North State Parent magazine

A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

Lisa Vegvary

Lisa Vegvary

Lisa Vegvary is a writer living in the woods in the foothills of the Cascades.

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The Redding Ballet Company: The Nutcracker performance

The Redding Ballet Company: The Nutcracker

The Redding Ballet Company is celebrating 20 years of “The Nutcracker” performing three shows and their school show at the Cascade Theater. From its humble beginnings in 1816 as fairy […]

A Simple Gesture bags in the back of a vehicle

A Simple Gesture – Neighbors Feeding Neighbors

Small gestures can produce big results. Bob Irvine, the executive director of California Vocations, Inc., knows this firsthand. He is also Volunteer Coordinator for A Simple Gesture, a grassroots food […]

breastfeeding mother

Breastfeeding is the Foundation of Life

World Breastfeeding Week 2018 The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action celebrates breastfeeding during the first week of August. “In a world filled with inequality, crises, and poverty, breastfeeding is the […]

child in a Museum

Why Take Your Children to Museums?

A Place for Curiosity Museums are wondrous places in which curiosity is not stifled but rather encouraged.  They offer seemingly endless expansions of the mind; encouraging thought, imagination, integration, involvement, […]

Art Education

The Arts in Education is for All Children

A Well Rounded Education Children need the arts in their education, whether public, charter, private, or home-schooling; studies have shown this again and again. The arts are required subjects in […]

Prevention Against Lyme Disease

Prevention Against Lyme Disease is Every Month

Prevention Against Lyme Disease is Every Month Lyme disease is an infectious, bacterial disease transmitted to humans via a tick bite, but it can also be spread by mosquitoes, fleas […]

Ideas for Frugality

Ideas for Frugality

Ideas for Frugality Living frugally is a choice many families make to help them set goals and dream dreams that thriftiness will make financially accessible. This is a lifestyle that […]

Gap Year

A “Student Gap Year” Is as Unique as Your Child

A “Student Gap Year” Is as Unique as Your Child Many high school seniors look enthusiastically ahead to the university or junior college campus. These students are eager to move […]

Solar Powered Clothes Dryer

Solar Powered Clothes Dryer

Solar Powered Clothes Dryer   Old fashioned and quaint or good green common sense? Air drying your laundry outside in the spring, summer and fall is one of the more […]

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