Jennifer and Kristin are off to Italy for a 16 day tour! They will be spending 3 days at the Grand Metropole in Venice, followed by a couple days in Gianni Franzi, Vernazza (Cinque Terre) and a day in Volterra.
After that, they'll meet up with sister/aunt Jocelyn and Mark for a week at a villa in Tuscany. The final three days will be spent in Rome.
Hopefully we can persuade both to write some stories of their adventures once they return.
Greetings! Dan here to let you know I have finished building a new website to showcase some of my personal photography. I really wanted to get www.danielclements.com, but it was already taken by an artist named Daniel Clements. The next choice, www.daniel-clements.com was also taken -- by a professional photographer. So, that left me with www.jdanielclements.com.
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Kristin went BIG at the Barrie Fair this year, entering items into eleven different categories. She came away with four first place ribbons, plus a second, a third, two fifths, and three merit awards.
She scored first place ribbons in the 'Banana Muffins', 'Flying Critter Made From a Clothespin', 'Photography - Nature Closeup' (shown at right), and 'Christmas Decoration Using a Snowman' categories. And the last one -- the snowman -- is the best story, but more on that later.
Jakob's short essay on The Dangers of Drive-Thrus took second place in the Simcoe Country District School Board's Eco Health Initiatives 2008 Eco Journalism Award.
On Wednesday June 4, he attended an awards ceremony at the school board office where he received his award from Mr. Lancaster (Bear Creek Secondary School) and Kayla Secord from the board office. Besides the plaque, Jakob received a $200 cash prize which he was quite pleased with.
It seems like just nine short years ago Kristin was off to her first day of kindergarten. And now here she is, graduating from grade 8 (with straight As) and getting ready to walk onto the springboard of life called high school.
Duran is Jack "Grandpa" Clements' new Seeing Eye Dog. He arrived around May 15, with a trainer, who spent 10 days training both of them. Now the 10 days is up and they're on their own. Duran is very well behaved and is working on getting used to all the new things in his life.
