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Volume 125, No. 15 April 13 to 19, 2011
Science Olympiad team places first in states
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F-M Day 2011 to benefit garden F-M senior Rachel Ristau was inspired to create the Fayetteville Memory Garden after her father’s death. ...See page 3
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Eagle Hill’s Science Olympiad team placed first in the New York State Division B Science Olympiad competition held April 8 and 9 at SUNY-Ulster in Stone Ridge. The win earned the team an invitation to compete in the National Science Olympiad competition to be held in May at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Forty teams from across the state competed at the event. Wellwood’s team also competed and placed sixth. The Eagle Hill team includes Allison Alcott, Devon Buckingham, Molly Bucklin, Damian Cross, Ray Gu, Jay Khurana, Maddy Lee, Ryan McHugh, Tiberiu Mihaila, Sarah Oakes, Isabella Panozzo, Luke Qi, Kevin Weaver and Alex Zhang.
Happy Birthday, Lillian! PACE CNY participante celebrates centennial with family, friends. ...See page 23
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F’ville native enjoys career in foreign services David Eckerson dedicates life to international missions
By Tami S. Zimmerman editor@eaglebulletin.com Have you ever wondered how difficult it is to make those beautifully decorative Ukrainian Easter eggs? Now’s your chance to find out. The Friends of the DeWitt Community Library is holding its annual tea from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday April 16 and is simultaneously hosting a featured talk about the fine art of Ukrainian Easter eggs, or
By Tami S. Zimmerman editor@eaglebulletin.com
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Ukrainian Easter eggs, or pysanka. pysanka. Guest speaker Linda Evans, a retired elementary art teacher from See Eggs, page 8
At 24 years of age, Fayetteville native David E. Eckerson entered the Peace Corps. Little did he know that was the first step in a long-term career in foreign services. “I was going to a Christian theological seminary at that time and trying to figure out what to do with my life,” Eckerson recalls. “So I signed up for the Peace Corps.” The agency assigned him to Togo, Africa to work on pigeon gardens and community development but he wanted to live in Ethiopia
and work on educational television, a program he had heard about from a friend. He turned down the offer, despite the agency’s insistence that his chance to serve in the Peace Corps would now be slim to none. “Well, that’s all right,” responded Eckerson, who then finished his degree and hitchhiked across America, planning to “do it on my own.” About a year later, a friend asked if he would be interested in working as an epidemiologist in Ouagadougou in Upper Volta. “I went to the dictionary to find out where that was,” he said. Epidemiologists, typically doctors, study the transmission and control of epidemic diseases. “There was a program [available and] supported by the United States Agency for International Development and the Peace Corps. I decided to do it.” See USAID, page 8
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