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The West Virginia FFA State Officer team has de-cided to pack bags again ― bags filled with food for children across the state.
In 2016, WV FFA raised $10,000 to purchase, pack-age and donate food packages for Back Pack programs in West Virginia. The program was a large success, which included a huge packing event at Cedar Lakes with more than 200 FFA members joining in.
West Virginia FFA members wish to host a food packing event at the 89th Annual West Virginia FFA Convention. This year, WV FFA will be partnering with
Mountaineer Food Bank in Gassaway and Facing Hun-ger Foodbank in Huntington to once again raise at least $10,000 to help feed the hungry in West Virginia.
“This service project has the potential to feed over 16,000 people across West Virginia. It will be a great opportunity to give back to the great state of West Vir-ginia,” said Andrew Hauser, WV FFA president. FFA will need $10,000 in sponsorship to secure enough food to pack 4,000 backpacks of food to send home to 4,000 West Virginia families. “I have no doubt that the West Virginia FFA Association will be able to raise funds to provide food to our communities,” said Erin Kidwell, WV FFA secretary. West Virginia FFA is seek-ing individual, group and corporate sponsors to ensure this event is a success.
“Our programs geared toward ending child hunger are so important to your state”, said Chad Morrison, executive director of Mountaineer Food Bank. “More than one in five children in West Virginia live in food insecure households, so they don’t know if they are go-ing to have a meal every night.”
If you or your organization would like to support the WV FFA Association by serving as a sponsor for this event at the 89th Annual WV FFA State Convention, contact Mountaineer Food Bank at 304-364-5518 or Facing Hunger Foodbank at 304-523-6086.
West Virginia FFA to continue Food Bank FundraiserBoard of Education meeting(Continued from page 1)
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Addie Cole, Alice Nottingham, Connie Kinder, Tina Hall, Lavern Taylor, Britni Ramsey, Danny Dorsey, Kim Work-man, J.B. Butcher, and Jamela Krajeski.
Terminations: Barbara Dorsey, Harvey Church, Jeffrey Krauklis, Kate Claytor, Audra Thomas, Julie Greenlee, Kate-lyn Thomas, Kim Blake, Krechella Evans, Luella Dancy, Taylor Conrad, Katie Stover, Stephanie Brown, Ali Haverty, Angie Cantrell, Jaime Neely, Jamie McDonough, Julia Wolf, Trey Corwell, Justin Holcomb, Kari Osborne, Lindsay Dun-lap, Pam Woods, Sarah Workman, Carlet Blake and Jacee Markle.
A motion to approve the following service personnel em-ployees for transfer/termination for the 2017-2018 school year, was approved.
Transfers: Andrea Cruickshanks, Brenda McCutcheon, Cheryl Mullins, David Belt, David Davis, Delno Coen, Di-ane Bullard, Dustin Fitzwater, Gary Keen, Genevie DeBoard, George Workman, James Simmons, Jimmie Holcomb, Robin Litton, Valerie Brown, Tiffany Norton, Terri Shaffer, Bev-erly King, Jonathan Rogers, Maxine Miller, Michael Barss, Mitch DeBoard, Norman Ramsey, Pat Legg, Renee Moore, Robert Belt, Stephen Butler, Steve Litton, Vercel Douglas, Wyona Ramsey, John Paul Rogers, Goldie Woods, Cheri Burdette, Gail Simmons, Vicky Perdue, Margie Wyant, and Kim Childers.
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Transfers and terminations are a precautionary action that assumes the loss of federal funding. As federal funding lev-els are established for the 2017-18 school year, action will be recommended to rescind transfers/terminations as needed.
A motion to approve the out of county/overnight trip for the Skills USA-Carpentry and Electricity students and chaperones to travel to Fairmont for the state competition, March 31-April 1, was approved. A motion to approve Katelyn Thomas and Bill Varney as volunteer coaches for the 2017 softball season at Clay County High School was approved. A motion to recess until Tuesday, April 18, was approved. This will be a meeting for the proposed levy or-der motion mentioned above.
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The Cyberbullying EpidemicDear Editor,Bullying is sadly not something new, but it used to take
place in school hallways, bathrooms and playgrounds. Today the use of modern technology has changed the playing field.
Bullying is without a doubt as old as humanity, but the internet has taken bullying to a higher and more dangerous ground. On the internet, a bully can harass an individual anonymously and reach a much wider audience.
In many ways, when it comes to bullying online, the inter-net has made the world more rural. Before if a child was bul-lied he or she withdrew from the environment, but if a child is harassed on Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat their entire social circle sees it. Cyberbullying often leaves the victim feeling lost and vulnerable.
Right here, in our small, rural community of Clay, cyber-bullying is an issue that has become a real problem. A prob-lem that has left children feeling depressed, unsupported and in extreme cases suicidal. In the past few months we have seen a “burn book,” which if you haven’t seen the movie Mean Girls, is a book an individual keeps with photos of classmates that includes insults and ugly names. Photos of this burn book were shared online. On Clay Topix you can always find an anonymous poster belittling and harass-ing their victim. A grade school student was harassed on Snapchat by a middle schooler, six years older, who posted the child’s photo and called the child inappropriate names. Imagine finding out a 12- year- old had posted your 6- year- old child’s photo online and belittled him or her in such a horrible way. Imagine the heartbreak suffered by the child knowing that his or her social circle saw the post.
It is time that we realize that the inescapability of cyber-bullying comes with huge and often painful consequences for children. New studies show that children who are victim-ized by their peers suffer higher rates of depression, anxiety
and suicidal ideation. Statistics show that 160,000 children a day do not attend school due to fears of being bullied.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young adults and for every suicide among children there are 100 suicide attempts. Victims of bullying are 9 times more likely to commit suicide then non-victims.
No matter how loved a child is at home a bully can strip them of their self-respect, self-confidence and lead them to lose the person they are and the person they were meant to be.
The only way to get a grip on this growing situation is for the school system to take a stand. Anti-bullying campaigns are needed not just once a year, but monthly. The schools need motivated speakers and former victims to address stu-dents. Teachers need to be educated on how to handle cases of bullying and many schools offer an anonymous reporting system, which makes it much easier for a victim to feel se-cure while still speaking up. The county can even set up a cy-berbullying hotline where children in need can turn for help.
School principals need to ask themselves if a bullying situ-ation is brought to your attention, do you see a helicopter parent or the parent of a child broken by another child in your school?
Parents of bullies need to do their part as well by stop looking for ways to blame the victim. I am sure that it cannot be easy accepting your child is a bully, but by trying to jus-tify your child’s actions only gives him or her more power.
We can stop cyberbullying, but we must work together. We must address bullying using meaningful and logical tech-niques to protect our children from harm. Bullying affects all children and it will continueif it is ignored and allowed to persist.
Tammy Marie RoseClay
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When Jesus returns for His Church: there will be members suddenly missing from the Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal and other denominations. There will also be many church members left behind.
What is important? Be ready to be in the number of those caught up to be with Him.
The Bible says there will be wars and rumors of wars. Whether it is China, Russia, North Korea or the United States in the news; whether it is battles being fought in Afghanistan, Syria, Chicago or Los Angeles; wherever man is enticed, tempted or drawn into the devil’s arena, sin will have domin-ion and blood will flow. There is only one answer; only one escape and that is through Jesus Christ. Pray for our nation and its leadership. Pray for your community and your family. 2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will for-give their sin, and will heal their land.
Maranatha!
SALT & SONSHINE(Continued from page 3)
