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Summer reading will
pay fall dividends
The issue: Your child's class has been released for
the summer, or soon will be. So what's the plan for this
summer?
We say : It should include reading and educational
initiatives. It should include trips to the local library.
Summer educational regression is real. Studies have
found that students who do not continue to study and
read during the summer will not retain all of the knowl-
edge they gained during the school year.
That means the early days of the fall school year are
spent re-teaching information that should have been re-
tained from the prior school year. It is easy for a student
to get behind.
But the family budget is tight. It is stretched as
thin as it can go, right? Well, consider that while trips
to a Rangers game, a water or amusement park and
other activities all cost money, one to your public
library does not. Other than the cost for gas, there’s
no expense incurred by visiting the library. In fact, as
long as you return materials on time, there’s never a
cost.
Public libraries in Burleson, Crowley and Joshua
are all participating in summer reading programs. This
keeps it fun for the kids. During most of these pro-
grams, parents get what they want by keeping chil-
dren reading during the summer and the children get
rewarded for doing so. Most of these programs don’t
require specific titles, also keeping it fun for children by
allowing them to select their own materials.
Parents should look for camps and educational
programs through the library and other community
resources this summer. Most summer reading programs
have a calendar of events, including presentations that
the whole family can enjoy.
In Burleson and Joshua, librarians have gone to
a considerable amount of work to make the library
inviting. The Burleson library has a youth area. The
Joshua library has an area to play board games and
video games. All libraries have books, and some
have new digital options, such as DVDs and audio
books.
Parents should request summer reading lists
from schools and teachers can help assist in an aca-
demic plan for the summer. If your child’s class has
been released for the summer, many teachers check
their email over the break and will help. Librarians
can be of assistance as well. Reading can be leisure
or reinforce classroom curriculum and all reach the
same goal.
Some experts have suggested starting a family reading
time for 30 minutes a day, when televisions, cellphones,
computers and other distractions are turned off.
Small amounts of work during the summer will pay
dividends when school begins in the fall.
letters policy
The Joshua Star welcomes letters to the editor for consider-
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community for expression of personal views on matters of
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deemed libelous, slanderous, unclear or otherwise unaccept-
able will not be published.
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tions will not be published. Poetry is unacceptable as a letter to
the editor.
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The deadline for election-related letters is two weeks prior to
Election Day.
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letters must include the writer's complete address and daytime
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PERSONAL FINANCE
Even superheroes can plan for retirement
Summertime is here,
and that means blockbuster
movies are in season. This
summer —and throughout
the end of the year —movie-
goers can catch some of the
usual heroes on the silver
screen.
Take Batman for exam-
ple. He will be back on the
big screen in another surefire
blockbuster. The superhero
first gained fans in the com-
ics back in 1939.
He could be taking
advantage of delayed retire-
ment credits —the power to
receive bigger payments for
delaying retirement benefits
beyond one’s full retire-
ment age. The credit could
be worth as much as eight
percent a year until age 70.
Learn more about this super-
power available to anyone at
www.so-
cialsecu-
rity.gov/
retire2/
delayret.
htm.
‘Dark
Shadows”
will be
making a
big screen
debut,
Social Security based
A on the
Administration
popular
television series. The main
character, Barnabas, is more
than two centuries old. Surely,
he would qualify for benefits
if he would just go online and
apply.
Then there are the mar-
velous superheroes of the
“silver age” of comics, several
of whom are appearing in
“The Avengers.” Captain
America was born in 1941,
making him not only fit for
leading but also ripe for retir-
ing. The Hulk and Thor both
came onto the scene in 1962;
Iron Man and Nick Fury
joined them in 1963. They,
along with 1962’s Spiderman
(also enjoying a movie reboot
this year) do not qualify for
retirement benefits yet, but
they might want to plan
ahead by taking a look at the
online Retirement Estimator
at www.socialsecurity.gov/
estimator, where they can
get an instant, personalized
estimate of future retirement
benefits.
From Batman to Spider-
man, Captain America to The
Hulk, making a decision to
retire does not mean hang-
ing up your costume. Today’s
retirees are more active than
ever, even as they collect
benefits.
If you would like to learn
more about your own future
retirement benefits, take a
break from the big screen
and tune into your computer
screen. Visit www.socialse-
curity.gov/estimator to
receive a picture of your own
future retirement.
Are you ready to start the
sequel now? Let the opening
credits on your retirement
begin; apply for benefits
right over the computer. Just
visit www.socialsecurity.gov
and click the “retirement”
tab.
Bryan Trevino is a So-
cial Security public affairs
specialist and a Johnson
County resident.
Brian
Trevino
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Platypus
The platypus is certifiably
bizarre from every angle you
look at it.
It’s a mammal with a bill
like a duck, that likes to live
under the water like a fish.
Its legs stick out of its sides
like a lizard and it lays eggs.
When its baby’s hatch, they
drink milk like all mam-
mals, but the platypus has no
teats. Mama platypus [or is
it platypuses] have to secrete
milk through their fur and
the babies just find it and
lick it up.
It’s no pushover either.
The male platypus has a
stinger behind every paw
and a poison that can kill a
dog and make a human be-
ing say a really bad word.
With the head of a duck,
the body of a rat, the tail of a
beaver, legs like a lizard, feet
like a duck and a stinger like
a stingray, the platypus is
just plain strange. It is won-
DEVOTIONAL
proof different can be good
derfully
weird,
neither
this thing
nor that
thing -
yet it is
altogether
perfectly
what it is
supposed
to be.
That
reminds
me of me
- and you. We are a little bit
country and a little bit rock
‘n’ roll. A mixture of the gen-
eration before us and behind
us. We are a big southern
stew of all kinds of things
that make us unique and
wonderful. There is nobody
else in the world exactly like
you, and for those of us who
know you, we are thankful.
Now, one thing I have
learned about the Lord is
Troy
Brewer
Fresh from
the Brewer
that He celebrates unique-
ness. When He created us in
His image, He created us to
be unlike anybody else in the
universe.
The biblical description
of heaven is not a picture
where everybody looks and
talks the same, but a place
where very different people
have the same kind of heart
toward each other and to-
ward the Lord.
“After these things I saw,
and lo, a great multitude,
which to number no one
was able, out of all nations,
and tribes, and peoples, and
tongues, standing before
the throne, and before the
Lamb, arrayed in white
robes, and palms in their
hands. ”
- Revelation 7:9
How you are wonderfully
unique is actually preserved
for all eternity and dis-
played for everyone to see in
heaven. It actually glorifies
the Lord for you to be you, so
drop any pressure you may
feel to try and be somebody
else. Just be all you can be
for the Lord and the rest will
work itself out.
Just because you are dif-
ferent in this world does not
mean you are alone. Jesus
Himself is very, very dif-
ferent, and those of us who
know Him are forever grate-
ful that He is.
‘No one is like you, O
Lord; you are great, and
your name is m ighty in
power. ”
- Jeremiah 10 :6
Troy Brewer is the senior
pastor of OpenDoor Church
in Joshua and can be found
at www.opendoorexperi-
ence.com.
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Sorter, Dave. Joshua Star (Joshua, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 7, 2012, newspaper, June 7, 2012; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth823132/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.