100 years later, nature lovers still mourning for Martha The late Martha I f the bird in this photo seems stiff and lifeless, there’s a reason: That’s Martha, the last of the passenger pigeons, who died a century ago yesterday in the Cincinnati Zoo, and is now mounted and exhibited at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. There were once billions of passenger pigeons in America, in huge flocks that blocked the sun and took hours to pass overhead. Now there are none. Two things caused the passenger pigeon to go extinct as our nation grew: Cutting of forests for farmland destroyed their habitat, and commercial hunters killed them in huge numbers for sale as food in the cities. Today, Martha sits on her perch, a cold reminder that, just because a natural resource is plentiful, that doesn’t mean it cannot be destroyed by greed and thoughtlessness. Photo/Smithsonian Institute Colorado Kids CK Reporter Gwen Wilusz, Fort Collins MAKE YOUR MORNINGS DELICIOUS! O n a normal day, most kids head straight for cereal, but breakfast doesn’t have be boring; it can be easy and delicious too! Here are two easy versions of French toast that kids can make with just a little adult supervision. Baked French toast This is a favorite I often make when friends spend the night. You put it together the night be- fore and bake it in the morning. Ingredients: One half cup melted butter, three-quarters cup brown sugar, 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon, 12 slices sandwich bread, 6 eggs, half a cup of milk 1. Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with melted butter. Spread any remaining melted butter over bot- tom of dish. 2. Sprinkle brown sugar and cin- namon evenly over melted butter. 3. Arrange bread in two layers over brown sugar mixture. 4. Beat eggs, milk, and salt in a bowl; pour over bread. 5. Cover; refrigerate overnight. 6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 7. Bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes. “Free” French toast This is a great recipe for kids with allergies or who don’t like the eggy taste of regular French toast. It can be made without gluten, dairy, eggs, and nuts. Ingredients: 2 cups soy or rice milk, a quar- ter cup flour or gluten-free flour, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tbsp honey, 6-8 thick slices aller- gen friendly bread, maple syrup and confectioners’ sugar 1) Heat a griddle or skillet on medium high heat. Spray the sur- face with cooking spray. 2) Whisk the first six ingredients together in a bowl. Pour mixture into a shallow bowl and dip both sides of bread slices in mixture, coating well. 3) Remove bread slices from mixture, allowing the excess milk to drip. Place on hot griddle and cook 3-4 minutes on each side, or until browned. Serve with your favorite maple syrup and confectioners’ sugar and enjoy! (You’ll find one more breakfast recipe in the version of this story at yourhub.com/nextgen!) D eath Valley is known for having the lowest eleva- tion in the United States, and for its hot desert climate. It’s also known for mysteri- ous moving rocks, and now, it turns out, the key has to do with desert cold, not heat. The rocks have long puzzled people: Huge rocks, hundreds of pounds in weight, seem to have moved across a dried-up lake floor, leaving paths in the dirt behind them. Scientists thought they’d have to watch for years to figure it out, but then they happened to see it take place. There is sometimes just enough water in the lake to make a thin layer. In the cold winter nights, it freezes. As it melts, broken sheets of ice slide on thin layers of water, pushing the rocks far enough to make tracks. Want to see? There’s a video link at ColoradoNIE.com AP Photo/National Park Service ROCKS DON’T WALK, BUT SOMETIMES THEY SKATE Sweet and easy baked French toast Photo by Kylene Santoro By Kylene Santoro, 12, a CK Reporter from Morrison September 2, 2014
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100 years later, nature lovers
still mourning for Martha The late Martha
If the bird in this photo seems stiff and lifeless, there’s a reason: That’s Martha, the last of the passenger pigeons, who died a century ago yesterday in the Cincinnati Zoo, and is now mounted and exhibited at
the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.There were once billions of passenger pigeons in America, in huge fl ocks
that blocked the sun and took hours to pass overhead. Now there are none.Two things caused the passenger pigeon to go extinct as our nation grew:
Cutting of forests for farmland destroyed their habitat, and commercial hunters killed them in huge numbers for sale as food in the cities.
Today, Martha sits on her perch, a cold reminder that, just because a natural resource is plentiful, that doesn’t mean it cannot be destroyed by greed and thoughtlessness. Photo/Smithsonian Institute
2013
ColoradoKids CK ReporterGwen Wilusz,
Fort Collins
maKe YoUr mornInGs delIcIoUs!On a normal day, most
kids head straight for cereal, but breakfast
doesn’t have be boring; it can be easy and delicious too!
Here are two easy versions of French toast that kids can make with just a little adult supervision.
Baked French toastThis is a favorite I often make
when friends spend the night. You put it together the night be-fore and bake it in the morning.
