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This Page Brought To You By: Facts about Flowers F lowers are a beautiful part of nature we all enjoy. With holds up the stigma and extends to the ovary that contains over 300,000 known species in all shapes, sizes and the ovules. colors, flowers are everywhere outside for us to see, smell • Other important flower parts are the petals and sepals. and enjoy. Pick a bouquet, and you can bring the beauty indoors Petals attract pollinators like butterflies, insects, bees, birds as well. and even bats. The sepals are the green petal-like parts at Most flowers have similar parts and structures, and all are the flower base that protect the developing bud. important in making seeds. Here are some more facts about • Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the anther to the flowers. stigma by a pollinating animal or the wind. When this • Flowers have gender-specific parts, either all male or female process occurs, pollen moves from the male parts of a flower to female parts. or a combination of both. The main flower parts include the • Pollen grains land on the stigma and joins with or fertilizes male part, the stamen, and the female part, the pistil. the ovule, producing new seeds. The ovary becomes • Flowers with all-male or all-female parts, such as the fruit. cucumbers, pumpkins and melons, are called imperfect. • Fruit is the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant Flowers that have both gender parts are called perfect. that contains seeds and can be eaten as food. Tomatoes, Examples of perfect flowers are roses, lilies and dandelions. peppers, string beans, eggplant and zucchini are all fruit, • The stamen has two parts: anthers and filaments. The though commonly thought to be vegetables. Even beans anthers carry the pollen and are generally yellow. A thread- and peas — technically seeds that come in pods — are fruit. like part called a filament holds up anthers. • However, some plants don’t make flowers and seeds. • The pistil has three parts: stigma, style and ovary. The stigma Nonflowering plants like ferns and mosses and fungi such is the sticky surface at the top of the pistil where pollen as mushrooms produce spores instead. is trapped and held. The style is the tube-like structure that April 2021 https://www.dkfindout.com/us/animals-and-nature/plants/parts-flower/ Kidsville News! 3 https://www.factsjustforkids.com/plant-facts/parts-of-a-flower-for-kids.html www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

Flowers brighten our lives with their beauty and fragrance and regret and sympathy to love and happiness. Around the world, the add color to the outdoor world. When given to loved ones, friends giving of flowers culturally communicates varied meanings. and family, flowers express messages and sentiments ranging from • In Arab countries, white and light- Bluebells are the flower of choice for spring daffodil as a symbol of rebirth colored flowers are gifts of thank-you gifts. and life changes. congratulations given at the times of • In Egypt, brightly colored flowers that • Flowers take on flexible meanings for birth, engagement and marriage. reflect a deceased person’s personality Americans. Daisies represent purity are sent as funereal flowers. Water lilies, and innocence; peonies, romance • In China, white flowers and mums are roses, iris, mums and cornflowers are and good luck; yellow roses, used for funerals or grave sites and are chosen for weddings. happiness and friendship; sunflowers, given in times of grief and sadness. The • The people of Ghana recognize the adoration and loyalty; orchids, French use white flowers for weddings. admiration and strength; and tulips, cheerful thoughts, confidence and love. • Red flowers and roses are symbols of love in nearly all cultures, given to Giving flowers shows you care, whether family and loved ones. you pluck a bloom from the yard or field or buy a bouquet from a store or florist. • In Mexico, yellow flowers symbolize Maybe that is why American singer death and is used in Day of the Dead Aaron Neville said, “Be honest, be nice, be celebrations. In Russia, yellow flowers a flower, not a weed.” signify the end of a relationship. • The Japanese use sunflowers to express adoration and loyalty and the iris flower to relate good news and congratulations. https://www.livinglanguage.com/blog/2017/03/21/the-meaning-of-flowers-cultural-traditions-in-giving-flowers/ https://www.myflowertree.com/blog/cultural-significances-of-flowers-around-the-world/ MATHTIME This is half of a symmetrical figure. Farmer Jones has an orchard that will hold 12 trees. Draw the other half. He will plant the same number of apple trees and pear trees. He will plant twice as many cherry trees as apple trees. How many of each will he plant? _______Apple trees _______ Pear trees _______Cherry trees 4 Kidsville News! Answers On Page 23https://www.history.com/news/wiley-post-makes-history April 2021 https://www.biography.com/explorer/amelia-earhart www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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This Page Brought To You By: ?? