More than 90 students will be redistricted into new elementary schools next year, part of an effort to equalize enrollment at the four schools. Parents with questions are invited to an online town hall meeting on Tuesday.
‘My church means everything to me:’ Agawam’s Vivian Roberts surprised by pastor on 103rd birthday
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To nurture his small but sturdy congregation of fewer than 100 over the past year of COVID has not been without its challenges for the Rev. J. Willard Cofield.
Each and every member of the First Baptist Church of Agawam, though, provides him inspiration, none more so perhaps than Vivian E. Roberts.
Roberts turned 103 on Friday, and Cofield, with help from the entire congregation and the Agawam community, delivered birthday greetings by the hundreds. Literally.
It was the first time Cofield had been able to visit Roberts in person since she moved last September from the home where she’d lived alone since the death of her husband, Norman, in 2006 to Heritage Woods assisted living. For a man of the cloth who thrives on in-person ministry, not having the personal contact has been his greatest challenge of the pandemic, Cofield says.
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One million dollars by 2024, that’s the goal of the Tomorrow’s Kids Endowment Fund. The money will go toward sustaining the Feed Our Rural Kids program.
FORK started in 2019 with the goal of making sure children in Vilas County don’t go hungry.
It’s a feeling Keith Kentula knows all too well.
“I came from a home that struggled to put food on the table. I lost my father as a young boy in a work accident,” said Kentual. “There were six of us at home when that happened. We were involved getting government issued cheese and butter and whatever else we could get from them. So I’m fully aware of what it’s like to want food in your home.
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