Poppy drive-thru set for Blanchester: Donate, and remember, for a great cause
Linda Mider - Contributing columnist
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Poppy Days in Blanchester is slated for Friday, May 28 from 2-6 p.m. at the Municipal Building.
In keeping with the Center for Disease & Control request for social distancing, there will be a fun drive-thru. Cars will enter off Main Street onto Clark Street by the playground and exit onto Cherry Street.
Along the route, which will be marked with cones, there will be posters and signs that local school children made about poppies. At the end of the route will be Little Miss Poppy junior member Montana Jackson, granddaughter of ALA member Susan Jacobs.
MARILYN HALSTEAD
The Southern
MARION, Illinois â More than three dozen people met Monday at the Harry L. Crisp Sports Complex to protest the treatment of a Black Marion High School track athlete by a white female track coach.
The crowd, led by Akeem Petty, a former Marion High School athlete, and Korshawn Johnson, who led Black Lives Matter protests last summer, chanted things like, âBlack students matter!â and âMrs. Baker must go! Â
Track Coach Sara Baker allegedly called a 15-year-old Amari a âBlack barefooted African from the third worldâ on Wednesday afternoon, according to Amari and her family. The Southern Illinoisan is not reporting the athleteâs last name at the family s request because she is a minor.
Racial Slur Incident Sparks Protest At Marion High School
Dozens of people gathered at Marion High School Monday to protest an incident where a coach is accused of using a racial slur toward a student athlete.
A Marion High School Track Coach is accused of using a racial slur towards an African American student athlete.
Monday morning people gathered for a peaceful protest calling out what they say is the school administration s lack of response.
Asia Gossett is the older sister of the student and says she organized this protest because she feels the coach should be held accountable for their actions.
Don’t stand by; stand for Constitution
Linda Mider - Contributing columnist
The Constitution of the United States, and the Declaration of Independence which preceded it, are enduring documents. They were written by our founding fathers and the framers of the Constitution.
Many of us were brought up to respect them. We were taught that the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged away their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
ConstitutionFacts.com states that, “They were mostly men of means who had a lot to lose if the war was lost. Nearly all of them were poorer at the end of the war than at the beginning.”
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