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Kids’ Lives Improve with Pets?

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M A G A Z I N EKidz ZoneFebruary 2019–March 2019 Travel & History

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[email protected] Zone Magazine is published bimonthly in Dec/Jan, Feb/Mar, Apr/May, Jun/Jul, Aug/Sep, Oct/Nov by Red Dog Publishing, PO Box 11868, Prescott AZ 86304. Copyright © 2018, 2019 by Red Dog Publishing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any material from this issue in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to edit all material and assume no responsibility for errors. The views presented in this publication do not necessarily represent the policies of Kidz Zone Magazine and should not be construed as endorsements. Layout and design by Kim Prosser, Graphics Manager.

CONTENTSKidz Section

5 Travel and History Inspire the Sweet Life ........ Briana Lonas6 Elle’s Book Reviews: The Corn Grows Ripe, Number the

Stars, and Flush ......................................................... L.E. Bear7 Checkers ......................................................... Lauren L. Lewis8 Prescott Astronomy Club News ....................Adam England8 Mental Health First-Aid Training, Free Through West

Yavapai Guidance Clinic Foundation ...WYGC Foundation9 Sudoku Fun ..................................................... Lauren L. Lewis10 How Do Kids’ Lives Improve with Pets? .........Lauren Loven, Yavapai Humane Society11 Escape Maze ................................................. Lauren L. Lewis12 Women’s History ............................................ Lauren L. Lewis

Parentz Section4 Calendar6 Worship Directory6 Sisters’ Lifelong Bond Helps Them Through Premature

Births, Babies with Special Needs ........ Heidi Dahms Foster8 The Time to Mentor is Now .............................. Robin Layton Yavapai Big Brothers, Big Sisters10 Tricks of the Trade: Dog Training 4H Style ............................................................Rita Thompson-Tinsley11 Wolves of the Sky ............................................. Cheryl Hartz12 Kidz Directory

Cherie L. Dreves has three passions: animals, kids and service. Her three passions combine in Red Dog Publishing—owner/publisher of Prescott Dog Magazine and Kidz Zone Magazine. Cherie works with many area non-profit organizations and sponsors alike, to provide a community plat-form for these organizations.

Heidi Dahms Foster has been writing for most of her adult life, first as an award-winning reporter/editor for Prescott Newspapers, Inc., and now as Communications Coordinator for the Town of Prescott Valley. She has had both writing and photography published in national magazines Aussie Times, Australian Shepherd Journal, and WildBird Magazine; newspapers Prescott Valley Tribune, Chino Valley Review, Big Bug News, and Prescott Daily Courier; and local magazines Prescott Living, Prescott Valley Cares, Prescott Dog and now Kidz Magazine. Heidi lives in Prescott Valley with her husband Randy and a houseful of critters, and enjoys all dog sports, gardening and photography.

Cheryl Hartz has loved every minute of being the mother of two, now grown, children. As a little girl, she practiced motherhood with her dolls. She has been published by several magazines for children.

Lauren L. Lewis is a quilter by day, spending her time with her husband and her service dog, Butter. While she was elementary education trained, she found more joy working with fabric than in a classroom. Now working for Kidz Zone Magazine, she gets to do what she considers the fun part of education, creative lesson design.

Briana Lonas raised her children in the Dewey area and now happily watches her grandson every chance she gets. Her journalism background and penchant for research, not to mention the many missteps, has guided her towards a lifelong quest for healthier living. She is always up for a chal-lenge and isn’t afraid to admit that it’s scary raising a child in today’s tech-nology-driven, genetically-modified, instant-gratification world. She enjoys discovering new ways to nurture a growing child with a blending of modern science, nature and good old-fashioned common sense.

Rita Thompson-Tinsley was once a freckled-face pint-size dubbed “Squeaky” by her family because, as an infant, she made squeaky sounds in her sleep. She grew up in small midwestern towns where you could play kickball and Red Rover until the street lamps were fully illuminated. With col-lege degrees in Theatre and Radio/TV, Rita has always pursued her dreams “pen first”, writing award winning ads and later western and equestrian magazine articles. She is thrilled for the opportunity to present articles of interest to the Quad City community, focusing on our great youth.

