Sharing Books website www.sharing-books.com there are over 250 books available for download; every month we will feature one of their books in our Story Time Section.  Sharing Books is the home of children’s eBook’s, stories, and classic children’s literature.

The books for download are free like share-ware in the software industry. Paying is completely optional and you decide if you can pay and how much you want to pay.

This month’s story is:

“Can Dogs Talk?”

“Can Dogs Talk” by Frank Jeff http://my.brainshark.com/Can-dogs-talk-963217471 http://my.brainshark.com/Can-dogs-talk-963217471my.brainshark.com/Can

Welcome to April’s newsletter.

Over the past few months we have made quite a few changes to our newsletter, and we hope you are enjoying them.

This month we will also cover area’s for young adults since our Variety Village hero is older than usual.  You will find out how Variety Village is able to assist him to be a little more independent by helping him to improve his reading skills.  Our book of the month is directed to our older readers.  We will, however still have books listed for every age along with creative projects, cooking treats and puzzles both easy and difficult, so that no one is left out.

To  receive your copy send an email to: [email protected]

We would also like our older readers to take a look at the video shown in the link below.

Let this video help you make a new beginning in your lives also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYk-UwqFKA

http://www.bestbuddies.ca/

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/16/paralympics.wheelchair.sports.disability/index.html?hpt=C2p

http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://player27.narrowstep.tv/assets/players/4304/html/player.html

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.

John Wooden, the first person ever enshrined as the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (1961) and as a coach (1973

Paralympic Hall of Fame – Induct

• Tanja Kari
• Female Inductee
• Paralympic Hall of Fame
• Inducted in 2010

• Chris Waddell
• Male Inductee
• Paralympic Hall of Fame
• Inducted in 2010

• Rolf Hettich
• Coach Inductee
• Paralympic Hall of Fame
• Inducted in 2010

For a list of the latest medalists: visit the link below

http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/medals/medallists/

http://www.paralympic.org/Media_Centre/Widget/index.html

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/2010wintergames/Carrying+Paralympic+torch+moment+lifetime+year+girl/2671014/story.html

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/09/mullins.beyond.disability/index.html?hpt=C2

New York (CNN) — People come up to Aimee Mullins all the time and say, “you know, I have to tell you, you just don’t look disabled.”

The record-setting athlete, actress and model says, “And it’s sweet because I know that they’re confused, and they’re telling me this because they know I’m missing both legs from the shin down, but they’re presented with this package of a highly capable young woman. This has happened all over the world. I tell them it’s interesting because I don’t feel disabled.”

She believes that people are not born disabled. “It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.”

Watch for the 2010 Paralympic Games   March 12^th to  21^st

http://www.vancouver2010.com/paralympic-games/

In that dark lonesome place
between a dream dreamed

and a dream realized,

I have left a little light for you
so you will know that someone cares
and believes in your dream.

Just where it becomes the most dark
and difficult to find your way,
there is the light I left for you.

It will light your way,
through the doubt, the confusion,
and the fears,

It will stay with you
all the way to the realization
of your dream.

And when your dream has come true,
please go back to that darkest place
where you have been,

And set the little light there to give heart
to the next sweet soul that braves the path
to his or her dreams.

Dreamers are the architects of greatness.
There wisdom lies within their souls.
Dream long enough and hard enough
and your dream can be attained.

— Unknown Author

• The first Games for athletes with a disability were held in 1948 in Stoke Mandeville, England involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries.

• Four years later in 1952 athletes from the Netherlands joined the Games and the international movement, now known as the Paralympic movement, was born.

• Olympic style games for athletes with a disability were organized for the first time in Rome in 1960, immediately after the Olympic Games – the first Paralympic Games. Around 400 athletes from 23 nations competed in eight sports, six of which are still included in the Paralympic Competition Programmed (Archery, Swimming, Fencing, Basketball, Table Tennis and Athletics).

• Since then the Paralympic Games have been organized every four years in the same year as the Olympic Games.

Between March 12^th and 21^st the Paralympic Games will be held in Vancouver, BC.  Follow highlights on the preparations and the games as they unfold or visit the following link http://www.newdisability.com/paralympics.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG2FP01zJwc

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them. But do not let them master you.
– Hellen Keller