3 students win poster contest
LIMA — Three Liberty Arts Magnet School students have won this year’s Peace Poster Contest sponsored by the Lima Host Lions Club.
The winners are eighth-grader Juliana Reed (first place), eighth-grader Sophie Jolliff (second place) and sixth-grader Rain Burklund (third place). The three winners will be honored at a luncheon Wednesday.
The art contest encourages students ages 11, 12 and 13 to express their visions of peace. For more than 25 years, millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest. This year’s theme was “Share peace.”
Volleyball game to aid United Way
LIMA — South Science and Technology Magnet School sixth-graders will face off against staff members on the volleyball court at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. And then a few staff members will get pies thrown in their faces.
The volleyball game is part of the school’s United Way fundraising. Each school building in the district did various things to raise money for the United Way. The district has for a long time been active in the campaign.
The top three United Way student donors at South will get to throw pies at staff members. This will happen near the end of the game, just before 2 p.m.
Second-graders will take on the South staff in a kickball game at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Parent/teacher conferences scheduled
HARROD — Allen East schools will hold parent/teacher conferences next week.
Conferences for parents of students in kindergarten through sixth grade will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday and noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Students released early before Thanksgiving break
LIMA — Students in Lima schools will be released early from school Tuesday. Students are off for Thanksgiving break beginning Nov. 25. School resumes Nov. 30.
Below are release times for individual schools:
1 p.m.: Lima North Middle School.
1:15 p.m.: Freedom Elementary School, Heritage Elementary School, Independence Elementary School, Unity Elementary School, South Science and Technology Magnet School.
1:30 p.m.: Liberty Arts Magnet School, Lima Senior High School.
1:45 p.m.: Lima West Middle School.
Robotics team ‘e-cycles’
DELPHOS — The St. John’s seventh-grade Lego Robotics team, “The Destroyers,” collected 250 small electronic devices to be e-cycled.
This effort was part of their First Lego League project on “trash.” These devices contain a large number of hazardous substances. If they end up in landfills, these substances stay in our environment for a long time.
The team will be sending them to a company that will properly reuse or recycle the devices. By recycling, they can recover precious metals such as gold, silver and copper. By reusing, they can reduce the demand for an ore called coltan. Coltan is a source element found in cellphones. Coltan is mined in the Congo, which is also the home of endangered gorillas. Their homes are being destroyed because of this mining.
Local officials attend statewide conference
LIMA — Shawnee school board members Clay Balyeat, Linda Haycock, Ellen Rovner, Mike Carpenter and Bob Loescher attended the 60th annual Ohio School Boards Association Capital Conference and Trade Show, held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, from Nov. 8 to 11.
More than 600 public school boards from across the state were represented at the Annual Business Meeting on Nov. 9. Representing Shawnee schools at the Annual Business Meeting of the OSBA Delegate Assembly was Linda Haycock of Shawnee Township. Also, the Shawnee Symphonic Band performed for all attendants during a general session at the event.
About 10,000 people attended this year’s conference, which included nearly 150 sessions of panel discussions, workshops, one-on-one assistance, and nationally renowned speakers addressing a variety of educational issues.
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