Things to Do

Okay just a few items of info to share. Please email me anything that you think we could benefit from in our community.

USE THE BASE LIBRARY THIS SUMMER!!!

Remember to sign up for the fun summer reading program and all the activities! Book over to Bowling as well!

Every Child Ready to Read Workshop June 19, 2010 9am-4pm @ Cannon Library. By Dr. Mary Kallus, Associate Professor Reading Education, ENMU

Call Library at 784-2786 for more details and to register by 16 June

Go by and sign up as an active duty family to use their GREAT, FREE resources like:

Rosetta Stone Online Foreign Language

Tutoring program in lots of subjects for K-12

Online Resource Center

REMEMBERING OUR VETERANS...

Memorial Day is Monday and there will be events in both Portales and Clovis that day to commemorate the day and honor those who have given their lives in service to this country. If you live in Clovis, the American Legion would welcome your help in placing flags on graves at Clovis cemeteries starting at 7 a.m. Monday. Call 763-5392 if you want to know more. The Clovis VFW hosts a Memorial Day service at 10 a.m. at Lawn Haven Memorial Cemetery. In Portales, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of the Confederacy will host a service at 9 a.m. at the Portales Cemetery, and at 10:30 a.m. the American Legion will host its 64th celebration of Memorial Day, also at the Cemetery. These are all good events to remind us and our children about what Memorial Day really means.

FREE MUSEUM VISITS FOR MILITARY FAMILIES…Check this out this summer in your traveling!!!!!

More than 600 museums nationwide are offering free admission to military families all summer in a new partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The list includes some of the nation's premier art museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as science centers, children's museums and other sites in all 50 states. The program, called Blue Star Museums, is being announced Monday in San Diego, where 14 museums will participate. The offer for active duty military personnel and their families runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day. For more information, visit National Endowment for the Arts: http://www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums

LADIES FITNESS AND BASE CHAPEL STUDY

Faith and Fitness Monday Mornings from 9-11 am starting June 7. Each week we will do a fitness activity that is an introduction into the continent and country we will be studying that Wednesday.

There will be childcare and a coinciding kids program including fitness as well as some other topics. The activities for ladies will be Zumba, Jumparope, Christian Yoga, Walking, Ballroom Dancing, Step Aerobics and Weight Training.

Wonder Full World 8 week Study will be Wednesdays from 6-7:30 pm, beginning June 2. It starts with a culturally themed dinner and then an hour study of our world’s continents with a focus of a particular country each week. Kids are welcome and encouraged. They will eat dinner with us and then split off for their study of the same continent/country for the hour. The children’s learning portion will consist of Bible Lesson, Geography/Culture, Arts/Crafts and Music/Prayer.

Thank you for what you, your spouse and family do to serve faithfully and with sacrifice! Happy Memorial Day,

Eva