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in food because it’s really fresh and simple. In Greece, they don’t have phyllo dough like here; their dough naturally rises in a way that is very flaky with olive oil and flour and other ingredients.”

But what country had the best desserts?

“The best chocolate I’ve had has been in Switzerland. They have the best hot chocolate. I went to the Lindt factory and that was awesome,” she said.

“When I was younger, I wanted to be a chocolate tester. Not a very attainable goal.” Robinson laughs when she says this, as though she might be the only person who’s ever dreamed of living for choco-late!

“I learned how chocolate is grown and processed. They had a part for visitors, much smaller than where they actually make the chocolate. We got in a little cart, and they tour you around.”

Robinson dished a little more about cooking for family and some of her baking strategies:

Kidz Zone: Does your family often ask you to cook?

Robinson: “I get a lot of re-quests for baking. My dad is a very good cook, and he usually does the cooking. My dad doesn’t like sweets at all, which is crazy I think! I’m always trying to find sweets that he actually likes, but I made a pear sorbet for his birth-day he liked.

KZ: When you go out to restaurants with your family, do you ever think to yourself, ‘I’ve had better?’

Robinson: I try not to think about it too much and just enjoy the moment.

KZ: What are some of the qualities you need in order to have any success working with pastries?

Robinson: Patience. You have to want to make things very exact

Stirring up cake batter in her kitchen, with a shy yet engaging smile, Lilly Robinson looks like any young high-school student hanging out at home. Look closer beyond the dark tresses and fresh complexion, and you’ll notice a glint in her eyes–a mad, crazy pas-sion that could easily go beyond a mere hobby.

It’s easy to marvel at the sophis-tication of Robinson’s delectable edibles, but this 15-year-old has been baking since the age of nine and doesn’t plan on slowing down in the kitchen anytime soon.

Although Robinson dreams of having a career in design someday, her many travels have inspired a penchant for whipping up dec-adent desserts and pastries for family and friends. She admits to pouring over recipe books and seeking technique tips online, but she can’t pass up a good challenge and isn’t opposed to attending a culinary school someday.

“I really want to go into cos-tume design,” Robinson told Kidz Zone during a recent chat about her baking hobby.

The poised, soft-spoken fresh-man said she has a sketchbook filled with ideas and in the future she may be looking into intern-

ships and summer programs in order to break into the costume design world for the stage and big screen. “What somebody is wear-ing says a lot about them.” She referred to the live action version of Cinderella she once saw and explained how a costume lends it-self to the storyline and transfers to the audience. “There’s a lot you can say through what somebody is wearing,” she said.

In the meantime, she’s soaking up everything she can about dif-ferent countries and cultures–her love of history will help in her chosen field, but it also helps now with her baking projects.

“I always try to learn about the country, what’s going on, and what’s gone on in the past. I’ve always been interested in histor-ical royalty and fashion. Going to France was awesome because I went to Versailles and saw the clothing of Marie Antoinette.” She said that while in eighth grade, she did a presentation about fash-ion and the French Revolution.

“I’ve been reading about the Romanovs and the Russian Revo-lution. I was into Greek mythol-ogy for awhile. I also love read-ing about the 14th century and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the French queen–the first queen that ruled both France and England by her-self; she’s a fascinating character.”

Aside from design interests, Robinson is completely at ease in the kitchen and said she’s often watched the Thomas Keller Mas-terClass lessons, which teaches cooking techniques and funda-mentals.

Her family’s love of travel has helped provide a solid foun-dation for her baking skills and she first became interested in the culinary arts on a family trip to Paris when she turned nine years old. “I said to myself, ‘This is the best thing!’ and once she returned home, started learning to bake cookies before launching into more difficult items such as éclairs and macarons. For those unfamiliar, the macaron pastry is as delightful as it is intimidating and typically made from a me-ringue base whereas a macaroon is made with coconut.

