Burg Students Shine at State Music Festival
Burg High School sent 17 students to the State Music Festival on April 30 in Wichita. The mixed vocal ensemble earned Division Rating for its performance of Something Told The Wild Geese. Soloist Kelley Bethell sang Danny Boy and Two Marionettes. Rebekah Ellerman played Menuet on clarinet and the woodwind choir performed Finale. Members include Shanna Shoemaker Lynn Turner Sabrina Norton Heather Fischer Chris Peine Kenneth Cline Charles Fischer Kelley Bethell Katrina Norton Sabetha Evans Lori White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illiamsburg High School
Wichita
Sherri Porterfield
Shanna Shoemaker
Lynn Turner
Sabrina Norton
Heather Fischer
Chris Peine
Kenneth Cline
Charles Fischer
Kelley Bethell
Katrina Norton
Sabetha Evans
Lori White
Danny Boy
Fred Weatherly
Arthur Law
Edith Cooke
Rebekah Ellerman
Menuet
W. A. Mozart
William Pelz
Williamsburg spring concert showcases bands choirs and art
The Williamsburg music department presents a spring concert at 8 p m in the high school gym with Fifth Grade Band Junior High Band Senior High Band Junior High Mixed Chorus Show Choir Senior High Mixed Chorus and vocal soloist Kelly Bethel. Selections include Dont Let It Pass You By If Only I Had Known Geese Sing We and Chant It Best of Friends Eine Kleine Soulmusic No One Knows Who I Am Pachelbel Canon Groovemeister March Madness and Colonel Bogey. An art show featuring works from first grade to high school plus drawings of the old Williamsburg Co op elevator runs in the gym and hallway with first second and third places awarded. Open to the public starts at 7 p m.
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Williamsburg
Kelly Bethel
Ann Funk
Ottawa Public Education Trust funds Ottawa schools and programs
OPET distributed nearly 1500 to Ottawa schools tied to the district science fair held in March. The not for profit group funded 50 Ottawa High School students to attend a literature fair at the University of Kansas in October. OPET may support a science academy and after school language academy if resources permit and will seek additional proposals this fall.
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Ottawa Public Education Trust
Ottawa
OPET
University of Kansas
Randall Rock
Dale Dieterich
Peoples National Bank
S. Main
Kan
Faye Dunaway to replace Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard
Faye Dunaway will take over the role of the silent-screen star in the hit musical Sunset Boulevard replacing Glenn Close, according to her manager. The show is based in Los Angeles and featured in AP reporting.
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Los Angeles
Faye Dunaway
Glenn Close
Williamsburg Student Wins State Poster Contest Third
Justin Hennessey a sixth grade student at Williamsburg School won third place in the Elementary Division of the 1994 Paraprofessional Poster Contest. His slogan My Para Soars Me Over the Steep Mountains features a jet over mountains labeled with school subjects.
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Justin Hennessey
Williamsburg School
Hennessey
Linda Leatherberry
Williamsburg
Robert Hennessey
Ottawa
Justin
Ramada Inn
Topeka
Fenior Educational Fssionals
N, Rarigas
Governor’s Office
OMS Middle School Spring Concerts Highlight Eighth Grade Chorus
Ottawa Middle School seventh and eighth grade choirs present a free Spring Concert at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. The Eighth Grade Chorus performs Bennington Riflemen and Guantanamera, the Seventh Grade Chorus offers a Cowboy medley including Home on the Range and Chewing Gum Blues, with both groups opening Show Time and closing Down By the Riverside. Directors Meredith Bechtel and Kevin Champaugh lead the choirs. accompanist is Mrs. Dortha Cunningham.
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Ottawa Middle School
Bennington Riflemen
Showtime
The
Riverside
Meredith Bechtel
Kevin Champaugh
Dortha Cunningham
Remember Me Tops AP Bestsellers List
The Associated Press reports bestsellers with Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark leading hardcover fiction. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield and K Is for Killer by Sue Grafton follow in the top three. In nonfiction Rosie Daley's In the Kitchen with Rosie and Embraced by the Light by Betty J. Eadie are prominent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
James Redfield
Warner
Sue Grafton
Holt
Rosie
Rosie Daley
Knopf
Betty J. Eadie
Gold Leaf Press
Thomas Baccei
Andrews and McMe
Hemingway at Oak Park High reveals early cliques and sparks
A Chicago AP report notes a 128 page book from Oak Park High reveals Ernest Hemingway’s 1916 17 writings in Trapeze and Tabula. Librarians compiled the volume with foreword by Michael Reynolds who says the young works show lyric early craft but lack the mature style for which he would win prizes.
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Chicago
Hemingbee
Papa
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
Michael Reynolds
North Carolina State University
Oak Park High
Trapeze
Tabula
Reynolds
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Burg
Pachelbel Canon
Groovemeister
March Madness
Colonel Bogey
Brina Norton
Krista Cline
Jessica Duvall
Chelsea Dixon
Adam McEwen
Jessica Smith
Johann P. Kimberger
Frank Erickson
Mary Channon
WHS
Laura Devinney
Underwood's
Uderwaad
Yorut MC
Jauek de
Kansas
Three Lakes Educational Cooperative
Ed Ramsey
Bart Ricke
Tara Claycamp
Marilynne Davis
OMS
Franklin County Board of Commissioners
Franklin County Health Dept. & Home Health Agency
Barbara Conus
Janet DeWald
R.N
Martha Dodd
Colleen Fleming
Sandra Hausler
Tracy Hines
Nola Moore
Donna Steward
Lori Walter
Mary Wiederholt
Pomona High School
Becky Bone
Aaron Thompson
Wellsville High School
Board of Education
USD 289
Hays Township
Briles School
Wellsville City
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