| eSchoolnewsletter acts to speed notifications
The company eSchool Systems LLC, which provides e-mail school newsletters to Howard County families, is moving to improve the way parents receive emergency notifications.
Parents will be able to receive text messages about school closings or delays this winter, and recent changes to the e-mail system allow news to reach parents' inboxes more quickly.
About 36,000 families in Howard County subscribe to eSchool Systems e-mail, called eSchoolnewsletters. These free eSchoolnewsletters provide a direct line of communication from schools and the central office to parents. The eSchool newsletters contain information about PTA meetings, postponed athletic events, scholarship deadlines and other things.
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Fear and a sense of justice for her murdered sister are driving one ...
Fear and a sense of justice for her murdered sister are driving one woman's crusade to keep the killer in jail. Victim's sister, killer battle again over parole By Dennis J. Willard Beacon Journal Columbus Bureau Published on Sunday, Nov 25, 2007 On a late March evening 25 years ago, with winter reluctantly ceding to the initial strains of spring, Sandy Burger fled in fear from the three-story home on Harvard Avenue in Barberton that she shared with Mark Headley, before he caught and dragged her back into the house. Headley was a weightlifter with an intimidating presence. Burger was a 22-year-old wisp of a woman who weighed 90 pounds and stood 5 feet, 21/2 inches tall. In the unknown length of time left in her life, Headley beat Burger to death.
Canada's top ballet companies create new Banff program
Canada's top five ballet companies are collaborating on a new summer training program for young dancers at the Banff Centre in Alberta. Dancers from the National Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Alberta Ballet and Ballet British Columbia will be selected for a program to begin in 2008. Dancers Phillip Payne, Natalia Fiorioni and Brett Taylor, left to right, in Butterfly Affect, choreographed by Joe Laughlin, at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2007. A new training program is to begin this summer.(Don Lee/Banff Centre) The program will put dancers from different companies together to expose them to "a wide range of styles and approaches," according to Sarah Iley, vice-president of programming for the Banff Centre. "It will also give these talented young dancers a tremendous opportunity to collaborate on the development and performance of a new piece," she said.
What's Up in the Albemarle 01/17
School needs help for Black History Month. Northside Elementary School is organizing black history activities for the month of February. If you or a group have talent you would like to share with elementary school students, call Pam at 335-2033 by Friday, Feb. 1. Perquimans schools early release. Perquimans County High School will release students at 1 p.m. today to accommodate the exam schedule for high school students. All four county schools will release students at 12:30 p.m. Friday to allow staff development time for teachers. Perquimans County Schools will be closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Head Start applications accepted. The Pasquotank/Camden Head Start Center is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 school year.
AFL legend Wayne Carey to break silence after Miami bash charge
I'm sure that all of you, together with the journalists who report the story (who crowned him King when he was 20 and didn't have a clue) and the executives who sacked him, lead pious, measured, untarnished, rainbow and butterfly lives. If you're going to crucify a man, have the decency to look in the mirror first...or at the very least enlist the help of your spell check. Posted by: Jonathan Horn of Melbourne 3:31pm today Who really gives a stuff. Some footballers and cricketers think they are tin gods. Go out get drunk, drive over the limit and some sending text messages, haveing affairs etc Years ago when I played You played to represent your home town and paid nothing. Had a few drinks and went home. Now you wouldn't know who's from wot surburb and playing for another .
BREAKING NEWS: Clanton gas station robbed last night
So any students that had an 'A' in the class and wanted to help their fellow students signed up to become peer tutors. This volunteer work gives the students a chance to talk to one another in a way that they can understand."Many of the teachers will just show you once and then expect you to just know what you are doing. Some of us take a little while to get it all figured out," student Tanya Liveoak said.Liveoak along with Kiera Bryant, Jessica Collum, Samual Maciel, Gerardo Martinez, Coy Vining, Joi McCall, Brittany Bryant, Matt Mims, Meagan Monks, Kayla Smith and Matt Simpson have all devoted a whole period of their Mondays to helping their fellow classmates raise their grades in subjects that the kids are having trouble in.Many of the kids who are working hard and still not getting anywhere say they like the tutoring because they can actually spend time working out problems and understanding what they are doing more so than when a teacher just states something.
NOFFKE NOT ONE FOR PEARS
Worcestershire have been unsuccessful in their attempt to sign Australian all-rounder Ashley Noffke as their overseas player for the 2008 campaign. The Pears enquired about the availability of Noffke who is the second highest wicket-taker in the Pura Cup with 31 victims in six matches for Queensland and has also scored over 500 runs at an average of 54. But their hopes of capturing the 30-year-old. who previously had a spell with Gloucestershire, have been dashed. Worcestershire chief executive Mark Newton said: "Noffke was of real interest to us. He is one of a number of players that we have made enquiries about but we believe we are no longer in the running for him." The county, who announced losses of in excess of 1 million after the severe floods which engulfed New Road last summer, have linked up with former director of cricket Tom Moody in an attempt to solve their overseas player situation.
Teen's desire to help leads to 'Hey Jude' variety show
One Valley High School senior has grown weary of the bad things happening around the world and decided to do something to help others.
Anna Okulist of West Des Moines is throwing a benefit concert later this month to benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
"With all the turmoil going on in the world, I wanted to do something that would make a positive, lasting impact on society and future generations," she said. "I haven't known any St. Jude patients personally but I can't imagine a better cause than helping a child overcome a disease that cannot be readily cured or prevented." .
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