“I tried to do macarons once and didn’t do very well, but I took a cooking class in Paris this sum-mer,” she said. That class at La Cuisine helped Robinson improve, and she recalled it was a three and a half hour intensive class that combined two techniques–the French and the Italian.

“The Italian (meringue) meth-od is a lot sturdier, and it’s a lot easier; you don’t have to be as fin-

icky with them. That’s something new I didn’t know before, and that’s how I make them now. Mac-arons are very hard to make,” she admitted. “You have to be careful with meringue, very exact.”

One of the most important lessons she learned was never to over-mix the egg whites. “There were times I had to start over. It was a lot of work.”

Last summer Robinson visited Paris again and visited the famous Le Cordon Bleu culinary school–an institution in gastronomy situated alongside the Seine River where students learn the art of choosing, cooking, and eating good food.

Robinson also traveled to the south of France and stood amidst fields of lavender – it was there where she got her first taste of ice cream made from the hardy, fra-grant herb. “The ice cream was in-credible, very floral.”

On that same family vaca-tion she visited England, where Robinson said she enjoyed great Indian food as well as the straw-berries and cream at a Wimbledon match–a must for any tourist!

She’s learned to make pizza in Italy, apple strudel in Austria, and pastries such as tzatziki, spana-kopita, and pita bread in Greece. She explained that the spanakop-ita was made from layers of puff dough, spinach, onions, feta, and garlic for traditional comfort food bliss that she enjoyed eating, espe-cially as she’s a vegetarian.

“My mom is vegetarian. I’ve al-ways had the option to not be but, I feel better when I eat that way,” she explained. She does eat eggs and cheese.

“I think out of all the places I’ve been, Greece was my favorite

Tasty pastries from scratch

Lilly Robinson enjoys lavender ice cream in the south of France

Baking classes abroad

Story by Briana Lonas.Photos courtesy of Lilly Robinson.

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The Sweet Life

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because, you know, a lot of times if you go off the recipe, it doesn’t come out good. But you also have to know how to look at what you’ve made and if it’s not work-ing, how to fix it.

KZ: What was it like visiting the famous Le Cordon Bleu?

Robinson: “It was really cool; they have big classrooms for bread, pastries, and pies. I was super excited because they have a colony of bees on their roof where they make and sell their own hon-ey. They have a greenhouse on the roof, and gardens. It’s a good op-tion for American students be-cause they have classes with a translator.

KZ: Are you fearless when you go into the kitchen?

Robinson: I try to be fearless. If I’m worried about something, I’ll usually have my dad come in and look at the recipe and make sure everything is okay. I want to know how to make as many things as possible. If I just go and make it, if it doesn’t turn out that’s okay. I can just go and make it again.

KZ: What would you like to make that you haven’t made before?

Robinson: I’ve never made a soufflé. I want to make mince-meat pie this winter. I’m always

(Continued from page 5)smooth area of mostly ni-trogen ice, surrounded by rock and ice moun-tains soaring over 11,000 feet from the surface. Data revealed glacial activity along these mountain ranges, similar to what we see on earth in the polar climates.

New Horizons continues to operate, and recently flew past Ultima Thule, an object 25% further from us than Pluto. Data continues to come in from the edges of our Solar System, with the initial images showing a snowman shaped object, likely formed from the collision of two separate objects.

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trying new recipes just about ev-ery weekend.

KZ: Have you done any cake decorating?

Robinson: I don’t really like using frosting. I do try and make things pretty. I usually decorate with powdered sugar and fruit. That’s something I want to try in the future, making really beau-tiful decorations with piping. I think it’s an important skill.

KZ: Have you made many birthday cakes?

Robinson: I make a birth-day cake for pretty much every-one. I made a birthday cake for my mom–a chocolate cake with espresso icing and raspberries. Two years ago, I made a birthday cake for my mom with chocolate with apricot jam; that’s what we tried in Austria.

