Right before the Missouri Special Olympics holds its Summer Games in Columbia this weekend, an Olympic Torch Run was held in Springfield with 35 law enforcement officers serving as escorts in a 5K run.
The weather is getting warmer and summer vacation is almost here.
A new book series “Outdoor School” helps your kids appreciate nature.
“Kids need to spend more time outside,” Author Mary Kay Carson told WTOP. “There’s all kinds of studies about how the outdoors is a very stimulating atmosphere. … There’s always new things to see and different things do. Also, it’s important for everyone that the next generation has an appreciation for the natural world.”
Carson joins a writing team of Jennifer Pharr Davis, Jennifer Swanson and Haley Blevins, as well as illustrators Aliki Karkoulia, John Dawson and Emily Dahl.