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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Music students perform in Florida BOTKINS — Botkins choir and concert band members recently took part in the Disney Performing Arts Program in Florida. The Botkins High School Choir performed on March 22 at Downtown Disney and gave another performance on March 23 at Epcot. The Botkins High School Concert Band performed on March 20 at Epcot and again on March 21, at Downtown Disney. Dance groups, choirs,
ensembles and marching bands from around the world apply to perform each year as part of Disney Performing Arts at both the Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Resorts. Once selected, they are given the opportunity to perform at the resort for an international audience of theme park guests. Millions of performers have graced the stages of the Disney Parks in the more than 25-year history of the program.
Botkins senior wins state math medal BOTKINS — A Botkins High School senior won the Ohio State Math Medal this year. Hailey Billing, 18, of Botkins, was recently awarded the medal. The Ohio State Math Medal is given to the student with the highest grade in the highest math a school offers. That is combined with the student’s math score on the ACT. Billing plans on attending Wright State University in Dayton and will major in accounting.
BY JENNIFER BUMGARNER jbumgarner@sdnccg.com BOTKINS — A local artist is making her solo gallery debut in S t . Marys. Linds a y Cooper, of B o t k i n s, currently has seve r a l Cooper pieces of her art work on exhibit at the Arts Place Collective Center in St. Marys, 142 E. Spring St. Her work will be on display through June 1, and admission is free and open to the public. Cooper holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art education with a specialization in painting from Bowling Green State University. Her love of art began while still a student at Botkins Local Schools. She designed the logo for the Inn Between
THIS IS one of Lindsay Cooper’s paintings currently on exhibit at the Arts Place Collective Center in St. Marys. restaurant, received commissions for portraits, painted a mural for the Botkins Fire Department and has had her work in several local competitions. Cooper found that art helped her to excel at school. “I was one of those kids who was just getting by,” said Cooper. “Then to find out that I was good at one thing helped me feel better about other things without even realizing it.”
Cooper has kept busy since graduating through word of mouth and people in her life who motivate her to continue developing her passion. “My teacher Dan Knepper motivates me to do more,” said Cooper. “You have to start somewhere.” Cooper has 15 paintings in the show in St. Marys and she’ll be part of a two-person show at the Bear’s Mill gallery July 27 through Aug. 26.
Cooper’s family has been very supportive of her art work. She’s very grateful to her greatuncle John Sitzman who has been making the frames for her paintings. Cooper’s “studio” is her living room where she sits on the floor and paints as her two young children, Elias and Liam sometimes try to help. “They like to help,” said Cooper. “I let them sit on my lap and for the most part they know not to touch things.” Because she didn’t have a stockpile of paintings for the show, Cooper worked on new pieces and continues to paint. Cooper and her husband Dan are currently expecting their third child. Gallery hours at the Collective Center in St. Marys are Monday through Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. For more information contact Hope McKnight, Center Director at (419) 394-0707 or thecollectivecenter@artsland.org.
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Students of the month named ANNA — The following Anna Middle School students have been selected as Students of the Month for March. Students are recognized if they have met one or more of the following criteria: they have performed at a consistently
high rate for the month, they have made an impressive turnaround this month from being in academic trouble to perwell forming consistently, they have performed extra service to the teacher, which warrants recognition
and the student deserves the recognition. The students of the month for March are: Bailey Luthman, Jessica Haywood, Eli Kuck, Alexa Wuebker, Savanna Manger, Tim Minnich, Nicholas Nowlin, Brad Axe, Jake
Berning, Alex McKee, Nathan Osborne, Jordan Wells, Korteney Kitchen, Kelsey Meyer, Weston Bensman, Holly Boyd, Tessa Beatty, Sarah Bettinger, Matthew Knutson, Brandon Baker and Robert Ehemann.
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tant to eat breakfast when trying to maintain a certain weight. Why is this? When dieting, breakfast is the meal I skip the most. — Dee, Crown Point, Ind. DEE: According to the Mayo Clinic, no one should ever skip breakfast because during the day, when you are active, your body needs maximum calories and nutrients. Missed breakfasts can slow the rate at which you burn calories and often leads to overeating at night when energy demands are down and calories are more likely to be stored as body fat. Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. Email him at rwallace@galesburg.net. To find out more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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