Veterans Day honors the sacrifices our military personnel have made to keep our country safe.

Today Kid Scoop is looking at Veterans Day and how you, as a kid, can help to celebrate it and honor the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and other service personnel that have helped to protect our country.

Veterans Day is marked every year on November 11 in honor of the peace treaties signed at the end of World War I. That armistice was signed at 11 a.m., on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, which is why the number 11 is significant to Veterans Day.

Kid Scoop offers a number of ways you can help mark the day, but you can also simply reach out to your relatives, neighbors and teachers and ask them if they are veterans. If they are, be sure to thank them for their service.

They might want to talk to you about what they have done in the military or they may not, but be sure to thank them for keeping America strong.

Here’s a great video about remembering the role the military has in our history. http://youtu.be/MnvPBYoJ_bY

What it’s like to be a “military kid.” http://youtu.be/HJTqLFLBRjQ

What is Kid Scoop? It’s a special page that appears every Monday in The York Dispatch and other local newspapers. Aside from its main feature and the Writing Corner, it includes games, puzzles and jokes.

Get your copy of Kid Scoop in today’s edition of The York Dispatch, and be sure to assemble your own Write On! entry and submit it to NIE@ync.com. We’ll run every entry here!

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Edgar Allan Poe is a famous writer who died in 1849. He’s featured in today’s Halloween-themed edition of Kid Scoop. He’s credited with creating the detective story, but his most famous work is probably the poem called “The Raven.”

In that poem, a man is pestered by a raven who seems to be something more than it is.

The poem has been read and dramatized by many people over the years, including on an episode of “The Simpsons.” One of the best was done by Vincent Price, a legend in the movie business for his numerous horror films.

Beyond “The Raven,” Poe also wrote the a lot of other spooky tales. The chilling “Tell-Tale Heart” explores the guilt a murderer feels. The spine-tingling “Cask of Amontillado” focuses on a guy who is buried alive. “The Pit and the Pendulum” is an exercise in sheer terror as a man waits to be sliced in two. In all, Poe came up with a lot of scary ideas!

All these great works were written more than 150 years ago, long before Halloween was a common holiday in the United States, yet they’re still considered to be among the best short stories ever written.

You can hear Vincent Price’s version of “The Raven” here. http://youtu.be/zuGZ_wp_i9w

Learn about Poe himself in this mini-biography. http://youtu.be/x-387NMCR6w

OK, enough of the history stuff, here’s a cartoon parody of “The Raven.” This one also features a reading by Vincent Price! http://youtu.be/v57cDPH1108

What is Kid Scoop? It’s a special page that appears every Monday in The York Dispatch and other local newspapers. Aside from its main feature and the Writing Corner, it includes games, puzzles and jokes.

Get your copy of Kid Scoop in today’s edition of The York Dispatch, and be sure to assemble your own Write On! entry and submit it to NIE@ync.com. We’ll run every entry here!

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Alexander Cartwright is crediting with authoring the first baseball rulebook. He also worked as a firefighter, which explains the funny hat he’s wearing.

This week’s edition of Kid Scoop focuses on the great game of baseball. Years ago, people said the game was first developed by Abner Doubleday, but it is actually a “folk game” that developed over time until official rules were published around 1845 by Alexander Cartwright. Cartwright even served as the umpire in the first game of baseball played under his set of rules.

The organization that became Major League Baseball was founded in 1869 with the creation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings team.

Baseball was immensely popular through the 1800s and 1900s, and is still called “America’s pastime,” although some people will tell you that designation now really should go to football.

Still thanks to the sport’s popularity there’s been hundreds of tributes made to the game in the form of movies, cartoons, comics, poems, songs and stories.

Here’s a look at the famous “Casey at the Bat” poem. http://youtu.be/O2F0qC1-sa0

Since we’re looking at Disney films, this video has Goofy teaching us how to play baseball. http://youtu.be/2kQ83_4RdkA

In real life, baseball can be a serious game, but who wants to see that? Here are some baseball bloopers! http://youtu.be/6GAaPU-Aztk

What is Kid Scoop? It’s a special page that appears every Monday in The York Dispatch and other local newspapers. Aside from its main feature and the Writing Corner, it includes games, puzzles and jokes.

