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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Free training helps
keep kids safe
By Edie Jones
Sisters Early Childhood Resource Team
An amazing free oppor-
tunity is being offered
to parents on Thursday,
February 12, 5:30 to 8:30
p.m. at Sisters High School.
It’s amazing because
it is free through a gen-
erous grant provided to
KIDS Center and amazing
because of the tools it gives
to parents to keep their kids
safe. Every parent knows
they are the primary steward
of their child’s life, but they
are not always sure what
this means or how to put it
into practice.
Darkness to Light’s
award-winning sexual
abuse prevention train-
ing, Stewards of Children,
gives parents the knowledge
and tools to protect their
children.
Experts estimate that
1 in 10 children will be
sexually abused before
their 18th birthday, and the
The Nugget Newspaper Crossword
By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
greatest risk to children
doesn’t come from strang-
ers but from friends and
family. Ninety-three percent
of all victims know their
abusers.
Not here in Sisters, you
say! I’m sure that’s what
parents in Madras and Bend
and all other communities
also said.
The interactive training
provides participants with
five steps to better protect
children from sexual abuse.
It gives adults tools for rec-
ognizing the signs of sexual
abuse, responding to suspi-
cions and gives simple ways
to minimize opportunities
for abuse in organizations
and in our community. The
training is ideal for any
adult who has interactions
with children.
The training is free as
are childcare and food. An
RSVP to Kim Bohme at
541-306-6062 is required
and must be received no
later than February 6.
— Last Week’s Puzzle Solved —
Science Fair features
competitions
The Sisters Science Club’s
Science Fair is featuring com-
petitions to test the knowledge
and skill of folks in the local
community.
The 2015 Sisters Science
Fair will be held Saturday,
February 21, at Sisters High
School from noon to 4 p.m.
It’s an exciting action-packed
day filled with rockets and
paper airplanes, astronomy
and biology, pulleys and
robots, and more.
Science and art join
together to create an exciting
contest called SciArt. This
contest challenges students to
find and capture science in the
art of photography and is open
to all students attending one of
the Sisters schools. Winners
will be displayed at the Sisters
Science Fair. Both art and sci-
ence must be evident in the
photo and the images must
be in a JPG format between
100K and 6Mb.
Each student can enter two
images taken between June
16, 2014 and February 13,
2015. All entries are reviewed
for technical compliance
and judged by a panel of art-
ists, scientists and engineers.
SciArt 2015 entry forms
are available on the Sisters
Science Club website at www.
sistersscienceclub.org and are
due no later than February 13.
The popular Design,
Construct, Compete (DCC)
Challenge is changing this
year. Instead of launching ten-
nis balls as in past years, this
year the challenge is to build
a device that runs — and
stops — using only mouse-
trap power. The device must
be self-contained and its only
source of power, from the
moment of a neutral release
until it comes to a complete
stop, is the potential energy
derived from one or more
standard Victor-brand wooden
snap-type mousetraps.
Participants can work
individually or in teams and
the contest is open to the
entire community. Teams
take turns releasing their cars
from behind a line. If the car
stops within the tip-off circle
marked on the basketball
court, that team advances to
the next round, where the dis-
tance is increased. The winner
is the team whose car stops
within the target circle from
the greatest distance. There
are prizes, too. First place
receives a check for $300,
second place $150 and third
place $100.
Registration forms and
rules are available at the
Sisters Science Club website,
www.sistersscienceclub.org.
Registration forms and a $25
deposit (refunded at the day of
the contest when participants
show up to compete) are due
Friday, February 6.
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