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A14 THE COAST NEWS
DEC. 16, 2011
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effect,” he said. “I’ve worked at
middle schools before and see a
marked difference here at
There’s one place where hope sounds like this.
Jefferson Elementary.
Students introduce themselves,
look at you in the eye and
extend their hand to shake
yours. They are learning to act
as adults.”
Members of the fifthgrade
class take pride in making
a difference at their school,
their community and beyond.
“We cut out hearts and
wrote wishes on them that we
gave to the (Carlsbad) senior
center,” said Madison Young. “I
heard that they loved it and
that they thought we were
sweet. It made me feel so special
and awesome.”
“We work with orphanages
in Kenya, and have gotten
children bunk beds, pillows
and pillow cases,” added Mary
Feldmann. “I learned that children
can make a big difference.”
In March, chapters of Kids
for Peace will converge on the
nation’s capital for their “D.C.
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Peace Pledge Tour.”
“We are sponsored by
Congressman Bob Filner,”
McManigal said. “He saw us
and said, ‘There are 434 other
people who need to hear this.’”
Kids for Peace will present
their Peace Pledge to Congress
and other sites including the
White House, Washington
Monument, Lincoln Memorial,
Martin Luther King Memorial,
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum, Kenyan Embassy,
Institute of Peace, a homeless
shelter and a mosque.They are
also chronicling the tour in a
documentary.
In establishing Kids for
Peace, McManigal said she was
influenced by her mother who
she described as the “epitome
of kindness” and her father
who was a community activist.
“I’m doing what I was put
on Earth to do and honored to
work with these kids and help
them be the best they can be,”
she added.
Earlier this year,
McManigal’s partner, Gram,
graduated from Harvard
University. Currently, Gram is
leading international program
development for Kids for Peace
in Africa.
For more information, or
to make a donation, call (760)
730-3320 or visit
KidsforPeaceGlobal.org.
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city’s central sewer system
has not been able to keep
up. Consequently, reported
NPR’s “Fresh Air” in
November, only a few are
hooked up to the municipal
system, and the remainder
must hire fleets of tanker
trucks to carry away the
waste water.
Latest Religious
Messages
— Factory worker Billy
Hyatt, who was fired in 2009
by north Georgia plastics
company Pliant Corp., filed
a lawsuit in August alleging
illegal religious discrimination.
Pliant (now called
Berry Plastics) required its
employees to wear stickers
indicating the number of
consecutive accident-free
days, and March 12, 2009,
was the 666th day. When
Hyatt refused to wear “the
mark of the beast” (embracing
that number, he thought,
would condemn him to hell),
he was suspended and then
fired.
— The International
House of Prayer in Kansas
City, Mo., celebrated 12 consecutive
years of around-theclock
musical praying, which
Pastor Mike Bickle and his
evangelical congregation
believe is necessary to fight
the devil’s continuous infiltration
of the realms of
power in society. “The
church has 25 bands playing
throughout the week in twohour
sets, “according to an
Los Angeles Times dispatch.