The Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Ladies Auxiliary recently honored several of our students and teachers for their patriotism. Poplar Bluff High School juniors Chase Burch, Nikkia Hickman and Stephanie Hobbs were awarded Monday, Dec. 15, by VFW Post 6477 on South Broadway for their winning essays in the Voice of Democracy contest. Hickman was also named a district winner. This year’s theme was why veterans are important to our nation’s history and future. In addition, PBHS social studies teacher Gail Rosmarin and Craig Hamilton, who teaches music at Lake Road Elementary School, won both the local and district Smart/Maher VFW Citizenship Teacher Awards for promoting America’s history and traditions effectively, instilling a sense of national pride in their
- Jan 06,
Unless it is high school baseball season, I read two pages of the DAR - page 1A and 4A. I read page 1A to see what stories Dpnna Farley writes about the city and page 4A to read people's reactions. Page 1A - The Boy Who Cried Wolf The fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf dates back to hundreds of years before Jesus and is part of Aesop's Fables. As the story goes, the boy tending the sheep continued to lie about a vicious wolf. Each day's scream of "Wolf!" brought less and less villagers out until none at all would come running when a wolf actually did slip into the fold. One of the most profound statements I hear these
Dec 26,When we started this giveaway, SEMO.net had 14 likes. Now we have 237...that's awesome! We'd like to get to 1000 before the end of January, let's see how possible that is. For those who want to do something similar in the future, I thought I'd explain the easiest way to select a random person from a list...in this case a "Likes" list off of Facebook. First, I went to a one of the many random number generator sites...I like random.org. I entered 1 as the lower limit and 237 (the total number of likes we have) as the upper limit. Then I personally selected a random number...I try to keep this number below 20. I picked twelve and entered 12 as the
Dec 22,About 10 years ago, my family received a gift from a friend: a small book and three ornaments. The book described traditions from around the world involving ornaments at Christmas. Our family immediately fell in love with the story of the German families who hide a pickle in their tree and on Christmas morning the one who finds the pickle gets a special surprise from Santa. What we quickly found out is "finding the pickle" is much more fun than any prize. Before we ever got to Christmas morning, the kids had played hide-and-seek with the pickle multiple times each day. And thus, our new tradition began. My kids are now 13 and 16 and as we were trimming
Dec 21,POPLAR BLUFF - As was reported in the SEMO TIMES today, the City's grant writer, Raynesha Hudnell, has secured two grants totaling $424,750 for city projects: $400k to connect city parks, and nearly $25k for Home Repair Opportunity (HERO) Program. Let's go back to early September when former councilwoman Susan McVey grandstanded during a council meeting questioning City Manager Kaplan, "How do you justify hiring a grant writer?" And then in the DAR a few days later she was boldly quoted, "The grant writer's position was not in this year's budget. It was not advertised and it was not offered to a capable local person." Had the city not hired their own grant writer, one can first assume we'd never had gotten these funds. After
Dec 19,