NEWSBITES FOR KIDZ™ – October 15, 2004

  From News for Kidz™

This is what kids all over the world did last fortnight!

HEADLINES

National holiday sees China rejoice      

We want a cinema says kids' petition!

ANIMAL NEWS / SCIENCE / MEDICINE

Children with pets 'more healthy'

Wild animals danger for kids in Japan

CARING KIDS

Our child carers

Children wear jeans for charity

Washington Children Draw for Beslan

ENTERTAINMENT / ART

Art: Portrait of the artist as 4-year-old

Kids' art just what the doctor ordered

And this is me

Games help street teens learn

 

 

Past issues of NewsBites for Kidz™

HEADLINES

National holiday sees China rejoice

 

www.chinaview.cn 2004-10-01 15:05:03

 

    BEIJING, Oct.1 (Xinhuanet) -- Hundreds of children dressed in their holiday best are to sing

and dance in a grand variety show this morning in the Zhongshan Park in Beijing.

 

    Performers representing the country's 56 ethnic groups -- all attired in their traditional

costumes -- are staging a gala show at the Chinese Nationalities Theme Park in Beijing.

 

    The parks are two of five sites in the capital where people enjoy excellent cultural

performances and taste various local snacks through the National Day holiday. The others are the

Baihai Park, the Working People's Culture Palace, and the Tiantan Park.

 

    Also known as "Golden Week," the National Day holiday week, along with the past week, will

certainly turn out to be two of the most lively weeks this year for the Chinese. The country has

just celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival on Tuesday (the 15th day of the eighth month of Chinese

lunar calendar).

 

    As a result, various tour festivals and cultural events are being held, not only in downtown

Beijing, but also on the outskirts of the capital, which are trying to attract urban residents to

the countryside.

 

 

 The festivities are nationwide. In Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, 800

children attended to a drum-playing competition last week to greet the holiday by their drum

music.

 

    In Shanghai, a dragon boat race was held on the Suzhou River last week to celebrate the

Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.

 

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/01/content_2044843.htm

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We want a cinema says kids' petition!

Wednesday, 6 October 2004

 

One young person is taking a stand, and taking her commitment to Parkes Shire Council.

 

Ten-year-old Julia Jelbart had the idea to start a petition to demonstrate to council how

important a cinema was to the people of Parkes.

 

'I think a lot of people in Parkes want a cinema,' Julia said.

 

‘Especially children.'

 

Julia drew up a petition on the home computer, before setting out at school with her clipboard

and pen.