More reasons to give thanks

November is National Adoption Awareness Month, and Keeping Kids Safe has teamed up with Photos by Jenni Lee to make sure that you mark your calendars — literally. Lee uses local children as models to produce images inspired by movies and past eras and icons for her 2013 fundraising calendar. This life-changing piece of art costs $20, with 50% of all proceeds going directly to KKS, a private, non-profit foster care agency that serves Northwest Ohio. Lee’s photos feature children modeling such iconic images as the “We Can Do It” pose and scenes from The Sandlot, The Karate Kid, Sixteen Candles, and Titanic. The images are awfully cute, but also symbolic — as are the morals that KKS uses to empower their children to thrive emotionally, socially, cognitively and physically. Jenni and the people behind Keeping Kids Safe, Inc. make sure that November is a month that gives Findlay residents more than one reason to give thanks. Calendars are available through photosbyjennilee.com or by calling 567-278-1130.