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Pickens County Progress – Books for the children of inmates goal of new ministry – It’s odd to see a table of brightly colored children’s books sitting the lobby of the county jail…
WRBCtv – Two Florida teachers turned their students’ desks into little Jeeps to make social distancing less scary – as coronavirus cases rise, many worry that young children’s excitement will quickly turn into fear…
CentralMain.com – Gardiner churchyard project reassembles stone pieces – For six years, three people have been working to locate and repair gravestones for the churchyard next to Christ Church Episcopal. With just four identified graves left, they are wondering if more stones will turn up.
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Pickens County Progress
Books for the children of inmates goal of new ministry
It’s odd to see a table of brightly colored children’s books sitting the lobby of the county jail, but a new ministry here believes their presence can make an important difference in the lives of children who have parents incarcerated.
The table is manned by volunteers from The Episcopal Church of the Holy Family, who are part of Isabelle’s Book Club, a ministry providing free and popular children’s titles to any youth (the books ranged from those for the youngest readers up to Harry Potter titles). The books are donated by Barnes and Noble for the program. […]
WRBCtv
Two Florida teachers turned their students’ desks into little Jeeps to make social distancing less scary
Teachers across the United States are preparing to welcome students back to the classroom. But as coronavirus cases rise, many worry that young children’s excitement will quickly turn into fear.
That’s why two first grade teachers in DeLand, Florida, decided to transform their students’ desks into little Jeeps.
Patricia Dovi, 35, and Kim Martin, 51, of St. Barnabas Episcopal School spent a week redesigning the desks, which feature construction paper tires, headlights and license plates. The desks have three-sided plastic dividers that serve as windshields and side windows as well as sneeze guards. […]
CentralMain.com
Gardiner churchyard project reassembles stone pieces
For six years, three people have been working to locate and repair gravestones for the churchyard next to Christ Church Episcopal. With just four identified graves left, they are wondering if more stones will turn up.
Time and circumstance have left the footstone for the daughters of Gen. Henry Dearborn in pieces.
Seventeen pieces, in fact.
But Thursday, the repaired stone was placed once again opposite the headstone for Sophia Hobart and Pamela Augusta Gilman, where it belongs.
For six years, William King, Hank McIntyre and Dawn Thistle have been working to restore the churchyard on Dresden Avenue that belonged to the former St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, tracking down the headstones and footstones that had been removed from the churchyard over the years, repairing them where needed and setting them back in place. […]