Dunn flips for Pancake Day
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Dr. Duane Dunn accepts the mayor’s pancake flipping challenge, two students halftime entertainers compete for Miss Liberal and the whole drama class runs for recognition. —Page 6
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Skills USA sells carnations
Skills USA will sell carnations for $5 in front of the Saints Bookstore today. Carnations will be white with red or solid red and have a Valentine sucker and card attached. Proceeds will help fund the Skills USA trip to state contest in April.
Graduation gowns sold February only Graduation robe orders will be taken from Feb. 1 to Feb. 29 in the Saints Bookstore. A graduation charge of $36 plus tax for associate degree candidates and $31 plus tax for certificate of completion candidates is due when placing robe orders.
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Members of the college and of the community recently pulled together and raised $5,000 in donations to go to student Regine Beauchard’s family in Haiti. Beauchard’s family home was devastated in the Jan. 12 earthquake, but her family’s hope and desire to help others has remained. SIFE, along with help and donations from First Christian Church Disciples of Christ and National Beef, held a fundraiser to raise money for the Beauchard’s family home and church where her father, Mara, is a pastor. The fundraiser was held at FCC on Jan. 31 from noon to 2 p.m. The $5,000
family by FCC at First National Bank. SIFE members helped prepare and serve food at the fundraiser. Contributions were made by National Beef. SIFE member Poe Castillo, along with students Shaley Thomas and Tasha Duvall, was Courtesy photo largely involved in SIFE members Nancy Arredondo and Josie Avalos help Regine setting up the fundraiser, as well Beauchard prepare food for Haiti benefit dinner Jan. 31. as being a part of it. in donations that was raised was put into “I know Regine personally, and she is a bank account set up for Regine and her a great friend of mine. I feel that the
Tuesday, Feb. 16 there will be no classes at the college to celebrate International Pancake day. To learn more about Pancake Day, see page 6.
•The mission assists a growing network of 335 primary schools serving over 65,000 Haitian children. •All of the schools associated with BHM are connected with local churches and offer education to communities where no other school exists. •Each of them offers a strong Christian education for 6 grades. BMH provided 262,000 school books last year. •More than 600,000 meals per year are given away to feed students. •There are more than 1,500 teachers and over 280 directors currently working at the schools. •Yearly, over 1,200 teachers are trained through the teacher training program.
Iditarod dog musher Karen Land will be in the library at noon Feb. 17. Land will be joined by her sled dog Borage, and together they will give a dog mushing presentation.
Public invited to brunch at college
The public is invited to a come and go brunch at 11:30 a.m.- to 1 p.m., Feb. 21, in the college Student Union. The cost is $6 per person and entertainment will be provided by the Seward County students.
PTK plans induction ceremony for spring
Kansans of African Descent: Selected Portraits, the traveling exhibit, has made its way to the college library for the month of February. Well-known people of African descent who have called Kansas home are featured in this exhibit, which is free to the public.
College visits scheduled for FHSU, KSU and KU Students interested in transferring to Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University or the University of Kansas may sign up in the administration office for a college visit. March 5 at 10:30 a.m. is the FHSU college visit, and students wishing to attend will leave at 7 a.m. that morning. The sign up deadline for FHSU is Feb. 19. The KSU and KU college visit will be combined into one trip April 15-16. Students will leave at 7 a.m. the 15 and get home by 7 p.m. the 16. The sign up deadline for the KSU and KU visit is April 2, and a $20 fee plus meals will be charged.
Haiti on a Mission One of the leading Haiti Missions, Baptist Haiti Mission, has been working to improve Haiti conditions since 1943.
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SIFE raises $5,000 for student’s family in Haiti
Liberal prepares for Pancake Day
The spring 2010 Phi Theta Kappa induction ceremony for new members is scheduled for 2 p.m. Feb. 21 in SW229. In order to be eligible to be invited to join PTK, students must be enrolled in 12 credit hours and have a 3.5 GPA. Contact Debbie Stafford at debbie.stafford@sccc.edu or 417-1106 for more information.
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SC reflects on missions work in Haiti A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 12. Since then, people from all over the world have reached out to this impoverished country. Haiti has been all over the news lately, but the country was in trouble even before the whole world heard about it.