Ingredients: One half cup melted butter,
three-quarters cup brown sugar, 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon, 12 slices sandwich bread, 6 eggs, half a cup of milk
1. Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with melted butter. Spread any remaining melted butter over bot-tom of dish.
2. Sprinkle brown sugar and cin-namon evenly over melted butter.
3. Arrange bread in two layers over brown sugar mixture.
4. Beat eggs, milk, and salt in a bowl; pour over bread.
5. Cover; refrigerate overnight.6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
7. Bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes.
“Free” French toastThis is a great recipe for kids
with allergies or who don’t like the eggy taste of regular French toast. It can be made without gluten, dairy, eggs, and nuts.
Ingredients: 2 cups soy or rice milk, a quar-
ter cup fl our or gluten-free fl our, 2 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tbsp honey, 6-8 thick slices aller-gen friendly bread, maple syrup and confectioners’ sugar
1) Heat a griddle or skillet on
medium high heat. Spray the sur-face with cooking spray.
2) Whisk the fi rst six ingredients together in a bowl. Pour mixture into a shallow bowl and dip both sides of bread slices in mixture, coating well.
3) Remove bread slices from mixture, allowing the excess milk to drip. Place on hot griddle and cook 3-4 minutes on each side, or until browned.
Serve with your favorite maple syrup and confectioners’ sugar and enjoy!
(You’ll fi nd one more breakfast recipe in the version of this story at yourhub.com/nextgen!)
Death Valley is known for having the lowest eleva-
tion in the United States, and for its hot desert climate.
It’s also known for mysteri-ous moving rocks, and now, it turns out, the key has to do with desert cold, not heat.
The rocks have long puzzled people: Huge rocks, hundreds of pounds in weight, seem to have moved across a dried-up lake fl oor, leaving paths in the dirt behind them.
Scientists thought they’d have to watch for years to fi gure it out, but then they happened to see it take place.
There is sometimes just enough water in the lake to make a thin layer. In the cold winter nights, it freezes.
As it melts, broken sheets of ice slide on thin layers of water, pushing the rocks far enough to make tracks.
Want to see? There’s a video link at ColoradoNIE.com
AP Photo/National Park Service
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Sweet and easy baked French toast Photo by Kylene Santoro
By Kylene Santoro,12, a CK Reporter from Morrison
natural resource is plentiful, that doesn’t mean it cannot be destroyed by Photo/Smithsonian Institute
and Blood” by Nathan Hale is a great graphic novel about World War 1 that will definitely entice you to keep reading more!
The book explains many de-tails of the war, including major events like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, impor-tant developments like trench warfare, and how technology advanced because of the war.
In a weird way but very ef-fective way, the writer portrays all the countries’ people and soldiers as different animals (Russia’s people are bears; The United Kingdom’s are bulldogs, America’s are bunnies).
He also employs the “ugli-ness” of the Greek god of war, Ares, (He gets uglier as the war progresses) as a metaphor to describe the worsening condi-tions of the war.
With all these unusual de-vices, this book keeps readers trapped with its entertaining but educational stories and comics.
This book is safe for kids of all ages to read, though there is some adult language in the titles listed in the bibliography.
Graphic novel great intro to World War I
ck Kids and adults can find live links to information about stories in Colorado Kids at www.ColoradoNIE.com
Bridget Galaty takes her video camera wherever she goes and makes videos of the people she meets and places she goes.
Look through today’s paper for people and places you’d like to see in person. Make some notes about the things you would want to make sure were included if you were making a video about them.
Beyond these four pages
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Here, Broncos just get lukewarm loveFootball season may be here,
but most CK readers aren’t there.
At least, that’s what you said when we asked you. For the largest group, the Broncos aren’t even in the picture, and another large group will prob-ably wait until the playoffs to pay attention, and then only if the team makes it that far.
Here’s what we asked you, and what you told us:
The Broncos are about to kick off the new season. How do you feel about that?
A. Best time of the year! Go Broncos! 21%
B. I enjoy watching the games with my friends. 9%
C. I might check out a game or two, if they’re winning. 33%
D. Not on my radar. 37%So now that we’ve asked a
sports question, how about a similar question for book and
movie fans? Here’s our next question:
The first part of the movie version of “Mockingjay” will be out soon. Are you going?
1. I can’t wait!2. Maybe, if my folks let me
go to a PG-13 movie.3. The book was way too
grim. I’m going to pass.4. Not on my radar.To answer this question, go to
www.nextgen.yourhub.com
we asked, you answered
By Reid Strieker,11, a CK Reporter from Antonito
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In July, we told you about Spencer Collins, the nine-
year-old boy from Leawood, Kansas, who was ordered to remove the Little Free Library from his front yard.
