‘Ashley’s War’ and the story of the women of special operations is coming to the big screen January 11 Lt. Ashley White Stumpf, a member of the specialized CST-2, was killed in Afghanistan in October 2011. (ashleywhitestumpf.com) In August 2011, Lt. Ashley White Stumpf joined an entirely female Army cultural support team, or CST, that would soon deploy to Afghanistan into combat alongside various elite elements of the military’s special operations community. As a member of the specialized CST-2, White’s job, highly confidential and done during an era when women were barred from combat arms professions, was to build and improve relationships with Afghan civilians, an especially pertinent role due to cultural limitations placed on Afghan women that prevented them from speaking with men who were not family members.
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You may not have been able to travel this holiday season, but you can still celebrate the end of the year and the start of a new one one that hopefully sees an end to the pandemic.
With New Year’s Eve less than 24 hours away, many local restaurants have been preparing for what will be a New Year’s Eve like no other.
Despite the tragic year it has been due to COVID-19, many restaurants are still looking forward to their customers coming to celebrate and ring in the new year in grand style with corks popping and bubbles galore.
The agony can clearly be heard in Ashley Whiteâs voice.
It was five years ago on Friday when baby Georgia Erin White passed away at St. Louis Childrenâs Hospital. She had stopped breathing while taking a nap at her daycare just two days earlier.
Georgiaâs parents, Aaron and Ashley, were joined by many relatives and friends at the hospital, and prayed for a miracle for their precious daughter.
âThe amount of family, friends and acquaintances that came to keep vigil with us was astounding,â said Ashley. âThe way my school rallied around me and Aaronâs co-workers around him to support us, we will never forget that.â
If you had asked one of Lisa Hepburnâs fifth-grade students to pronounce the word âpandemicâ not too long ago, heâd try âpandora,â âpandemoniumâ or âjust kind of guess whatever.â
But more recently, Hepburn, a reading specialist at Randall Elementary School, watched that same student âwhoâs reading at a second-grade level as a fifth-grader chunk out words like âtranquility.ââ
She credits the âscience of reading,â a literacy teaching method the Madison Metropolitan School District is shifting toward as it confronts low reading proficiency rates among its students. Itâs a move away from the âbalanced literacyâ approach the district has had in the past, in which literacy is taught through a variety of readings and word studies, to a more phonics-focused format of teaching students how to read.