WEATHER SAFETY: With months of snow ahead of us, here’s an idea for a creative project to keep children and teens occupied for awhile.
Works by the winners of the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency’s 2017 Pennsylvania Severe Weather contests will be seen across the state.
Students in grades one through six are invited to enter the poster contest. To take part, they are asked to design a safety poster with the message “When Thunder Roars GO INDOORS!”
The poster competition ends March 7, 2017. The winning poster will be posted for visitors to see in Pennsylvania state parks.
For students in grades seven through 12, a video contest is being held in which students are asked to record and edit a 25-second video about flood safety with the message “Turn Around Don’t Drown.”
The video competition ends Jan. 31, 2017. The winning video will play on television stations across the state.
Both contests are for Pennsylvania students only. Go to ReadyPA.org/Contest to learn more.
What a great thing for aspiring artists and filmmakers to put on their resume.
How are the adults handling being trapped inside? Anybody working on any fun projects? Maybe you’re getting outside anyway, snow be darned. Good for you.
Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, husband of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, has been quoted as saying, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Soon. Spring will come soon.
ARETHA: It was this day in 1983 that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first female artist: “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame website states, “As a measure of her impact, Aretha Franklin has charged 43 Top Forty singles since 1961. Franklin has also earned 18 Grammy Awards, the recent coming in 2007. In addition, she has sung at the inaugurations of two U.S. presidents (Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) and received the Presidential Medal of Honor from another (George W. Bush).”
What a career.
