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Homecoming Preview
Pages 4B & 5B
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Memorial Chapel in Ethel Page 3B
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Wednesday, October 2013 Wednesday, June2,19, 2013 USPS-299800 Vol.137, No. 40 La Plata, MO, 63549 • 12 Pages • 2 Section • 75 Cents
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FFA AREA 3 TRAP SHOOT COMPETITION
Dr. Del & Elizabeth Gregory
La Plata, MO
Mallory Eitel Receives MIAA Award
Area 3 FFA Trap Shoot Competition was held on Tuesday, September 24 at the Macon 63 Gun Club in Atlanta. According to Jenny Bradley, Area 3 President, the top seven teams for to the District competition on October 5th. The District Competition will also be held at Macon 63 Gun Club. Over 20 schools attended on Tuesday including Atlanta, La Plata, Macon, New Cambria, Brookfield, Bucklin, Canton, Clark County, Green City, Newtown, Paris, Kirksville, Lewis County, South Shelby, Linn County, Marceline, Meadville, Memphis, Schuyler, Milam, North Shelby, Novinger, and Putnam County. Advancing to Districts are Schuyler, Memphis, Kirksville, Lewis County, Know, Meadville and Clark. Good luck to the teams! The Mid America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) released its academic award winners for the 201213 school year. A total of 218 Lindenwood University student athletes were named on at least one of the academics lists. Seventeen Lions and Lady Lions received the MIAA Academic Excellence Award, which is given to those who maintain a cumulative GPA of 4.00. Those athletes included Mallory Eitel (Softball). Mallory is a 2012 La Plata graduate and the daughter of Brad and Norine Eitel, grandparents Walter and Marie Gladbach and the late Wanda Gladbach, and Annette and Bill Crockett and the late Don Eitel.
Volunteers Honored
Clem Scholarship Benefits La Plata Students at Truman State University
Erin Boren and Cole Wheeler will each receive $1,250 for the 20132014 academic year at Truman State University as the inaugural recipients of the Ella and Holland Clem Scholarship. Longtime La Plata residents Ella and Holland Clem established a scholarship program designed to assist La Plata High School graduates who continue their education at Truman. Boren is a 2013 graduate of La Plata High School and a freshman at Truman. She intends to major in communication disorders. She is the daughter of Robyn Boren and the late Michael Boren. Her brother, Ethan, graduated from Truman in December 2012 with a degree in
health science and minors in psychology and biology. Wheeler is a 2011 graduate of La Plata High School and a junior computer science major at Truman. He is the son of Don and Deanna Wheeler. The scholarship fund was created with a substantial gift and has been invested with the Truman State University Foundation’s endowment pool. The fund is designed to provide a permanent source of revenue for students from La Plata and the surrounding areas. Holland Clem is a 1940 graduate of Truman State University. He taught school in rural northeast Missouri for several years before establishing the C&R
Market grocery store in 1957 in La Plata. Over the years, C&R Markets expanded to provide a hometown grocery store in a dozen northeast Missouri communities. The family has a deep tradition with the University as daughters Melba and Martha are both graduates, and son Danny attended for three years. Martha taught at the University early in her career before moving to the Milwaukee area, and Melba’s late husband, Jack Bowen, was a graduate and served as a faculty member in the Health and Exercise Science Department for many years.
See You at the Pole
A banquet to honor the Macon Senior Center volunteers was held on September 28. Director, Christina Viers, stated her and the Board wanted to acknowledge and show their appreciation to their volunteers. The party had a 1960’s theme and cars from the 60’s were parked in front of the building for the evening’s festivities.
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See You at the Pole (SYATP) is an annual gathering of Christian students of all ages at a flagpole in front of their local school for prayer, scripture-reading and worship, during the early morning before school starts. The American SYATP events occur on every fourth Wednesday of September. The events began in 1990 small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas. On September 11, 1991 an estimated one million students gathered at school flagpoles all over the country. From Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, from North Dakota to the tip of Texas, students came together to pray. Like those first students, they prayed for their schools, for their friends, for their leaders, and for their country. Within the first few years, the movement began to spread to other nations through missionaries from the U.S. Now each year, more than 3 million students from all over the world participate in See You at the Pole in places such as Canada, Korea, Japan, Turkey, and the Ivory Coast. In 2012 over two million A large crowd of around 75 teachers, students and community members students in the U.S. participated. gathered for the annual “See You at the Pole” in Atlanta on Wednesday, See You at the Pole is a student-initiated, stuSeptember 25, 2013. Collan Thrasher was the student organizer of the event. dent-organized and student-led event. Photo provided by Aaron Baker See more See You at the Pole photos on page 4A.
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