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Rivesville Elementary-Middle School student Kirsten McDonald kept her message simple using the slogan, Don t fear your addiction! Fight it!
In her artwork, Aunnah Fritzman wrote a poem pointing out how addiction can grow. Your addiction will grow and grow
that s not it tho.
You ll start to wilt,
then be filled with guilt
it ll leave you feeling so low.
She also states, Don t let opioids be the seed to ruining your life!
Rivesville Elementary-Middle School student Liliona McKenzie Wright uses metaphor to explain how addiction impacts the body. She was like a beautiful porcelain doll until she picked up the bottle, beauty began to fade as the doll cracked and shattered.
Catholic school students get world-class education at Culture Fair
Students from St. Mary’s Grade School and Sacred Heart High traveled to Cuba and Japan before competing in the Olympics on Wednesday. Classes participated in the third edition of the annual Culture Fair, led by the Culture Club’s Jack Elmore and Sara Dell-Real.
The club worked together to use ideas that would teach the other students and present them in a fun and engaging manner.
“I think we don’t celebrate other people s cultures enough,” Elmore said. “It’s important to remember our own paths, where we come from, and especially where our neighbors and friends come from.”
LITTLE BALKANS CHRONICLES St. Mary’s Knight of the Altar
J.T. Knoll
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Wichita were called to Pittsburg in 1895 to operate an elementary school in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. From then until 2008, more than 200 nuns served the parish. This week’s column by Gary Gleason, which relates some of his experiences at St. Mary’s Grade School, is excerpted from his essay “Boyhood Days in Pittsburg, Kansas.” Gary is now retired and living with his wife in Gainesville, Georgia. J.T.K.
I was 7 years old in 1954 when Dad got a job at Mid-States Manufacturing just west of Pittsburg and moved us from 30 miles east of Parsons to a house on Lindburg Street, just off South Broadway across from Kansas State Teachers College (KSTC), now Pittsburg State.