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P.E.A.C.E. News Aug 2025
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Save the Date: Upcoming Children’s Book Club Meeting

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

The Peace Educators Interest Forum for a children’s book club meeting celebrating beautiful books will be Saturday, September 13th.

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Action Alert — August 2025

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Action Alerts

Invite Federal Senators and Representatives to child care centers, which are now at risk due to Head Start cutbacks in July’s bill.

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Hope for Ukraine: Deliver Necessities to Orphans and Hospitalized Children

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under PEACE Projects

After receiving an urgent request from Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Lviv, we used donated funds to address life-threatening emergencies.

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A Song to Share — This Land is Your Land

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Songs

This month’s song is “This Land is Your Land” by famous singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, written in 1940 and published in 1945.

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Poetry for Us — August 2025

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Poetry

This month we’re featuring 2 poems — Kindness to Animals, but an anonymous poet, and Ice Cream Truck by Terri Kirby Erickson

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Book Recommendation — August 2025

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Books

Mommy’s Hometown by Hope Lim and illustrated by Jaime Kim, is an intergenerational family tale inspired by Lim’s visit to her childhood home.

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Days of the Month — August 2025

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Days of the Month

This month we celebrate sisters, Obon, and Women’s Equity Day, as well as remember the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings

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Quote of the Month — August 2025

  • Posted 04 August 2025
  • By Adrienne Grace
  • Under Quote of the Month

No one has much love for politics, but most of us care about people. We cannot ignore the local and national policies that affect neighbors.

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