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  Police Officer Mike Keane and K-9 Jax graduate from a patrol K-9 school hosted by the Yonkers Police Department. photo credit: Facebook / Clarkstown Police Department  Happy Father's Day! Officer Mike Keane who's been in the force for more than 20 years, shares what it's like to have a four-legged partner that works with you and follows you home. “Whether it’s knowing a bark in the back of the car or it’s just an ominous presence that is needed to kind of cool out a scene of a crime to gain some compliance with people, I certainly wouldn’t want to do it without a partner,” he said. Read full article here.

"Our spaces are a true representation of who we are and where we’re going.”  - Nancy Parker   photo credit: Erin Borzellino Nancy Parker, a personal and environmental energy specialist; healer and feng shui practitioner of more than 20 years, shares tips on how to make your home shine its brightest.  “Feng shui is the art and science of balancing and harmonizing the flow of natural energies in a space or in our surroundings to create beneficial effects for a better lifestyle," she said. Read full article here .

With the encouragement and inspiration of powerful women as well as her husband, Miriam Schwartz is co-founder of Baketivity , a small business that sells baking kits filled with step-by-step recipes, ingredients and fun themed activities for the whole family. “It creates a certain homey sweet atmosphere and the environment does calm down and make them connect with each other," Schwartz said. Read full article here.

  photo courtesy: Kristen Higgins, Nanuet Public Library children’s librarian Sam Sambrato shares what she loves most about working in the teen services department. “I feel like I have days where I get to be goofy and I get to be fun,” she said. Read full article here.

  photo courtesy: Katrina Hohlfeld Katrina Hohlfeld shares what she loves most about working at Valley Cottage Library, a place that she considers a second home.  “I just knew some really amazing librarians growing up, and now I get to work with some of the same librarians that inspired me to work in this field,” she said. Read full article here.

photo courtesy: Cavalier House Books @chbbookstore / Instagram DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — Michelle Cavalier describes her fifth grade year as the "greatest reading year" of her life, a time of "childhood civil disobedience." It was the year that she was first introduced to Lois Lowry's "The Giver," but after a parent complained of its content, it was removed from the classroom. When the teacher realized that the class was passing around the novel and reading it in secret, she offered them the choice to read the new book,  Sounder by William H. Armstrong , or continue reading "The Giver" and take a test.  "I can still feel how excited we were, really feeling as though we were doing something powerful and secret, and when I look back on it, it truly was a turning point for me as a reader and an individual," she said.   "'The Giver' is a novel about empathy and the power of memory and stories; about how when we allow fear and ...

photo credit: Aldona Pilmanis, Nyack Library Head of Youth Services Morgan Strand says that what she loves most about working for a library is giving back to her community.  “We just try to form connections in the teen room, lifelong connections,” she said. Read full article here.