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Wednesday, January 11, 2012 The Interior News Psst!.... Whatcha doing in 2013?? Wanna be part of a year long party? Smithers Centennial 2013 Celebrations!! 100 years of Smithers!! (Oh the stories she could tell, eh?) Bring your ideas and learn how to link your event with a fabulous marketing campaign 7 - 9pm January 19th @ St Joes Gym Lets plan Centennial Party 2013!! Its gonna take all of us to 365 this party! For more information: 250 . 847. 4343 www.smithers2013.com

Story of Lillian Alling published in book

The cross country jaunt of Lillian Alling, a polish immigrant who walked herself back to her home country from New York, is chronicled in a new book by a Northwestern writer. The book, written and researched by a former Interior News reporter Susan SmithJosephy, chronicles Allings multi-year stroll from Niagara Falls to Alaska. That walk, through some harsh terrain even for todays 21st century gear, took Alling through the Hazeltons and into Smithers, before she reached the final recorded destination in Alaska. Smith-Josephy is absolutely certain that Alling did make it home after that arrival, but the record is silent about what happened to her. Explaining why Alling was in the Bulkley Valley is best explained by why she wasnt somewhere else. She had tried to get back into the United States via Alaska but was turned around by the border guard. According to Smith-Josephys book, the record shows that Alling had no visa, the reason she was turned around. That still begs the question of what she was doing in Smithers when a simple stroll to Hazelton would have been far enough to make the turn to head towards the Telegraph N O R T H W E S T

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Lillian Alling: the journey home, chronicles the long walk Alling took from New York to Alaska, with stops in the Bulkley Valley. Trail. It was all to do with checking in with the RCMP, which she was instructed to do on her trip. Smith-Josephy had heard some stories about Allings travels and wanted to know more about it, including whether or not it was true. I thought Id get some books out, she said. And there, of course, wasnt one. Smith-Josephy began researching and ended up with stacks of paper, and decided that Alling needed her own book. Theres not that much about her available in public documents, she said. She found people and descendants of people who knew Alling from her trip and conducted interviews, including C O M M U N I T Y with people in Smithers. Among the many interesting things about this story, Smith-Josephy found it interesting as a story of an immigrant that isnt usually told one of an immigrant who ends up not liking it in the new world and sets to go back home. Its a story of picking a goal and following it. Another thing that struck her about Allings story is the impact she must have had on people. What struck me was that she must have made quite a personal impression on people who met her, adding that she was usually only in a place for a few hours or a day at most. The book is title Lillian Alling: the journey home. C O L L E G E

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nutritional therapy, and martial arts. She also encourages parents to document childrens positive and successful behaviours. This book nalizes with a guide to coping with your childs emotions, and a chapter on looking at your child in a new light, something that all parents would bene t from. There are a few things that lead us to think we wouldnt recommend this book to all parents. Although this book is a great resource, reading it from cover to cover was not an easy read. There are a lot of technical descriptions that are dif cult to understand, though having a glossary in the back helped with this. We acknowledge that this book may be controversial because it highlights the theory of evolution. This month the early childhood educators decided to start a ve star review system. We asked each participant to give the book a rating between one and ve stars, one being de nitely not recommend to parents, and ve being de nitely will recommend to parents. For The Out of Sync Child we gave the book 4 out of 5 stars. If you are interested in this or any of our other reviewed books feel free to check out our display at the public library.

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This month the early childhood educators of the Bulkley Valley read The Out of Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz M.A. This book focuses on children with sensory processing disorder. The educators agreed that this would be a great resource for parents of children with sensory processing disorder. It is also a great resource for early childhood educators and teachers who need to watch for signs of sensory processing disorder and recommend assessments by Occupational Therapists when needed. Early intervention of sensory processing disorder can make a parents life easier; and it helps the child to be more successful in school and at home.

There were a lot of things we liked about this book. We really liked the relatable examples of children with sensory processing disorder, as well as in-depth explanations of each manifestation of the disorder. The book explains how to differentiate between the symptoms of sensory processing disorder and other symptoms. It talks about the causes of the symptoms to give parents an understanding of what is going on with their child. This book explains the bene ts of getting assessments and working with occupational therapists. Parents need to know that the support of an occupational therapist is something that bene ts them and their child, whether the child has sensory processing disorder or not. Carol Stock Kranowitz did a great job encouraging parents to look at the positive side of their child while accepting the most dif cult behaviours. We liked that she focuses on a drug free approach to sensory processing disorder throughout the book. The book outlines the bene ts of other kinds of therapy; from physical, visual and speech and language therapy to hippotherapy (treatment with the help of a horse),

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