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Group pushes for teacher training to recognize epilepsy

LANSING — Advocates for children with epilepsy are pushing to train Michigan school employees to recognize seizures and provide necessary first aid. The legislation would mandate education for all of the state’s school districts to help the 13,600 Michigan children with epilepsy and their families. Elizabeth Stout, an Albion College student and youth consultant with Children’s Special Health Care Services of Michigan, said thebill is a great step. “Every patient is different when it comes to their epilepsy and how you treat it,” said Stout, who has had epilepsy for the ...

Learning about a legend

MARQUETTE — Marquette author Tyler R. Tichelaar will present his book, “Kawbawgam: The Chief, The Legend, The Man,” at the next meeting of the U.P. Notable Book Club on Oct. 14. The Crystal Falls Community District Library, in partnership with the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors ...

Child care workers’ love helps them through industry issues

HARRISONBURG, Va. — Carla Hart showed up to the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Day Care Center for a job shadow when she was a junior at Broadway High School. Now, 27 years later, she is still showing up to the job she fell in love with nearly three decades ago at the same place. “I feel like it’s a real gift to work with children, and you know you’re in the right place,” Hart said. “Seeing the smiles on their faces every day when you come to work, you feel like a rock star and they greet you with this big smile,” she said. Others in local child care said they love what ...

NMU, Bay Mills CC partner on certificate

MARQUETTE — A new teaching certificate partnership between Northern Michigan University and Bay Mills Community College, which will begin this fall, is designed to prepare K-12 teachers of Anishinaabemowin language and culture. The Michigan Department of Education granted the program ...

9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago, all is quiet. The hills around Shanksville seem to swallow sound. The plateau that Americans by the millions ascend to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial, to think of those who died in this ...

Wall to wall

By CHRISTIE MASTRIC Journal Staff Writer MARQUETTE — Student clubs at Northern Michigan University now have a new place to promote themselves. Walls at the Lydia M. Olson Library have been set aside for clubs to put up displays to educate other students about what they have to ...