Image source: The Cayman Islands Mangrove Rangers
The Cayman Islands Mangrove Rangers will be establishing a new Junior Ranger program before the end of March, reports Ranger manager Dinara Perera.
“Following our Mangrove Discovery Camp last month we received a large number of requests from both students and parents for more programs for young people. Since then we have also heard from many parents whose children are interested in both science and community involvement projects,” says Ms Perara.
The Junior Rangers will be aged between 11 and 16 and will work closely with the Mangrove Rangers to learn all about Cayman’s mangroves. They will explore the mangrove ecosystem and its close interrelationship with the coastal lagoons of seagrass and reefs. In addition, she explains, there will be some exciting field trips to places like the Central Mangrove Wetlands – the heart of Grand Cayman.
Color Us Connected: Keeping in touch with our history
Fosters Daily Democrat
This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about a person in their town devoted to history.
By Guy Trammell Jr.
African history was passed from generation to generation by storytelling, as dramatized in the television series “Roots.” The same is true for Indigenous Americans. Much of the world’s history has been overlooked, or covered with Correction Fluid, to highlight and emphasize only a European perspective of events. Preservation of history determines who we are. If we don’t know where we came from, we don’t truly know who we are.
1) Minnesota Children s Museum Ten new exhibits like The Scramble, a four-story tube slide, and Maker s Space, a studio offering lessons from a rotating lineup of artists, as well as an expanded toddler area, delight kids at the recently renovated museum. As a bonus, wander a few blocks to sweetly nostalgic Candyland candy store. mcm.org Minnesota Children s Museum
Minnesota Children s Museum
2) Beaches You ll find beaches throughout the Twin Cities and their lake-dotted suburbs. Our picks? Lively Lake Harriet with its cool band shell, canoe rentals and a rose garden (minneapolisparks.org) or the quiet beach in Fort Snelling State Park (dnr.state.mn.us).
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1) 1880 Train Every kid beams when when the steam whistle blows on this historical train that chugs between Hill City and Keystone in summer and fall. Even if you don t take a ride, it s fun to watch it rumble into the depot. 1880train.com
2) Museum at Black Hills Institute Learn about South Dakota s
T-rex skeletons, triceratops and ancient sea fossils at this Hill City museum run by the folks who unearthed the
T-rex named Sue displayed at Chicago s Field Museum. A bonus: Everything Prehistoric is one of the area s best souvenir shops, with field guides, educational games, rocks and fossils. bhigr.com/museum