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ?? ?? What’s it Like to Be? ? ? ? ? ?? ?? ? ? ? ?? ? ? A Librarian? Carla Brooks What are your name and profession? Please tell find out what the customer wants or needs. I may present a program, the readers a little about your job. such as a craft, to homeschoolers or school-age children. I read reviews of books so that I can order new books for the library. With COVID-19, My name is Carla Brooks, and I am a youth services librarian and I have been filming some of our virtual programs and preparing them to children’s department manager at a regional branch. My varied duties put online. I still help customers find information and books, but this has involve all ages of people. I help children and adults find information been either over the telephone or online during the pandemic. or books to read, present programs for children from babies to teens, order books for the system and maintain the children’s collection at What do you like best about your job? my branch. Additionally, I supervise another librarian and the library I like best working with children and encouraging them to read. I associates in my department. also love being surrounded by books so that I can recommend them to patrons. You have to love books to be a librarian! When and why did you decide on this career What are some challenges you face at work? path? COVID-19 has been the biggest challenge in the last year due to not having face-to-face contact with our patrons. Presenting a children’s During college, I worked in one of the dorm libraries. I enjoyed it program is more fun when I can interact with the children. Before and discovered my supervisor was a library science student. During my COVID-19, one challenge was sometimes finding books for a customer, first year of teaching, I decided to go back to graduate school to further as we are unable to have every book in every branch. Finding the my education. This decision enabled me to blend my teaching degree book the reader wants or needs in our branch is not always possible. with a library science degree to become a school librarian. Even though Thankfully, we can borrow books from other libraries throughout the I started in public and U.S. Army libraries, I then moved to a school state of North Carolina, with the downside being that the customer must library to have a similar schedule to my young children. After 16 years, wait for the book to arrive. I moved back to public libraries as I wanted to gain new experiences. I What would you like others to know to know am in public library still today. about being a librarian? As a librarian, you can learn something new every day and have the What background or education did you obtain to satisfaction of helping others find the information they need or good enter this field? books to read. I encourage all ages to read as it is the most critical skill one will ever learn. Reading can take you anywhere without having to I have a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a leave your chair. I love seeing a child’s face light up when he or she Master of Library Science degree. My bachelor’s degree could have gets excited about a book. To me, that is one of the best feelings in been in any subject, but I have found that my elementary education the world. foundation has helped me work with children at the public library. Please describe a typical day at work. One of my primary duties is to help children, their parents and teens find information or good books to read. I do this by asking questions to 8 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021

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Freaky Flowers of the World APRIL Not all flowers and plants of the world are beautiful and nice smelling. Some April 2, 1805 Fairy tale author Hans are down-right ugly, odorous and weird, but such variations only speak Christian Andersen was born on this of Mother Nature’s wonderful sense of humor. Get ready to laugh — or day in Odense, Denmark. He created scream — at these floral freaks of nature. 168 fairy tales for children, including the “Princess and the Pea,” “The Ecuador and Peru The monkey orchid, but sweet to certain insects. Flies become trapped Snow Queen” and “The Nightingale.” Dracula simia, is a rare flower found in these in the flower’s center as one-way hairs tunnel it countries’ high elevations. Its petals and design down for pollination. April 6, 1896 After a break of look like a monkey and when in bloom, the 1500 years, the first Olympics of flower has a ripe orange smell. Indonesia The Corpse Flower, Rafflesia keithii, the modern era was held in Athens, Greece. Antarctica Happy Alien flowers, Calceolaria is a morbid yet beautiful flower — and the uniflora, were initially discovered by Charles world’s largest individual bloom. The rare plant April 11, 1968 A week after Martin Darwin near the southern tip of South America is a fungus, a parasite with no visible leaves, Luther King’s assassination, the Civil near Antarctica. The alien-shaped flowers appear roots or stems. Don’t confuse this flower with Rights Act of 1968 was signed into to smile and grow in cold climates near the rock, the Corpse Lily made famous in the “Dennis the law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. where their shape and color attract The law prohibited discrimination hummingbirds. Menace” movie. in housing, protected civil rights Australia The Flying Duck workers and expanded the rights of Southern China The strange Bat Native Americans. Plant, Tacca chantrieri, is dark and Orchid, Caleana major, resembles scary, earning it the nickname Devil a duck in flight. The unusual flower April 22, 1864 “In God We Trust” Flower, Cat’s Whiskers and Bat Head attracts sawflies with its scent. was included on all newly minted Lily. The Bat Plant thrives in the Insects land on the plant’s duckbill- U.S. coins by an Act of Congress. warm climate and tropical forest of the shaped petals, where their weight Yunnan Province in China. forces them down inside the flower April 26, 1822 Landscape architect for pollination. Frederick Law Olmsted was born on Brazil and Costa Rica The Giant Pelican Look beyond the beautiful blooms of