20 • March 2014 • UPBEAT TIMES


Family Kids & Parenting My Car is My Purse


I


’ve always treated my car as a kind of giant purse. I try to keep a little bit of everything


I might ever need, either in the glove compartment or under the seat, maybe in the trunk.


Also, it’s easier to throw something into the back seat than to take it the ten steps into the house. Now, I’m not a neat-freak but in the B.C. days (you know before chil-


dren) I’d occasion- ally stop whatever I was doing and clean my car. Kids change things.


Now car cleaning is an essential part of my routine. Once a week I have to go to the dump, with a broom


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and one of those leaf blow- ing machines just to remove the big pieces of kids’ mess from my car. Yet, despite my efforts


to keep my car clean, each week, the car develops another layer of “darkness.” I don’t want to call it dirt because I have spent a lot of time scrubbing the seats. But the seats are definitely a darker shade of gray than the previous week.


Nowadays, my car isn’t so much a purse as it is a diaper bag, a garbage bag, a recycle bin, a book mobile, an art supply shop, a spare bedroom, a gym locker,


a


collector of all things kids related. But it’s not all bad, it often


makes for some funny mate- rial. One of my favorite lines heard coming out of the car, “Dad, do you know where my worms went?”


Art Angels to Receive Award at Youth Arts Exhibit St. Vincent de Paul Art Angels (from left) Ellie O'Neil, Maddie


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PETALUMA, CA. ~ Art Angels of St. Vincent’s High School will receive the Community Arts Award at the Petaluma Arts Center’s Youth Art Exhibit on April 5. The exhibit, “Art Shapes the World” will run April 4 – 27, 2014. The Community Arts Award acknowledges the Art Angels for repainting and revital- izing the long abandoned El Cotija restaurant at Western Avenue and Howard Street Project coordinator Marla Pedersen observed: “Once a gas station, then a taco stand, now a public work of art, the future for this property is unknown, but with the energy it now exudes, one can only imagine it will become something of great worth for our community.” In “Art Shapes the World”, stu-


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dent artists in K – 12 will have an opportunity to show their art in a professional setting. More than 100 students will participate in this juried exhibition.


Art in all media will be reviewed and selected by a jury of local pro- fessional artists. A call for art can be seen at petalumaartscenter.org/ exhibition/call-for-artists. Additional awards will be given in each of the following categories


Connections, Relationships and Applications. The exhibit is partially funded by the Petaluma Art Association and Robert & Mary Bailey. Program Partner is Spaulding McCullough & Tansil LLC. The Doll Project from the sec- ond graders at McNear Elementary will also be on display in the gallery. The arts are an essential and valu- able component in educating for the 21st century. However, the visual arts are consistently found at the bottom of priority lists. The Petaluma Arts Center not only supports the arts, but also actively advocates for the arts at the local level for all ages. The Petaluma Arts Center is a


private, non-profit organization sup- ported by the generosity of its mem- bership as well as by sponsorships and grants.


Through creative pro-


gramming, the Center provides the opportunity for people to encounter, engage and enjoy a diversity of art experiences.


The Center is open Thursday


through Monday, from 11am to 5 pm, Thursday through Monday (closed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and most national holidays).


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