ARE healthier, you DID make the necessary changes and you are SUCCESSFUL!  I'll help you.  Here's how it works-

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The latest numbers show about eight percent of American kids drop out of high school before graduating. Want to keep your kids from becoming a statistic? Then pay attention to how they do in the sixth grade.

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Start gathering recipes to delight your Thanksgiving Dinner guests now.  Taste of Home is always a great resource for easy, delicious recipes whether you're the hostess or need to bring a dish that makes them THINK you spent all day making it!  This recipe can accompany any main dish, it's not "just" for Thanksgiving.  Test it out on the family, they'll love it!

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Happy Halloween!  This is a slow cooker recipe, so it probably won't work for a hearty meal before your kids head out trick or treating today, however, it's so delicious....you HAVE to try this easy recipe!  You could just have a mound of mashed potatoes in the center of your stew if you don't need a theme.

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The American Cancer Society has been celebrating "More Birthdays" and started to enlist the help of actresses, actors and artists to drive their message home.  Keith Urban celebrates his birthday tomorrow, by joining the American Cancer Society's "More Birthdays" campaign.  Happy Birthday, Keith!

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The Taste of Home Cooking Show is THIS SATURDAY!  If you don't have your tickets yet, get the details and tickets .

100% of bakers that tried this Pumpkin Spice Bread recipe say they would make it again, 100%!!  It's been described as "pumpkin pie without the crust".  I'm SO making it this week-end!  Let me know what you think, if you do too!

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Congratulations to Mr. Paul David, Kindergarten Instructor at Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary School.  They are the recipient of B105's first maurices $200 grant for Service Learning.

The kids have learned why trees are vital to the environment and will plant their seedling trees today!  I think it's fantastic that kids this age are learning about the ecosystem and Carbon Cycle.  Here's more on this Service Learning Project.

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You trudge home from work through the drizzle, chilled to the bone.  You open the door to your home, the dog is SO excited to see you, the warmth of the house hits your cold cheeks and the waft of a delicious lasagna dinner tantalizes your nose.  YES!!!  You just remembered you put the Taste of Home's Slow Cooker Lasagna Recipe in the crock pot earlier and dinner is already done for the family.  Toss a salad, heat up some garlic bread and pour a glass of wine.  You're one smart cookie!  Thinking ahead to have dinner done and one important thing crossed off your list before you even left for work this morning.  Tomorrow morning, be THAT cook, here's the recipe!

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Why did we not learn this sooner?  Watch Ken (not Ken Hayes), teach you a quick, easy way to cook corn-on-the-cob!  When you take it out of the husk, there is NO SILKY STRINGS left on the corn to get stuck in between your teeth.  You watch, I'm off to the store to get some corn-on-the cob!!!

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Looks hard to make, but Taste of Home has made it easy!  The layer of orange will add festive color to your Halloween holiday table and mmmmmm, CHOCOLATE!  Get the super easy, recipe right now!

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Ken and I were just talking about this during the Breakfast Club Morning Show.  The fact that when I was young (dating myself, but in the late 60's, early 70's), wearing your seat belt wasn't a law.  In fact, it was a rare occurrence to see someone wearing their seat belt.  Don't get me wrong, they were there to be used, just, no one did.

DO NOT TRY THIS NOW, IT'S AGAINST THE LAW-but, my mom and dad use to let me STAND between them, on the front bench seat of the car when I was a toddler.  STAND!  Sometime, I thank my lucky stars to still be around.

Our local law enforcement will be out and about with increased Click It or Ticket Patrols, here's what you need to know.  You've been warned.

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