nature to this day in Hartford, Connecticut. Flower or Giant Dutchman’s Pipe, Aristolochia also enjoy the good, bad and the ugly of the He designed many famous places, gigantea, smells offensive and stinky to humans horticultural world. including Central Park in New York, Yosemite National Park and the www.ambius.com • https://blog.flowersacrossmelbourne.cvom.au Pinehurst Resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina. Carnivorous Plants You know animals eat plants, but were you aware that some plants • Carnivorous plants are - carnivorous ones - eat animals? The word carnivorous means to eat typically herbs without wood meat from animals for survival. Often called insectivorous plants, or bark, and because of these, such flora obtains nutrients by trapping and eating insects. The Venus few fossils of these plants have flytrap, pitcher plant and bromeliad are examples of meat-eaters in the been found. horticulture world. • In some cases, plants catch • Carnivorous plants can grow in places where the soil is thin or low in prey but do not eat it. Instead, nutrients, rocky or acidic. They can grow in water or on land. they have a symbiotic, or • Charles Darwin wrote the first well-known book on these natural beneficial, relationship with wonders in 1875. another organism that feeds on • Some 630 plant species attract and trap prey and produce digestive the prey. Such is the case with enzymes. the sundew Roridula and the • Carnivorous plants must attract, kill and digest their prey of small assassin bug; the bugs eat the sundew’s trapped insects, and the plant insects. benefits from the bugs’ waste. • The plants have leaves made like pitchers or bladders, which catch insects using pitfall traps, flypaper traps, snap traps, vacuum-like bladderworts or hairy, lobster-pot traps. • These traps are either active growers and movers or passive non- movers. • The triphyophyllum is a liana, a tropical climber with sticky leaves used to catch prey. These mucus-lined leaves do not move or grow to respond to moving game but instead lure them. • The Sundew Drosera is an active flypaper plant with sensitive, sticky tentacles that move after touched by an insect and trap it. • The Venus flytrap is one of a small group of plants able to move fast. 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INTRODUCING Explorer Rewards Cole Now members ages 5-14 can track savings and redeem rewards online. With Member since 2013 all kinds of rewards to explore—such as zoos, ball parks, water parks, and museums—this new program makes it easier than ever for kids to save money, earn rewards, and start exploring. ª listerhill.com/explorer Teepees in the Come Garden Out & Play You may know about the teepee — also the soil for planting. Use a hoe or shovel to remove the grass spelled tipi and tepee — from the early where your teepee will go. Mix in some compost or composted days of American Indian history. Did cow manure to add nutrients to the soil, if needed. If your soil you know that teepees are also popular is heavy with clay, add in some sand. and fun in the garden as trellises for beans and Assemble the teepee. Construct the teepee in the outlined vines? Plants will climb and cover a teepee, creating area. Put the poles back up, pushing the bottom ends into the a cool, shady fort for you and your friends to play amended soil and tie the top ends together with a knot. in this summer. With your parents’ permission and Add twine to the bamboo pole framework. Tie off the end nt help, get ready for fun. of the twine at the top of the poles and work your way down Gather supplies. You will need bamboo the teepee to create a trellis system of overlapping strings for poles or wooden poles, 8-10 feet tall; twine; soil the plants to grow on. Be sure to leave a doorway. amendments; seeds such as Kentucky Wonder pole Plant the seedlings. After the danger of frost is past and beans or scarlet runner beans; or annual climbing night temperatures stay above 55 degrees, you can plant seeds flower seeds, like “Heavenly Blue” Morning glories 1 inch deep and 3-4 inches apart. Next, cover the seeds with or nasturtium. soil, pat down firmly and water well. When sprouted, keep the Determine the teepee size and location. Pick a plants well-watered and guide them to attach to the strings. If sunny spot and put the bamboo poles together into you planted beans, once they are tall enough to be handled, tie a teepee shape, but don’t tie them together yet. If them loosely to the teepee poles. you are happy with the location and size, outline the Use the garden teepee as a fort, play area, secret hideout teepee’s footprint with a string, garden hose or a line or reading nook and don’t forget to harvest! of flour. Put the poles aside for now. Remove the sod from the outline and amend www.artfulparent.com • www.gardeningknowhow.com April 2021 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 11