Get your copy of Kid Scoop in today’s edition of The York Dispatch, and be sure to assemble your own Write On! entry and submit it to NIE@ync.com. We’ll run every entry here!

Of course, you can submit those entries, and anything else you want, for publication here on the Junior Dispatch. Send your JD items to juniordispatch@yorkdispatch.com. Learn about what you can submit here.

Read more Benny and Boone comics by Barton Pederson at BennyandBoone.com.

Today Kid Scoop is looking into the plight of grizzly bears, those majestic and might creatures who now only roam the wilds of Canada and Alaska.

Grizzly bears can grow to be quite big — the biggest can weigh almost 800 pounds. They are carnivores (meat eaters) by nature, but they will happily eat plants berries too.

Though grizzlies almost never hunt humans, they will attack them for other reasons including defending their young. Because a grizzly is so tall, experts don’t suggest that you climb up a tree to escape them.

Campers and backpackers can protect their food from bears by hanging the food between trees  (really, really high) or storing it in a “bear canister” which is a nearly unbreakable container.

For a look at the life of the grizzly bear, check out the free “Benny and Boone” webcomics here.

As usual, here are some kid-friendly grizzly bear videos.

National Geographic looks at the “World’s Deadliest.” Please note this includes images of a bear hunting another animal. http://youtu.be/K-Tfq6dARGk

A look at how a grizzly can ransack a campsite. http://youtu.be/XJ8aGXXMM5E

In this video a rehabilitated grizzly cub and a wolf pup play at a zoo gift shop. http://youtu.be/vL8x7LcA-Y4

What is Kid Scoop? It’s a special page that appears every Monday in The York Dispatch and other local newspapers. Aside from its main feature and the Writing Corner, it includes games, puzzles and jokes.

Get your copy of Kid Scoop in today’s edition of The York Dispatch, and be sure to assemble your own Write On! entry and submit it to NIE@ync.com. We’ll run every entry here!

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These stories were submitted to the Junior Dispatch by Kid Scoop, a Newspapers in Education program at the York Newspaper Co.

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I would carve a unicorn throwing up sparkles and I would detail really well. The unicorn would be running away from nothing! The unicorn would be pregnant with a girl. She will have high heels on! It would be pink and blue. She will be happy and giggley, like me. She’ll have 3 other children! — By Sophie/Sophia Noelle Spangler, 3rd grade, Miss Rhodes, Hayshire Elementary

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From the classroom of Mr. Richcrick, Grade 4, Fishing Creek Elementary School

If I carved a sculpture it would be a sculpture of Tom Brady because he has the same birthday as me. It is August 3rd. — By Jaden Henline

I would sculpt a tree so I could have a mini tree. — By Gabby Messenger

If I carved a sculpture, it would be a giant panda because I love them and I would surround it in bamboo. I would donate the money to help pandas not go extinct. — By Everest Robinson

If I could sculpt a sculpture it would be like a turtle. It would be wooden. — By Hannah Culp

My sculpture would look like Pichachu. It would have a big tail and long ears. It would like nice. — By Skylar Diegel

I’d sculpt a giant Sponge bob. It would be soft, yellow, and awesome. Kids could climb on it. It would be fun. — By Patrick McCullough

My latest sculpture will include the Patriot mascot. It will allow my effort the time will be two weeks. I get free Patriots’ tickets now. — By Trevor Henderson

A deer to represent nature. — By Cayden Healy

I would carve a big bunny that’s fluffy. — By Madison Dicely

If I could carve a sculpture, I would make it look like the hunger games Simple. — By Chase Gillis

My sculpture would be a cute monkey holding a banana in the jungle. — By Caylynn Beinhower

If I could carve a sculpture it would be a ballerina wearing a tutu dancing the tango. The tutu would be purple. She would have a blue rose in her mouth. She would have black hair. — By Mia Christensen

If I could carve a sculpture it would be a panther with red eyes and a long tail. — By Brayden Poff

I would sculpt a pencil tree. — By Tyler Phan

My sculpture is a Pokemon. The Pokemon’s name is Zekrom. That is my sculpture. — By Ricky Dumais

I have made sculpture of the Sphinx. It has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion. — By Jillian Daggs

My sculpture would be my name covered in different fonts. — By KJ Keane