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Event highlights child safety

ANN ARBOR Safe Kids Huron Valley is partnering with Vineyard Childrens Center to hold a Safe Kids Day on May 18 for parents and caregivers that will feature door prizes and information on ways they can keep their children safe at home, at play, or when they are on their way, such as traveling in a vehicle. The free event, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Vineyard Childrens Center, 2275 Platt Road, Ann Arbor, will include information on child passenger safety, car seat checks for parents, and important facts about trunk entrapment and hyperthermia. A tour of Vineyard, which offers child care for children 6 weeks to 5 years, will also be provided. Safe Kids Huron Valley, a non-profit organization with a mission to educate

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Paul A. King has been named executive director of the University of Michigans C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital.

Many injuries to children can be avoided if parents and caregivers are educated or reminded of some very important and easy steps to keep their children safe.
Amber Kroeker
parents on how to keep their children safe in Washtenaw and Livingston County, is made up of volunteers and led by the University of Michigan Mott Childrens Hospital. Sadly, preventable injuries are the greatest killer of kids 14 and under. In Washtenaw and Livingston counties weve had our share of preventable injuries to children said Amber Kroeker, Safe Kids Huron Valley coordinator and Injury Prevention health educator for Mott Childrens Hospital. Thats why Safe Kids Huron Valley is joining Safe Kids Michigan and Safe Kids Worldwide to celebrate Safe Kids Day on Saturday. Together we hope to raise awareness to continue our efforts and protect kids from serious preventable

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injuries, said Kroeker. What weve found is that many injuries to children can be avoided if parents and caregivers are educated or reminded of some very important and easy steps to keep their children safe. For example, in Livingston and Washtenaw counties, Safe Kids Huron Valley hosts free car seat checkup events to inform parents on how to properly install their childs safety seat in their vehicle. Other events are focused on educating parents on infant safe sleep habits; fire, water, and home safety; Walk to School Day; poison prevention; sports safety, and more.

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University hospitals nd new leader

ANN ARBOR Paul A. King, who has successfully led a large, Los Angelesbased pediatric group practice for the past eight years, has been selected as the new executive director of the University of Michigans top-ranked C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital and Von Voigtlander Womens Hospital. King is a senior executive at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. King, who has nearly 30 years experience as a health care executive, will take his new post in August. C.S. Mott Childrens Hospital was ranked eighth best in the nation this year by Parents magazine. He is currently the chief executive officer of the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group and president and chief executive officer of the Pediatric Management Group, its management services organization. King also serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, a 365-bed pediatric academic medical center in Los Angeles, where the 550-physician Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group is based. We are thrilled to have Paul join our team. Weve invested in a new facility, and we wanted a strong leader to guide the strategic growth of our childrens and womens programs and services, says Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, U-M executive vice president for medical affairs and CEO of the U-M Health System. King says hes devoted his career to health care because he enjoys the overall mission of healing and discovering ways to better fight and treat disease, especially for children. Health care is a calling to health and healing, and with childrens health, even more so. I love the optimism that comes with taking care

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Great Lakes Zoological Society president and co-founder Mark Creswell shows visitors around the World of Discovery. He explains that lizards and other reptiles have very specific nutritional needs, and some of the reptiles at the little-known local zoo have permanent disfigurements because of poor nutrition in their former homes. For a story and more photos, please see page 3-A.

Poets plan interactive fun during library stop

way. Like a Mad Lib, but in reverse. The Wayne State University Press poets will lead their team of creative writers to craft totally unique poems, beginning with a partially created work. After the poems are completed, they will be read aloud, followed by a selection of original poetry from each poet. Organizers say the session is great for groups of adults and families with children ages 10 and up, but everyone is encouraged to come and enjoy the readings. In addition to the session, Nicolas Books will be selling all of the Made in Michigan Writers Series titles just outside the library. 826michigan students will be on hand to entertain attendees with their own work, before and after the program.

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The poets are coming. The poets are coming. OK, so its no British invasion, but a group of Michigan writers will blitz into town Saturday for some literary engagement and entertainment. The action unfolds from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 18 at the downtown Ann Arbor District Library as the pack of poets Jack Ridl, Chris Dombrowski, M.L. Liebler, Keith Taylor and Francine J. Harris make their first stop on a one-day, three-city, statewide bus tour. Billed as a one-of-a-kind Mad Libs Poetry Session, the program is free and open to the public. Attendees will team up with their favorite authors to create a one-of-akind poem, incorporating random PLEASE SEE HOSPITALS/2-A elements at certain points along the

Whats a mad lib?

According to wiki.answers. com, a mad lib is a writing piece that has blanks in which you insert words in randomly. The words are usually in a category of parts of speech such as: nouns, adjectives, & verbs. There are some mad libs with more specic parts of speech such as: common nouns, proper nouns, action verbs, linking verbs, adjectives, adverbs, innitives, prepositions, or adverbs. Also there are some mad libs that may have parts of speech like body part, or name of person in room.

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