Dear YAAEYC Members,What a fantastic Week of the Young Child celebration in YorkCounty! I hope you all were able to attend a few of the specialevents that were held throughout the county.I want to send a warm thank you to the Week of the Young ChildCommittee for putting together such a fabulous recognition event!Congratulations to all of the award recipients that were recognizedat the banquet for their hard work and dedication to the field of Early Childhood Education!I hope you will be able to attend the Early Childhood Action Dayon June 8

in Harrisburg; the more representation from the fieldthe more powerful the statement that can be made to the legisla-tors!Sincerely,Mindy Miller YAAEYC President

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Letter from the President 1WOYC 2Networking Night 2Special Recognition 3Library Update 4Children’s Action Day 5DVAEYC Conference 5One Book Update 5Chair-Member Contacts 6Membership Updates 62010 YAAEYC Conference 6

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The Week of the Young Child was a huge success! Throughout the week of April 11-17th, centersacross the county celebrated young children, teachers, and families. Many events were heldto honor children and the people who love them. Families had the opportunity to share why their children are special, visit their children's classrooms, eat lunch at the centers, and attend specialstory times. Some centers purchased copies of "What a Treasure," this year's

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selection, and distributed them to all of the preschoolers.The highlight of the week was the WOYC Awards and Recognition Banquet, held at the fabulous Va-lencia Ballroom. Over 350 attendees were delighted by the keynote speaker, Will Hillen-brand, illustrator of "What a Treasure." Mary Ellen Pann, from Fox 43 WPMT, once again graciouslydonated her time to emcee the exciting event. The dedication of the teachers was evident duringthe awards portion. Many teachers were nominated by parents and coworkers, and there were sev-eral lucky recipients of classroom project awards. Many thanks to the generous donors who pro-vided us with incredible door prizes. Angie Sparks, a first-year co-chair of the WOYC Committee,was overwhelmed to see all of the hard-working ECE professionals gather to celebrate young chil-dren!YAAEYC sponsored its second annual Networking Night on April 28, 2010 from 6-9. The visionof this event was to provide a forum for early childhood and school age teachers and directors toshare ideas with each other and check out three high quality child care centers in the Yorkarea. They also got to snack at each center! This year, the 70 participants visited the JewishCommunity Center, the YWCA York Market Street location and Crispus Attucks. A huge thankyou to those centers for supporting the teaching community in this way! Some comments fromparticipants were:

“It’s great that we can all learn from each other!” “My favorite part was seeing how other centers use their space and have their rooms ar- ranged” “The best part was meeting other professionals and getting ideas.” “This event was very worthwhile” “This spiked my imagination and creativity of possible ideas at my own center.”

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At the Week of the Young Child Banquet on April 15, many members of the York County Early Edu-cation community were recognized for their hard work and dedication to the families and children of our region. Outstanding Early Childhood Provider awards were given to the 102 individuals nomi-nated by the families they serve.Elizabeth Steed and Kayla Smith, students at the York County School of Technology, were pre-sented the Future Leaders award for their outstanding academic performance and commitment toquality early childhood education.White Rose awards were given to the following individuals: Tammy Bardo from the East York Rec-reation Commission, Julie Folkenroth and Vicki Wooditch from Children’s First Learning Center, Jen-nifer Melder from Stillmeadow Child Care, Tonya Pennington from East York Kindercare and WendyLatshaw from Otterbein Early Education Center.Children’s Champion awards were given to the following individuals: Sukhdeep Gill, Professor atPenn State and YAAEYC Board Member, Harriet Dichter, Secretary of the Department of PublicWelfare and Sandra Brown of Glatfelter Insurance Group.York County Early Childhood Education Professional Award winners were Yvetta Graves from Cris-pus Attucks, Susan Haverstock of Rainbow Junction, Teresa Sampson a HomeBased provider, Kim-berly Mitchell of York Day Nursery, Amy Barshinger from the York JCC, Mindy Eagan from JoyfulFriends and Tina Cothran at Creative Kids. Congratulations to all our award recipients!