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		<title>The Power of Writing and Responding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Kids from Valley Park Schools in St. Louis had an unlikely project for their P.E. class&#8230; writing letters!  Apparently the philosophy at Valley Park is to frequently integrate writing into the curriculum wherever they can, even sports!
So the kids were directed to write essays about sports figures who inspire them.  They then sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Schoolers Become Presidential Pen Pals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice story about some middle school children writing to the President and getting an answer back.  Sweet!
Metro West Daily News
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		<title>Effective Complaint Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once wrote a complaint letter to a hotel and got a free weekend stay on my return visit.  Once I wrote a complaint letter to a bleach company and got a replacement skirt for a co-worker who had her clothes ruined by an exploding bleach bottle.  A well-written complaint letter can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Postal News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two pieces of news:
On the last postal news entry I mentioned the idea of the USPS reducing delivery service due to some of the cost constraints and significant losses they are suffering (to the tune of about $3 Billion).
Today there was a news story about the salary of the Postmaster General which was pretty astounding. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Write Letters to Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Herrmann, an elementary school teacher, began a tradition of having her classes write letters to veterans of the Vietnam War.
In a news story from Beloit Daily News, Herrmann describes the value to the children and to the Veterans.  The children get to learn about history, patriotism and giving. The Veterans learn that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter Writing Makes it Big!</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforletters.com/2008/12/letter-writing-makes-it-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how geeky I am.  I nearly hopped out of my seat squealing &#8220;woo woo woo!&#8221; when they had a segment on Good Morning America about gifts you can give people for Christmas if you&#8217;re having hard economic times.  One of the ideas was writing a letter.
Mellody Hobson mentioned in the segment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Woman Writes 40-60 Letters Per Week</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforletters.com/2008/11/news-letter-writer-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting article about a teacher who writes seven or eight letters routinely every day.  The news story describes her writing habits and her philosophy of letter writing. What a faithful and fascinating pen pal!
http://www.freep.com/article/20081130/TWIST01/811300357/1025/rss05
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		<title>Abe Lincoln Letter Found?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite letters of all time is the letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, the mother of five sons who were in the Civil War.  You might know this letter from a scene from the movie Saving Private Ryan and handled in such a moving way in the film.
Recently, a copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killed for Writing Love Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not ten minutes after I posted a link to a love letter writing contest, I ran across a news story about a horrible incident in which a boy was killed for writing a love letter to a girl in his village.
For those of you who live in places where we have the freedom to write [...]]]></description>
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