Utah Business For my fifth birthday, my grandmother gave me a hardcover book called
The Sea. This single gift determined the direction for the rest of my life.
The images in that book came to life in my mind as I imagined being underwater with them. Some were magical and inviting like the colorful fish, sea stars, and octopus. Some were frightening like the sharks and giant squid. The hours I spent looking at the pictures in that book turned into years of fascination with the underwater world.
One of the pictures showed a scuba diver and I asked my dad what his job was. A marine biologist was the answer, and so that’s when I decided what I would become. That idea became all the more real when “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” began to air on television every Sunday afternoon. From then on, whenever adults would ask what I wanted to be when I grew up―I said I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Realignment bill clears House, heads to Senate for consideration
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By Nick Stevens, HighSchoolOT managing editor
Raleigh, N.C. A bill that would give Onslow County Schools the option to change the N.C. High School Athletic Association realignment plan for the upcoming school year has cleared the North Carolina State House.
House Bill 276 passed the House by a vote of 63-48. Only one Democrat joined 62 Republicans in supporting the bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Phil Shepard (R-Onslow).
The bill now goes to the Senate, where it will have to be approved by the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate before it can go before the full Senate. So far, the bill has not been placed on an agenda for the committee, which is scheduled to meet next on Thursday morning.
An Onslow County mother says a local elementary school is not doing enough to address a recent incident of alleged bullying involving her son, and that the school also failed to report it to her initially.
Katie Steffne claims her son, Cameron Moore, who attends Stateside Elementary School in Jacksonville as a 5th-grader, came home from school on Tuesday, May 4, with cuts on his head, swelling around his knee, and minor scrapes on his shoulder.
When asked what happened her son explained he had been jumped by a group of seven girls during that morning s recess. Jumped is slang for being assaulted.
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