Hooray for Daylight Savings Time! Although it will be darker when we rise, the added hours of daylight in the evening are a welcome gift. In many neighborhoods the residents begin to appear from a long winter season of staying indoors. Now we greet each other regularly as we spend time outdoors in the evening watching our children play, doing necessary yard work, or taking our children and pets for a walk.
As you read through this issue of our newsletter you will see that most of our events in the next few months will be held outside. Longer hours of daylight allow for us to provide your family with some of our most popular events. Tons of Trucks, Down on the Farm and Messy Night are just waiting for you and your child to GET OUT AND ABOUT.

Belinda Masters, Coordinator
Parents As Teachers

TONS of TRUCKS Health & Safety Nite
with Columbia Parks
& Recreation Dept.
Thursday, April 3,
4:00 to 7:00 PM
RAIN or SHINE
Cosmo Park-Main Entrance
1615 Business Loop 70 W

What’s inside an ambulance?
How much concrete can a truck deliver?
How high must you climb to reach the driver’s seat in a fire truck?
Learn tips about poison & prevention.
Get your family ‘Red Cross Ready’
Visit our Passport sites. Get your
Passport stamped at 3 or more locations. Turn in your stamped Passport to be eligible to win a prize in a drawing.

Hearing & Vision
Screenings

for ages 6 months to 5 years
PAT office, 555 Vandiver.
 

Wednesday, April 30*, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

*-changed from April 9 date.

No appointment is necessary. Please sign in upon arrival.
No hearing & vision screenings are scheduled in May. Watch for June & July dates in next newsletter.

Parents & Infants
to 12 months
10:30 - 11:30 am

Columbia Public Library

Friends Room

Monday, April 7--Choosing Child Care and Safe Sitters 

Monday, May 12... Summertime Safety at Lions Stephens Park N Williams & Windsor Streets 2 blocks north of Boone Hospital
Rain location: PAT office
 

 
Pre-registration is not required
for these discussion groups.

Down on the Farm
Wednesday, May 21
Nifong Park
Nifong Blvd & Ponderosa St
5:00 to 6:15 pm - Infants to 36 months
6:30 to 7:45 pm - Infants and children 36 months to 5 years (pre-Kdg)
 

Outdoor Games
Art & Nature Activities
Animals from Cedar Spring Farm
Severe weather date: Thurs., May 22
 

Directions: from the Grindstone Parkway/Bearfield Rd intersection, go south on Bearfield Rd to Nifong Blvd. Turn left (east) on Nifong Blvd to the park.

“No, I Won’t and You Can’t Make Me”
Parenting workshop on helping your child cope with anger
Thursday, May 15 ... 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Columbia Public Library - Program Room - Children’s Area
Registration required. Call the library, 817-7160, beginning Tuesday, April 29.
Details on page 3.

Messy Night
for Preschoolers
...for 3 to 5 year olds
(pre-Kindergarten)
Monday, June 2
6:00 to 7:30 pm
Cosmo Park - Burford Shelter
Business Loop 70 West
Severe weather date: Tuesday, June 3