The Walton brothers, popular local musicians, held their seventh annual Christmas concert called "Back Home for Christmas" at the First Christian Church in Trinidad to a full house. The concert proceeds benefitted Grace Christian School. The concert featured the Walton brothers and their daughter on drums and keyboard. The event is one of the yearly fundraising efforts for Grace Christian School and all proceeds go to supporting the school and its students.

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EDUCATION
Local popular musicians the Walton brothers, at right (L-R), Bob,
Josh and Bruce sang and played for a packed house when they
presented the seventh annual Christmas Concert ‘Back Home
for Christmas’ at the First Christian Church in Trinidad on Sun-
day evening. The event is one of the yearly fundraising efforts
of the Grace Christian School. Along with the Walton brothers
were Michelle Nelson, below left at far left, on the keyboard and
Micheli Walton, below, Bob Walton’s daughter, on the drums.
All proceeds from the concert go to the support of the school
and its students.
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
Walton’s ‘Back Home
for Christmas’ Concert
plays to packed house
and happy audience
INCREASE PARENTING SKILLS
How to provide social, emotional
development to young children
By Tiffany Raiford
Everyday Life
By fostering appropriate social and emo-
tional development when your children are
little, you’ll increase your chances of rais-
ing healthy, happy and well-adjusted young
people. If you are a loving, involved and in-
terested parent, it isn’t difficult to provide
social and emotional development skills to
young children.
Step 1
Show affection as often as possible. Ac-
cording to Kristin Reinsberg, a licensed
marriage and family therapist, your chil-
dren will develop both socially and emo-
tionally when you regularly show them
that they are loved and wanted. Show in-
terest in your childrens’ emotions by ask-
ing them how they feels about events or
circumstances. That will help them develop
their emotions in a healthy manner.
Step 2
Encourage them to show their emotions,
advises PBS. Children who are able to ex-
pressarangeofemotionsaremoreemotion-
ally developed that children who are not, ac-
cording to the network. You can help them
develop those emotions by teaching them
to appropriately express their feelings. For
example, when they are angry and throw-
ing toys across the room, you can tell
them that it’s OK to be angry, but that
they cannot throw objects. Teach them
a better way of handling their anger,
such as taking deep breaths or walk-
ing away from the cause of the anger.
Step 3
Nurture your own emotional and
social needs. According to Kristin
Reinsberg, you have to set a good ex-
ample for your children if you want
to foster their social and emotional
development. When you take the time
to take care of your own emotional
and social needs, you are better able to
provide your children with their own
social and emotional needs.
Step 4
Play with your children. According
to PBS, kids learn social development
by exploring, and this includes doing
simple acts such as playing peek-a-boo
or hide and seek with you or others
they love. When children are encour-
aged to play games with their loved
ones, they becomes aware of others,
how they interact and that even when they
cannot see them, they are still there. Do not
be alarmed if your child becomes physical
when playing with others -- that’s part of
the social development plan. For example,
if your child pushes another child down
when that child takes a toy from him, you
can help him develop his social skills by
teaching him the appropriate way to handle
the problem.
Carefully cultivate your child’s social and emotional
growth.
Special to The Chronicle-News
Recently students at Trinidad Middle
School took cultures of shoe bottoms,
dirt, desks and used gum. The interest-
ing and sometimes furry results were
viewed using microscopes from Trini-
dad State in Lisa Glorioso’s 6th grade
class. Trinidad State Professor Gillian
Hart, STEM Coach Jenn Swanson and
Trinidad State student Jessika Santiste-
van used the visit to promote careers in
STEM fields (science, technology, engi-
neering and math).
Photo by Greg Boyce, Trinidad State Junior College
L-R) Victoria Phyllis, Trinidad State student Jessika Santistevan, Lance Peters, Marcos Villa, Jor-
dan Cooley, Claudia Viera-Flores and Professor Gillian Hart study cultures viewed through a mi-
croscope at Trinidad Middle School.
Trinidad Middle Schoolers get
cultured, scientifically, at TSJC
RESEARCH & INVESTIGATION
Colorado woman
selected as Rhodes
scholar
Associated Press
DENVER (AP) — A woman from Green-
wood Village has been selected to be a 2015
Rhodes scholar.
Emily Witt is now a senior at Stanford
University where she majors in human bi-
ology and is working on a minor in psychol-
ogy.
The scholarships announced recently
provide all expenses for two or three years
of study at Oxford University in England.
Witt did research in Guatemala on
chronic nutrition and is president of the
Stanford Chapter of Amnesty International.
Witt is one of 32 men and women from
the United States picked by the Rhodes
Trust who will enter the university next
October.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY