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Mini Page: Take Time to Read!

This summer, grab a good book or two, find a sweet place outside, and read!

The Mini Page offers some suggestions of fun books that will let your imagination soar.

Click here for curriculum activities and standards spotlight for this week's The Mini Page.

Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill has digitized copies of the Mini Page. The digital archive stretches from that first effort in 1969 to 2007, when Betty Debnam stepped down as editor and publisher and sold her creation to Universal Press Syndicate. The online archive can be searched by date, issue title, subjects, places and topics.

Attention, Teachers: Get a headstart on the learning -- sign up NOW to have your newspaper delivery in place, beginning with the first week of school! And, great news: The Mini Page is back! A new topic will be printed in each Monday edition of The News-Journal beginning August 20. Click here to get started.

The highly-competitive, annual Medallions of Excellence Awards program, sponsored by The News-Journal, recognizes outstanding achievements by high school seniors in Volusia and Flagler County (in high schools with more than 25 students in the 2012 graduating class). Medallions of Excellence award winners are well-rounded students who not only maintain academic scholarship but who also excel in extracurricular and community activities in areas including -- but not limited to -- the arts, sports, volunteerism and/or leadership. For 2012, the judges have selected 45 winners to receive the Medallions award. Click here for photos and bios of the 2012 winners


HOT ISSUES and COOL IDEAS

What do people collect? Just about anything you can name. Stamps, coins, rocks, stuffed animals, art, furniture, butterflies, historic documents, toys and books are just a few of the more well known items popular with collectors. The list may be endless.

What about you – are you a budding collector? Chances are you either already have, or will someday begin, a collection of your own. If so, what will be your reasons? Collectors have different motives. Perhaps they hope to make a profit, taking a chance that the items they own or buy will increase in value with time. Some collect for social reasons – they join clubs to learn more about their hobby and to share their interests with others. Some enjoy researching, cataloging and arranging their collections.

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Button Collector

Eight year old button collector Robecca smiles as she holds a small fish button, Thursday January 15, 2004, at the Florida State Button Society annual meeting and convention at the Daytona Beach Shores Hilton. (Photo: News-Journal/David Tucker)