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Career center students fill the bus for SkillsUSA competition

  • March 29, 2010
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Twenty-nine Wayne County Schools Career Center students competed at the SkillsUSA Ohio North Central Regional Competition on March 20 at Medina County Career Center after placing high in local career-technical and leadership skill contests. Some will advance directly to the state contest on April 23 and 24 in Columbus. The contests were coordinated by SkillsUSA advisers Pamela Vorkapich and Scott...

Kindergarten screening at Kingsway to begin May 24

  • March 29, 2010
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Kingsway Christian School will hold a kindergarten screening Wednesday, May 24, for all area children who will be five by Sept. 30. Children will enjoy school-readiness games and activities as well as meet Lynette Duplain, KCS kindergarten teacher. To schedule a screening appointment or to find out more about Kingsway Christian School, call the school office at 330-683-0012 or visit...

Cast and crew are ready to perform the classic tale Pilgrim’s Progress

  • March 29, 2010
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The classic Christian allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress, will be presented by a local group of talented young home-schooled actors at the Nashville Church of Christ for three nights April 8-10. Adapted by Christopher Morgan and originally written by John Bunyan in 1678, Pilgrim’s Progress tells the story of Christian, a pilgrim on a journey from his hometown of the city of Destruction to the...

College degrees are possible with a little imagination and help from Zippy

  • March 29, 2010
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Picture someone walking across a stage in a blue and 0x35f862400x362c29f0yellow gown, a smile on their face, hands outstretched to receive their hard-earned diploma and congratulatory handshake. They have just received their college degree. Some people can easily imagine themselves in this scene, but for others putting themselves in that picture is a little harder. Earning a college degree is...

Star students named at annual FFA spring banquet

  • March 29, 2010
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Wayne County Schools Career Center landscape and plant technologies students recently received awards at annual FFA spring banquet. Following a meal prepared by culinary arts students, this year’s officers presented the opening ceremony. Officers were: president Amy Miller of Dalton, vice president Robin Bryant of Triway, secretary Ashley Hinderer of Smithville, treasurer Justin Starn of...

Students head to California

  • March 29, 2010
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Five Wayne County Schools Career Center business students will compete at the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference in Anaheim, Calif., on May 5-9, after placing at Business Professionals of America Ohio State competitions recently. Medical office management student Monique Overstreet of Wooster placed first in medical office procedures. She is the daughter of Rocky...

For the love of teaching

  • March 29, 2010
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With the new school year barely underway and temperatures soaring into the 80s, the students in Lynette Kouche's fifth-grade class at St. Mary school were hunched over their desks last fall diligently working on an important project.And quietly humming Christmas carols to themselves.Each fall Kouche's students create original Christmas card designs, which the class sells to raise funds to adopt a...

McCauley feels right at home as HCTC principal

  • March 29, 2010
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When Ron Hay chose to pursue other avenues of employment last year, after many years as the Holmes County Training Center (HCTC) principal, the training center board turned to a familiar face in finding a replacement. That face belongs to Cindy McCauley, who worked at the center as early intervention coordinator and early intervention specialist until retiring in 2003. She and her husband, Bob,...

Road trip Killbuck students raising money for People to People International Leadership Forum

  • March 29, 2010
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Two young Killbuck girls are hard at work raising funds to attend their upcoming People to People International Leadership Forum, and, to date, their efforts have been pretty sweet. Killbuck Elementary fifth-graders Elizabeth Compton and Alyx Morris have been busy creating fundraising opportunities since they found out that they had been accepted to participate in the upcoming People to People...

NEWS

  • March 29, 2010
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Continuing his push to protect American jobs and strengthen America’s manufacturing sector, U.S. Rep. Zack Space (OH-18) demanded that President Obama withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “It’s way past time to bring foreign jobs back to America and to put Americans back to work,” Space said. “For far too long, NAFTA and similar agreements have...