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14 Methodist Dallas Medical Center • ❁ Summer 2015
Author Michelle Staubach Grimes joined
Rosemont Elementary and PTA families on the
Folsom Fitness and Rehabilitation Center lawn at
Methodist Dallas Medical Center for Pidge Picnic.
It was an activity-filled event built around
Grimes’ children’s book Where Is Pidge? which is
filled with messages of literacy and love.
The author read from her book, and families
enjoyed numerous activities, including an Easter
egg hunt, face painting, live entertainment with
singer and songwriter Floramay Holliday, and
photo opportunities with Pidge, the book’s
main character.
Better literacy leads to better health, and
everyone was encouraged to make a Pidge
Promise for literacy. Check out Twitter
(#PidgePromise) for more great coverage of
the event.
Pidge Picnic brings families together for literacy
COMMUNITY ▸
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME:
Methodist Dallas teamed with Winnetka Heights for the Mardi Gras Oak Cliff parade on Feb. 15. The
Methodist Dallas crew looked great in their “Wizard of Oz”–themed
sweatshirts. The Winnetka Heights Home Owners Association took the prize
for the best floats.
OUR NURSES ARE GREAT:
Six Methodist
Dallas nurses — (from left) Cassie Oden, Sherri
Floyd, Judith Mary VonEhr, Nancy Valant, Cynthia
Lantz, and John Vo — were among honorees
named in the prestigious Dallas-Fort Worth Great
100 Nurses awards this year. They were chosen
from more than 800 nurses across North Texas
nominated for the honor.
Author
Michelle
Staubach
Grimes reads
from her
children’s
book, Where
Is Pidge? at
Methodist
Dallas’ Pidge
Picnic event on
March 28.