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10 New Year’s Resolutions Parents Would Like Kids to Make

Kids New Years Resolutions for 20131. When I say that I completed my homework I will be telling the truth.

2. I will keep my room clean without being forced to do so.

3. I will listen to the advice of my parents and understand that they know what is best for me.

4. I will not wait until the night before a school project is due and tell my parents that I need their help to complete.

5. I will go to bed on time without secretly playing video games when my parents think I am sleeping.

6. I will spend at least as much time learning about my school subjects as I do watching YouTube videos to learn how to be better at sports or video games.

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Meet the Young Marines

Emerald Empire Young Marines

Emerald Empire Young Marines in Veterans Day Parade

The Young Marines are a Drug Demand Reduction and leadership program supported by the United States Marine Corps. The Young Marines are sponsored by the Marine Corps League. Overall the Young Marine program teaches you leadership, responsibility, knowledge, respect, patience and how to live a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

 

The Young Marines were founded in 1959 in Waterbury Connecticut. Now Young Marine units are found all over the United States and Internationally.

 

Some of the activities we do include camping, field training, parades, first aid, CPR, map, navigation, shelter building, survival, drug resistance training and a lot more.

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Meet Gold Medal Winner Austin Klecka

Austin Klecka javelin gold medal winner AAU JR Olympics Houston 2012

Austin Klecka gold medalist center

Meet my teammate Austin Klecka. Austin just won the Gold Medal in youth boy’s javelin at the AAU National Jr. Olympics in Houston, Texas. Austin is a member of the Blazing Billies Track Club in Pleasant Hill, Oregon.

 

Austin is 14 years old and has been throwing a javelin for 3 years. He is a really great guy who helps his younger teammates and really did deserve earning the gold medal.

 

Last month in the AAU Western JR. Olympics in Reno, Nevada he also won the gold medal and set a new western meet distance record of 147’ 6” for the 14 year old age group. [Read More...]

Economy and Money Talk

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Trash is Cash

As kids, teenagers and even adults we often do not realize just how lucky we are to be raised in the United States. Way too … [Read More...]

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Government and Political Talk

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Pearl Harbor Remembered December 7, 1941

At 7:55am on the morning of December 7, 1941 under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo 165 planes attacked Pearl … [Read More...]

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1st Grade Christmas

A huge OoRah to the first grade students of Puster Elementary School, Fairview, Texas for a wonderful Christmas video. A … [Read More...]

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Meet James Paul a Free Runner a Free Man

Dream World is about a young free runner named James Paul. James makes a visit to London where he is reminded how friendship … [Read More...]

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