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Planting Zones G ardeners United States Department of Agriculture. use planting • To get started on your garden in the U.S., first zones to find your planting zone. Zones are broken down know what and when into 13 areas covering the entire nation, including Hawaii, Alaska to plant where they and Puerto Rico. live. Because not all • Each zone represents plant hardiness, covering a 10-degree flowers and plants will grow in the same soils, temperatures and range. Zone 1 is the coldest, with an average minimum climates, ignoring the planting zone guide is a sure recipe for failure winter temperature of -60 to -50 degrees, while the in the garden. minimum winter average temperature in Zone 13 is 60 to Understanding planting zones helps gardeners pick plants that 70 degrees. will most likely survive through the winter. The zones are most • Hardiness refers to how well a plant will survive cold significant for annuals — the plants that complete the life cycle temperatures. The planting zones only consider hardiness from germination to seed production within one growing season and and not other essential planting factors: freeze dates, freeze- then die. Check the zones out for perennials, too. Perennials are the thaw cycles and the effects of snow cover, precipitation plants that come back each year without replanting. and elevation. Let’s look at facts about planting zones. • Eleven zones divide North America. Alaska and various • Planting zones are areas you can find on a designated map upper Northern and upper Midwestern states make up the that show precisely which plants grow best in specific regions or coldest zones, while Puerto Rico, Hawaii, California and zones. Florida represent the warmest. • Most of the world’s larger countries have their own planting zones maps, some similar to what we use in America from the Where in the world is your planting zone? www.gilmour.com • www.gardeningknowhow.comwarmest What’s a Rip Current? HE When you think of waves, you might to sea. This movement can be quite intense and trying to fight the rip current think of big rushes of ocean water can knock you over or pull you out into deeper by swimming directly toward that bring seaweed, shells and water. Once in deeper water, you can easily be the coast. Instead, do your best sea critters onto the beach, but don’t forget pulled under the water by such waves, so being to stay afloat, yell and wave for help if possible that waves have the potential to be dangerous. cautious when swimming or playing in the waves and swim parallel to the shore. Rip currents will Sometimes, the waves hit the beach in a way is vital. not pull you underwater, so it’s important to stay that creates a strong current that pulls away Compared to the backwash, rip currents are a lot calm. Remember never to swim alone or when a from the shoreline, a condition known as a more dangerous because they flow on the surface, lifeguard isn’t on duty to keep yourself safe. If rip current. Every year in the United States, can be powerful and may extend some distance you aren’t sure if it’s safe to get into the water, more than 100 people drown from rip currents, from the shore. Typically, rip current sizes range ask the lifeguard. and lifeguards rescue over 30,000 more from from 50-300 feet wide — for reference, a four- While the ocean makes for a perfect day of fun their pull. lane highway is about 50 feet across. Rip currents in the sun, always be cautious. Pay attention to usually move at a speed of 1-2 feet per second, flags that may be up on the beach and be on What causes rip currents? These dangerous but some have been recorded as moving as fast as the lookout for rip currents. water conditions can form in several different ways. First, when waves travel from deep to 8 feet per second, shallow water, they break near the shoreline and which is faster generate currents as they move closer to the beach. than an Olympic Often, the direction of the current is determined swimmer. This by the ocean floor’s shape and, if it is a specific speed means that shape, rip currents result. The shape of the ocean even the strongest floor changes with big waves or storms, so the swimmers can be ideal shape for a rip current can appear suddenly. swept away by a Additionally, waves that interact with each other rip current. or crash into each other can also produce rip So, what do currents, though they are likely to be short-lived. Rip currents can also form around low spots in you do if you’re caught in a rip the ocean floor near the shore, in breaks between current? For sandbars, or even around man-made structures starters, remember like piers. that rip currents Rip currents are not the only way that water move away from moves back out to sea. After a wave breaks on the the shore, so don’t shoreline, the backwash pulls the water back out exhaust yourself 14 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021

S weet potatoes, which are sometimes referred to as yams, TM are widely associated with Thanksgiving. But these starchy tubers are so nutritious that people may want to consume The View them more often. Sweet potatoes are loaded with fiber and an Student Questionnaire assortment of vitamins, including vitamin A and vitamin C, as the Mail, bring by or email us online medical resource Healthline.com notes. A one-cup serving of YOUR PHOTO & your answers! baked sweet potatoes with the skin still on can provide as much as 65% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C, and the benefits Name of sweet potatoes don’t stop there. A 2015 study published in the medical journal Food & Nutrition Grade School Research found that anthocyanin, an antioxidant found in sweet potatoes, can protect eye cells from damage, promote healthier Fax # 256-760-9618 Email: [email protected] eyes and potentially help people maintain more robust vision as Mail: 219 W. Tennessee Street • Florence, AL 35630 they age. An animal study also found that the anthocyanin found in purple sweet potatoes can protect brain function by reducing What is your favorite...... inflammation and preventing free radical damage. Author? While further research is necessary to determine if similar effects can be enjoyed Outdoor Activity? by humans who consume sweet Thing to do that makes you happy? potatoes, the potential to improve brain Movie? CANNOT function is yet What does a dentist do? PRINT another reason to What do you want to do this summer? include nutrient- WITHOUT packed sweet PHOTO potatoes in your diet. Have you ever adopted a pet from an Animal Shelter? HELP! Truman Lost His Hat! Have you ever ridden in a convertible car? Maybe you can help him find it & Have you ever met your great-grandparents? WIN A PLUSH MINI- TRUMAN OR PUPPET!