<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> EUGENE L EASTER <<a href="mailto:gleaster@sbcglobal.net">gleaster@sbcglobal.net</a>><br><b>Date:</b> February 11, 2016 at 8:19:26 PM EST<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:YAPA@lists.ysu.edu">YAPA@lists.ysu.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:YAPA@lists.ysu.edu">YAPA@lists.ysu.edu</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[YAPA] FREE 5 hrs Grad credit (A $2, 435 Value + Free Materials--a $850 value for Teachers grades 4-9 + Special edu.) Conceptual Chemistry</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> EUGENE L EASTER <<a href="mailto:gleaster@sbcglobal.net">gleaster@sbcglobal.net</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455237169345_18490">
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455237169345_18587" class="MsoNormal"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455237169345_18591" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Thank you for
forwarding this program to teachers and Admin. people. Gene Easter</b></div><div dir="ltr">
</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455237169345_18488"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1455237169345_18486" class="signature">Brushfire Science Consultants Gene and Linda Easter 330-928-6691 540 S. Ridgecliff St. Tallmadge, Oh 44278 Education is not filling a bucket, but starting a fire. - William Butler Yeats</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div></div></blockquote></body></html>