On May 21, 2011 the community of Grand Isle, Vermont gathered to assemble a new playground for our school. Check out this time lapse video as we assembled the new wheelchair accessible playset. Special THANKS TO EVERYONE who helped make this project happen for our children. Here is a partial list of our supporters, but there are way to many to list… Thank You! Jodi Butler, Our Hero! Teri Geney and The Grand Isle PTA Mike Talbot Scott Crady Cheryl Vantine and The Town of Grand Isle Grand Isle Fire Department Ben & Jerry’s Foundation Land and Water Conservation Fund Ronald McDonald House Pettinelli & Associates, Miracle Play Equipment Savage View Farm, The Bullis Family Milton Rental & Service Islands Excavating Inc. The Grand Isle Community (Way Too Many To List!!) Let us know if you would like to be listed here.
Resistance bands are useful in exercising biceps and triceps muscles. Strengthen the arms withtips from a personal trainer in this free video on basic exercise equipment. Expert: Tina Anderson Bio: Tina Anderson is a mother of three, a personal trainer and created The Playground Fitness routines based on work-outs for moms, grandparents and other caregivers taking children to the park. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
Kevin is stanko by the end of this play time at the park. Stanko means tired in Italian. This starts out with me playing ball with Kevin. In a scene where Kevin is on some playground equipment with other kids, there is music playing. He’s the only kid dancing to the music. Even when he was just two, he had rhythm! In some of these scenes he asks for help, but you can see the independent can-do spirit of Kevin in these videos. At the very end Kevin, Jim and I are sitting in the backseat of a car. You can see some of the countryside. I think Kevin is a little camera shy.
The Sims 3 is a 2009 strategic life simulation computer game developed by The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims 2. The Sims 3, an instant success, sold 1.4 million copies in its first week and dominated the sales charts over a month later. Critics issued mostly positive reviews. The Sims 3 gained an 86% score from aggregator Metacritic. The Sims 3 is built upon the same concept as its predecessors. Player controls their own Sims in activities and relationships in a similar manner to real life. The gameplay is open-ended and indefinite. Sim houses and neighborhoods are entirely in one continuous map. The developers stated, “What you do outside your home now matters as much as what you do within.” The game includes an optional feature called “Story Progression”, which allows all Sims in the neighborhood to autonomously continue as if the player was controlling them, such as grow up, get married, get jobs and promotions, have children, build or buy their dream house while the player isn’t playing. The Sims 2 used a reward system called Wants and Fears. This is replaced with a new system called Wishes in The Sims 3. Fulfilling a Sim’s wish contributes to the Sim’s Lifetime Happiness score and mood. Some wishes, such as “Go to the Park”, may add little points to their lifetime happiness while “Have A Baby Boy” may add thousands of points. In The Sims 2, Wants and Fears also contributed to a Sim’s …
but…. their playground’s a petri dish (just a reminder that we are part of their grand experiment) Mom banned from McDonald’s over crusade (THEY SAY ‘SHE’ IS BAD FOR BUSINESS) – WHAT???? An Ariz. woman who says she made an alarming discovery gets a stern warning from the company. » Her complaint www.azfamily.com Exposé gets Valley mom banned from McDonald’s PHOENIX — An Arizona State University professor’s campaign against dirty restaurant playgrounds got her banned from several McDonald’s in the Valley. Dr. Erin Carr-Jordan, a mother of four, started recording and posting videos of trashy playgrounds, and quickly built an international following. Her lab tests, which revealed dangerous bacteria on the equipment, have been featured on network broadcasts and in major national newspapers. This week, Carr-Jordan was notified by an East Valley franchisee’s attorney that she is no longer allowed in any of his McDonald’s restaurants that have playgrounds. “Rather than have someone come into the playgrounds and do the right thing and make them clean and safe, they told me not to come in anymore,” Carr-Jordan said. In a statement, a McDonald’s spokesman said the corporation had been working with the doctor to address her concerns, but said she’s become “disruptive” to employees and customers in the restaurants owned by the franchisee. The entire statement is below. Carr-Jordan says even though she’s banned, other volunteers are coming forward. “I’ve had emails from all over …