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Monday, April 8, 2019
Howe Elementary Students of the Month
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Have you been enjoying the madness? March is the month of spring, St. Patrick’s Day, and yes, college basketball. That’s right folks, March Madness has captivated the nation for the last few weeks, and is now Samuel Moore- nearly over, Sobel with the Final Four set to take place this weekend.
Kindergarten: HelenMoo Thang and Bennie Westdyke First Grade: Kinsley Loftice and Elijah Wiloughby Second Grade: Livy Drewek and Hunter Thornhill Third Grade: Leyla Burris and Carson Allen Fourth Grade: Tatum Gandillon and Effren Galicia
Howe Elementary Employee of the Month The Howe Elementary Employee of the Month is Theresa Lunde. "It is a sincere honor and pleasure to work with such a motivated, encouraging, compassionate, fun, loving team of teachers and staff who make Howe Elementary so great! As Ms. Pat recently reminded us.....'It's not about where you work, it's who you work with!'"
Here comes Peter Cottontail Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail - and he's going to stop at Howe Community Library. If you have a child from infant to four years old, bring them by the library Friday, April 12, from 10 to 11, for a visit with the Easter Bunny! Please plan to stay with your child while they enjoy playtime, story time, and a visit and photo op with the big bunny.
monetary benefit that would be bestowed upon the winner, the idea of bragging rights within the family was all the more enticing. Serving as plenty of motivation to project winners and losers better than anyone else in my family. Despite my best efforts, I failed rather miserably. My much younger sister somehow picked more accurately than all of us, simply by choosing the teams with, in her words, the “best mascot.” Talk about poetic irony.
Over the last few years, this tradition has fallen a bit by the wayside, due to scheduling constraints (and perhaps a fear that the youngest among us would The term March Madness once again trounce us in a game of references, for those who don’t random chance). As is typical of know, the college basketball competition that determines which the human experience, many of team wins the National Collegiate our predictions at the start of the NCAA tournament prove to be Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament. Evidently, this contest completely inaccurate by the time the last shot is taken and the final has not always been a dominant game is played. Although, there cultural phenomenon. The can be great excitement when a University of Oregon owns the distinction of having won the very team defies the odds, despite our first NCAA tournament by beating lack of ability to project such an The Ohio State University in 1939. outcome. Back then, only eight teams were Consider the power inherent in the featured in the competition. This March, more than sixty teams will Cinderella stories, when the least likely team ends up progressing compete for the title, giving much farther in the tournament Americans all across the country than previously expected. the opportunity to root for their Americans are known for rooting team of choice. for the underdog, reveling in the success of any team once Those lucky enough to attend colleges with perennial basketball determined to be unable to achieve powerhouses (such as Duke, UNC, victory. For instance, the year George Mason University’s Villanova, and UCONN, just to basketball team went all the way name a few) are continually to the Final Four astonished the ecstatic at the prospect of another nation, while having the added March Madness tournament, effect of causing nearly every watching the outcome of the contest rather intently. For the rest succeeding Mason student (myself included) to believe such a feat of us, someone cleverly devised a could be replicated during their plan to ensure no one felt left out four years of attendance (a goal from all of the excitement. Enter that has proven, up until this point, the famous bracket. rather elusive). Regardless, countless other examples can be Something about predicting the cited of teams overcoming great outcome of dozens of basketball odds to advance in the NCAA games gets much of the country seemingly irrationally excited. How tournament. A concept with a seemingly broader application. does one go about filling out a After all, aren’t some of the bracket, you ask? One could attempt to make an educated guess greatest joys in life those that by analyzing team records, seeding arrive unexpectedly? charts, and player rosters. Some So, to those upset about the current take the exercise rather seriously – millions of Americans place bets state of their brackets, take time to celebrate the unexpected. Letting regarding these games, with the teams that came out of billions of dollars wagered each nowhere, sinking enough buzzer year, most of it illegally. beating shots to turn the tide, have Yet gambling for money is not the their day in the sun. After all, failure in this regard was only way to participate. Several years ago, my brother organized a inevitable. Even all the statistics, data and information in the world family bracket contest in order to find out which one of us among the would not be enough to accurately five could most accurately predict project the winner. Luck plays a the outcome of the games (sans the bit of a role, too. Perhaps my sister had it right all money). He created rules surrounding the process, and filling along. out the bracket soon became a Samuel Moore-Sobel is a freelance yearly tradition. writer. To read more of his work, The first year, I eagerly compared visit statistics, examining team records www.holdingontohopetoday.com and rankings. Despite the lack of © 2019 The Howe Enterprise
