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Friday, June 17, 2022
Volume 1, Number 23
In this Issue:
The Magic of a Munich Teacher Wins Her a Trip to Disney World
Thornberg Recognized with Award Page 2
By Sarah Hinnenkamp
Unofficial Election Results Page 2
ination Campus Celebration at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida over Memorial Day weekend.
Letter from the Publisher Page 4
Hill was shocked when she found out via email that she had been selected, and she had to keep it a secret for a while, but before long, Memorial weekend arrived, and Hill was on an adventure. Disney provided the fancy hotel room for three nights, three-day park passes for Hill and her husband, and a $200 Disney gift card.
Letter from the Editor Page 4 “Don’t Be a Salty Heifer” by Sara Goodman Page 4 “From Performer to Pit Crew” by Matt Mitzel Page 4 Tall Tales and Serial Shorts by Lisa Whitt Page 5
“They just went above and beyond. It was surreal,” Hill said.
Quilts of Valor Ceremony Held in Milton Page 6
The first day started at 7 a.m. with a trip to Magic Kingdom, getting to see the hidden parts of Disney and walking in through the back way where cameras aren’t allowed.
Munich Women Participate in State Bowling Page 7 Jake’s Take on Sports Page 7
Index:
News Agriculture Opinion Community Sports Classifieds Obituaries/Church Public Notices
“They walked us down Main Street USA, and we were the only ones there,” Hill said.
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The group had cameras rolling on them the whole time they were there and plenty of Disney executives around them. They went to Cinderella’s Castle for photos and had breakfast on a terrace. After that they worked in groups to design their own theme park and presented the projects to the rest of the group.
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Barb Hill at Disney World.
Last fall, Barb Hill’s daughter sent her a link for a Disney contest, urging her mother to apply, as one of the requirements was applicants had to be teachers. “I thought, well, I could do this, but I won’t win,” said Hill, who teaches 5th and 6th grade language arts at Mu-
nich Public School. She did win. Hill was one of 50 teachers selected from 32 states out of 5,800 essay submissions that centered on the creativity and imagination they each demonstrate in their classrooms on a regular basis. The prize was being part of Disney’s Imag-
The teachers, who represented elementary, middle, and high school, served as the Grand Marshals in the daily parade. Another group activity involved learning the choreography for a song from the Broadway musical, Frozen. “I learned that I’m really bad at that, and I’m a much better audience member, but it was fun. I was just trying to get through it,” Hill laughed.
They also heard from Alton Fitzgerald White, who is a critically acclaimed actor best known for playing Mufasa in Disney’s The Lion King – a role that he performed 4000 times on the Broadway stage. The event hosts had surprise after surprise for the group, including staff and executives applauding and cheering as the honored teachers walked through a corridor of people. It was to show appreciation and love for the teachers who have worked so hard and been through so much during the course of the pandemic. Disney executives said this group was representing thousands of teachers. “It was a tearjerker for me,” Hill said. The surprises weren’t over yet. After being told they were just standing in front of a new ride at Epcot to take a group photo, they found out they got to experience the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind roller coaster. The group had met one of the ride designers earlier in the day, and he invited them to bring their families to go on the ride, which is an OmniCoaster, meaning the individual cars on the rollercoaster can rotate 360 degrees. Hill’s adventure on just one of the days took her from 7:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m., giving her plenty of memories to come home with and plenty of time to get to know the other teachers on the trip. “The other teachers were just amazing,” Hill said. “We have started a Facebook group, and the creativity is just blowing up; people asking ‘have you thought about this in your classroom?’” Most of the teachers there were from cont’d. on page 14
Introducing Prairie Lark Farms, Soap with Goat’s Milk and Passion By Hilary Nowatzki
In October 2014, Ruth and Mike Schrader brought their first child into the world, a beautiful baby girl. Parenthood was a dream come true, but Ruth soon realized that her baby had very sensitive skin. No matter what product she tried, it seemed as though everything only caused more
though, Ruth and Mike were able to move to a property with three acres in Heimdal, N.D. (near Harvey). Ruth's life-long dream was fulfilled when she purchased a few of her very own Nigerian dwarf goats who were both expecting babies.
the future than she could have anticipated. While doing her research, she began to identify the additives that were causing irritation and those that weren’t. She also started researching all of the health benefits behind the ingredients that were working, along with the downfalls of the products
So, although the goat milk soap, in general, was better for her little one, she also realized that, depending on the brand and other ingredients, some of the soaps were of supremely better quality than others. Ruth didn’t want her daughter’s skin to ‘just be okay’ or ‘just be free from irritation’.
on where you source them,” Ruth stated. Ruth’s research found that prolonged use of essential oils or even natural citrus oils on skin can sometimes cause irritation. She explained that instead, she decided to go with fragrance oils and then started looking at USA companies to make sure she could only source cruelty free, paraben free, phthalate free, that had no cheap junk in it. One of her companies is actually out of Minnesota. One of Ruth’s favorite ingredients, which she has found to be supreme for sensitive skin but less commonly used, is babassu oil. Babassu oil is like a gentle cousin of coconut oil because they have similar properties, but on the scale of how it clogs your pores, coconut oil is a four and babassu oil is a one. This comparison is on a scale of one to five, meaning Ruth has found a less common oil
irritation…that is until she tried soap made with goat’s milk. Ruth’s history with goats goes back much further than the birth of her daughter. Ruth herself was born near Chattanooga, Tenn., and although she moved when she was only four years old, she vividly remembers playing with goats on her grandmother’s farm. Ruth begged her father to have goats when she was young, but the family always lived in town. In 2016,
Although Ruth knew that soap from goat’s milk was not only helping her daughter’s skin but helping her own skin, she began to notice that some products worked better than others. She found out they were all not created the same and had to start digging deeper and figure out what she could get for her daughter This piqued Ruth’s curiosity, and she began a quest of research that would turn out to be more helpful in
with ingredients that were not working as well. “When I first started, I just thought if it said ‘goat milk soap’ it would be good for her skin, and then when I started buying I found that while one didn't irritate her skin, the next would just make it beautiful, and so I started paying attention to the ingredients and then started studying and researching them.”
Ruth went the extra mile because she wanted her daughter’s skin to be as radiant and healthy as possible. As a solution, once she was on a property that allowed her to have goats, Ruth got to work making her own soap recipes. “I learned about how you can add hardeners in or how people use different fragrance oils and different things like that, and some of those ingredients can be kind of scary depending
that is actually optimal for sensitive skin and clogged pores. She also doesn’t use sand as an exfoliant, because although it’s natural, it can still be harsh on skin. Aside from natural sand, many products contain micro plastics as exfoliants and even some of the shimmer powders found in beauty products end up in the water systems causing extra pollution. cont’d. on page 14