Dana Loewen News Editor
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere with 4/5 of the population under the poverty level. Isaac Fuentes, Cindy Handley and Kim Thomas took separate missions trips to Haiti before the recent earthquakes. Seward student Isaac Fuentes went to Haiti July 4 of last year and was there for five days. He went with 11 other people from his church, the First Southern Baptist Church, including an electrician, a mechanic and a construction worker. Their project was to construct the walls on the second story of the orphanage, which they had already sent money to for pouring the cement to make the ceiling of the first floor and floor of the second floor. Fuentes decided to go to Haiti when he heard about the trip in church. “The Lord kind of told me it’s time to do something for someone else,” Fuentes said. “It’s a really good experience to see what’s outside this country,” Fuentes said. “We’re so sheltered here.” The population is what surprised him the most when he got to Haiti. “There’s a huge amount of people, and they’re all poor,” Fuentes said. “What we consider poor is abundant wealth compared to them. In what we’d call a small room, a family would live there with no bathroom. The kids
beg on the streets, and the parents work for a dollar a day.” Fuentes also visited the ravine. “It was trash, and they just built their homes on top of it, because they had no where else to go,” Fuentes said. “It makes you think of what you have, and it really humbles you,” Fuentes said. “But they were the happiest kids I’ve ever seen,” Fuentes said. “In the face of so much sadness, they still praise God. It’s really incredible.” After hearing about the earthquake, Fuentes was “concerned for my new friends wondering if they were taken by the Lord or were OK.” “It was a long two days that we didn’t get news from them, and even then we didn’t hear from all of them. One of the teachers who I made good friends with, I just found out two weeks ago that he was OK,” Fuentes said. “We did lose one orphan named Peterson.” The orphanage the group helped build survived the quakes. “Amazingly!” Fuentes said. “Thanks to the Lord, it was built well enough. The Lord must have been guiding our hands on that day because we were all rookies. I was surprised it lived through the earthquake, and not just an earthquake but an earthquake with some pretty mighty aftershocks.” Fuentes wants to go back and plans to return in July. The orphanage was planned to be three stories tall, so they will be finishing up the ceiling and third floor.
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event was a great success to help Beauchard’s family. I just wish we could help all of Haiti,” Castillo said. Although Beauchard is not with her family in Haiti, she has appreciated the encouragement and help from members of the college and everyone who helped to raise money for her family’s home and church. “The luncheon was a great turn out. I didn’t expect that many people. Every little bit counts, that’s why eventually we came up with this amount. This amount will give a great push to constructing a new single building, and I’m so thankful for everyone’s support and generosity.” The money raised for Beauchard’s family was made available to them the day after the fundraiser.
Ag brings rural issues to campus Joseph Hoffman Crusader staff
A rural issues conference on Sustaining our Rural Communities will showcase the highly esteemed keynote speaker Dr. Lowell Catlett among other experts during sessions Feb. 18 and 19. The conference is hosted by the agriculture department at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School and will be in the student activities building. The conference, which begins with registration at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 18, will cover estate planning, retirement investment, being a successful landlord, career opportunities, alternative energy sources, commodity trends and outlook and Highway 54 and 83 upgrades. Catlett, a regent’s professor/dean and chief administrative officer at New Mexico State University's College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, will speak at the banquet Thursday evening, Feb. 18. Seward agriculture department instructor Evan Winchester is coordinator of the rural issues conference and is excited about Catlett’s being part of the program. “Dr. Catlett is easily the best speaker I have ever heard,” Winchester said. As a futurist, Catlett’s knowledge of technologies and implications on life and work is addressed in his presentations. He was named the 2007 Outstanding Alumni at West Texas A&M University. He works nationally and internationally with corporations and organizations as well as the U.S. departments of agriculture, labor, interior, defense, education, energy and the World Bank. Full registration for the Liberal conference is $30, which includes the Thursday evening dinner and Friday lunch. Registration for the Thursday evening dinner and keynote speaker is $20. Student registration is $15. Registration without meals is available at the door for $15. Those wishing to register for the conference may contact Winchester at 620-417-1353 or evan.winchester@sccc.edu. Mike Irwin, director of the Kansas Farm Bureau Legal Foundation, is the Friday luncheon speaker. A native of Goodland, he has an extensive background in commercial and civil litigation and public administration. Platinum sponsors are Pioneer Seed—Bill Hatcher and Rock Ormiston; KSCB radio; First National Bank of Liberal and Hugoton; and Seaboard Foods. Gold sponsors are Great Western Dining and Farm Credit of Southwest Kansas. Meal and conference sponsors are Bank of Beaver City, Seward County Farm Bureau Association and The Community Bank. I Some information in this story was from a SCCC/ATS news release.
SC celebrates Kansas’s belated birthday today Dei si Barboza Online editor
Kansas Day activities sponsored by Sigma Chi Chi, Seward County Historical Museum, Kansas Corp member Lacy Gracia and USD 480 were canceled due to weather issues on Jan. 29. The event has been rescheduled for today from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The events are being attended by eight fourthgrade classes. Activities for the students include a “Jeopardy-like” game about Kansas history and tours around the Coronado Museum. The students will also participate in an essay competition entitled “What I learned about Kansas history.” Top contestants will win prizes such as family movie passes, college basketball tickets, T-shirts and other prizes. Students attending are Mario Armendariz, Corey Clark, Carlos Enriquez, Aaron Gibler, Mark Hartle, Keaton Kliner, Dominique Lee, Dustin Little, Andrew Mains, Francisco Moreno, Jaime Peralta, Adam Regier, Enrique Rodriguez, Janette Vargas and Christian Valenzuela.