* Somewhere in this Kidsville News! What does the word talent mean to you? is Truman’s small red hat! This hat will not be on Truman. Do you speak another language? Find only his red hat! Send us the *Subject to form below for a chance to win! Have you done anything nice for someone lately? availability. Tthhee nnaemxteisosfuteheofwKinidnsevrisllwe iNllebwesi!n Last month’s hat was on page 8. March Winners of a Mini-Truman What is an archeologist? Case Green Jenna Pearson of Rogersville of Sheffield Do you like to read aloud? Pick yours up at the Courier Journal Office 219 W. Tennessee St., Florence Email to [email protected] MUST HAVE Or Mail entry to us by April 23 PERMISSION TO PRINT Parent/Guardian Permission Hat on pg. _________ Your Name I give Kidsville News! permission to print my CHILD’S PHOTO & opinion on mail to: Address Kidsville News! Town any questions listed above. I do realize my child’s first name, school and grade could 219 W. Tennessee St. School Florence, AL 35630 be printed in this publication. I have enclosed or emailed my CHILD’S PHOTO. Phone Parent/Guardian SIGNATURE Date April 2021 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 15

More Extraordinary Women of Florence-Lauderdale County By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Local History - Genealogy Department Since March was Women’s History Month, last month and this month times. During the Great Depression, the school suffered financial woes we are briefly examining the lives and legacies of a few exceptional and was purchased by the Florence City Board of Education. In 1906 women of Florence and Lauderdale county. Maud taught a six weeks course at the University of the City of New York before taking a series of courses at Radcliffe College in Boston, Bertha P. Katz-Klenova (1892-1985). Miss after which she returned to Florence. Repeatedly offered jobs in fields Bertha Klenova was born the youngest of eight paying much better, Miss Lindsay turned them all down as her first and children to Orthodox Jewish parents, lumber last love was always children and their education. Miss Maud authored merchant Peretz Katz and his unnamed wife, in at least fourteen books of stories, songs and poems for children, many of Klenovka, in the Province of Vilna, on the Polish- which have been reprinted by a local publisher. Maud's books have been Lithuanian border. At that time Vilna was still a read across the US for over 70 years and translated into several foreign part of Czarist Russia, 25 years before the Russian languages. Her philosophy and educational methods are studied to this Revolution began in 1917. As a child in Poland, day. In 1923 Maud was inducted into the Florence Exchange Club's some of Bertha's closest friends were the Boksztanin prestigious Book of Golden Deeds. Miss Maud never married, and lived kids, children of a middle-class Roman Catholic at a couple of different addresses in Sheffield with her sister Mattie Isabel Polish family who were the neighbors of the Katzes. The nearest village Lindsay. with a good school was 35 miles away, so Mr. Katz and Mr. Boksztanin, who remained lifelong friends, pooled their resources to hire a tutor for Services were held at First Presbyterian Church in Sheffield by church their children. Ms. Klenova fled Russia on in 1918 during WWI and pastor Rev. John D. Hungarland and Rev. JC Alleyn, Rector of Grace came to Florence from New York City in 1938. After fleeing Russia and Episcopal Church, Sheffield. Supposedly, fellow Tuscumbia native Helen before eventually being employed in 1939 as a linguist at TVA for 23 Keller wrote a touching eulogy. Maud was buried in the Winston family years, she worked at the US embassy in Petrograd and the US Consulate cemetery in Tuscumbia. in Java. She spoke six languages fluently and translated 14 in her job as a science translator. Bertha was a supporter of the Florence-Lauderdale Following Miss Maud's death in 1941, the kindergarten was renamed Public Library and the author of two books, including People, Places and in her memory. in Person, a collection of poetry, and her memoirs (which we have in our Local History-Genealogy Dept). Miss Klenova was also a founding Miss Josephine \"Josie\" Milner (1869-1956). member of the Tri-Cities Community Theater as well as an original patron Miss Milner was one of four children born to of the Muscle Shoals Concert Association. She also served with the English immigrant Joseph Milner and his wife League of Women Voters, the Mental Health Association, the Salvation Margaret Ann Woodell of Tuscumbia, who he Army Women's Auxiliary and the Birmingham, AL chapter of Hadassah. married in 1860. Joseph and the Milners came to Miss Klenova was a member of Jewish Temple B'Nai Israel. America from Leeds, in Yorkshire, England in the In 1982 Florence Mayor Bill Batson proclaimed Sept. 19, Bertha 1840s and Joseph made just enough money in the Klenova Day, and the city celebrated in her honor. Mrs. Klenova died in 1849 California Gold Rush to return to Florence September of 1985 at 93 years old. and open up a chemist shop (or drugstore), in 1854. The elder Milner was assisted in running the Miss Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874-1941). store by his son, James Woodell \"Jim\" Milner in Miss Maud Lindsay was one of the most beloved the firm Joseph Milner & Son. Jim ran the store, and respected