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stouffville suntribune thursday july 14 2005 23 york region an association of families who have lost a child through death bereaved families of ontario founded in 1978 under the auspices of the hospital for sick children bereaved families is a selfhelp organization staffed by bereaved persons specialists in the area of grief and bereavement from the professional community serve as a resource both in the development of ongoing programmes and in the supervision and training of selfhelp group leaders this cooperation between lay and professionals has enabled bereaved families to bet ter respond to the needs of the bereaved and has helped guarantee that the best sup port is provided 18009696904 this message brought to you as a community service of the economist sunsuntribune discover arnica mature lifestyles luxurious independent rental retirement communities with hotelinspired amenities for an unparalleled way of life bringing you the best in design and amenities superior services and a friendly professional staff its the 5 star experience you will want to call home wed like to invite you to discover the arnica difference for yourself gall for your personal tour today want to keep children and books together during vacation york libraries have ways to help by mitchell brown staff writer n no i a m c a c a o more pencils more books remember the old days when every school child knew the words to that ditty things change its about a mouse arid he goes on adventures and he travels and hes afraid of stuff says selena scarmato a student at st david catholic elemen tary school in maple whos heading into grade 4 in the fall shes referring to one of her current favourite books a tale starring geroni- mo stilton an italian mouse who is the star of a series of whiskerlicking good tales about lost treasures and mysteries meanwhile her classmate domenic albanese who considers himself a fan of the works of sponge- bob squarepants has just finished the chocolate touch a modern take on the king midas tale by british author patrick skene catling this boy john he eats chocolates and everything he touches turns to chocolate he explains then he gets thirsty his friend robert tropea whos reading a book about soccer players just shrugs when asked why he would want to read books during the summer sometimes i dont have anything to do and i have a lot of books he said i like it its that kind of attitude debbie duce likes to see the vaughan librarian is one of many across york region running the td summer reading club a decade- old program encouraging children to keep reading during summer vacation children dont have to sit inside and read all day she said they can read outside in a hammock when it gets really hot they can come inside and visit the library they can take books with therh up to the cottage there are a lot of great books out there this summer the program available av all york region library branches offers children free readingrelated activities book sug gestions and a bag full of posters stick ers and other material designed to make summer reading fun thats also the philosophy behind summer advantage a series of activity books developed for kindergarten to grade 6 studentsand introduced this summer by york region educators a lot of parents find the summer to be a long time to go between school years even with camps said don mullin the unionvillebased president of summer advantage i really believe children enjoy learn ing much as they protest and as much as the parents drive it weve gotten a lot of positive response from children even without help from libraries and teachers parents can do a lot on their own to make sure children keep reading during the summer starting with pick- jng up a book themselves r if children see their parents reading it will encour th ms v staff photosteve somerville srividya rao reads with daughter anjali 3 at the new richmond green library in richmond hill duce said adding she encourages fam ilies to make 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