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![]() Dear FANS 4 HELP, Thank you for staying safe, strong, smart and scientific. We are what we do and FANS 4 HELP can empower you, with our 2021 Calendars. Like the vaccines, our 2021 calendars are in production and will be available for everyone who wants one to help empower anyone, especially the children. We are a Health & Safety Expert and we listen to the best experts for the best practices in helping to fight the spread of this deadly COVID-19 virus. While the vaccines will hopefully protect a large percentage of the people, we will still need to follow the CDC guidelines to help protect all of the people, all of the time. Please listen to the experts - https://youtu.be/vOClXAg9nQU Therefore, we created the FANS 4 HELP Calendars to remind everyone of the important health and safety guidelines. Also, we can help everyone with reminders of the Lord's Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance and more, if you wish to bring this and more into your life or the lives of others, especially the children. Our colorful and convenient calendars have both function and form. They can be carried in a notebook or posted on a wall in a home, office, school, child care or dorm. Feel free to bring more patriotism or religion anywhere you please, but please do something privately or publicly with a donation or obligation to our nation. Plus, you can do some good, do no harm and it can be a tax deductible donation. Thank you for your consideration. Stay Safe, Strong, Smart, Scientific and Stay in Touch with FANS 4 HELP - Please follow the experts and our posts. Keep on voting with your dollars and your time. So far, over 148 million people voted in the U.S. 2020 presidential election. So regardless of who you voted for, you were a part of the highest voting turnout since 1968, according to the Associated Press.
So, what does voting with your dollar mean? Spending and investing your money is a powerful way of voting each day to support local communities, fair wages, and a healthy planet. Where you shop and what you buy sends a direct message to help business owners.
Dennis Smiddle – Executive Director of FANS 4 HELP ( a new 2020 nonprofit). FANS 4 HELP Crowdfunding with ioby -
ioby.org/project/fans-4-help-all-about-fitness-arts-nature-and-science-health-environment-learning-and-play Thank you for your consideration and please share. FANS 4 HELP - can help provide attractive, functional and cost saving modular building products to help protect people in schools, child cares, offices, public places and play spaces where we live, work, eat, learn and play. Plus, in 16 different colors and translucent to show out your school spirit and to call out for community unity.-www.everblocksystems.com/?fbclid=IwAR2zoImu-xSuopfP_24WOspSdVMSCQh6dgELl0rr9p7tsrLUDNQPpr5Nyjc
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Chrysanthemums (Chrysanthemum morifolium)Florist’s chrysanthemums or “mums” are ranked the highest for air purification. They’re shown to eliminate common toxins as well as ammonia.
Treat yourself to a fresh pot, as this flower only blooms for about six weeks. Or you can fertilize the pot again in the spring when new growth appears. But without the flowers, it won’t be purifying the air. If you don’t want to wait, you might want to just get a new pot. Plant care: Check the soil’s moisture every other day, and keep it damp. Toxic to animals: Even though it has a friendly name, mums are toxic to both cats and dogs. Eliminates: formaldehyde, xylene, benzene, ammonia ![]() Nonprofit to rethink playground space - Published in the Observer-Reporter by Katie Anderson Jul 31, 2020 Updated Aug 10, 2020 Dennis Smiddle, owner of a playground maintenance company, Fans of Play, recently started a nonprofit called Fans 4 Help. The nonprofit, which advocates for more natural and open playground spaces, will seek grants to fund the design and installation of those types of playgrounds in school districts and community parks. “One of the best ways for children to learn is through play,” Smiddle said. “There’s a mindset that play is all about playground equipment, but that’s structured play – it can only really do what it was designed to do. There’s a lot more to play than swinging, sliding and climbing.” According to Smiddle, a retired state inspector of child care facilities and playgrounds, children need access to playtime in more natural environments, “where kids can get outside in open spaces and make up their own games and use their imagination.” Especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, more open spaces on playgrounds make more sense, Smiddle said. He said traditional playgrounds with slides and swings and climbing areas are difficult to maintain and keep sanitized. “Every playground has a capacity,” he said. “It’s very difficult to social distance on a playground.” The nonprofit will offer design services, consultations and playground products that meet the mission of his company, like raised-bed gardens, sandboxes and balance beams. In the name of the nonprofit, “Fans” stands for fitness, art, nature and science, while “Help” stands for health, environment, learning and play, Smiddle said. “It’s more of an empowering concept,” he said. “People can design their own playgrounds, where you don’t have to rely on these big playground companies.” Smiddle said school districts and municipalities typically purchase playground equipment through catalogs because “it’s easy,” and because people don’t realize other options are available. However, he said the concepts he uses are safer for children, more cost effective and they “reduce liability.” “I’m hoping to get funding and build awareness so that communities can start to change the playground mindset to a more natural concept to help protect children and provide more beneficial playground opportunities for learning and play,” he said. As a retired PA Child Care Licensing Representative with 20 years of experience and having done over 2,000 child care inspections, I know a little bit about health and safety. Also, as an expert safety witness with the Expert Institute, my expert opinions are based on studying the differences between Guidelines, Regulations, Accreditation, Standards and Practices (best).
The following are just a few key health and safety differences between PA Certified Child Care Centers and PA Public Schools.
In conclusion, in order to open more safely, PA Public Schools can learn and benefit greatly by following the Health, Environment, Learning and Play regulations and practices that PA Certified Child Care Centers have been following for decades. Also, the PA Department of Human Services already has great resources and systems in place that can complement the PA Department of Education Public School systems. Dennis Smiddle – Executive Director of FANS 4 HELP (a new 2020 nonprofit). 631 Highland Ave. Canonsburg, PA 15317 |
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