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Welcome to Let Men Be Our Heroes Week, a week for women to celebrate and appreciate men and to give them opportunities to be their heroes. This is also International Printing Week, National Handwriting Analysis Week, National Professional Salesperson’s Week, and Healthy Weight Week (for people who diet the first week of January, blow it the second week, and are ready to begin again on the third week). Today is Rid the World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day, a day to focus on healthy eating!
Wednesday is the 175th anniversary of the patent for processing and storing food in tin cans. It’s hard to believe since they’ve become household items, but camcorders have only been around for 17 years, developed on January 20, 1982. Thursday is also Get To Know Your Customer Day.
Friday is National Hugging Day, so spend your day hugging your family and friends. In fact, studies indicate that people need about 12 hugs a day to stay physically and mentally healthy! Saturday is Answer Your Cat’s Question Day, and Sunday is National Pie Day (so much for healthy eating).
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. "Pooh" story times, children can bring their Pooh toys to cuddle while they hear Pooh stories and make a Pooh bear with moveable parts. Saturday morning's 10:00 story time celebrates National Pie Day. Participants will taste vinegar pie and make worm pie.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris provides this week's book information. Tom Brokaw’s bestseller, "The Greatest Generation," is only one of many excellent new books in celebration of lives that have spanned both the Great Depression and World War II. Here are reading suggestions for learning more about the people who have shaped so much of the 20th Century.
Share the experiences of those who survived one of our country’s darkest hours in "The Great Depression: An Eyewitness History"; "We Had Everything But Money"; "Women of Valor: The Struggle Against the Great Depression as Told in Their Own Life Stories"; or "Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression."
Recent accounts of World War II include "We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese"; "The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon"; "Fragments of War: A Marine’s Personal Journey"; and "With the Tigers Over China, 1941-1942." Other perspectives on the War are offered by "A WASP Among Eagles: A Woman Military Test Pilot in World War II"; "Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne"; "Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II"; "Better Than Good: A Black Sailor’s War, 1943-1945"; and "Dachau 29 April 1945: The Rainbow Liberation Memoirs."
Finally, follow the veterans and their families as they begin to shape the postwar world in "When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America." Visit your Roswell Public Library for all of your information needs!
DID YOU KNOW?
According to Dr. Mara McErlean, associate professor of emergency medicine at Albany Medical College, to survive a heart attack when you’re alone, first take an aspirin. Then, expend as little energy as possible while waiting for help to arrive. Recline, but do not lie flat. A widely circulated Internet message suggests that heart attack victims use "cough CPR" - coughing vigorously, etc. - to maintain blood flow and restore cardiac rhythm. However, CPR is not known to work in this setting. It is important to recognize heart attack symptoms - particularly pain in the chest, arm and/or neck and shortness of breath - and then obtain expert medical care as quickly as possible. Those at risk of heart attack should always carry aspirin in case of emergency.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "You known you’re getting older when you give up all of your bad habits, and you still don’t feel good." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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