Richland High School recently participated in the Penny Wars where the school raised over $300 for a local family in need. Richland has been participating in the Penny Wars for several years, where the students bring in rolls of pennies to count as positive points. The fundraiser gets more competitive when the different grade levels begin dumping dollars and silver coins into each other’s buckets, causing them to lose positive points and gain negative points.
This fundraiser is more than just a fun way to raise money, it is also a way for students and faculty to reach out and help a local family in need. Until this morning, no one actually knew who the money would be going to this year, so when the Condicts were told that they were the receiving family and the total amount of money that the students raised was announced, all of the students knew that their hard work had paid off.
Jordan Condict, a junior at Richland, was shocked to find out that her family had been chosen to receive the money. “I was trying to figure out who they were going to award the money to,” Condict explained. “But I definitely didn’t think that it would’ve been us, I was so surprised! We are very thankful.”
The Condict family has been caught in a whirlwind of events throughout the past couple of months where not only one, but two of their family members were diagnosed with two very different types of cancer. Mark Condict was recently diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and is being treated at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma and his father, Doyle Condict, was diagnosed with Small Intestinal Cancer and is being treated at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
The family has been very hands-on with this experience, including making ‘Team Condict’ t-shirts and sweatshirts that raise awareness for both types of cancers that they have in their family. All profits that were made during the fundraiser were donated to the Ben Kruse 18 Fore Life Foundation, an organization that offers financial aid to families fighting against cancer.
This Penny Wars is not the first time that the Condicts have been recognized by the community. Their oldest daughter, Jordan, played volleyball for the high school and they honored her and her family at the Hits for Hope game in October to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. The family was completely taken by surprise, just like they were with the Penny Wars results, when they were given flowers, the game ball, and inspiration from their friends and community in a chance to let them know that they are not facing this part of life all on their own.
Richland and its students were honored to give the money that they raised to such a great group of people. Although many tears were shed and there were many battles won, there is still a long road ahead for both of the fighters and their family. Richland is proud to support the Condicts and will walk with them as they head down an ever-changing road to recovery.
Jessica Snider SMT Writer
As many know, reading week is something that has been going on for many years and is a great way to get students more involved and more interested with reading books.
Dexter Public Schools have always been very involved with reading week and encouraging their students to pick up books; not only during that week, but throughout the rest of their lives.
The students have been enjoying activities all week while having guests and even “celebrity” readers come into their classrooms and share a book with them.
Today, however, a very special act went down as Mayor Weber visited some Southwest Elementary students and gladly signed the Reading Week Proclamation. Present at the time of signing were: Katy Tarbutton-Southwest Elementary, April Aldridge-Central Elementary, and a handful of Southwest students are shown in the photo as Mayor Weber signs the proclamation.
We hope the students of Dexter Public Schools have enjoyed their reading week!
Provided below is a copy of the proclamation.
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Jessica Snider SMT Writer
Students at Southwest Elementary are continuing to enjoy reading week this week. As mentioned in a previous article, the theme is “Vote for a Good Book.”
Many young students are enjoying having guest readers come in the class and read a book to them. Students continue to vote for their favorite books this week as America voted on many issues earlier in the week.
Today one of the guest readers was Caitlyn Alsup who enjoyed coming into the classroom and reading a book to her little brother’s class. They are pictured in the photo to the left.
The students are enjoying reading week as it continues to persuade students into reading more books and enjoying it when they do so!
We hope the students have a great Friday tomorrow as they wrap up all the activities of "Vote for a Good Book" reading week. Hopefully they will be ready to dive into their next book!
ShowMe Times would like to encourage all our readers to get involved with our public schools.
The upcoming activities are posted weekly in hopes of encouraging more people to get involved in the academic and athletic growth of our school system.
Dexter, Missouri - The Stoddard County Athletic Association brackets for the Junior High basketball tournament this week fins the Advance Hornets as the number one seed in the tournament. The 8th grade teams have been very competitive among the top three seeds this season as Bloomfield and Dexter trail Advance closely in the 2nd and 3rd seed respectively.
Bloomfield was able to defeat the 8th Grade Bearcat team this past week. This will be a tremendous game to see should both teams get past their first round games. Bloomfield will play Bernie at 10 AM on Saturday and Dexter will follow that afternoon at 5:30 PM against the Richland Rebels.
The tournament action will begin this Saturday, November 10th at the Bernie High School gymnasium.
