As I see it, the life of a parent is all about adjustments.Every day there’s something new, both for the parents and the child. It’s as if whenever he learns something, we have to become skilled at dealing with it. With each significant change in his life, we are forced to adapt. It all happens… Read more »
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Worcester Prep Student Wins First Random Act of Kindness Award
Mark Wilson, left, Seaford, was the first Worcester Prep student to receive the school’s Random Acts of Kindness “Caught You Being Kind” Award. With jim is Jan Calloway, Berlin, an advisor to the Random Acts of Kindness Club. The awards were initiated this term as a part of National Random Acts of Kindness Week and… Read more »
Worcester Prep 5th Graders Participate in National 20-20 Challenge
Students in Worcester’s fifth grade are participating in the National Association of Independent School’s 20-20 Challenge. Together with a school in Hollywood, Calif., they are taking on environmental issues related to the environment and water supplies. Lower School Technology Teacher Erika Phillips, Ocean City istaking the lead, along with Grade 5 teachers Kimberly Law and… Read more »
1st Graders Celebrate President’s Day
Windy Phillips’ first grade class celebrated Presidents’ Day by creating Fraction Flags and reading multiple fiction and non-fiction books. Some of the books the class read were Duck for President, The Presidency, Arthur Meets the President, The First Lady of the United States, and My Senator and Me. All the books read were about American presidents, government and American symbols. Above,… Read more »
OC Elementary Celebrates 100th Day of School
Sofia Emm and Remy Trader, students from Bess Cropper’s second grade at Ocean City Elementary School, celebrated the 100th day of school by putting together 100-piece puzzles.
BIS Introduces Orchestra Program
After two years as an After-School program, Berlin Intermediate School and music teacher Lisa Adams introduced its orchestra program into the regular school day last year. Fourth, fifth and sixth graders can choose orchestra as a special area class. As part of the program this year, Dr. Jeffrey Schoyen, conductor of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra,… Read more »
SDHS Lifesavers Jr. Red Cross Club’s ongoing Global Outreach
Stephen Decatur High School’s Decatur Lifesavers Jr. Red Cross Club members have had an active club schedule so far this year. Above, club members take a break from their Global Outreach, writing greeting cards for a military unit based in Bagdad. Pictured, from left, are Madelyn Justice, Katt Hotz, Taylor Blazer, Leslie Hurley, Catelin Geiser, Sydney… Read more »
A Week In Business
Scholarships AwardedOCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Hotel-Motel-Restaurant Association-sponsored scholarships were awarded during the February dinner meeting last week at the Princess Royale Hotel.Diane Redman received the Kate Bunting Wor-Wic Community College Memorial Scholarship, named after one of the founding members of the OCHMRA. Michelle Sprague, a hard worker and student in pursuit of employment… Read more »
My Thoughts
It’s the way it is, but it’s stupid. Old people who have only a few years to live drive as if they were going to live forever. They even walk, talk and eat as if they had a thousand tomorrows. Now kids in their late teens know there is no tomorrow. They haven’t time to… Read more »
Diakonia Receives Donations from Women’s Council of Realtors
Pictured above from left is Diakonia Executive Director Claudia Nagle with Delmarva Chapter of Women’s Council of Realtors Community Service Committee member Della Wilson and Committee Chair Maura Vlachos, who dropped off a part of their ongoing donations to the shelter.