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- DIY Contest to Celebrate our Stay At-Home Accomplishments
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- Do as I say … Not as I …
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- Family Activities for Under $40: Reader Tips
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- Free Admission Day to honor Ten Years of Abe’s Museum
- FREE ALPLM’s Back to School Bash
- Free Breast Cancer Screenings: Mammogram Mondays in October
- FREE Car or Window Vinyl Stickers: Share SpMoms and Win!
- Free Child Safety Seat Check this Friday, July 23
- Free Health Tips, Recipes and Ingredient Swaps from the American Heart Association
- FREE Root Beer Float Day at Kidzeum
- Free Summer Activities Guide – Affordable Fun, All Summer Long!
- Free to Enter: Home Expo Lego Contest
- Free Zoo Walk in Honor of World Breastfeeding Week 2018
- Freshen Up the Dress-Up Corner
- From Madelyn: Giving is Better Than Receiving!
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- Fun Creations with Kathi, Kelly, and Me!
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- Helping a Child that has Experienced Trauma
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- Holiday Baking: Before and After
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- Just the Way You Are…
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- Kids Good Grief Camp Registration Open
- Kids Only Art Auction at Urban Sassafras.
- Kidzeum Admission $5.29 THIS Saturday
- Kidzeum is Re-opening and Invites You to Play!
- Kidzeum Special Summer Events
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- Kindness is Contagious
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- Kwedar Safe Boating Clinics FREE for Kids
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- Martin Luther King Jr. Teaching for Generations
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- Meet Brianna! CMN’s Miracle Child & Join the Radiothon
- Meet our Mom’s Lifestyle Makeover Winner!
- Memorial Day: We Are So Grateful
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- New Year, New Skills….for you and your kids!
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- New! Sesame Street Website for Military, Veteran Families
- Nominate a Deserving Unlikely Champion!
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- Nostalgia…Childhood Lives On
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- Now Hiring! Part-time/On-Call Help
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- Please Vote For Springfield Moms on SJR’s Readers’ Choice Survey
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- Register for Kids’ Night Out at the ISM
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- Remembering 9-11
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