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Monday, May 21, 2018
Howe High School 2018 Prom Photos by Michelle Carney
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Local teacher receives national recognition Katie Wilson, a local teacher from Howe High School, has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 32 seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Endowment is a federal agency that, each summer, supports these enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions so that teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines. Katie Wilson Wilson will participate in an institute entitled "Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences " The two-week program will be held at the University of Arkansas.
Prom King and Queen - Cade Courtney and Lydia Hagan
cover their travel, study, and living expenses.
The approximately 862 NEH Summer Scholars who participate The 35 teachers from across the in these programs of study will nation selected to participate in the teach almost 128,000 American program each receive a stipend to students the following year.
Howe Post Office delivers for Feed My Sheep
Members of the Howe Post Office collect food for the local food bank in Howe called "Feed My Sheep." The Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive is the outgrowth of the National Association of Letter Carriers’ tradition of community service, a tradition exhibited repeatedly by members of the letter carriers’ union over the years. These carriers, who go into neighborhoods in every town at least six days a week, have always been involved when something needed to be done, whether it be collecting funds for a charity like the Muscular Dystrophy Association, watching over the elderly through the Carrier Alert program, assisting the American Red Cross during time of disaster, or rescuing victims of fires, crime, and other mishaps.
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drive was held in 10 cities in October of 1991, and it proved so successful that work began immediately on making it a nationwide effort. Input from food banks and pantries suggested that late spring would be the best time since by then most food banks in the country start running out of donations received during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday periods. A revamped drive was organized for May 15, 1993 — the second Saturday in May — with a goal of having at least one NALC branch in each of the 50 states participating. The result was astounding: More than 220 union branches collected more than 11 million pounds of food—a one-day record in the United States.
For many years, a number of NALC’s branches (locals) had collected food for the needy as part of their community service efforts. From Alaska to Florida, from Maine to Hawaii, letter carriers did A national, coordinated effort by double duty on Food Drive Day— the NALC to help fight hunger in delivering mail and picking up America grew out of discussions in donations. The Food Drive just 1991 by a number of leaders at the grew and grew from that point. time, including NALC President Vincent R. Sombrotto, AFL-CIO In 2010, the food drive surpassed Community Services Director the 1 billion pound park in total Joseph Velasquez and Postmaster food collected over its history. General Anthony Frank. A pilot