The town had decided that small boxes on poles counted as “buildings” like tool sheds and so were not legal for people to build in their front yards.
Spencer disagreed, and he and his family decided to fight the decision.
They weren’t alone: The city of Leawood heard from reporters, authors and readers from around the world.
Most important, they heard from Spencer, who told the City Council, “Lots of people in the neighborhood used the library, and the books were always changing. I think it’s good for Leawood.”
The council voted to al-low Little Free Libraries for now and to a final decision in October.
What will they decide then? Well, the mayor gave Spencer a book for his library.
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Former Colorado Kids Reporter Bridg-et Galaty has just returned from a trip halfway around the world.
Through exchange programs by Denver Sister Cities and the Luby Jenkins Founda-tion, she traveled to Mongolia with a boy and another girl from her school, Denver School of the Arts (DSA), and some high school students from Tuba City, AZ.
While in Mongolia, Bridget worked on a documentary video about the culture, cus-toms, and the experience of Mongolia.
In April, the Mongolian students who
took part in the exchange program will travel to Denver and Tuba City. Then Bridg-et will begin shooting a new documentary so she can document the entire exchange.
The cultural differences in Mongolia are “interesting” and “different, but similar to our culture,” she said, due to Mongolia go-ing through a lot of cultural changes within the country itself.
It was behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, so the capital city, Ulaanbaatar, looks very Russian, but the new buildings going up look more like the US or Europe.
Once you leave the city, she said, the cul-
ture is “vastly different.” The students lived with a nomadic family
who raise sheep and travel throughout the year.
The countryside was beautiful, she re-ports, with no air pollution, and the group was welcomed into the Mongolian culture as they traveled from temples to monas-teries and learned more about Mongolian history and culture.
Denver Sister Cities started exchanges with Mongolia because Denver has one of the US’s largest Mongolian population.
High-school aged students partake in the program, which exchanges not only with Mongolia, but also with France, Israel, Kenya, Costa Rica, China, Japan, Africa, and India.
Bridget said that she was always drawn to fi lmmaking.
She made fi ctional movies in elementary school and started making documentaries at the Denver School for the Arts.
She began with historic videos but soon started shooting documentaries on cities and their cultural experiences.
To see her Mongolian video, catch the live link at ColoradoNIE.com
Her closing words were, “more people should experience traveling internationally since it is truly a great experience!”
cK alumna now an international reporter
BrainteaserOn this date in 1833, Oberlin College was founded, the fi rst American college to include women and African-Americans among its students, so our answers will all begin with “O.”
1. A wild, spotted South American member of the cat family
2. Another name for a heavy jacket for cold or wet weather
3. This woodwind instrument is the duck’s voice in “Peter and the Wolf.”
4. The type of doctor who puts braces on people’s teeth
5. Unusual relative of the giraffe; see it at the Denver Zoo!
6. Eggs, beaten, cooked and folded around a fi lling
7. A very strong steer often trained to pull wagons
8. A play in which all the words are sung
9. A city in Nebraska named for an important Lakotan tribe
10. A great ape from Borneo or Sumatra(answers on Page Four)
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Bridget Galaty at DSA. Photo by Margaret Vogelpohl
For a week this summer, the USA Pro Challenge was speeding through
Colorado.
The USA Pro Challenge is a road bicycle race that takes place in Colo-rado and is raced by some of the most famous cy-clists from the Tour de France and all around the world.
Day after day, color-ful crowds lined the roads to watch the blurs as the cyclist whizzed by.
Smiles, wide eyes, clapping, laughter, and cheering were all part of this grand event.
Marian Livermore, a specta-tor at the final stage of the race said, “Those cyclists don’t bike, they fly!”
How right she was! The rac-ers were riding about 30 miles an hour, especially the break-away group.
The breakaway is a small
group that breaks away from the main group, or peloton, to attempt a win of a particular stage of the race.
For one of the riders in the breakaway on the last day, the exhilaration was bittersweet.
This rider was famous for his exciting and vicious break-away attempts, and his view on breakaways was “If you go, you can either win or not win.
If you don’t go for it, you defi-nitely won’t win.”
That final Sunday was Jens Voigt’s last day as a pro cyclist.
His pro cycling career be-gan in 1997 and, ending in 2014, totalling 17 years.
Through-out his ca-reer, he won
overall in several stage races and won individual stages in Grand Tours such as the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia.
Between Jens Voigt’s cycling finale, the number of famous cyclists riding, and the overall grandeur of the entire race, the USA Pro Challenge this year was quite the spectacle.
But it’s only fair that through-out this spectacle, this message was sent: Farewell, Jens.
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BrainteaserSolution
(see Page Three)10 right - Wow! 7 right - Great! 5 right - Good
