{"id":30009,"date":"2012-10-10T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=30009"},"modified":"2012-10-10T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:21:40","slug":"puppets-and-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/10\/10\/puppets-and-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppets and Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30010\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ST-MARYS-PUPPET.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30010 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ST-MARYS-PUPPET.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"418\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each puppet spoke to the children about how it feels to be different from other more \u201cnormal\u201d children and how they should be received should they meet a person in real life with the same disability. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Third grade students of St. Mary of the Assumption School learned about acceptance of people different from themselves.\u00a0 The Kids on the Block Puppet Presenters, Brenda Engle and Kay Barbour, from Holland, Ohio, brought to life for the children \u00a0life- sized puppets featuring some form of physical disability.\u00a0 These ranged from \u201cDown syndrome\u201d to \u201chearing impaired\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30011\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30011\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ST-MARYS-ROCKHOUNDS.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30011 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ST-MARYS-ROCKHOUNDS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The third grade class from St. Mary of the Assumption poses for a photograph during their tour of the Ron and Ruth Langsdon Gem and Mineral Collection. (Photo submitted.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The third grade class of St. Mary of the Assumption School accompanied by their teacher Pat Johnson and Amy Kopack became rock hounds last week when they travelled to the Mercer County District Library in Celina. There, they were able to view the Ron and Ruth Langsdon Gem and Mineral Collection. The collection includes some 900 specimens from around the world.\u00a0 Professor Ken Strickland is curator of the display which includes: apophylite, stibnite, pyrite, galena, and purple amethyst.\u00a0 Assistant curator Marilyn Thobe first showed the class minerals found in Ohio and then had the children go on a scavenger hunt through the 21 display cases that hold the exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third grade students of St. Mary of the Assumption School learned about acceptance of people different from themselves.\u00a0 The Kids on the Block Puppet Presenters, Brenda Engle and Kay Barbour, from Holland, Ohio, brought to life for the children \u00a0life- sized puppets featuring some form of physical disability.\u00a0 These ranged from \u201cDown syndrome\u201d to \u201chearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stmaryscolumn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 09:42:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}