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What a great year its been. Looking back over the last 12 issues of Owensboro Parent reminds me of all the great stories weve been able to share.

We started with a Lane Goodwin cover story in October. That issue is one of my favorites. The way it came together was remarkable. The magazine was due to the printer on Monday morning and on the Friday morning before I got a phone call. Have you seen our Facebook? No, I hadnt. I pulled it up and to my surprise hundreds and eventually thousands of our readers were lobbying for us to put Lane on the cover, to put a hold on our Cover Contest and give him the spotlight. We couldnt have agreed more. But we had less than 72 hours to go to print. Could we really change our entire magazine?

We knew if we were going to focus on childhood cancer we had to find as many children in our region as we could who were battling this monster. So we set out with the help of readers to find them all and interview all the families. It was our 72-hour mission to find their stories and find out how we could help them by telling their stories.

With only hours to go, we received an amazing portrait painted by Aaron Kizer. We worked it into the cover, edited over a dozen stories and got the October issue to the printer.

The response was phenomenal! We shipped magazines all over the country and thousands of readers read and shared the story online. The impact and support for those with childhood cancer still continues today.

We hope to continue sharing amazing stories and listening to what you feel is important. Thats why we are exciting to announce our new magazine: Owensboro Living. Owensboro Living is a culmination of everything we have learned about what our readers love in Owensboro Parent but will now focus on our entire community. We know Owensboro Parent will continue to grow and we hope you are as excited about Owensboro Living as we are!

Stay tuned!

Jason Tannerjason@owensboroparent.com

Publisher/Creative Director

Jason Tanner

jason@owensboroparent.com

Editor

Ashley Sorce

ashley@owensboroparent.com

Advertising Sales

Robert Williams

robert@owensboroparent.com

Graphic Designer

Taylor West

taylor@owensboroparent.com

Distribution Manager

Steven Morris

Contributors

Katie Albers

Dr. Brian Gannon

Christina Dalton

Elaine Martin

Danny May

Jaime Rafferty

Melody Wallace

Lora Wimsatt

Printing

Greenwell Chisholm

Owensboro, Kentucky

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the lessons of summer [08]

parental control [10]

back to school roller coaster [12]

taking the leap [14]

dont be a stranger [16]

the new owensboro [18]

photos from Facebook [26]

[28] lights, camera, taken

[30] grief isnt just for grownups

[32] owensboro air show

[35] your childs best vision

[37] course for success

[38] its fun to be 5

[40] august calendar[38]

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august features

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august 2013

August is a big month for Owensboro Parent! We are celebrating

our 25th issue-- two years making this magazine for Owensboro!

To celebrate, we asked you what you like best about our magazine.

Here are some of our favorite answers. (And thanks for all the

support youve shown us these last two years.)

parent talk

I love that it always seems like you know exactly what I need. When we

were looking for answers to dealing with tantrums you gave me seven ways.

And now were planning our oldest sons 2nd birthday party and you gave

me great ideas on how to do fabulous and affordable. Its a magazine thats

really geared toward moms like me.

- Brittany Molina

I love the calendar. Its a one stop shop full of useful info on all of the family friendly

events in Owensboro. This magazine is truly a gift for parents.

- Laurna Wimsatt Strehl

I think its a wonderful magazine! Im always telling people where to pick

them up. I love love Christina Daltons Questions and Answers. They always

have useful information and make me laugh too! Happy 2nd Birthday and

many more...

- Angela Maxwell

I love everything about the magazine! My favorite parts are the articles and

pictures of local families even if I dont know them personally. But I love it

when I do. Awesome job and Happy 2nd Birthday!

- Becky Ford

I love everything about this magazine as well. I like the stories, pictures,

question & answer discussions, and the local advertising. Each month has

been beneficial as a parent, business owner, member of the community,

early childhood educator, and/or a college instructor in the education

department. I always pick up two copies .... one for me & one for Brescia

University Education Department. Congratulations & I look forward to

many more successful issues!

- Jennifer Brey

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the local kids featured in the articles.

- Sandra Mullikin

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Its been a long summer, and now the store aisles have been cleared of big plastic coolers, racks of patriotic bunting and tubes of sunblock. They are filled with neat packets of pencils,

all lined up bright and yellow; pocket folders splashed with

images of Superman and the pretty, pouty girl from The

Hunger Games; and a dizzying selection of backpacks in which

to haul it all back to school.

Children dash frantically back and forth from the shelves to

the shopping cart, snatching up boxes of crayons, index cards

and protractors even as their mothers call after them that the

protractor theyd bought last year should still be good, shouldnt

it?

The answer, in a word, is no. Whether thats because they

have no idea where last years protractor is having never used

it anyway or because they do know where it is, which happens

to be covered with glitter and ribbons and construction paper

to look like a rainbow, which was one of those bored-summer-

afternoon art projects that always seem like such a good idea at

the time.

Somewhere between the argument about whether the

child really needs an iPad in order to successfully navigate

elementary school, and the near-tearful meltdown over whether

the most expensive calculator is any more likely to provide the

correct answer every time, there is an offhand remark about the

increased level of difficulty in curriculum from last years grade

to this years grade.

Well, of course, that makes perfect sense. As children

move through their educational careers, of course their levels

of understanding, skill and knowledge increase. As they

grow and learn, of course they are capable of greater depth of

comprehension.

Thats what learning is all about of course: Starting with

the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, building on those

foundations of literacy and numeracy, expanding into the

sciences and social studies, the arts and all the other subject

areas.

So that, by the time a child progresses from preschool or

kindergarten through completion of elementary, middle and

high schools, he or she has learned, well, everything he or she

needs to know in order to move on to college and career.

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family life

the lessons ofsummer

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Thats how it works.

We can all be thankful for schools and teachers who are

dedicated to education, who are dedicated to students kids

and their futures.

But we never want to forget the classroom of summer

vacation, and the lessons it teaches lessons that also last a

lifetime.

Riding your bicycle just a little bit further each day than the

day before, until you find yourself standing, knees trembling,

at the top of Deadmans Hill, where the kid next doo