Train For the Olympics
You won’t have to run marathons or lift weights, but viewing the exhibition “The Olympic Games: Art, Culture and Sport” can get the entire family in London 2012 Summer Olympic Games TV-watching shape.
This exhibition, at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., sparks your imagination as it compares the ancient and modern Olympiads through objects, art, science and technology. Learn about traditional Olympic sports such as footraces, wrestling, boxing and the ancient pentathlon events of long jump, javelin, discus, sprints and wrestling.
Don’t miss the custom-built six-foot mini-diorama, which recreates one of the earliest Greek stadiums with more than 1,200 miniature athletes, judges and spectators. In addition, family-friendly educational programs are being offered starting with a Games Family Day on June 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. After your preparation you’ll be ready to view the actual July 27-Aug. 12 Olympic Games. Visit the Bruce Museum website for more information. www.brucemuseum.org.
Banana Nice Cream
Whole Foods Market Health Starts Here® Recipe
Easy as 1-2-3, this creamy, sweet and cool snack or dessert proves that added sugar and fat are not always necessary to satisfy your cravings. Keep some peeled bananas in your freezer so they’ll be ready when you are. Serves 2.
Ingredients
- 1 (10-ounce) package frozen EARTH University Banana Chunks, or two bananas, sliced and frozen
- 1 cup unsweetened soymilk
- 2 tablespoons smooth almond butter or peanut butter
Method
1. Put bananas, soymilk and almond butter into a blender.
2. Purée, turn off the motor and stir the mixture two or three times, until it is smooth and creamy.
3. Pour into two bowls and serve.
Whole Foods Markets are located in Yonkers at One Ridge Hill, in White Plains at 100 Bloomingdale Road and in Connecticut at 150 Ledge Road in Darien and 90 E. Putnam Ave. in Greenwich.
Father Facts
Who thought up Father’s Day? Sonora Dodd, a Spokane, Wash., woman who was listening to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. She wanted a special day to honor her dad, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who raised his six children alone on a farm. So the mayor of Spokane picked June 19, 1910, for the first Father’s Day (it was the month of Smart’s birth). In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson officially proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day and President Richard Nixon signed a public law making the designation permanent in 1972.
Dads by the Dozens
- 70.1 million
- The estimated number of fathers nationwide
- 25.3 million
- The number of dads who were part of married couple families with children under age 18 in 2010
- 1.8 million
- The number of single fathers in 2010 (9 percent were raising three or more kids under age 18)
- 154,000
- The estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2010.
- 71 percent
- The percentage of children under age 6 who ate dinner with their dad every day in 2006.
- 6
- The average number of times kids ages 3 to 5 were read to by their fathers in the past week, as of 2006.
– Source: U.S. Census Bureau