Superlative Parents

Mon., April 10, 2000

Tina Carey Staff writer

Do you know a mom who can juggle a million things and make it look like a cake walk? Is there a supermom out there you feel deserves an all-expenses paid week on the beach, plus a year of house cleaning by Molly Maid Service? You do? Great. Listen up.

Children, friends, spouses, relatives and even co-workers can nominate a special mom by submitting an essay of up to 100 words describing how the active mom makes everything she does look easy in the “Moms Who Make It Look Easy Contest” sponsored by Reynolds Wrappers Pop-Up Foil Sheets. Entries should be submitted by Sept. 30.

Send your original typed or neatly hand-written essay or poem to “Moms Who Make It Look Easy Contest,” 4121 Cox Road, Suite 107, Glen Allen, VA 23060. Or enter on the Internet at www.reynoldskitchens.com.

For information and the official contest rules, send a self-addressed envelope to Reynolds Wrappers “Moms Who Make It Look Easy Contest” Winners, 4121 Cox Road, Suite 107, Glen Allen, VA 23060.

* It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Yard-Man!

This Father’s Day kids have a chance to turn their dad into a new superhero…Yard-Man. The second annual Father’s Day contest sponsored by MTD and Sears gives kids a chance to nominate their dad for the Yard-Man title and a garage full of lawn care equipment.

The contest asks kids ages 6-12 to think of all the things their dad does in the yard that qualifies him for “Yard-Man of the Year.” To enter, kids need to write an essay describing their dad in action.

Six winning dads will receive the Yard-Man riding lawn mower by MTD Yard Bug and a garage full of lawn and garden tools to help them in their quest for the perfect yard. The kids who nominate the winning dads will each get a $200 Sears gift certificate.

All prizes will be delivered to the winners’ homes on Father’s Day. Winners will be notified by June 10.

Mail your essay to “Yard-Man of the Year,” P.O. Box 7896, Melville, NY 11175. Print your name, age, grade, home address, home phone number, and specify how you heard about the contest on the back of the essay. Essays must be handwritten in pen on paper no larger than 8 inches wide by 11 inches long.

For complete contest rules write to “Yard-Man of the Year” Contest, 200 E. Randolph Dr., 63rd, Chicago, IL 60601 or visit www.yardman.com on the Internet. Deadline for entries is May 5.

* New Product

Hallmark has introduced a new line of 104 cards that focus on stepfamilies, single-parents, extended, adoptive and other non-traditional families. The line, called “Ties That Bind” are now on sale.

One card, for example, begins with “I guess I don’t need to tell you that it wasn’t easy for me to accept you at first. But with time, I’ve come to know you better and I’ve grown to respect you. I’m sorry for the times I’ve taken my confusion or anger out on you unfairly.”

For more information about Hallmark go to www.hallmark.com on the Internet.

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