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Docia Shares a Story - Just as I Was Wondering...

by Docia Zavitkovsky
May/June 2003
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Just as I was wondering what was being done that was creative and different in early childhood centers, two events captured my attention and reassured me that even in troubled times, imagination and ingenuity are alive and functioning.

First

An article in the Los Angeles Times titled, "For An Aspiring Trash Hauler, Cake and Crafts At The Dump" by Wendy Thermos, told how Michael Wong Sasso celebrated his seventh birthday at the Sunshine Canyon Landfill where Browning Ferris Industries set aside a pile of clean dirt away from bulldozers and out of range of odors for Michael and his friends to play. Recycled cardboard, colored paper, flour dough, and other materials were available for creating toys to use with assorted play dump trucks. According to his mother, Michael has been interested in being a garbage collector since he was two years old. Michael said he liked big trucks, liked putting trash where it belonged, liked making the world cleaner. A family friend, Piedad Velasquez, thought it great that the parents supported Michael's wish to be a trash hauler and said, "We really need kids who think that way. Not everyone can grow up to be a nuclear scientist."

Second

I visited the Seattle ...

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