educators in Florence. On September assisted by his sisters, after their father's 1894 death. The modern Milner- 3, 1898 the Florence Free Kindergarten Club, whose Rushing Drug Store chain is the successor to Joseph Milner & Son. The aim it was “to promote in every way possible the Milners were devout members of the Methodist Church. Miss Josie's welfare of the children of Florence” and “to maintain uncle, Isaac Milner, was a Methodist minister and he and his father, a free Kindergarten in East Florence,” was founded Josie's grandfather, James, founded Milner's Chapel ME Church near with a board of directors by Miss Lulie Jones in Greenhill. The Woodells were Presbyterian, and Josie and her siblings the home of her sister Mrs. John R. Price on Wood and her mother were members of First Presbyterian Church in Florence. Avenue. The board soon founded the \"Florence For many years Miss Josie was the director of the Primary Department of Free Kindergarten,\" the first in the state. Maud Lindsay was born in the Sunday school at First Presbyterian. Miss Milner was also a teacher Tuscumbia and was hired as teacher. She was the daughter of Alabama and principal at the 5th Ward and Gilbert Schools from 1913-1921, and a governor (1870-1872) and Scottish immigrant Robert Burns Lindsay and teacher at Gilbert until her retirement in 1942. Principal Grady Richards his wife Sarah Miller Winston, and the niece of former Florence educator who succeeded Miss Josie, said of her, \"She saw a temple alive in the and newspaper editor, Dr. David R. Lindsay. form of a child.\" She was highly civic-minded and was voted Woman In 1898 the kindergarten was conducted in the old Sixth Ward School of the Year in 1953 by Florence's Business and Professional Women's in East Florence with Maud Lindsay and her assistant Blanche Moore as Club. She was a charter member of Florence's Firenzi Literary Society, a teachers; by 1899 it had moved into the basement of the new Brandon charter member of the Florence Free Kindergarten, a charter member of School in East Florence and Maud Lindsay and her new assistant Mary the league of women voters, and a charter member of the Gilbert School B. Morgan were teaching 40 children by January of that year. The PTA. Miss Josie never married and died on Valentine's Day 1956. She is kindergarten still exists to this day, though the house in which it has buried with her family in the Florence City Cemetery. been held since 1913 has been relocated from its original location on Ironside Street across the street from the old Brandon School numerous 16 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021

A Beloved Staple Don’t with a Sweet Miss Out! Twist Spaces Are Limited. Sweet potatoes are a beloved side dish come the holiday season, as the root vegetables perfectly complement turkey and roasts. Despite the popularity of sweet potatoes, some misconceptions about them have prevailed. The terms sweet potato and yam often are used interchangeably, but When cooking, for they are two different plants. According safety, always get help to the cooking resource Epicurious, from an adult first. sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family, while yams are related to palms and grasses. Yams are native to Africa, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and Central America, and sweet potatoes are grown primarily in the United States, although likely brought from Central or South America. One similarity between sweet potatoes and yams is that they are not potatoes but tuberous root vegetables. Sweet potatoes range in color from yellow to dark orange and even purple. Yams have brown or black scaly skin. They can produce off-white, purple or red flesh that is starchier and drier than sweet potatoes. Most North American Mike Randall, REALTOR® stores do not sell genuine yams. Sweet potatoes can be prepared in both sweet and savory ways, making them Associate Broker equally at home on the dinner table or for dessert. Sweet potato fries are one of 256.366.9779 the tastier ways to enjoy sweet potatoes. This recipe for Baked Sweet Potato [email protected] Fries courtesy of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission can make for mikerandallhomes.com the perfect side when serving steak or burgers. Baked Sweet Potato Fries Serves: 8 7 medium sweet potatoes 1/3 cup olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt Directions Florence • Sheffield • Killen Preheat oven to 400 F. Line 2 baking sheets with foil; spray Hey Kids with nonstick cooking spray. For crispier results, place a metal Don’t Forget To rack on each baking sheet. Peel the sweet potatoes, if desired and cut into 1/4-inch strips. Combine sweet potatoes with oil and salt in a large bowl; using your hands, toss to coat. Spread sweet potatoes in a single layer on racks or foil without crowding; set aside remaining sweet potatoes. Bake until crisp, about 30 minutes, flipping halfway through. Repeat until all the sweet potatoes are baked. Send It! Send us YOUR Artwork or poems! We will print yours in Kidsville News! See Page 7 to find out how! April 2021 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 17

