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September 2001
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- Thursday, September 27, 2001
- WPT's 'The Wisconsin Gardener' features fall gardening tips
- Lynn Brockmeyer
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¿Fall is the Time for Planting and Picking¿ on the next edition of The Wisconsin Gardener airing at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, September 30, on Wisconsin Public Television (WPT).
- Monday, September 24, 2001
- Help your child become a better reader
- Joan LeFebvre
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If you want your child to become a competent reader, flashcards and workbooks in preschool probably aren¿t the best answer. Reading to your young child and providing access to books are among the strongest indicators that a child will read well, says a University of Wisconsin-Extension family living agent.
- Thursday, September 20, 2001
- Credit card companies target college students
- Linda Boelter
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If you have college-age children, you probably talked about their classes and the importance of getting good grades. But did you talk about how to use a credit card?
- Visitor Center Sponsors Elderhostel Program
- David Giroux
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This summer seventeen Elderhostel participants, lead by the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center's UW-Extension environmental educators Cathy Techtmann. Kathleen Morgen and Elizabeth Post, experienced Lake Superior through a potpourri of perspectives.
- Tuesday, September 18, 2001
- Autumn lawn care tips
- John Stier
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Autumn is a great time for getting your lawn back in shape following our hot, dry summer. Many lawns have areas that were killed by hot weather diseases like Pythium blight or which failed to recover from prolonged drought. University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension turfgrass specialist John Stier offers the following tips for caring for your lawn this fall.
- Monday, September 17, 2001
- How much retail can our town support?
- Bill Ryan
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Growing communities often attract a variety of new commercial developments including both freestanding stores and neighborhood or community shopping centers.
- Pollution Prevention Week features green building
- Sherrie Gruder
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Pollution Prevention (P2) Week in Wisconsin, Sept. 17-23, will feature green building, with a theme of ¿Get Comfortable with Green Building and Save.¿
- Teen Connection follows new program on middle school boys
- Stephanie Cataldo Pabich
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Wisconsin Public Television (WPT) debuts a compelling program where middle school boys talk candidly about what¿s going on in their world. Co-produced with Northeastern Wisconsin In-School Telecommunications (NEWIST/CESA #7), What¿s Up With Middle School Guys? goes beyond conventional stereotypes of boys as they navigate through puberty. It will air at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 20.
- Thursday, September 13, 2001
- Helping our children respond to televised horrors
- Dave Riley
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Following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the news media have provided much useful advice on helping children cope with fears they may have.
- Monday, September 10, 2001
- 4-H Week kicks off one hundred years of of "Heads, Hearts, Hands and Health"
- Greg Hutchins
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National 4-H Week October 7 - 13 marks a milestone - the beginning of the youth development program's centennial year.
- Friday, September 07, 2001
- Team approach: putting research to work for Wisconsin agriculture
- Jo Futrell
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Self-directed teams are a dynamic approach to developing greater speed and flexibility in educational programs for farmers and agricultural businesses in Wisconsin. Teams of UW-Extension Agricultural and Natural Resources (ANRE) faculty and academic staff and representatives from farm organizations and industries develop and evaluate the programs.
- Tuesday, September 04, 2001
- AgrAbility finds ways to keep disabled farmers working
- Jo Futrell
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A 1996 U.S. Bureau of Census Survey of Income and Program Participation showed that 19.7 percent, or 52.6 million Americans live with a disability, meaning they experience limits to a major activity, like working, due to chronic health conditions or impairments.
- Monday, September 03, 2001
- Training course spurs tribal entrepreneurs
- Joel Bradtke
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Seven graduates of a small-business course are putting the finishing touches on their business plans as they contemplate a leap to entrepreneurship. The graduates, members of the Bad River Tribe in Ashland County, completed an Entrepreneurial Training Course presented by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) staff from UW-Superior.
- Saturday, September 01, 2001
- Parents can ease concerns about transition to new school
- Gay Eastman
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Whether it¿s preparing for the first day of kindergarten, moving to a new school district for third grade, or entering middle school, making school transitions can be both exciting and a bit scary for children and their parents.
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