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Healthy Highlands focus for September is healthy habits for kids. Fun coloring and activity booklets are free for the taking – “Exercise Can Be Fun,” and “Practice Healthy Habits.” Too, there’s colorful laminated pages of “My Place Grocery Store Bingo” for them to play.
An available flyer gives recommendations for children’s health.
“According to the USDA approximately 41% of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight or obese.”
“School age children need 9 – 12 hours sleep.”
“Older kids should have at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day.”
In another flyer, “What’s an Added Sugar?” statistics are given that warn against too much sugar for adults. “Drinking just one regular cola per day increases the risk of Diabetes Type 2 by 26%.”
“In another study, women who consumed more than two servings of a sugary beverage each day had a 40% higher risk of heart attack or death from heart disease than women who rarely drank those beverages.”
Come by, browse the display, and take some free literature.
--Kathie
The library was surprised recently by an anonymous book donation. On the inside was written:
“Clifton Forge Public Library
Thank you all for being so amazing!!!
Thank you!
Josiah Jack.”
The title was “Ink and Salt.” We had no idea who Josiah Jack was, and why he sent us his book, and why he thinks we are so amazing, but we were appreciative nonetheless.
“Ink and Salt” listed on Amazon revealed his full name – Josiah Jack Kalian. A google search disclosed this:
Josiah Jack "The Layman's Poet" Kalian, was born in Pasadena, California, and raised in Texas and Kentuckiana (area where Indiana and Kentucky join), the 2nd of 11 homeschooled siblings.
When most kids would be at school, 9- year-old Kalian was building houses full time to help his family keep food on the table. At 17 he snuck into a movie theater and felt a destiny.
After working in search & rescue / special response diving he served in the U.S. Army as an air assault combat medic deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was battlefield promoted to staff sergeant at four years with a bronze star.
His first performance was in a production of “White Christmas” at the Amelia Earhart Playhouse in Wiesbaden, Germany.
He is of Armenian, Irish, Welsh, and Jewish descent (IMDb Mini Biography by: R. Zakarian).
“Ink and Salt” is the first of Kalian’s seven poetry books. He writes simply, like conversation, and talks of the human condition – good and bad, love and hate, hope and despair, war and peace.
He'll tell you his greatest passion is writing and promoting poetry - encouraging everyone to "write their verse" as written in “Ink and Salt,” which he published to share some of his thoughts.
The book is cataloged and ready for check out.
--Kathie
In observance of Labor Day, the Clifton Forge Public Library will be closed on Saturday August 31 and Monday September 2. The Library will re-open at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3.
New Book Display
Would you like to see how the other half lives? Actually, the half of half of one percent in “Royal Palaces.” You wouldn’t like “Formal Victorian?” Maybe “Country Victorian” would do. Something modest? How’s “English Country?” Or humbler, “Cottage Style?” We do have a “Barefoot Home” and back to earth “Treehouses of the World” if you have minimalist inclinations.
But maybe you just want to spiffy up your abode – on a budget. You could start with Martha Stewarts’ book on paint colors, or the two on window treatments and the one on trims. Or make a creative change with “Faux Finishes” on walls and furniture.
On the library shelves, call numbers 690 – 694, there are books for sheds, barns, greenhouses, patios, decks, bricklaying, concreting, etc., if you’d want to send your handyman to that section.
Though these are not Sears ’n’ Roebucks catalogs of yore, you can still come, browse, and dream!
--Kathie
Almost every week of the year, a book donation arrives, and we frequently are very surprised by unusual or prized books. One that came recently is “The Aeneid,” the 1971 yearbook for the former C&O Hospital School of Nursing which includes classes 1971 and 1972.
Would you recognize anyone in these multitude of photographs – the faculty, surgical staff, medical staff, visiting doctors, supervisors, or the Aeneid staff, and especially the young nursing students? Better, were you there?
“The Aeneid” will be shelved in the reference section and is available for your perusal.
--Kathie
There are many retired nurses here that would know all the students.