Local History Written by Billy Warren apprentice to a stonecutter and eventually became an official stonecutter himself. Did You Know? In 1913, he moved to Florence, Alabama, and purchased The Story of a Sculpture a stonecutting business from a Mr. Ellridge; it was located on North Seminary Street where the Shoals Theater stands Historians use both primary sources and secondary sources while today. He named his business “The Florence Marble Works,” doing their research projects. Can you guess what the difference the name which has been carried forward with later owners might be between the two types of sources? Simply stated, a primary of the business. source might be an interview with a person who has direct knowledge regarding the subject being researched. Or it might be a handwritten The beautiful stonecutting work by Mr. Stoves can be found journal or diary of an individual person. A secondary source, on the throughout the Florence City Cemetery on Tennessee Street other hand, might be an interview with a person who knew the person in downtown Florence. But what the historian mentioned with direct knowledge of the subject being researched. Or it might be a above found to be not only interesting in the transcript, but written summary of the contents of a diary or journal which belonged also very exciting, was the story of a sculpture done by Mr. to someone else. You get the idea, right? Stoves which was mounted in 1923 over the front entry of Gilbert Elementary School in north Florence (the building Well, a local historian now owns a copy of the transcript of an no longer exists). Mr. Stoves carved this sculpture – also interview that took place on January 24, 1980. The person being called a stone relief – of two children seated at a table, using interviewed was Mr. James Abbott Stoves, a local stonecutter and his own two children as the real-life models for his work. sculptor. As you will see, his story proved to be very interesting, indeed. Now, here is the rest of the story. When Gilbert Elementary Mr. Stoves was born in Durham County, England. When he was School closed in 1980 and Hibbett School opened that same thirteen (13) years old, he moved to America with his family – first to year, the stone relief carved by Mr. Stoves was mounted on an Pennsylvania, then to Birmingham, Alabama. His father was a coal outside wall at the rear of the Hibbett School building. Then, miner who was killed in the explosion in a coal mine. when the new Florence-Lauderdale Public Library opened in 2002, the sculpture was moved from Hibbett School to the Mr. Stoves had planned to be a coal miner, too, but when his father library and mounted in the gable over the front entry that died in an explosion, he changed his mind and started training as an faces Wood Avenue where it remains today. So, this is the story of an important hand-carved sculpture that began its life at an elementary school, traveled to another school and ended at the public library, where it adds just the right touch to that beautiful building. SOMETHING TO DO: 1. Be sure to take your camera or smart phone with you when you go to the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library so you can take a picture of this beautiful sculpture. 2. Ask your parent or another adult to tell you the story of a piece of furniture or another object at your house that has been passed down within your family or among several owners outside your family before it came to your house. 3. Pretend that you are a particular object that has had several homes. Write a story about your adventures. 4. Using a reference source, write a brief definition of these terms: a. Primary b. Secondary c. Transcript d. Apprentice e. Sculpture 18 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021

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See the ISS - International Space Station The U.S. Or go to https:// Space spotthestation.nasa.gov station is and type in Florence, AL at a height of and click on the Florence about 250 miles pin and click on View. and goes around the Earth every hour and a half at a speed of 17 I will use the following thousand miles per hour. There list from a previous month is so little air to slow it that it to point out how to choose continues to orbit around the Earth the best viewing times. much as the Moon orbits the Earth, You would like the ISS only the ISS is much closer. to pass high in the sky so The crews aboard the ISS stay focus on the \"Max Height\" on for 6 months on average. For column. If it passes example, on August 2nd, 2020, directly overhead, that the SpaceX spacecraft undocked would be a Max Height from the ISS and carried two of of 90° so one looks for the men back to Earth. Then on October the largest angles. On 14, a different rocket carried 3 astronauts Mar 12 it passed 81° above the (1 woman and 2 men) back up to the Space horizon (greenish line) which is Station. Astronauts, men and women, have great BUT notice that is at 6:03 \"manned\" the International Space Station AM. If you like getting up before for 20 years. the Sun, then you would choose Because the change of orbit caused by that date. I confess that I prefer to air resistance and the effect of sunlight choose evening viewing times for is so variable, the exact orbit can not be my convenience so I would choose precisely predicted more than a month in Mar 17 or 18 (yellow) since they advance. For that reason, I cannot, in this occur in the evening and feature article, exactly state when and where to 65°. Notice for Mar 17, it first look to see the ISS when you read this. But I can tell you how to appears 10° above the horizon in find the best times to view the ISS. It takes about 5 minutes for it the Southwest (SW), moves as high as 65° and then disappears at to cross the sky above your head and it can be much brighter than 29° above the NNE horizon, being visible for 5 minutes. the brightest of stars. One sees the sunlight reflected off its sides Another when the sun is below the horizon and the sky is dark, usually an method is to hour or two after sunset, or before sunrise. Go to this NASA download website the app \"ISS Detector\" to to find your smart the best phone. It will viewing also tell you this month. when and where NASA will to look for the give you ISS. the best times for Happy Viewing! Florence, © 2021 Dr. David R. Curott, UNA Professor Emeritus AL, because the entire Shoals area share the same viewing. 22 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021

