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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 • Volume 41 – No. 42
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Local teacher receives national recognition Michele Connors, Weatherly, a teacher from Pleasant Valley Middle School, has been selected from a national applicant pool as an NEH Summer Scholar, to attend one of 48 summer seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that each summer supports enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities and cultural institutions, so teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines. Connors will participate in a summer institute entitled “Freedom and Unity: The Sturggle for Independence on the Vermont Fontier.” This participatory, placebased program focuses on the events and personalities of the American Revolution at seven historic sites in Vermont’s Champlain Valley, including innovative sessions held on Lake Champlain in a replica Revolutionary-era gunboat. Participants will follow a route from a yeoman Vermonter’s 18th century home-
stead to war and back again. Along the way, they will encounter the landscapes, artifacts, sites and primary sources that allow students to engage with the multiple stories and competing worldviews of frontier Vermont— and to relate them to the persisting tensions between rural and urban communities across contemporary America. The program is directed by Angela Marie Labrador and Jason Barney through the Vermont Archaeological Society. The 72 teachers selected to participate in the program each receive a stipend of $1,300 for their participation.
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Caboose care offered by Reading & Northern by Ruth Isenberg
At the April 26 White Haven Borough Council meeting, the borough agreed to close the Reading & Northern pedesStandard Farms of White Haven recently donated trian crossing by the White two Automated External Defibrillators, AEDs, for Haven Diner. In exchange, the White Haven Police to carry with them when on Reading & Northern reprepatrol. These portable life-saving devices analyze the sentative Matt Johnson said heart rhythm of a person in sudden cardiac arrest the railroad would like to (SCA). If necessary, the AED will deliver a shock to paint the caboose in the White help the heart re-establish a correct heart rhythm. Haven Market parking lot to The units cost $1,407 each. In the photo, Rose Diel, Reading & Northern’s pattern, community relations representative for Standard red, with their logo, as well Farms, holds one of the AEDs, and officer Patrick Wall as make a $5,000 donation of the White Haven Police holds the other. See WHITE HAVEN, page 5 YOUNG HERO: American Legion Post 360 Auxiliary presented a medal and citation to Jaxson Dempsey of Hazleton on May 10. Jaxson, a second grade student at Heights Terrace, performed the Heimlich maneuver on his 20-month-old sister Leila, who was choking on a chicken nugget in the back seat of the car they were riding in. Jaxson learned how by seeing it on The Substitute, a Nickelodeon show featuring WWE pro wrestler John Cena teaching CPR and other skills. Jaxson must have been paying attention, because he sucessfully dislodged the nugget before his father, who was driving, even knew what had happened. Cena sent Jaxson a video message, calling him a hero. The ALA agreed, and honored him on May 10. Shown from left are Betty Henry, Jaxson, Georgeann Herling and Donna Thomas. JH: Ruth Isenberg