Leadership meeting
Seven Burlington High School students and their sponsor attended “Leadership on and off the field: leadership development for the student athlete” at the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Wichita.
The two-day conference aimed to instruct student athletes on how to transfer their leadership skills from the field to the classroom and to other areas of their lives. Conference speakers included Bill Snyder,former Kansas State University head football coach; Will Baker, former collegiate athlete and Target Corporation executive; and Bob Anastas, former executive director of Students Against Driving Drunk.
Attending from Burlington were students Heather Eddings, Blake Higgins, Autumn Kirchner, Jessica Menard, Shalya Moore, Chelsea Poplin and Corey Smith and sponsor Doug Stewart.
Musical today
Today, the All God’s Children after-school program for kindergarten through sixth grade will present a musical, “Race To Win.” The play, sponsored by the Olpe United Methodist Church, will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the St. Joseph’s School basement. It will be preceded by a light meal at 5:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted.
The production includes NASCAR race clips and asks people “Whose Race are you running?” It encourages all to focus on what matters in life instead of money and fame.
The meal and performance are open to the public.
Busy Beavers meet
The monthly meeting of the Busy Beavers 4-H Club was called to order on March 12, 2007 at 7 p.m. at the Hoosier Creek Community Center by president John Klumpe. The flag salute and 4-H pledge were lead by Brianna Zweimiller. Roll call was answered by, “what are you doing over spring break?” Twenty-one members and two leaders were present. Treasurer Jessica Miller gave the treasurer’s report. Shelby Stout and Brianna gave their reporter’s reports stating they had turned in their reports but they had not yet been published. Amanda Zweimiller gave the council report. In the leaders’ report Andra Miller spoke about Discovery Days scholarships, and the Lyon County Fair book cover contest. She also spoke about the concession stand our club will be working on March 17, Club Days results, the county fun night on April 27, the petting zoo in May, and the lamb and horse projects. Chris Anne spoke about the monthly mowing committees. Under old business, the motion from the last meeting to have a bake sale was taken from the table. It failed.
The club will be working the concessions on May 27 at Hartford with the Eagle Creek Unit ladies. On the committee are the Laws and Zweimiller families. Jessica Miller moved to pay the club’s bills in new business. Vice-president Amanda Zweimiller led the program. Doris Laws gave a project talk on her crochet project. Brianna gave a demonstration on rabbit care. John Roberts also did a demonstration based on his rocketry project. Jade Cole had us listen to the song “Heartland” by George strait. Julie Laws led the club in singing “Bingo”. Parliamentarian Raysha Zweimiller told the club what the correct way to make a motion is. The next meeting will be at the Hoosier Creek Community Center on April 16 at 7 p.m. Refreshments were provided by the Cole family.
— Brianna Zweimiller, reporter