ParenTown’s KidShape The Facts about Childhood Asthma Difficulty breathing can be a terrifying Asthma & Immunology. ACAAI. Quick-relief medications can quiet the experience for anyone, and especially SymptomsofasthmaAsthmacanhavemultiple wheezing and coughing that occurs during an for parents watching their children attack. Long-term medications help with internal suffer. People experience breathing issues due causes and symptoms. AAAI says coughing, inflammation. Inhalers and nebulizers are to weather, allergies or illness. But for children recurrent bronchitis, wheezing and shortness of commonly used to deliver asthma medications. and adults who have asthma, breathing troubles breath, especially when exercising, are common ACAAI says that most asthma medications are can be a regular occurrence. symptoms. Some people may notice a whistling considered safe when used as directed. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & sound when breathing out. Also, frequent Immunology says children who have recurrent colds that settle in the chest may be indicative In addition to medications, asthma patients wheezing, chest tightness, cough or shortness of asthma. are advised to get flu immunizations, of breath may have one or more asthma forms. avoid allergy triggers and routinely wash Asthma can make it challenging to breathe and Increasing asthma rates No one is sure why their hands to prevent colds and other typically occurs when the lungs swell and fill with more children are now developing asthma than respiratory illnesses. mucus and airways become smaller. The health before. It could be because parents are more resource reports some people have described in tune with symptoms and seeking treatment. With accurate diagnosis and treatment, asthma as feeling like breathing through a straw. Others surmise that increased time spent children with asthma can live healthy lives that What is asthma? According to WebMD, indoors being exposed to indoor air pollution, include physical activity. School-aged children asthma is the leading cause of chronic illness dust and secondhand smoke may be blamed. can control symptoms both at home and at in children, affecting roughly 7 million children Oversanitation, or not enabling children to be school with parents and school administrators’ in the United States alone, and the numbers are exposed to enough bacteria and viruses to boost help. steadily rising. Its condition can occur at any their immune systems, is another theory. age, but most children are diagnosed by age five. Why people get asthma is generally a Testing for asthma Apart from allergy mystery, but it tends to run in families. Those tests, a doctor may recommend a pulmonary who have a history of asthma or allergies function test to see how air flows through tend to get asthma. Allergists may perform the lungs. Chest X-rays may highlight skin or blood tests to see if children have other symptoms, and doctors may test allergies that can trigger asthmatic symptoms, for inflammation. advises the American College of Allergy, Managing asthma Asthma has no cure, but the illness can be managed effectively with lifestyle changes and medications. Treatment depends on the severity and frequency of symptoms, advises ANSWERS MATHTIME Spatial visualization helps children to complete this drawing. An understanding of the vocabulary as well as the concept of symmetry is important. (three apple trees, three pear trees and six cherry trees) Students can draw pictures or use different colored markers to distinguish between and among the three types of trees when modeling this problem. Guess and check is a good strategy here with several conditions to be satisfied. Knowledge Power Answers: This puzzle answer 1. B 1 2 for th3 e Lauderdale 2. B County Issue Only 3. C 4. D 5. C 4 56 6. D 1 6 What’s the Difference? April 2021 Di erences: 1) owers di erent colors 2) eye colors 3) color inside of mouth 4) light bulb color 5) cirlce of grass misssing under tree 6) red outline around shape 7) no polka dots on roof 8) light inside window 9) color of roo ng shingles 10) chimney color www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 23

Spring Is Here! It’s time to get outside and play! Whatever your sport, it’s easy to get hurt. Take these precautions to avoid injuries. Wear Protective Gear This is anything you wear to keep you from getting hurt. Helmets are the most common and protect your head! Make sure you wear a helmet, that you have the right helmet for your sport, that it fits correctly, and that you wear it correctly! Examples of other sports protective gear are: mouth guards, pads, wrist guards, knee guards, cleats, etc. Talk to your coach or parents to know what to get! Warm Up Always stretch and get loosened up before playing. If you get your muscles ready to play, you are much less likely to get hurt. Know The Rules Of The Game Know what’s legal and what’s not. ALWAYS obey the rules. Rules are in place to keep injuries from happening. Watch Out For Others Communicate on the field and follow the rules meant to protect others. Don’t Play While Injured This is the most important. After getting hurt, it is tempting to jump right back into the game. This is a bad idea! Listen to your parents, doctors, and coaches. Stay Safe! 342 Cox Blvd. • Sheffield • 256-383-4473 shoalsprimarycarellc.com 24 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals April 2021