KZ: Have you tried inventing a recipe?

Robinson: Sometimes I’ll change a recipe to flavors that I like. I made a tiramisu recently that I sort of invented. In France they have a cookie called a mad-eleine; it’s really spongy and soft similar to a lady finger but small-er and shell-shaped. So I made a tiramisu with madeleines. I love trying new things, new ideas that haven’t been done before...and I just love baking!

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The nonprofit West Yavapai Guid-ance Clinic (WYGC) Foundation is offering this class to the public, free of charge, on Friday, March 1, 2019. Participants in the 8-hour class – led by experienced, certified trainers – will leave with a certificate nam-ing them a mental health first aider. These education opportunities have been made possible through WYGC Foundation donors and private grant award dollars.

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DOXI: I’m friendly and enjoy being petted, then I purr and purr. I am also gentle and mellow, which makes me fine with young children. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

MARIE: A 3-year-old medium-haired lovely gray lady. She is sweet and affectionate. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

BELLA: A sweet, gentle black lady with white trim and whiskers. She would love to sit in a window with you. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

WEEZA: A beautiful silver tabby female. She is a bit scared here, but is looking for a gentle home with people to love. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

JADE: A beautiful Russian Blue-type female of 14 years. She is healthy and loving but missing a lap and someone to love. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

BARBOSA: A handsome gray male of 2 years. Wants a forever home to settle into and a forever family to love. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

GYPSY LUNA: An amber-eyed, short-haired orange tabby female. At 18 months, she’s playful and affectionate. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

SQUEAKY: A 3-year-old beauty with unique tabby coloring and LOTS of fur. She loves cuddles and being petted; would like a quiet home. Yavapai Humane Society (928) 445-2666

Could it be possible for a pet to change the perspective of the world from a kid’s point of view? We at Yavapai Humane So-ciety believe it is. Animals have a unique ability to make you smile when smiling is the last thing you want to do. They sense when you don’t feel good. They greet you like you’ve been gone for a month when really it was only an hour. They are your constant companion and want to be given the chance to love you unconditionally.

Your pets seek to give you all of them-selves and more; they will be there for you and will always love you. This type of relationship is helpful for a child because it is deep and mystical, true and right, and stable in a world that is everchang-ing. This is why having a pet is amazing for a kid of any age.

Instills Responsibility and Commit-ment: As a kid, it is best to learn respon-sibility as soon as possible in order to not only gain confidence in yourself, but also to teach that if you fail to do something, it does have effects on others. Having a pet is a good way to facilitate responsibil-ity because the parents are there to look over their shoulder and not only make sure that the pet is being properly cared for, but also to help the child along while giving them that hands on experience.

Helps Create Confidence: Once a child has the ins and outs of responsibil-ity practiced and maintained, then natu-

rally this will help build confidence with-in them to know that they can complete something; that they are good at taking care of their pet and therefore can ven-ture out to learn and try new things be-cause they know they can succeed.

Teaches Selflessness and Loyalty: Animals are completely selfless, willingly giving of themselves no matter what cir-cumstances they may find themselves in. Their mission is to put their pet parents first, being at their side in good times and in bad. A pet is the most dependable crea-ture you will ever encounter, giving chil-dren the stability and trust that they will always have a friend.

Embraces Love: The special bond be-tween owner and pet is something truly unbreakable and real. It cannot be faked, and it cannot be altered. This love will never tire and never cease. Someone will always be ecstatic to see you and will never get angry with you. For a child to have that bond with a pet is something that is not only valuable but understood.

All of these important life lessons for a child can be taught by one pet, and that is something that is truly awesome and powerful. They give them the basic tools they need to grow up into caring, re-spectable, and dependable adults. What are you waiting for? Adopt that dog, cat, or horse that is waiting to change your child’s life forever!

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With Pets?By Lauren Lovan

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