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 Ohio First Lady Karen Kasich visits Trimble Food Is Elementary class
JACKSONVILLE — While chopping and mixing fresh vegetables, beans and pasta for a lunchtime meal, Trimble Elementary second-graders learn about history, language and the region where the recipe they are preparing originated — and on Tuesday they did it all under the watchful eye of Ohio’s first lady.
Karen Kasich traveled to the Athens County elementary school to witness students learning more about healthy foods and how to prepare them through the Food Is Elementary program.
The program is an initiative of Live Healthy Appalachia, a nonprofit coalition dedicated to reversing unhealthy lifestyles in the Appalachian region. The program is designed to teach students about nutrition in hopes that they will learn about healthy eating and take those recipes — made with fresh fruits and vegetables — home to their parents to inspire some healthy home-cooked meals.
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She looks so much more hip than her husband does.
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 Veteran embarks on new career in Trimble classroom
JACKSONVILLE — With the help of a national program, Wellston resident and veteran Kevin Compston is now teaching children at Trimble Middle School.
Compston, 52, joined the military in 1978 and retired in 2010. In that time, he served in Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s and has been deployed multiple times over the years. Compston had been working toward becoming a teacher before he was deployed, and with the help of the Troops to Teachers program, he completed that training and got into the classroom.
“I felt like I wanted to give something back to the children before I leave this planet,” he said. “What better way to go than teaching?”
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Ohio University Roundup for February 27, 2012
Trimble students create origami, may acquire international pen pals
JACKSONVILLE — Trimble Elementary and Middle School students may soon be getting overseas pen pals, thanks to a project involving Japanese origami.
Over the past couple of weeks, students in grades 3-8 have been making paper cranes for literacy consultant Dianne McCune to take to an educators’ conference in Tokyo. The cranes, which include the names of the students and a teacher email address, will be placed as table decorations at the conference and available for other attendees to take back to their own students.
“It’s a great chance for them to connect worldwide, and learn the culture of other children,” McCune said.
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A decade ago, Tom Pappas read a report about how his alma mater had failed in the eyes of the state education board and how his former school had extremely outdated textbooks and limited supplies. He and a couple dozen fellow alumni banded together to form Trimble Textbooks and Supplies Foundation — an organization that will be honored next week by the Red Cross as the 2012 Hometown Group Hero.
Trimble Local School District Supt. Kim Jones nominated the foundation based not only on its $40,000 donation this past year, but also on its body of work, which includes a total donation of $460,000.
“This is just a wonderful organization. They are heroes to our community and have been for an entire decade,” Jones said Monday. “Their sole purpose is to provide textbooks and materials for Trimble schools. For me, what they do exemplifies heroism and what it means to be a hero for the community.”
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Ohio University Roundup for February 10, 2012
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Homeschooling rises in Athens District
Despite an “excellent” rating from the state, Athens City School District has one of the largest numbers of home-schooled students in Athens county — a statistic that could indicate the public is dissatisfied with the area’s education.
Kevin Mattson, professor of history at Ohio University, said he pulled his son out of Athens schools after the first grade because he said his son was not receiving adequate services.
“He wasn’t getting any attention or services for the learning disabilities he had, including ADHD and dyslexia,” Mattson said.
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Area school superintendents are not surprised at yet another delay in setting up a new school funding formula for Ohio districts.
State Rep. Ron Amstutz told The Associated Press recently that he did not expect the Legislature to present a school funding formula before 2013, when the next state budget is written and a new legislative session begins. Amstutz is a Republican and chairman of the House Finance Committee.
“We thought that was going to be the case,” said Alexander Local Schools Supt. Jeff Cullum. “We’ve been hearing rumors for a while that it probably would not be ready this year.”
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A $250,000 grant will allow schools in Athens and 17 other Southeastern Ohio counties to implement a transportation program, which could spread to the rest of the state.
An Ohio House Bill created the Educational Shared Services pilot program, which was signed by Gov. John Kasich in June, said Patrick Gallaway, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education.
“The program is to fund a pilot project, which we hope to expand statewide,” he said.
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