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Enriching Education: Great Outschool Campout

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This July, Outschool is hosting their Great Outschool Campout - where kids can join in on summer-inspired activities like a virtual encounter with live reptiles and amphibians. Learners can also join a Leave No Trace workshop to empower youth to enjoy the outdoors responsibly. More details can be found at the Campout homepage. Learners will want to join the Campout Group where a range of camp-themed activities and challenges will be posted throughout the month of July.

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Caring Causes - Wreaths Across America: Giving in July

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Today, national nonprofit Wreaths Across America (WAA) announces the kickoff to its annual Giving in July campaign! For WAA, this is a month dedicated to celebrating local groups and individuals who participate in the organization’s $5 pay-back Sponsorship Group Program. Through this unique program supporters ‘Do Good Twice’ through each $17 sponsorship made.

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Caring Causes: Persevere

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During the summer, statistics show there is a 35% increase in juvenile crimes. This increase can be attributed to several factors including warmer weather, no school, boredom, and the fact that daylight hours are longer. America is currently home to more than 4 million youth aged 16-24 who aren’t in school or working. They are known as Opportunity Youth because of their potential value to our communities and economies.

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Travel Tidbits: The Bees Knees Barn

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The Bees Knees Barn , a unique piece of architecture nestled in the Southern California high desert landscape. The story behind this nail-less constructed barn is equally captivating, centered around Gene Harrington, an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and visionary. Gene was one of the first merit scholars in 1976, earning a scholarship to Cornell University.

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Healthy Habits: Cholesterol passport for adolescents to halt the world’s deadliest disease – atherosclerosis

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The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights that everyone has the right to life could as well be extended to include the right to an “elevated cholesterol-free life”, a viewpoint by Dr Andrew Agbaje of the University of Eastern Finland, published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, concludes. Globally, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease has remained the leading cause of death in the past decades, despite huge advancements in medical treatment.

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Music Minute - The MuchMusic Experience Tour

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Tickets Available Now Here Following the worldwide debut at SXSW 2023, the documentary feature, 299 Queen Street West, is coming to Canadian venues. After each screening will be an Intimate & Interactive with iconic MuchMusic VJ’s and the Director, Sean Menard. With unprecedented access to the MuchMusic archives, the two-hour feature tells the origin story and meteoric rise of the seminal music and pop culture brand, highlighting its beginnings as a scrappy Canadian television upstart. 299 Q

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Smart Safety: Summer Safety for Kids

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I had a chance to interview Corie Wagner, sr. editor, industry research for SafeHome.org , to get information about kids and safety over the summer. Why can summer activities lead to more ER visits? There are a few reasons for this: in the summer, kids play outside more. They're participating in contact sports and swimming. Swimming alone caused nearly 69,000 ER visits among kids last summer.

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